Item #393 Életsiratás. A cimlapot Uitz Béla rajzolta. [Life-Lamentation. Cover by Béla Uitz.]. Lajos Kassák.
Kassák’s debut book of prose

Életsiratás. A cimlapot Uitz Béla rajzolta. [Life-Lamentation. Cover by Béla Uitz.]

Budapest: Grill Cs[ászári]. és Kir[ályi]. Könyvkereskés; Benkő Gyula (Világosság), 1912. First edition. In original illustrated paper. 155, (5) p. Chipped at edges, front cover torn at folding. Overall a good copy.

Kassák’s debut book, a collection of short stories. The cover was designed by Béla Uitz, a close associate of Kassák. From 1916 they co-edited the major Hungarian avant-garde magazine “MA”.

Lajos Kassák (1887–1967) was a Hungarian poet, author, painter, theoretician of art; the chief figure of the Hungarian Avant-garde movement.

Béla Uitz (1887–1972) was a Hungarian avant-garde, activist painter and graphic artist.

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