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The Collected Works of Haim Nachman Bialik in Four Signed Volumes – Fine Parchment Bindings
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The Collected Works of Haim Nachman Bialik in Four Signed Volumes – Fine Parchment Bindings
The Collected Works of Haim Nachman Bialik with a selection of his translations. Berlin: Chovevei HaShira Ha'Ivrit, 1923. Hebrew.
Collected Works of Haim Nachman Bialik in a remarkable edition, good-quality parchment bindings with gold decorations, with gilt upper edges. Volume 1 – poems; Volume 2 – Stories and literature; Volume 3 – translation of Don Quixote; Volume 4 – translation of William Tell.
"Three thousand and two hundred copies of this book were printed… the book's illuminations and illustrations… done by Joseph Budko in Berlin… the first two hundred copies were printed on very thick paper, and the woodcuts are from the artist's original woodcuts, all marked according to order in letters from Aleph to Resh, signed by the author and the artist, bound in parchment and not for sale on the market…". The four volumes are signed by Haim Nachman Bialik and Joseph Budko on the colophon; not numbered. 4 volumes, 25 cm. Good condition. Some stains within the books. Some stains and damages to bindings.
