[Rarebooks] EARLY 20TH CENTURY YIDDISH JUVENILE WITH CHAGALL ILLUSTRATIONS.

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KAHANOVITSH, PINCHAS (Der Nister, Pseud):  MAYS'ELEKH IN FERZN/ DER 
NISTER.: DRIT'E FARGRESERTE OYFLAG'E. [STORIES IN VERSE /DER NISTER. 
THIRD ENLARGED EDITION. :  Varshe : Kultur lig'e, 1921. 60 Pp. ; 21 
cm. Front wrap, stiff, blue paper, bound in. The picture of a goat in 
a forest on the front wrap, in an oval, and another picture of a goat 
on the title page in an oval are announced as from drawings of Mark 
Chagall on the copyright page. The only drawings I know of which 
Chagall made for a Yiddish juvenile. This printing was in 2500 
copies. Unnoted in OCLC, COPAC or KVK, in any issue, but there are 
copies of this issue at Harvard and UCLA. The Yivo has a Fourth 
Edition, printed in Berlin in 1923, with no mention of illustrations, 
ergo, without them. NYPL and Stanford lack the title. Orig.red cloth, 
black titles in a box on the front board. Fine. $1350.00

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