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Machmadim Art Editions: New York, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. Signed by Abraham Walkowitz. Hebrew text. Quarto, 11 1/4" tall, iv + vii (title and text pages) with 48 black and white illustration throughout, yellow titles on red cloth. A good, generally clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, BUT for city-soot soiling to the exterior boards, binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed with foxing to the fore-edges and endpaper gutters and occasional soiling to the page margins. Without dust jacket if issued. This copy has a four page saddle stitched brochure about the artist with English text by Isaac Lichtenstein and also signed by Abraham Walkowitz. The cover sheet of the brochure is soiled at the bottom margin, signed at the top above the title. The wire saddle stitch is rusting.

New York: Machmadim Art Editions, 1946. Signed and Inscribed. Hardcover. Good (scuffs, scratches & smudges to boards. worn area to back board. front hinge rattled. bumping & rubbing to corners. lower section of spine split; appears firm w/ intact pgs. pgs lightly edge tanned w/ instances of light marks & specks). red, flexible boards w/ yellow printing. book vii w/ 48 bw plates. A nice collection of drawings and sketches. Cover endpaper inscribed and signed by the artist. 'Mr and Mrs Frank Kleinholz From Abraham Walkowitz." Quite possibly inscribed to the artist, Frank Kleinholz.

New York: Machmadim Art, 1946. Hardcover. g. Signed. 4to. vii, (unpaginated). Original red cloth with gold lettering on cover. A collection of 39 charming charcoal and pen drawings depicting Jewish life in the early 20th century by the famous Russian-American Jewish artist Abraham Walkowitz. Includes an English pamphlet by Isaac Lichtenstein, which discusses Walkowitz's style and places him within the context of early modernist art. A powerful look into a now lost world that ranges from market place dealings to rabbis with Torah scrolls. This book was printed what after the Holocaust and can thus be seen as part of the beginning of the process of memorializing European Jewry. Text in Yiddish. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Some wear to spine and edges. Binding loose, but still intact. Overall in good condition.

New York: Machmadim Art Editions, 1946. First. hardcover. near fine. 7 pages of text in Hebrew, followed by 48 black & white plates. Thin 4to, flexible cloth. New York: Machmadim Art Editions, 1946. First Edition.<br/><br/> Presentation copy to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/>

New York. 1946 first edition. Machmadim Art Editions. 4to limp hardcover . Maroon cloth with bright yellow lettering. Seven pages of introduction in Hebrew followed by 48 bw illustrations of Walkowitz drawings. LAID in is a 4to wraps booklet written by Isaac Lichtenstein titled ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ , also published by Machmadim in New York City in 1946 with 6 page introduction in English. This booklet is Signed by Walkowitz along top margin of its cover. The book itself is ***signed by Walkowitz in presentation to Mr and Mrs. Phillip Shaw and dated April 7, 1946. *****ALSO LAID IN : 5x6 inch original watercolor of a young woman's face and torso with presentation signature to the Shaws written in top lefthand corner on image itself by Walkowitz and signed in the image in lower righthand corner by "A Walkowitz, 1908". The portrait is lovely - the woman has bright red ips and strong blue dress. The watercolor portrait is professionally mounted on heavy stock 7-1/2 x 10 inches. Pictures… Read More