Almanakh VUSPP [VUSPP Almanac] (VUSPP = Al-Ukrainishe Assotziatzie Fun Proliterishe Schreiber = All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers) – Yiddishe Sektzie [Jewish Section]. Kharkiv (Kharkov): Tzenterfarlag, 1929. Yiddish.
Literary anthology published by the Jewish Section of the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers, established in 1927. Includes works by 21 Jewish authors and poets, with accompanying woodcuts and linocuts by artists Ber/Boris Blank (1897-1957) and Moisei Fradkin (1904-1974) – both of them young artists at the time, from the same graduating class of students from the Kharkiv Institute of Art. The illustrations are signed with the initials of the two artists.
Fine copy with original binding and illustrated paper jacket.
363, [3] pp., 22.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains. Dampstains to upper parts of leaves. Original binding, partly detached from book block. Inked stamps and traces of gluing (library labels). Binding enclosed in original paper jacket, with tears and stains to edges, some affecting illustrations; professionally restored.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.