Asta Bidspirit | Lot of 6 portrait postcards


Lot of 6 portrait postcards of Hebrew and Yiddish writers: H.D. Nomberg, Z. Shneour, Sholem Asch, S.Y. Abramovitsh (Mendele Mocher Sforim), Isaiah Bershadsky (Domashevitsky) and A.L. Levinsky, from the Verlag Hatchijah series, A. Robinsohn, Stanislau (Galicia), unused, 1910-1918 - 6 postcards from the writers' portrait series of Verlag Hatchijah (as printed on the front), the publishing house and bookshop of A. Robinsohn in Stanislau, Galicia (Verlags-Buchhandlung A. Robinsohn, Stanislau Galizien, as printed on the back of some cards). Each card shows the writer's portrait in a frame of roses, a lyre, books and an inkwell, with a scroll carrying his biography and work in Hebrew or Yiddish. In the lot: H.D. Nomberg; Z. Shneour; Sholem Asch, card no. 14; S.Y. Abramovitsh (Mendele Mocher Sforim); Isaiah Bershadsky (Domashevitsky), card no. 19; A.L. Levinsky, card no. 26. Printed 1910-1918: some cards of the series give the writer's year of death, 1910 (5671), and the ”Stanislau Galizien” address belongs to the Austrian period in Galicia. Unused. Age toning and wear, a small edge tear on the front of one card (Nomberg) with stains and a small loss at the edge of its back. Condition: exactly as photographed.