IN YIDDISH. THREE VOLUMES IN ONE. Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Shmuel Yosef; Shai, 1888-1970) was one of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction and a 1966 Nobel Prize laureate. This rare Yiddish edition of Agnon`s works contains drawings by the eminent Israeli artist Yosl Bergner, an essay by the secretary, and later Agnon`s lifelong friend and Professor of Jewish literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Dov Sadan, and Agnon`s portrait as frontispiece. 235x165mm. 605 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering. Cover and spine water-stained and wrinkled/wavy. Front cover curved. Inner cover and whitepages wavy. Else in good condition.