A Nyomor Dalaibol (From the Songs of Poverty)
Budapest: Juventus Kiadasa, 1923. Limited first Hungarian edition. Softcover. 1/500. Small octavo. 7x5". 46pp. (2). Printed illustrated tan tissue paper dust jacket with brown lettering on the front cover. Tan cardboard wrappers. Pages unopened. Illustrated frontispiece portrait of Rosenfeld. This is a Hungarian-language translation of a collection of work from Polish-American Yiddish-language poet Morris Rosenfeld, printed in a limited edition of 500 copies. The poems are accompanied throughout by fascinating expressionist woodcuts in b/w from Hungarian artist Sigismond Kolos-Vary (including the cover design and frontispiece portrait). Interestingly this edition was published the same year that Rosenfeld died. Text in Hungarian.
Wrappers with some light age toning, and a few small chips to the edges of the glassine. Interior with some light smudges to a few pages throughout, and some light creasing to the title page, although pages are un-opened and the book was never read. Glassine wrappers in very good-, wrappers in very good, interior in very good+ condition overall. Scarce. Wrappers protected in modern mylar. vg- to vg+. Item #53467
* Morris Rosenfeld (Moshe Jacob Alter) (December 28, 1862 in Stare Boksze in Russian Poland, government of Suwałki – June 22, 1923 in New York City) was a Yiddish poet. He was educated in Boksha, Suwałki, and Warsaw. He settled in New York in 1886, and became involved with many of the leading Jewish newspapers. For a time he was editor of the "New Yorker Morgenblatt", while also being involved in publishing his own work.
*No records on OCLC.
Price: $950.00