NIZYNSKI, Marjan. Opowiessc o dzwonniku z portu Jaffa. (Z autolitografjami autora). Warsaw, Gebethner and Wolff, [1929].
8vo. Later red cloth, front wrapper with mounted lithograph in two colours mounted on upper board; pp. [viii], 55, 7 lithographic plates in two colours by the author; edges of mounted front wrapper with a few chips, not affecting illustration, text evenly a little browned, due to paper stock; a very good copy.
This is the first edition of an excessively rare Polish avantgarde book production, the first book pulication by Marjan Niżyński (1910-1943), a poet, playwright, painter and graphic artist, whose experimental theatre production Dalmino was closed down by the censors in 1930 in Cracow. In 1943 he was run over by a German car. The poems in The Story of the Hunchback of Jaffa Port by the teenager is considered a masterpiece of haunting scenes depicted in very expressive language.
OCLC locates copies in Wayne State and Poland; not in COPAC.
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