Elvira Bauer. Trau Keinem Fuchs auf Grüner Heid; und Keinem Jüd bei seinem Eid! Ein Bilderbuch für Gross und Klein [“Trust No Fox in the Green Grass, nor a Jew at his Oath! A Picture Book for Young and Old.”]

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,200

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author

(ANTISEMITICA).

printer

Stürmer-Verlag

Place

Nürnberg

Publication

1936

Description

Rhyming German Gothic text (Sütterlinschrift) in red and black facing color plates of very high quality production.

summary

This infamous slick production issued by Gauleiter Julius Streicher, is illustrated with notorious imagery designed to inculcate children with extreme anti-Semitic values. The female author, Elvira Bauer, was an 18-year-old art student who also taught kindergarten.

pp. 44. Original linen-backed color pictorial covers, extremities touched frayed. Rectangular 4to.

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