Publishers cloth. 8vo. 190 [2] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “Young People. ” Bound in blue cloth with color-printed pictorial onlay. Black and white illustrations by Note Kozlovski. A large collection of short stories about life on the lower east side by Jacob Kreplak. 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) . OCLC lists 28 copies. Subjects: Yiddish literature. Short stories, Yiddish. Backstrip lightly tanned, light wear to cloth, otherwise fine. Very good condition. (YIDCHI-6-8)