Еврейские народные песни в России/ Evreiskie narodnye pesni v Rossii (Jewish Folk Songs in Russia)
St. Petersburg: Восхода (Voskhoda/Voskhod), 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (xxx) 329pp. [1] (xiv) [4]. Dark blue buckram with white paper labels on the spine. The work is wonderful collection of Jewish folk songs in Yiddish. The work contains a total of 376 individual songs, from a variety of songwriters. The text is arranged in a two column format with Yiddish text in Hebrew letters with vowels on one side and the transliteration into Roman Script on the other. Introduction and captions (featuring songs authors) as well as bibliographic footnotes in Russian. The back contains a 14-page Yiddish-language bibliographic index of the songs, arranged by author, in Hebrew lettering. The final 4 pages consist of a table of contents, and errata.
Text in Russian and Yiddish.
Binding with rubbing and bumping to extremities. Spine with some tears and chipping. Book block slightly shaky with starting at the verso of the title page and the interior back cover. Sporadic minor to light water stains throughout. Ex-library copy with ink stamps on the title page, the verso of title, the opposite page, p.183, and the final page. Small diagonal closed tears on the final two pages. Binding in good-, interior in good condition overall. g- to g. Item #44120
Yiddish title: אידישע פאלקסלידער אין רוסלאנד. יידישע פאלקסלידער אין רוסלאנד.
Price: $750.00