Lot 199
"Schlemiel" - Humoristic and Artistic Periodical - Berlin, 1919-1920
Schlemiel, Jüdische Blätter für Humor und Kunst [Schlemiel, Jewish paper for humor and art]. Berlin: Welt, 1919-1920. Issues 1-24 (one double issue, 19/20).
A bound volume of the Jewish satiric periodical "Schlemiel", published in Berlin in 1903-1906 and then again in 1919-1920. Features poems and texts by Else Lasker-Schiller, Shalom Aleichem, Uriel Birnbaum, Max Yungman and others, accompanied by many humorous illustrations by the artist Menachem Birenboim [Birenbaum] as well as illustrations by Uriel Birenbaum, Hermann Struck, Jacob Steinhardt and others.
VII, [1], 322, [2], 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Some tears. Stains (mostly to binding). Binding torn and almost entirely detached. Detached leaves and signatures. Defects to binding.
