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Lot 76

Poems, Stories and Translations by Ze'ev Jabotinsky (Altalena) – Paris, 1930 – Three-Volume Edition, Hand-Signed by Jabotinsky

A selection from Ze'ev Jabotinsky's literary work. Three volumes – stories (Разсказы), poems (Стихи) and "The Truth about the Island of Tristan Da Runha" (Causeries, Правда об острове Тристан да Рунья). Paris: Voltaire, 1930. Russian.


Numbered edition (192/200); each volume hand-signed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. One volume inscribed by Jabotinsky, to Lev Markovich Galbmilion (short inscription, in Russian, dated 1932). Fine bindings, with leather spines. Gilt titles on spines.
With a frontispiece in each volume (two pictures and a drawing of Jabotinsky; the drawing is signed in the plate: "Mac, 1930"), and in-text illustrations by Arthur Szyk.


117; 209, [1]; 191 pp., approx. 17.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and minor blemishes, mostly to edges. Some leaves loose or detached (blank leaves in beginning of volumes). Bindings slightly worn. Placed in a matching slipcase.