Hamishah Ivrim ["Five Blind Men"]. Frankfurt am Main – Moscow – Odessa: Omanut, Sifria Gamliel, [ca. 1922]. Hebrew.

Indian folk parable, adapted by Leo Tolstoy; unknown Hebrew translator. Beautiful color illustrations (lithographs) by "Chavurat Tsayarim, Apter, Mutzelmacher, Kravtsov, Higer" (Ya'akov Apter, Moshe Mutzelmacher, Aharon Kravtsov, and Hayyim [Yefim] Higer).
This book was published as part of the "Gamliel" series produced by the "Omanut" publishing house. The books in the series were described as "the first Hebrew books intended for kindergarten children, and they included large colorful pictures the likes of which had not appeared until then in any Hebrew book. All the books in this series were printed using lithographic print, most in a beautiful large format, and the visual aspect in them was perhaps more important than the literary content" (Ayala Gordon, "Hebrew Illustrations", 2005, p. 90; Hebrew).

[10] pp. (including cover), 28.5X22.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains (primarily to edges of cover). Minor creases to corners. Small open tear to corner of back cover.

Oniyat Kesamim ["The Magic Ship"]. Frankfurt am Main – Moscow – Odessa: Omanut, Sifria Gamliel, [1922]. Hebrew.

A tale by Wilhelm Hauff, with color illustrations by by the Russian painter Dmitry Mitrohin (1883-1973).
This book was published as part of the "Gamliel" series produced by the "Omanut" publishing house. The books in the series were described as "the first Hebrew books intended for kindergarten children, and they included large colorful pictures the likes of which had not appeared until then in any Hebrew book. All the books in this series were printed using lithographic print, most in a beautiful large format, and the visual aspect in them was perhaps more important than the literary content" (Ayala Gordon, "Hebrew Illustrations", 2005, p. 90; Hebrew).

[12] pp. (including cover), 27.5 cm. Good condition. Few minor stains. Minor creases. Minor tears and abrasions to spine.

"Esser Sichot LiYeladim" [after the German edition, Kleine Märchen – Little Fairy Tales], adapted from Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and others, with illustrations by Tom Seidmann-Freud. Jerusalem-Berlin: Ophir publishing (by Moriah), 5683 [1923]. Hebrew.

Ten fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and others, translated into Hebrew by Haim Nachman Bialik. Each tale is accompanied by a color illustration by Tom Seidmann-Freud.

Tom Seidmann-Freud (1892-1930), painter, illustrator, and author, native of Vienna; niece of Sigmund Freud. Notwithstanding the brevity of her career (cut short by her suicide at age 38), Seidmann-Freud had a profound impact on 20th-century children's literature. Her distinctive style of illustration – characterized by simple, delicately colored geometric forms – is suggestive of the influence of "Neue Sachlichkeit" ("New Objectivity"), a modernist art movement that developed in Germany in the interwar period.

[12] ff., 20X25 cm. Good condition. A few stains to pages. Stains and blemishes to binding. Notations and inked stamps to endpapers. Front free endpaper partially detached.
See: Marit Benisrael and Ada Wardi, "The Book of Tom", 2022, pp 93-133.

Buch der erfüllten Wünsche [Book of Fulfilled Wishes], by Tom Seidmann-Freud. Potsdam: Müller & Kiepenheuer, 1929. German.

Book illustrated with Seidmann-Freud's delicate and lyrical drawings, colored in pochoir.

Tom Seidmann-Freud (1892-1930), painter, illustrator, and author, native of Vienna; niece of Sigmund Freud. Notwithstanding the brevity of her career (cut short by her suicide at age 38), Seidmann-Freud had a profound impact on 20th-century children's literature. Her distinctive style of illustration – characterized by simple, delicately colored geometric forms – is suggestive of the influence of "Neue Sachlichkeit" ("New Objectivity"), a modernist art movement that developed in Germany in the interwar period.

[12] ff. 25.5 cm. Book in good condition, slightly stained and creased. Blemishes, minor tears, stains and marginal abrasions to cover.

See:
1. Ayala Gordon, "Hebrew Illustrations". 2005, pp. 140.
2. Marit Benisrael and Ada Wardi, "The Book of Tom", 2022, pp 152.

Aleph-Bet, Hermann Fechenbach. Berlin: Schocken, [1936?].

Picture book, with twenty-two color drawings of animals, in order of the Hebrew alphabet, by Hermann Fechenbach. Enclosed are twenty-two loose plates with the same illustrations in black and white and one plate with a preface in English and in German (all placed in a pocket inside back board).
Fechenbach explains in his preface: "I have painted for you twenty-two different animals… You can also copy them on tracing paper, cut them out with scissors and color them. For the tracing and coloring I have added twenty-two drawings, so that you need not spoil the picture-book…".

Hermann Fechenbach (1897-1986), German-Jewish artist, illustrator and printmaker. Fought and was seriously wounded in WWI. He studied art in Erfurt and Stuttgart. In 1938, after an unsuccessful attempt to immigrate to Palestine, he settled with his wife in England, where he worked as an artist. In 1940, he was interned as an enemy alien in the Hutchinson Internment Camp on the Isle of Man, along with many other German and Austrian Jews. He remained there for ten months, during which he created a series of linocuts titled "My Impressions as Refugee". After his release, he remained in England, where he continued his artistic work until his death.

[24] pp. + 23 plates, approx. 24X22.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Inked stamp inside front board. Abrasions to binding edges.