Unter di Fligel fun Toyt [Under the Wings of Death]
- Softcover
- Warsaw: Di Zayt, 1923
Warsaw: Di Zayt, 1923. Second edition. Softcover. fair to vg. Large Octavo. 225pp. Original decorative wrappers with b/w. illustration pasted down on front cover in hardcover cassette with half cloth over decorative paper-covered boards and black lettering on spine. 12 b/w illustrations by Jakob Adler. Abraham Zak (1891-1980) describes the fate of galician population during World War I, the sudden change in life, the preparations, life of and with soldiers and living with war and the (Jewish) holidays. Zak gives words to the differences and the major change in the way of life of the Jews in Galicia. With his style of essays with dialogues he creates a unique approach to the understanding of the meaning of war, which is strongly impacted by the dramatic drawings by Jakob Adler. Text in Yiddish. Cassette with light wear along edges. Wrappers rubbed, small piece of cover illustration is missing, wear along edges and fraying at head and tail of spine. Foxing at verso of front wrapper and title page. Block tanned, 60% of pages are loose, but present. Block with some fraying at foredge. Binding in overall very good, wrappers and interior in fair to good+ condition.
Details
Title
Unter di Fligel fun Toyt [Under the Wings of Death]
Author
Zak, Abraham; Jakob Adler (illustr.)
Binding
Softcover
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Di Zayt: Warsaw
Date
1923
Edition
Second edition