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LISSITSKII, El (illustrator) and Hans Christian ANDERSEN (1805-1875). Mayselekh. [Fairy Tales]. Translated by Der Nister. Kiev: Kiever Farlag, 1919.
8° (205 x 145mm). Engravings throughout. (Browned, one page repaired). Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, reproducing a design by Chagall, purple endpapers (rubbed, soiled). Provenance: shelf-marks.
FIRST EDITION, with a Constructivist cover by El Lissitskii. RARE. This first edition in Yiddish is APPARENTLY NOT IN MOMA, GETTY, THE BRITISH LIBRARY, OR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Bush-Reisinger Museum Catalogue, El Lissitzky 1919.2; Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution. The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 85.
8° (205 x 145mm). Engravings throughout. (Browned, one page repaired). Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, reproducing a design by Chagall, purple endpapers (rubbed, soiled). Provenance: shelf-marks.
FIRST EDITION, with a Constructivist cover by El Lissitskii. RARE. This first edition in Yiddish is APPARENTLY NOT IN MOMA, GETTY, THE BRITISH LIBRARY, OR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Bush-Reisinger Museum Catalogue, El Lissitzky 1919.2; Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution. The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 85.
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Please note that the cover design is by El Lissitskii.