Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
"Mayse Bikhl" – David Berglsohn / Lasar Segall – Berlin, 1923 – Inscribed by Lasar Segall
Opening: $200
Sold for: $400
Including buyer's premium
David Berglsohn, Mayse-Bikhl, mit litografyes un holtshniten fun Lasar Segall. Berlin: Wostok, 1923. Yiddish.
Tales by David Berglsohn, with illustrations – lithographs and woodcuts – by Lasar Segall, a Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor, born in Vilnius. Berglsohn (1884-1952), Yiddish playwright and author, was executed by Stalin in 1952.
Title page inscribed by the illustrator, Lasar Segall, with his signature (April 1928).
[4], 7-48 pp. + [8] plates, 26 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains to endpapers and first and last leaves. Several leaves are loose. Ex-library copy. Original binding, slightly warped, with fractures to the cardboard and tears to edges.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Tales by David Berglsohn, with illustrations – lithographs and woodcuts – by Lasar Segall, a Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor, born in Vilnius. Berglsohn (1884-1952), Yiddish playwright and author, was executed by Stalin in 1952.
Title page inscribed by the illustrator, Lasar Segall, with his signature (April 1928).
[4], 7-48 pp. + [8] plates, 26 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains to endpapers and first and last leaves. Several leaves are loose. Ex-library copy. Original binding, slightly warped, with fractures to the cardboard and tears to edges.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Yiddish Children's Books, Poetry and Periodicals, Avant-garde
Yiddish Children's Books, Poetry and Periodicals, Avant-garde