HESSE, RAYMOND. Voyage de la Rue des Écouffes `a la Rue des Rosiers

AUCTION 50 | Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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Lot 212
(BELOT, GABRIEL).

HESSE, RAYMOND. Voyage de la Rue des Écouffes `a la Rue des Rosiers

Issued in 200 copies. 20 original woodcuts by engraver Gabriel Belot. Title in red and black. Red and black alternate in text Loose as issued. Crisp, clean copy. Original limp pictorial wrappers. Folio

Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1923

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $350
Scenes of the East European lifestyle yet preserved by the Jewish immigrants living in Paris's famed Rue des Rosiers, heart of the "Pletzel," the Jewish Quarter of Paris