Shtetl. Mein Chorever Heim. A Gedekenish [“My Destroyed Home. A Remembrance”]

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Shtetl. Mein Chorever Heim. A Gedekenish [“My Destroyed Home. A Remembrance”]

31 tinted and black-and-white plates. ALL COMPLETE, WITH INDEX-CARD LAID-IN AT END (missing from most all copies) Trace foxed. Original pictorial blue suede. Oblong folio (sheet size 13 x 19 1/2 inches) See Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 (1987) no.136 i-xxx (illustrated); Jüdische Lebenswelten Katalog, Berlin (1991) no.7/25 (illustrated)

Berlin: Schwellen 1923

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $4,500

An extraordinary copy, seemingly never opened, housed within publisher's original cardboard slip-case, with paper-label across front. The suede binding is in mint condition.