Shtetl. Mein Chorever Heim. A Gedekenish [“My Destroyed Home. A Remembrance”]

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $4,500

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

author

RYBACK, ISSACHAR BER.

printer

Schwellen

Place

Berlin

Publication

1923

Description

31 tinted and black-and-white plates. ALL COMPLETE, WITH INDEX-CARD LAID-IN AT END (missing from most all copies)

references

See Israel Museum Catalogue, Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928 (1987) no.136 i-xxx (illustrated); Jüdische Lebenswelten Katalog, Berlin (1991) no.7/25 (illustrated)

summary

An extraordinary copy, seemingly never opened, housed within publisher's original cardboard slip-case, with paper-label across front. The suede binding is in mint condition.

Trace foxed. Original pictorial blue suede. Oblong folio (sheet size 13 x 19 1/2 inches)

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