"Sefer Hadevarim" [The Book of Things], sixteen poems by Chaim Nachman Bialik and sixteen illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud. Jerusalem-Berlin: Ophir, 1922. Hebrew.
Sixteen short poems by Chaim Nachman Bialik, each accompanied by a color illustration by Tom Seidmann-Freud.
Tom Seidmann-Freud (1892-1930), painter, illustrator, and author, native of Vienna; niece of Sigmund Freud. Notwithstanding the brevity of her career (cut short by her suicide at age 38), Seidmann-Freud had a profound impact on 20th-century children's literature. Her distinctive style of illustration – characterized by simple, delicately colored geometric forms – is suggestive of the influence of "Neue Sachlichkeit" ("New Objectivity"), a modernist art movement that developed in Germany in the interwar period.
[35] pp., 21 cm. Good-fair condition. Foxing. Minor tears and blemishes to edges of boards and to spine. Strips of cloth tape between boards and endpapers.
