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CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER BY EL LISSITZKY. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Mayselekh [Fairy Tales]. Kiev: Kiever Farlag, 1919. image 1
CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER BY EL LISSITZKY. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Mayselekh [Fairy Tales]. Kiev: Kiever Farlag, 1919. image 2
CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER BY EL LISSITZKY. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Mayselekh [Fairy Tales]. Kiev: Kiever Farlag, 1919. image 3
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CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER BY EL LISSITZKY.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875.
Mayselekh [Fairy Tales]. Kiev: Kiever Farlag, 1919.

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CONSTRUCTIVIST COVER BY EL LISSITZKY.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Mayselekh [Fairy Tales]. Kiev: Kiever Farlag, 1919.
8vo (203 x 140 mm). Publisher's cloth backed pictorial paper boards, upper cover by El Lissitzky, purple endpapers, minor staining and wear, paper repairs to two leaves.

FIRST EDITION OF DER NISTER TRANSLATION, WITH COVER DESIGN BY EL LISSITZKY. "The typography is again an important part of the dynamics of the design, in which mass and voids interact with the stylized contour of the flying bird carrying the child. While the typography still has a folksy appearance, the bird and the child are stripped of their natural look and infused instead with an 'industrial' touch" (Apter-Gabriel, "El Lissitzky's Jewish Works," in Tradition and Revolution, p.111). Bush-Reisinger Museum Catalogue, El Lissitzky 1919.2.

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