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(SZYK, ARTHUR). Rewolucja w Niemczech [“Revolution in Germany.”] FIRST EDITION. Polish text by Julian Tuwim.   ILLUSTRATED  BY SZYK THROUGHOUT. pp. (30). Original pictorial wrappers bound with burgundy cord, light wear. Oblong 4to. Lodz - Warsaw, Ksiazka i Sztuka, 1919. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK COMPLETELY ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR SZYK. A political satire by the celebrated Polish poet Julian Tuwim, mocking the German nation and its extreme ethno-centerism in the aftermath of World War I. See J.P. Ansell, Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole (2004) pp. 23-6.