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Leons Paegle "Eela"(Iela) Laikmeta prelude 4 ainās. Vāks - N. Strunkes originallitografija. Izdevis "Daile un Darbs", Riga 1922.

"Street" Era Prelude in 4 Scenes by Leons Paegle Book with Author's Modernist Original Lithograph on the Cover by Niklāvs Strunke, Riga 1922.  
Publisher "Daile un Darbs", Riga 1922. It is left oriented (red, communist) play in 4 acts. 72 pages. Size 115 x 180 mm. Weight 45 gr. Latvian language. 
Original soft cover publishing. Full complete copy. Please note that book is 100% original, which printed 94 years ago, but not modern reprint or more late re-edition. 
Near Fine condition, bend and tears on the cover, damaged and repaired spine and title, traces of the time (please see scans) .

Leons Paegle (1890-1926) was a Latvian teacher, writer and public figure. Riga city councilor.
Born on 10 June 1890 Vidrizu Parish. Vidrizu start school studied (1899-1903), Ledurgas parish school (1903-06) and Valmiera teacher workshop (1906-1910). 
The first poem was published in 1908. After the seminar graduation worked as a teacher Krimulda Parish School (1911) and Dombrovskis factory school Mīlgrāvis. 
In addition to operating the Temperance Society "Arctic". 1914, printed in his drama "Gods and people." After the First World War moved to Moscow, 
where he studied Alfons Šaņavska People's University (1914-1917). Moscow was the Latvian School Board, and the Kurzeme Land Council Executive member. 
There was a lot of Latvian social democracy (1917). After LSPR to be created at the beginning of 1919 returned home and was the first city of Riga secondary controller.
For participation in the CPL 1921 Paegle detained and sentenced to deportation from the Latvian, but the decision was set aside. 
In 1922 he was elected to the Board of Extracurricular Education Congress and he was a lecturer at the board. 1922 and 1925 as their left arodnieku candidates elected Riga City Council.
After the amnesty in 1923, he stayed for several months in Germany, in 1924 in Italy. 1925 Paegle re-arrested in May 1925, but due to illness was released on bail. 
Apart from dealing with the writer, he composed the play "face the centuries" (1921), "Street" (1922) and the fairy-tale play "The Firebird" (1925), "Bludgeon except the bag!" (1926).
He died in 1926. On 28 January in Riga, buried in Forest Cemetery.
From 1944 to 1990, his name was named L. Paegles Riga Secondary School No. 1 and 1991 - Valmiera Drama Theatre but in Cesis L. Paegles name even today is called one of the main streets.

Niklāvs Strunke (1894-1966) - painter, graphic artist, stained glass, stage design, and wrote about art (under the pseudonym Palmenu Klavs), 
one of the most original artists of Latvian modernist generation.

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