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

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $350

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author

(CHAGALL, MARC).

printer

Kultur Lige

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1921

Description

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

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

pp. 60, (4). Lightly browned. Original pictorial front pictorial wrapper bound into red titled boards. 8vo

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