Chad Gadya. Illustrated by Ze'ev Raban. Jerusalem: Bney Bezalel, 5686 [1926].
Chad Gadya with color illustrations by Ze'ev Raban. Sheet music at the end.
[16] pp (including cover), 17 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.

The Story of Ruth, Graphically Told by Z. Raban. New York: American-Palestine Art Publishing Co., 1930. English.
The Scroll of Ruth, translated into English and accompanied by ten color prints by Ze'ev Raban. Silver binding with vegetal patterns and gilt impression. Additional print mounted onto front board, identical to one of the prints appearing in the book, showing Ruth supporting a sheaf of wheat over her head.
The following notation, handwritten in Hebrew by Raban, appears on the title page: "Ze'ev Raban / Jerusalem 28th of Sivan 5706 / 27.6.1946."
[13] ff., 31 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Tears to tissue guards. Minor wear to edges of binding and to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown.

Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.

Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), sketchbook. [Jerusalem, 1920s].
Pencil, pen, ink, and watercolor on paper.
Some 40 leaves (loose leaves, detached from sketchbook) with dozens of sketches and drawings, in various states of completion. Includes: • Illustrations to Bialik's "King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba". • Illustrations to Bialik's "Solomon and Ashmedai". • A drawing depicting Mattathias with the corpse of the Hellenized Jew by the altar, and an illustration depicting Eleazar Maccabeus (HaMakabi) slaying a war elephant. • Sketch for a receipt for the sum of 5 Kuruş (Grush) – given for a donation made to the "National Council of the Jewish community of Palestine" (eventually printed in Meir Gur Arye's design). • Sketch for a bookplate. • Sketch of a playing card. • A series of sketches for illustrations to the Book of Genesis: The Creation of the World, Eve and the Snake, the Expulsion from Eden, and Cain and Abel; a sketch for the title page of a book titled "Illustrated Legends of Israel" (Hebrew), for which the aforementioned illustrations were probably made. It seems that this book was never published. A different version of the sketch titled "the Creation of the World" is featured on the cover of the catalogue "Raban Remembered". • Sketch for the title page of the Hebrew magazine "Ganenu". • Sketch for a logo of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. • Sketches for headstones. • A finished logo for the Miriam Publishing House, Jerusalem. • Sketches of jewelry designs. • Sketch of a Torah finial. • Sketch of a hanging lamp. • Initial sketch of a Hanukkah lamp (manufactured by the Sharar Workshop. See: Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist, p. 78. Item 82). • Sketch of a Torah ark curtain. • Sketch of a Mezuzah. • A label with a dedication to the artist's mother, Rivka Reizil Ravitski, who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto. • Many additional sketches, some in early stages of development, showing motifs which were prevalent in Raban's work throughout the years.
Many of these sketches were featured in the catalogue "Raban Remembered".
Leaves: approx. 33X24 cm. Loose leaves, detached from sketchbook. Condition varies. Marginal tears. Stains and wear. Some leaves cut. Sketchbook cover worn and damaged.
Literature: Raban Remembered: Jerusalem's Forgotten Master. New York: Yeshiva University, 1982.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.

Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches and proofs for the Song of Songs.
• Approx. thirteen sketches (some double-sided) for various editions of the Song of Songs illustrated and decorated by Ze'ev Raban (Hebrew, English and German). Pencil and ink on paper. Some bear Raban's stamp, or the stamp of the Industrial Art Studio. • Approx. 20 proofs of illustrations (including duplicate copies), two with printing instructions handwritten by Raban.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.

Ze'ev Raban (1890-1970), collection of sketches for the Book of Ruth. [Jerusalem, 1930].
Ink and pencil on paper.
Six sketches for the Book of Ruth illustrated by Raban. Three on tracing paper; one of them, larger than the others, on gold paper. A more detailed version of one of the sketches is photographed in "Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist", p. 124.
Size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Closed and open tears to edges. Stains.
Enclosed: commercial sketch, presumably for a label, inscribed "Israel 200", with a depiction of the biblical Ruth.
Literature: Batsheva Goldman Ida, Ze'ev Raban: a Hebrew Symbolist. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2001.
Provenance: Estate of Shlomo Kedmi.