Heimer, Ernst. Der Giftpilz. Ein Stürmerbuch für Jung und Alt ["The Poisonous Toadstool: A Book for Young and Old.”]

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $2,200

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

author

(ANTISEMITICA).

printer

Stürmer-Verlag

Place

Nürnberg

Publication

1938

Description

17 grotesque color plates by the Stürmer illustrator “Fips” (pseudonym of Philipp Rupprecht). German Gothic text.

summary

This infamous slick production issued by Gauleiter Julius Streicher, is illustrated with notorious imagery designed to inculcate children with extreme anti-Semitic values.

pp. 64. Original linen-backed color pictorial covers, rear cover scratched. 4to.

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