Auction 9 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Letter by Alfred Dreyfud from Devils Island – Warsaw, 1898

Opening: $100
Sold for: $313
Including buyer's premium
Letters by the prisoner in Devils Island, handed to print by Avraham Shalom Friedberg. Warsaw, 1898.
"All the letters, written by Captain Alfred Dreyfus in his own handwriting to his wife from the site of his prison, as well as all the letters he sent to her from his exile in Devils Island for four years until the last days".
The book was printed during the period in which Dreyfus was in prison on Devils Island. Name of translator from French into Hebrew is unknown.
112 pages, 20.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Pencil inscriptions, library-ink stamps. Tears to edges of binding.
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism