Chad Gadjo

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM).

printer

Welt-Berlag

Place

Berlin

Publication

1920

Description

INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE END PAPER, dated 11th December 1920. Ten dramatic hand-colored plates by Birnbaum, with hand-colored end-papers, title-borders and fore-edges. Hebrew with German translation prepared by the artist’s son Uriel Birnbaum

summary

AN UNCOMMONLY FINE COPY, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST A fine copy of a “most chilling bibliophilic book.” See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp.128-30 (illustrated)

Original pictorial hand-colored boards with ties. Lg. 4to

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