Lot 257
"Shtetl, My Destroyed Home" – Album of Lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback – Berlin, 1923
Shtetl, Mein khorever Heym – a Gedekhenish [Shtetl, My Destroyed Home – A Remembrance]. Berlin: Shvelen, 1923.
A book in album format with 30 lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935) – title page and 29 illustrations depicting Jewish life in the Shtetls in Ukraine before their destruction in the pogroms of World War I.
[2], III-XXXI, [1] ff, 49.5X33 cm. Leaf with table of content missing (originally slit-mounted on last page). Good condition. Stains (especially on first and last leaves). Minor blemishes to margins. New endpapers. Purple velvet binding, with dampstains, blemishes and wear.
