Der Nister (Pinchas Kahanovich). Mayselech in Ferzen ["Tales in Verse"]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $400

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author

(CHAGALL, MARC).

printer

Kultur Lige

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1921

Description

Third edition. Yiddish text. Cover designed by CHAGALL with additional illustration of a goat on title-page

references

cf. Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution no. 144 (goat only) and no. 144 vi and fig. 25 (illustrated)

summary

This enlarged edition includes the two original stories by Der Nister from the first edition (Vilna, 1917). The image of the goat is a continuous motif in Chagall’s art - a symbolic reference to the artist’s original family name “Segel”/Tsigel (Yiddish, for goat)

pp. 60, (4). Brittle. Original pictorial upper wrapper bound into original titled boards, gutter split. 8vo

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