Chad Gadjo.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,800

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

author

(BIRNBAUM, MENACHEM).

printer

Welt-Berlag

Place

Berlin

Publication

1920

Description

10 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 Uriel Birnbaum.

summary

Despite defect noted, 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 detached. Lg. 4to

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