The Jew at Home. Impressions of a Summer and Autumn spent with him

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 531
PENNELL, JOSEPH

The Jew at Home. Impressions of a Summer and Autumn spent with him

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Numerous plates and text illustrations by Pennell pp. 105,(6). Lightly browned, shaken. Original pictorial cloth. Square 8vo

New York: D. Appelton & Company 1892

Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $200
A prominent graphic artist’s account of his Eastern European travels, expressing a mixture of sympathy and distaste. “I have had the opportunity thrust upon me of seeing the Jew much more intimately than the majority of his defenders or his detractors; and what I did see, I have simply put down in black and white. It requires no knowledge of life five hundred years ago to see how the Polish Jew is living today.”