Aleph-Beth [primer]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $2,000

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

author

(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE).

printer

Hotza’at Toshiah

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1902

Description

Twelve stiff pages each containing two colorfully illustrated Hebrew letters.

summary

Each Hebrew letter contains multiple illustrations of objects, the Hebrew word of which begins with that particular letter. Brilliant hues. Charming illustrations culled both from East European Jewish life and the world at large.

Worn, extremities frayed. Original color-pictorial boards, gutter split, covers soiled. Rectangular 12mo.

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