Bialik, Ch[aim] N[achman]. Sepher ha-Devarim [poems]. With: 16 illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud

AUCTION 33 | Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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Lot 41
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Bialik, Ch[aim] N[achman]. Sepher ha-Devarim [poems]. With: 16 illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud

FIRST EDITION. Text in Hebrew. Charming color illustrations ff.18. Light stains. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Rectangular 8vo

Berlin: Verlag Ophir 1922

Est: $300 - $400
PRICE REALIZED $750
Martha (“Tom”) Seidmann-Freud (1892-1930), niece of Sigmund Freud, was one of Germany’s most important illustrators of children’s books in the 1920s. She committed suicide four months after the death of her husband