[Art] [Chagall, Marc] Chagall, Bella Brenendicke Licht (Burning Lights)

New York: Book League of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order, IWO, 1945. First edition. 8vo. 252, (4) pp. Inscribed by Marc Chagall in Yiddish on front free endpaper, "a gift, Marc Chagall, 1945"; additionally inscribed on same, "A gift for Emanuel, from Moyshe Unterman, 1947". Illustrated with 26 printed line drawings by Marc Chagall. Original dark burgundy cloth, stamped in gilt, corners and spine ends rubbed; all edges trimmed; front hinge starting, rear hinge largely split; cocked; spotting in bottom gutter of pp. 108-117.

A scarce inscribed first edition of Bella Chagall's charming memoir of her and her husband Marc Chagall's childhood in the pre-revolutionary Russia Jewish market town of Vitebsk.