[Rarebooks] FS: Artist-signed book of portraits from New York's Lower East Side

Bob Petrilla petrillabooks at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 13:13:56 EST 2012


 Walkowitz, Abraham. FACES FROM THE GHETTO: Preface by Simon L. Millner.
NY: Machmadim Art Editions, 1946. First Edition. 4pp text; 39 full-page
illustrations from originals in the collection of the Gallery of Jewish
Art. Edition limited to 500 copies. Spine cloth lightly worn. 10" x 8" Very
Good. Original Cloth.
Presentation copy, boldly inscribed on the front free-endpaper: "To Donald
Kahn from Abraham Walkowitz." The 39 portraits were drawn in New York's
Lower East Side during the first decade of the 20th century. Walkowitz
(1878-1965) has been called a pioneer of American Modernism.      $150.00

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