Burning Lights: Thirty-six Drawings by Marc Chagall

New York: Schocken Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1946). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear only, faint dust-soiling to top edge of text block; the jacket is sun-tanned at the spine and along the edges of both flaps, and has a tiny puncture-tear in the front flap-fold]. (pen and ink drawings) "In this book Bella Chagall, wife of the famous painter Marc Chagall, re-lives and recollects her life as a child in a Russian-Jewish family. Here we find the sweetness and intimacy of the traditional home, its warmth and freshness, its joys and sorrows. The dramatic rhythm of the community life with its typical figures, at once solemn and (truncated) earthly, is felt with the sensitive heart and seen through the loving eyes of a woman artist. Thirty-six drawings by Marc Chagall....bring us into immediate contact with the very essence of that world. They combine a moving tenderness for the Jew of that time in his every-day existence with an inspired rendition of the religious exaltation and ecstasy of which he was capable." The dust jacket illustration is a portrait of Bella Chagall, by Marc Chagall. . (Inventory #: 28556)