La Poésie Lyrique Hébraïque Contemporaine (1882-1910) [Contemporary Hebrew Lyric Poety]

Slousch, Nahum (Nahum Slouschz). La Poésie Lyrique Hébraïque Contemporaine (1882-1910) [Contemporary Hebrew Lyric Poety]. Paris: Mercure de France, 1911. First edition. Octavo. 299pp. [1]. Printed yellow wrappers with black lettering on the cover, protected in a folded wax paper jacket. Pages uncut. A historical and scholarly study of Hebrew lyric poetry in the years 1882-1910 by Russian born-Israeli, writer, literary scholar and archaeologist Nahum Slouschz (1872-1996). This work was completed while he was living in France, teaching Hebrew literature at the University of Paris, and was a further development on the thesis published by the author under the title “Renaissance de la Littérature Hébraïque” (1903). Table of contents at the rear. Publisher’s ads on the back cover.

Text in French.

Wrappers with some light creasing and stains. Back cover creased and lightly bent at the top. Light rubbing to extremities. Foxing to the edges of the book block. Interior with minor sporadic water stains, mostly in the margins of the text pages. Wrappers in good, interior in very good- condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. g to vg-. Softcover. (47695) $75