Lot 208
"Children, Clap Your Hands!" – Children's Poems by Itzhak Katzenelson – Color Illustrations by Gertrud Caspari
Mikh'u Kaf, Kol HaTahf ["Children, clap your hands!"] by Itzhak Katzenelson. Illustrated by Gertrud Caspari. Warsaw: Lewin-Epztein, [1924]. Hebrew.
Book of children's poems by poet and educator Itzhak Katzenelson (1886-1944). The poems are accompanied by large color illustrations (lithographs) by the German artist Gertrud Caspari (1873-1948).
The poems in the book were probably translated from Caspari's "Kinderhumor für Auge und Ohr" (1906), or inspired by it. At least some of the illustrations were created to accompany Katzenelson's poems.
[18] ff. (possibly incomplete; according to Ofek the book comprises 22 ff.) Approx. 19X24 cm. Good condition. Minor browning. Minor stains to several leaves. Hard cover; strips of cloth adhesive tape to corners, spine and inside of cover. Stains to cover. Minor marginal tears to cover. Marginal tears to endpapers.
Rare. Not listed in OCLC.
See: Uriel Ofek, "Hebrew Children's Literature 1900-1948". Dvir, 1988. Vol. II, p. 648. No. 146-iv.
