Chad Gadjo

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $3,250

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

zz (BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM).

printer

Welt-Verlag,

Place

Berlin,

Publication

1920

Description

Ten dramatic hand-colored plates by Birnbaum. Hand-colored end-papers, title-borders and fore-edges. Hebrew with German translation prepared by the artist’s son Uriel Birnbaum. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST

summary

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, upper cover loose. Lg. 4to

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