GROSSMAN, REUBEN. Ibim

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 37

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

GROSSMAN, REUBEN. Ibim

FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of the Author pp.96. Original printed grey boards, broken. 8vo Deinard, Koheleth America 2

New York: Yechezkel Lipshitz 1918

Est: $600 - $800

PRICE REALIZED $600

Born in Chicago in 1905, Grossman was raised with Hebrew as his mother-tongue. A most precocious Hebraist, here issuing, on the occasion of his Bar-Mitzvah, a collection of thirteen of his short stories and thirteen poems. Aged 24, Grossman migrated to the Land of Israel, and in addition to publishing further works of poetry and translations of Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson and Poe, he rose to become Supervisor of English for the Israel Ministry of Culture and Education. Grossman (who Hebraicized his name to Avinoam) died in Tel Aviv in 1974. See Tidhar 357-8; UJE, V 107