Chad Gadjo.

AUCTION 6 | Tuesday, November 17th, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 58

(BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM).

Chad Gadjo.

10 dramatic hand-colored plates by Birnbaum, with hand-colored end-papers, title-borders and fore-edges. Hebrew with German translation prepared by the artist’s Uriel Birnbaum. Original pictorial hand-colored boards with ties, upper cover detached. Lg. 4to

Berlin: Welt-Berlag 1920

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

Despite defect noted, a fine copy of a “most chilling bibliophilic book.” See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp.128-30 (illustrated)