Auction 38 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture, Israeli and International Art

Uri Zvi Grinberg – Three Books / "Di kupe" by Peretz Markish

Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
1-2. Mefisto, Uri Zvi Greenberg. Warsaw: literature fund, 1922. 2nd edition. A poem by Uri Zvi Grinberg. Design of cover by Wolf Weintraub, font of title page designed by Grinberg himself. Author's portrait by Henryk Berlewi.
Bound together with: di kupe [the pile], Peretz Markish. Warsaw: Kultur lige, 1922. 1st edition. Composition on the cover created by Henryk Berlewi, interacts with the title of Markish's poem and resembles "a pile" [di kupe].
85, [2] pp;32 pp. 31.5 cm. Good condition. Damages to front cover of "mefisto" (back cover – missing). Minor spotting. Binding somewhat loose.
3. Min HaChachlil uMin HaKachol – Uri Zvi Grinberg. Tel-Aviv: Haaretz printing press, 1950. In the colophon: "the poems…corrected for printing….with some changes…the book was published in seventy seven copies according to the author's wish". 41, [2] pp, 24.5 cm. Paper of good quality, title page with characters in red ink. Good condition. Minor spotting. Tears and spotting on cover.
4. HaGavrut HaOla, Uri Zvi Grinberg. Tel-Aviv: "Sadan",1926. 32 pp, 32 cm. Good condition. Creases and tears (mainly to cover).