1-3. Three postcards handwritten by David Vogel. Sent from Vienna to his childhood friend Shimon Polack in New York and in Detroit, 1923-1924.
Vogel writes about his intention to travel to America, about his failing health and his poor financial situation and asks his friend to help him distribute his book "Lifnei HaSha'ar HaAfel" and sell it in the United States.
14X9 cm. Good condition. Creases, small tears to margins and open tears to corners.
4. Lifnei HaSha'ar HaAfel, poems, by David Vogel. Vienna: "Machar", 1923.
Vogel's only poetry book published during his lifetime. Dr. Israel Mehlman writes in his essay "Reasons for the Rarity of Hebrew Books": "Sometimes, a limited number of copies were printed of poem collections by poets who were unknown at the time; after years, when the poet gained publicity - during his life or after his death - it became clear that the first edition of his book is extremely scarce, for example David Vogel's Lifnei HaSha'ar HaAfel (Vienna 1923)". (Mehlman, Genuzot Sefarim, p. 139).
78, [2] pp, 23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains (dark stains to a number of leaves). Creases to leaf corners. Library stamps. Cover and title page are worn and partly detached. Tears to spine.