Auction 64 Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Jan 22, 2019 (your local time)
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"L. Pasternak, his Life and Work" – Monograph with Prints – From a Limited Edition, with an Etching Signed by ...

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"L. Pasternak, his Life and Work" – Monograph with Prints – From a Limited Edition, with an Etching Signed by Pasternak – Berlin, 1924
L. Pasternak, his Life and Work, by Haim Nachman Bialik and Max Osborn. Berlin: Abraham-Joseph Stybel Publishing House, 1924. Numbered copy, with an etching signed by Pasternak.
A fine monograph about the painter Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (1862-1945) – with two essays by Haim Nachman Bialik and Max Osborn and 148 reproductions of works by Pasternak (some in-text and some on plates). The reproductions were printed in different techniques; some are lithographs.
Copy no. 15 out of an edition of 100 copies, with an engraving signed by Pasternak – portrait of the author Leo Tolstoy. Blue leather binding, embossed in gold. Top edge gilt.
[6] leaves, [3] plates, 98 pp, LXXIII plates, [7] pp, 32 cm. Good condition. Some stains and creases. First leaves are slightly loose. Several sheets are unopened at bottom margins. Rubbings, peelings and minor blemishes to binding.