Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud bei seinem Eid! (Ein Bilderbuch für Groß und Klein) [TRUST NO FOX IN THE GREEN MEADOW AND NO JEW ON HIS OATH. A PICTURE BOOK FOR YOUNG AND OLD]

Bauer, Elvira

Nürnberg: Stürmer Verlag, 1936. Sixth printing, 61.-70. Thousand. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo. Unpaginated (44pp). Half tan cloth over paper-covered boards, illustrated in color. Red edges. Among the first Anti-Semitic children's book by Julius Streicher's Stürmer Verlag was "Trau keinem Fuchs auf grüner Heid und keinem Jud bei seinem Eid!" (Do not trust a fox on a green pasture or a Jew upon his oath). Klotz 281/1; Schug, Bilderwelt 1933; Hürlimann 140; Doderer/Müller S. 329f. The book portrays Jews as evil manipulative creatures, as opposed to the idealized Aryan Germans. Illustrated with 21 color reproductions of drawings by Elvira Bauer, who was an 18 year old art student at the time she created the caricatures. Text in German, Sütterlin script, printed in red and black. Very light wear along edges. Very light age-toning of margins of block. Tight copy with binding in very good, interior in near fine condition. vg to near fine. Item #49665

Price: $2,750.00