RARE book of stories and sketches by Eliakim Carmoly (1802-1875), a French-Jewish scholar and writer who wrote both in French and in German. 185x120mm. 255 pages [+1]. Black rebound Hardcover with cloth spine. Cover and spine dust-stained. Cover edges and corners slightly worn. Sticker residues on spine bottom edge. Ex-library copy with stamp on whitepages, page 3 and last (contents) page, and 2 stamps on title-page. Ink marks on pre-title and title-page. Title-page bottom edge slightly (5mm) torn - NO damage to text. 3 wormholes on 28 first pages with slight damage to text (text easily reconstructed, thus still readable); one of the two remaining wormholes on pages 29-70 bottom corner not touching the text, thus NO damage to text. Two wormholes on pages 247-256 inner edge near spine not touching the text; one of those wormholes on pages 203-246 - NO damage to text. Last page bottom edge slightly torn - NO damage to text. Binding slightly visible between pages 254-255. Small ink marks on pages 213-216. Some page corners slightly wrinkled. Pages yellowing and slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare miscellany of short fiction by an eminent 19th-century French-Jewish writer is otherwise in good condition.