LIMITED EDITION OF 32 COPIES SIGNED BY POET AND ARTIST! RARE poetry book by the acclaimed Israeli poet Israel Eliraz (1936-2016), winner of the Bialik Prize (2008), the Brenner Prize (2013), the ACUM lifetime achievement award (2003), the Nathan Alterman Award (2002), the Jerusalem Foundation-Jerusalem Municipality`s Belles-Lettres Award (1992 and 1999), the Israeli Council of Culture and Art Award (1963 and 1965), the Ministry of Culture and Sport Award (2009), and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Creative Work (1994, 2008, and 2009). The illustrations and art works which accompany this de-luxe publication are by an eminent Swiss painter and graphic artist Catherine Bolle (b.1956). This copy is marked C (5 exemplaires réservés à l`auteur, lettré A à E) and contains aquarelle illustrations and a large fold-out color print on cloth. Le présent portfolio composé en Bodoni Antiqua de corps 12 a été achevé d`imprimer le 24 mars 2003 par Jo Cocconi, m+h à Chéne-Bourg sur papier BFK Rives 250g et pour la reilure, Jacques Ménétrey à Lausanne. 245x170mm. 10 unbound double sheets with softcover laid in both an illustrated grey cloth folder and illustrated grey cloth slipcase. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare de-luxe limited edition of poems by an influential 20th-century Israeli poet, lavishly illustrated by an acclaimed Swiss artist, is in very good condition.