Auction 99 Part 1 Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection
"Shtetl, My Destroyed Home" – Album of Lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback – Berlin, 1923
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Shtetl, mayn khorever heym - a gedekhenes [Shtetl, My Destroyed Home - A Remembrance]. Berlin: Schwellen, 1923. Yiddish.
Album containing thirty lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback (Исса́хар-Бер Рыба́к; 1897-1935) – title page and 29 drawings, depicting Jewish life in the Jewish shtetls of Ukraine before their destruction in the pogroms during World War I.
[2], III-XXXI, [1] leaves. 49.5x33 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains (mainly on first and last pages). Minor blemishes at margins. Front endpaper missing. Purple velvet cloth binding, stained, with large open tears at margins; tears and wear to spine.
Works in Yiddish and Compositions on Various Jewish Subjects
Works in Yiddish and Compositions on Various Jewish Subjects