Publishers cloth. 8vo. 192 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “Robert’s Adventures. ” Bound in pink cloth with color-printed pictorial onlay. Black and white illustrations by Note Kozlovski. Solomon Simon (1895-1970) was a prolific Yiddish writer, famous for his children’s stories and as a leading figure of the Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute. Farlag Matones was founded by “the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute, an organization established in New York in 1918 to coordinate a secular Yiddish school system. .... [and] as a publisher of children’s books but became a leading publisher of Yiddish literature and of well-known authors such as Menahem Boraisha, Jacob Glatstein, Chaim Grade, Moses (Moyshe) Leib Halpern, Leibush Lehrer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Hillel Zeitlin, Aaron Zeitlin” (Guide to the Yivo Archives, 2012) . Subjects: Children's literature, Yiddish. OCLC lists 15 copies. Light wear to cloth, backstrip lightly soiled, previous owners inscription on table of contents, otherwise fine. Very good + condition. (YIDCHI-6-6)