Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
Frilings-Toyt, Play by Yosef Berson – Publishing House Logo Designed by El Lissitzky – Logo of Series Designed by Ben-Zion Zuckermann
Frilings-Toyt, a Eynakter funem Arbeter-Leben [Spring's Death: one-act play on the life of the workers], by Yosef Berson. Kovno-Berlin: Farlag Yiddish, "Ever" press (Berlin), 1921. Second edition.
Fine, clean copy of the play about the lives of Jewish workers, dedicated to the Jewish Freedom Fighters (printed dedication at beginning of book). The book was part of the Folks-Bibliotek Yiddish series, produced by the Farlag Yiddish publishing house. On the front wrapper, logo of the series designed by Ben-Zion Zuckermann – a bird surrounded with vegetal motifs, and the publishing house logo designed by El Lissitzky – priestly hands, shtetl landscape and gravestone.
22, [1] pages. Approx. 17 cm. Good condition. Minor defects. Tears to spine.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, ALE.76.