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 73 | Thursday, June 22nd, 2017 at 1:00

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

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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, with illustrated color plates on facing pages. pp. 44. Original linen-backed color pictorial covers, rubbed at edges. Rectangular 4to.

Nürnberg: Stürmer-Verlag 1936

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

This infamous 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 kindergarten teacher, her book was distributed free of charge by the Stürmer-Verlag to pre-schools throughout Germany.