KIPNIS (Levin). RABAN (Zeev). Born Wolf Rawicki. Aleph Beit. Alphabet. Zeichnungen von Z. Raban. Verse von L. Kipnis. Verlag. "Hasefer" S. D. Saltzmann. Bezalel. Jerusalem. Klischees und Druck. Richard Labisch & Co. Graphische Kunstanstaldt G.m.b.H., in Berlin. Copyright by S. D. Saltzmann Verlag, Berlin. 1923. In-8 (25 x 17.7 cm). (32) pp. cream cloth spine, first cover lithographed in color and enhanced with gold. Unique edition of a precious Hebrew primer printed in Berlin and association of two great names of Israeli art and literature. One letter per page, on coated paper, mounted on a tab, illustrated with a shimmering animal, gold embossed letter, gray background and ornate red and gold frame, with gray squares in the corners, by the artist Zeev Raban (1890-1970). Born in Poland, he studied at various art academies in Europe: Munich, Paris, Brussels... He was the founder of the Bezalel Academy, after his departure for Israel in 1912, where he taught until 1929. In 1921, he participated in the Tower of David exhibition, the first exhibition of Hebrew artists in Palestine. Text by Levin Kipnis (Ukraine 1894-1990 Israel) who studied in Zhitomir and Warsaw. In the Ukraine, he established the first Hebrew library. He emigrated in 1913 and continued his education at the Academy of Arts in Bezalel. In 1922, he traveled to Berlin to study art and crafts. A very nice copy.