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Auction archive: Lot number 6

Anti-Semitic version of Aesop's Golden Goose

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$1,020
Auction archive: Lot number 6

Anti-Semitic version of Aesop's Golden Goose

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$1,020
Beschreibung:

[28] pp. Illustrated. 23.5x21 cm (9¼x8¼"), boards with pictorial cover label. Scarce and charming fable of Aesop, illustrated with what are apparently linoleum cuts, "Designed and Lettered by the Second Year Class, Ye Paint Pot Publisher, Ida Wells Stroud Instructor." This version of the fable, under the guise of Old Mother Goose, takes an anti-Semitic bent, Jack selling his gold egg to "a rogue of a Jew, who cheated him out of the half of his due," and a few verses later the "Jew got the goose, which he vowed he would kill, resolving at once his pockets to fill." OCLC lists only one copy of the book, at Yale University.

Auction archive: Lot number 6
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2019
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

[28] pp. Illustrated. 23.5x21 cm (9¼x8¼"), boards with pictorial cover label. Scarce and charming fable of Aesop, illustrated with what are apparently linoleum cuts, "Designed and Lettered by the Second Year Class, Ye Paint Pot Publisher, Ida Wells Stroud Instructor." This version of the fable, under the guise of Old Mother Goose, takes an anti-Semitic bent, Jack selling his gold egg to "a rogue of a Jew, who cheated him out of the half of his due," and a few verses later the "Jew got the goose, which he vowed he would kill, resolving at once his pockets to fill." OCLC lists only one copy of the book, at Yale University.

Auction archive: Lot number 6
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2019
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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