FECHENBACH (Hermann). - Lot 163

FECHENBACH (Hermann). Aleph-bet. Schocken Verlag. Berlin SW19, Jerusalemer Straße 65-66. [1936]. Otto Gerner Printing. London. Berlin. Small oblong in-4 (23 x 24.4 cm). (1) f. [illustrated title and text on reverse], (22) color plates. In a pocket applied to the inside of the second cover: the same (22) plates in brown and (1) f. in German and English: publisher's album, burgundy cloth spine, yellow glossy paper covers, lion and cow, underlined with their names, on the first cover, sheep in the center of the second. Beautifully illustrated alphabet book by the painter and engraver Hermann Fechenbach (Germany 1897-1986 England). After studying in Stuttgart, Munich and Florence, he was banned from working and exhibiting by the Nazis in 1933. He left for Palestine in 1938 and England in 1939. Twenty-two plates of animals with fine colored lines corresponding to the twenty-two characters of the Hebrew alphabet. Twenty-two other plates in brown with captions in German, English and Hebrew are enclosed in a pocket with an explanatory leaflet in German and English. Not only is it easy for children to learn the alphabet, they can also cut out the animals from cardboard or wood, shape them in clay and more. Unique and rare Hebrew edition. Very good condition, with just the upper corners of the boards slightly rubbed. Small stamped bookplate: S. L. Cohen. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba