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KHAVER-PAVERS MAYSELAKH: [VOL I] MAYZELE-GNV [AND VOL II] YANKELE SHNAYELE [COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES]
1st edition. Original red boards with gitl lettering and design, 8vo, 96, 96 pages, illustrated, in Yiddish. Contents: 1. Mayzele ganev un andere 2. Yankele shneyele un andere. Both volumes are overflowing with gorgeous Yiddish modernist woodcut illustrations by Aharon Gudlman (1890-1978), with 15 full- or partial-page illustrations and 20 fanciful initial Yiddish letters in Volume I; and 12 full or partial page illustrations and 15 initial letters in Volume II. Detailed red bordering on each page add to the deluxe illustrated feel of the work as well. "Goodelman grew up in Russia and studied at an art school in Odessa. After graduating, he moved to New York and attended the Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, working during the day to support himself. He traveled to Paris for a brief time, but was forced to return to America at the outbreak of World War I. He was a member of the Yiddish branch of the Communist Party, and art editor for YKUF, a Jewish cultural magazine. He...was a founding member of the Society of American Sculptors. Goodelman created sculptures in wood, metal, and stone, and illustrated many childrens books in English and Yiddish" (National Museum of American Art, 1996). "Chaver Paver" was the pen name of Gershon Einbinder. Einbinder was born on February 8, 1901 in Bershad (today in the Ukraine) . At the age of 19, he moved to Romania and eventually settled in the United States in 1924. He lived in New York and Los Angeles, where he died in 1964. Chaver Paver made his debut in Yiddish literature in the 1920s as a childrens writer. He wrote five volumes of childrens stories and several plays. However, the majority of his literary works were stories and novels for adults. SUBJECT(S): Children's stories, Yiddish. Children's literature. OCLC: 15009977 Lacks backstrips (spine coverings) as usually found, internally very nice and clean on beatuful strong white paper. Good Condition thus. (YIDCHI-5-10E-L-'excc)
Dan Wyman Books LLC · Brooklyn, NY 11211, US400,00 €
