Elvira Bauer. Trau Keinem Fuchs auf Grüner Heid; und Keinem Jüd bei seinem Eid! Ein Bilderbuch für Gross und Klein [“Trust No Fox in the Green Grass, nor a Jew at his Oath! A Picture Book for Young and Old.”]

AUCTION 62 | Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 34

(ANTISEMITICA).

Elvira Bauer. Trau Keinem Fuchs auf Grüner Heid; und Keinem Jüd bei seinem Eid! Ein Bilderbuch für Gross und Klein [“Trust No Fox in the Green Grass, nor a Jew at his Oath! A Picture Book for Young and Old.”]

Rhyming German Gothic text (Sütterlinschrift) in red and black facing color plates of very high quality production. pp. 44. Original linen-backed color pictorial covers, extremities touched frayed. Rectangular 4to.

Nürnberg: Stürmer-Verlag 1936

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

This infamous slick production issued by Gauleiter Julius Streicher, is illustrated with notorious imagery designed to inculcate children with extreme anti-Semitic values. The female author, Elvira Bauer, was an 18-year-old art student who also taught kindergarten.