Lot 259
"Lyric", Poems by Mikhail Tsetlin – Moscow-Paris, 1912 – Illustrations by Andre Lhote and Antoine Bourdelle, Headings Designed by Ivan Efimov – Hand-Decorated Parchment Binding
Лирика [Lyric], by A Marie [Amari; Mikhail Tsetlin]. [Moscow-Paris]: Наука (Nauka), 1912. Russian.
A volume of poetry by Mikhail Tsetlin (Михаил Цетлин, 1882-1945), a Jewish-Russian poet, writer, playwright and translator, known by the penname Amari; a grandson of Zeev Kalonymus Wissotzky (the founder of the Wissotzky tea company) and a descendant of the Jewish philantropist Joshua Zeitlin.
Alongside the poems, the book contains illustrations by the French cubist artist André Lhote (1885-1962) and three plates with sketches by the French sculptor and painter Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929). The poem headings were designed by the Russian sculptor and painter Ivan Efimov (Иван Ефимов, 1878-1959). Bound in a fine parchment binding decorated by hand.
[1] leaf, 123, [5] pp, [1] leaf + [3] plates, 20 cm. Good condition. Some stains and small tears to edges of several leaves. Uneven edges. Two unopened leaves. Handwritten inscription on title page (Russian). Stamp on one endpaper. Minor blemishes to binding.
