Lot 303
Issachar Ber Ryback - "On the Jewish Fields of Ukraine" - Paris, 1926 - Signed and Numbered Copy with a Dedication Handwritten by Ryback
Sur Les Champs Juifs De L'Ukraine, Issachar Ryback [On the Jewish Fields of Ukraine, Issachar Ryback]. Paris, 1926. French.
Album with 25 high-quality reproductions (one in color), depicting Jewish figures and Jewish craftsmen in Ukraine. Introduction by André Salmon. Copy no. 7 (numbered in Roman numerals) out of an edition of 50 copies printed on "Hollande B.F.K." paper. Signed by Ryback on the colophon page.
On one of the opening blank pages is a dedication handwritten and signed by Ryback, in Russian: "to friends of art... Henrietta Mironovna and Joseph Abramovitz, Greetings". The dedication is signed: "Ryback and Rybachka: (the words "and Rybachka" were added, probably, by the artist's wife), and dated - Paris, March 12, 1927.
15 pp, [1] leaf, [25] plates, [1] leaf, 38 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Some defects and tears at margins of leaves. Creases and some tears to tissue guards. Some leaves repaired with adhesive tape. Defects to binding.
