[Text in Yiddish] Tsili Adler dertseylt [The Celia Adler Story] [Two volume set]

New York: Celia Adler Foundation / Shulsinger Bros. Linotyping & Publishing Co, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Celia Adler Foundation / Shulsinger Bros. Linotyping & Publishing Co., 1959. First Edition. Two octavo volumes (23.5cm); 688pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jackets; blue cloth boards. Yiddish-language text throughout. Dust jackets show mild chipping with a few short tears along edges; general rubbing and sun-fading. Old damp-marks to board edges of both volumes, causing discoloration to cloth but no structural damage. Bindings sound. Glue residue to endpapers of volume II, else unmarked and still a Very Good set of this uncommon autobiography of "The First Lady of Yiddish Theater." Adler was known for creating leading roles in Yiddish versions of many classic plays, and was the first actor to portray a Holocaust survivor in her brother Luther's 1946 Broadway production A Flag is Born. Scarce.