1st edition. Original illustrated cloth, 8vo, 176 pages. In Yiddish. Includes modernist typeface by Zuni Maud (initialed in the print) on title page, which is repeated on the cloth cover. Illustrated with line drawings and woodcuts, including several by Zuni Maud, and a photograph. Born in the district of Grodno, Lithuania, Zuni Maud Immigrated to the U. S. In 1905. Maud was an artist, cartoonist, puppeteer, playwright, writer and poet. He studied at the Cooper Union Art School, Baron de Hirsch Art School and National Academy of Art, New York. And did illustrations for Der Kibitzer and stage and costume design for productions by Maurice Schwartz in the Yiddish Art Theater. He contributed articles to Der Kundes (N. Y. ) , The Jewish Daily Forward (N. Y. ) , Di Tsayt (N. Y. ) , Kinderland (N. Y. ) , The Kinder Zhurnal (N. Y. ) , and The Frayhayt (N. Y. ) . Maud was also an ilustrator of a number of books and wrote plays, children's stories and poems. In 1925, together with Yosel Cutler, he founded the "Modicot" marionette theater. Lacks blank front endpaper, wear PR
