Online Auction 012 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"Reshuyot LaChatan"/ "Af'apei Zvi" - Two Bibliophilic Books - "Tarshish" and "Schocken"

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1. Reshuyot LaChatan. Tel Aviv, Kislev [1936.]
Printed in black and red ink, on paper of good quality, with very wide margins. Designed by Dr. Moshe Spitzer.
"Composed by one of the first Ashkenazi poets…and never printed until I, Zalman Schocken, woke up and… published them for my first-born son… and his bride… on their wedding day… Tel Aviv." Colophon: "…copied from manuscripts on parchment… copies of which are preserved in the Institute for Study of Hebrew Poetry in Jerusalem and one hundred copies were printed now …". Offered here is copy no. 78.
54 pp, [1] leaf, 31.5 cm. Good condition. Tears and adhesive tape, stains to spine. Loose binding.
2. Af'apei Zvi, one hundred poems by Hebrew poets in Spain and the Orient, compiled and edited from manuscripts and printed books by Meir Habermann. Jerusalem: Tarshish, 1942. Copy no. 22 out of an edition of 150 copies.
69 pp, [1] pp, 17cm. Good condition. Right back endpaper is dark. Bound in a cardboard binding with parchment spine.
Bibliophilia, Prints and Art
Bibliophilia, Prints and Art