Chaim Nachman Bialik's writings and a selection of his translations. Berlin: Chovevei HaShira HaIvrit (Lovers of Hebrew Poetry), 1923.
An impressive edition of Chaim Nachman Bialik's Writings, with quality gilt decorated parchment bindings; top edges gilt. First book – poems; second book – stories and prose; third book – translation of Don Quixote; fourth book – translation of Wilhelm Tell.
"The book was printed in an edition of three thousand two hundred copies… the decoration of the book and its illustrations… were made by Joseph Budko in Berlin… the first two hundred copies were printed on most heavy paper and its wood engravings came from the originals of the artist himself, all marked in an orderly fashion with Hebrew letters, signed by the writer and the illustrator, bound in parchment and are not for sale on the market…". All four volumes are signed by Chaim Nachamn Bialik and Joseph Budko on the colophon leaves; not numbered.
4 volumes, 25 cm. Good condition. Foxing (mostly on the endpapers and the first and last leaves of the volumes). Minor blemishes. Stains and blemishes to bindings.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.