CHAGALL, Marc (artist) and Der NISTER [pseud. for Pinchus KAHANOVICH].
A Mayse mit a Hon; Dos Tsigele [A Story About a Rooster [and] The Little Kid].
Publication: Vilner farlag fun B.A. Kletskin, Petrograd, 1917.
THE BIRTH OF A RICH BOOK-ILLUSTRATING CAREER: CHAGALL’S FIRST BOOK, SHOWING 9 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, AND THE ONLY CHILDREN’S BOOK TO BE ILLUSTRATED BY THE GREAT MODERN ARTIST.
A lovely example of this very fragile booklet, a landmark in Yiddish book illustration published the year of the Russian revolutions by “the first genuine publisher of modern Yiddish literature”, before Chagall joined the Arts Section of the Kultur Lige.
VERY RARE: APPARENTLY ONLY ONE EXAMPLE IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS (MOMA), AND ABOUT A HANDFUL IN EUROPE AND RUSSIA

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