MALACH Lejb - Shumoviny [first edition Warsaw 1922] [cover by Israel Tykocinski] [Yiddish].

Warsaw 1922. bookstore and publishing house of E. Gitlin. 15x23.5 cm, pp. 192, bookbinding using original publisher's soft cover. Condition: large traces of flooding, wavy paper, rubbing of binding, outdated Jewish library stamps.

First edition of the drama Shumoviny (or Odpadki, Yiddish אָפּפאַל) by Leib Malach (1894-1936), a Yiddish poet from Zwolen. From 1907 to 1922 he lived in Warsaw, where he imitated various jobs until his writing talent was discovered by Hirsh David Nomberg. At the beginning of his career, he wrote poems and ballads, then wrote prose works and dramas. He was fascinated by topics related to the Jewish half-world. In 1922 he left Poland and lived in many countries, including Argentina for the longest time. He died in 1936 in Paris.[https://sztetl.org.pl/]

Text and page numbering in reverse. The entire book in Yiddish. The cover was designed by Israel Tykocinski.