Chagall, Marc. (1887 - 1985) [Chagall, Bella. (1895 - 1944)]. Burning Lights: Thirty-six Drawings by Marc Chagall - SIGNED. New York: Schocken. 1946. First edition. Originally written in Yiddish in France in 1939 by Bella Rosenfeld Chagall, writer and wife of the artist Marc Chagall, the work was published posthumously in English in 1946. A recollection of Bella's childhood in a Russian-Jewish family, the work is further brought alive by the remarkable thirty-six drawings by her husband which accompany the stories. "They combine a moving tenderness for the Jew of that time in his every-day existence with an inspired rendition of the religious exaltation and ecstasy of which he was capable." (from the dj)


Translated by Norbert Guterman. Publisher's full blue cloth. Front board stamped in gilt with a design by Marc Chagall. Spine lettered in gilt. Binding a little grubby, some toning and yellowing to inner boards/joints. Jacket near fine with minimal traces of age and shelf wear. Signed and dated in blue ink on the front free endpage "Marc Chagall / 1946 / Chicago."