(pseud. of Salomon Rabinowitz, Yiddish author and humorist, 1859-1916)

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $125

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author

SHOLEM-ALEICHEM

printer

3rd February

Place

Nervi (Italy)

Publication

1909

Description

Autograph Postcard Signed, written in Yiddish to Harry Skolski, thanking his correspondent for 50th birthday wishes. Sent from Villa Briano in Italy where the great writer was recovering from tuberculosis.

summary

“I hope you will do all that is within your talents and abilities to develop. You are young, and a big, wide world awaits you. The main thing is to work, work, work - along with much patience.”

One page. Autograph address panel on verso. 12mo.

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