Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Leah Goldberg – Notebook of Poems – Unpublished Poems Handwritten by Leah Goldberg
Opening: $1,800
Sold for: $4,375
Including buyer's premium
Poems and drafts of poems, handwritten by Leah Goldberg.
1. Volume of white leaves opening with a dozen leaves handwritten by Leah Goldberg, 1966-1967. A thick volume, cardboard and cloth binding of "Dvir" publishing house, originally used as a binding for one of H.N. Bialik's books, within which hundreds of white leaves have been bound.
On the lining leaf Leah Goldberg drew a kind of a title-page featuring a figure reading a book and the writing "Leah Goldberg". On the next 11 leaves appear poems and poem-drafts by Goldberg, of the years 1966-1967. These poems and drafts, most of them have been printed in the collection "She'erit HaChayim", however there are some variations and two unpublished poems, which have not been published.
2. Three handwritten leaves, on which appears a complete version of the poem "Shlosha Yemey Chalomot". The poem, which consists of four parts, was published in 1958 and assembled by Leah Goldberg in the anthology "Mukdam Umeuchar" (Hakibbutz Ha'artzi HaShomer HaTza'ir publishing, Merhavia, 1959).
3. Single leaf, printed, out of a book, on which Goldberg's poem "Tof Boded" has been printed. On the leaf's corner Goldberg wrote by hand "and how are you? How is everybody? Leah".
1. Volume of white leaves opening with a dozen leaves handwritten by Leah Goldberg, 1966-1967. A thick volume, cardboard and cloth binding of "Dvir" publishing house, originally used as a binding for one of H.N. Bialik's books, within which hundreds of white leaves have been bound.
On the lining leaf Leah Goldberg drew a kind of a title-page featuring a figure reading a book and the writing "Leah Goldberg". On the next 11 leaves appear poems and poem-drafts by Goldberg, of the years 1966-1967. These poems and drafts, most of them have been printed in the collection "She'erit HaChayim", however there are some variations and two unpublished poems, which have not been published.
2. Three handwritten leaves, on which appears a complete version of the poem "Shlosha Yemey Chalomot". The poem, which consists of four parts, was published in 1958 and assembled by Leah Goldberg in the anthology "Mukdam Umeuchar" (Hakibbutz Ha'artzi HaShomer HaTza'ir publishing, Merhavia, 1959).
3. Single leaf, printed, out of a book, on which Goldberg's poem "Tof Boded" has been printed. On the leaf's corner Goldberg wrote by hand "and how are you? How is everybody? Leah".
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