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Rare and modern books

Eluard, Paul (Maurice Mendjizki)

Hommage aux martyrs et aux combattants du Ghetto de Varsovie. Trente et un dessins de Maurice Mendjizki (Mendjiski). PoËme de Paul Eluard. (Warsaw Ghetto)

[Imprimerie AbÈcÈ], 1950

1950.00 €

Cole & Contreras Books

(Sitges, Spain)

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Year of publication
1950
Place of printing
Paris
Author
Eluard, Paul (Maurice Mendjizki)
Publishers
[Imprimerie AbÈcÈ]
Keyword
colefrench colelit coleillus paul eluard maurice mendjizky, warsaw ghetto uprising judaica polish french jews
Languages
English

Description

FIRST EDITION OF ELUARD'S RAREST BOOK, WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING BY MAURICE MENDJIZKI. Includes a 5-page poem by Eluard and 31 extremely high-quality (Jacomet process?) full-page reproductions of drawings by Mendjizki depicting the suffering and heroism of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Uprising. Dedicated to the artist's son Claude, shot by the Nazis in 1944 for being a member of the Resistance. THIS FIRST EDITION STRICTLY LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, of which this is number 100, SIGNED BY ELUARD AND MENDJIZKY AND CONTAINING AN WONDERFUL ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING BY MENDJIZKY, depicting three people trying to sleep in very cramped quarters (200 additional unsigned copies were also printed, 100 in French and 100 in Yiddish, which are not part of the first edition.) Printed on fine wove paper. 4to. Original wraps FINE AND BRIGHT, LIKE NEW WITH NO DEFECTS, IN THE ORIGINAL BOARD CHEMISE AND SLIPCASE. A wonderful example of extremely rare and haunting 20th-century Judaica.
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