Works by Haim Nahman Bialik and selected translations. Published by "Hovevei HaShira HaIvrit", Berlin, [1923].
Haim Nahman Bialik's writings in a handsome edition, parchment bindings with golden decorations, with golden upper-leaf cutting. The first volume is signed at the end by Haim Nahman Bialik and the three other volumes are signed by Bialik and Joseph Budko. This copy is not numbered.
First volume – poems; second volume – prose and literature; third volume – translation of Don Quixote; fourth volume – translation of Wilhelm Tell.
The book was printed in three thousand and two hundred copies…illustrated by Joseph Budko in Berlin…the first two hundred copies were printed on very heavy paper and the woodcuts are from the original drawings, all numbered by letters from Aleph to Resh, signed by the author and the artist, bound in parchment bindings and are not for sale…"
Volumes 25.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing marks, damages to bindings.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.