Lot 35
"The Palestine Disturbances" – Illustrations by Nahum Gutman, in Response to the 1929 Palestine Riots – "Confiscated by the Government of Palestine!"
The Palestine Disturbances, News and Telegrams in Ilustrations [sic], by Nahum Gutman. Warsaw: Lewin-Epztein, [ca. 1930]. Hebrew, Yiddish, and English.
Booklet published in protest against the 1929 Palestine riots, with illustrations by the painter Nahum Gutman, bearing strident anti-British captions. This is a second, trilingual (Hebrew, Yiddish, English) edition of the booklet, printed in Europe after the first edition, published in Palestine, was confiscated by the British Mandatory authorities.
This copy is wrapped with a paper banderole bearing the inscription, in Yiddish and English: "Confiscated by the Government of Palestine."
[16] ff., 24 cm. Good condition. Few stains and blemishes. Tear to length of spine. Minor tears to paper banderole (banderole opened).
