Tziyun LaNefesh – Poems and Essays in Memory of Ya'akov Wallman – Jerusalem, 1917 – a Copy from a Limited Edition ...

Tziyun LaNefesh – Poems and Essays in Memory of Ya'akov Wallman – Jerusalem, 1917 – a Copy from a Limited Edition of 100 Copies
Tziyun LaNefesh, "on the grave of the member Ya'akov Wallman – died in Safed in 1916, published by the teachers of Jerusalem and edited by Dov Kimshi". Jerusalem: Raphael Chaim Cohen press, [1917].
A literary anthology in memory of Ya'akov Wallman. Contains poems, prose and articles by Dov Kimchi, Yosef Chaim Brener, Yosef Yoel Rivlin, Eliezer Meir Lifshitz, Asher Barash, R. Binyamin and others. The anthology also contains excerpts from Wallman's writings and letters.
A sticker on the back endpaper: "This booklet was printed in a hundred exemplars as a souvenir for the members, and is not sold in bookshops".
Ya'akov Wallman was born in Galicia (1888), immigrated to Palestine in 1908 and studied at the "Ezra" school in Jerusalem. He was a teacher at the "Lemel" school in Jerusalem, took part in the "Language war" and wrote articles for "HaTzfirah" and "HaPoel HaTza'ir". He died in Safed after getting sick with typhus fever.
[2], 110 pp, 13.5x11 cm. Good-fair condition. A few stains and minor blemishes. Two leaves are detached. Blemishes to binding. Spine missing.