Lot 450
Dostoyevsky – The Crocodile – Potsdam, 1921 – Signed Lithographs by Rachel Szalit-Marcus
Dostojewski, Das Krokodil, Ein äusserst sonderbarer Vorfall oder Was in der Passage passierte. Potsdam: Kiepenheuer, 1921. German.
"The Crocodile" by Dostoyevsky, with 21 lithographs by the artist Rachel Szalit-Marcus glued to the book leaves, five of them signed in pencil.
Rachel Szalit-Marcus was born in Lodz in 1894 and studied in Munich, where she married the actor Julius Szalit, who later committed suicide. Szalit moved to Berlin, where she was part of leftist avant-garde circles. After the Nazi rise to power she escaped to France, but was captured in 1942 and sent to Auschwitz, where she was murdered.
55 pp. in 5 unbound signatures held in portfolio, 25 cm. Good condition. Foxing to portfolio.
