Troyer – [Sadness], David Hofstein. Illustrations by Marc Chagall. Published by Kultur-Lige, Kiev, 1922.
Poems relating to the Ukrainian pogroms, typography on the cover and drawings within the book by Marc Chagall. The drawings show a man with dropped arms or a stack of houses connected to the ‘body without a head,’ which also portray the pogroms. Yiddish.
On the title page is a handwritten dedication by the author (Yiddish) from 1922.
XXIII, [1] page, 34 cm. Fair condition. Stained, creased with fold marks. The margins of page 17 are torn. Moth holes on the margins of some of the pages. Tears on the cover, mainly around the spine. Some have been professionally repaired.