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Portfolio. Condizione: Good+. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 28 pages; 1926 The National Museum âBezalel, â Jerusalem. Large folio portfolio of 24 designs by Abel Pann, with a foreword by Dr. H. P. Chajes. English-language edition. Complete with all 24 lithographic plates, each measuring approximately 12" x 9", together with the large folding preliminary title/index leaf. Plates printed in varying monochromatic tones of black, gray, sepia and reddish brown. Pann's haunting series depicts the persecution, displacement and suffering of Eastern European Jews during the pogroms of the First World War era, with subjects including The Cossacks Are Coming, The Flight, The Hostages, Under the Lash, The Cattle-Truck, Lost Children, En Route to Siberia, In the Streets of Warsaw and The Morning After the Pogrom. The designs originated in a larger series Pann began in 1916 in response to reports of anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe; 24 were selected for this 1926 Bezalel publication. Scattered foxing and staining to the plate leaves, heaviest to the first several plates and principally affecting the margins, though with some intrusion into the image areas; later plates generally cleaner. Lacking the original portfolio/binder. An uncommon and powerful early Bezalel publication, complete with all 24 plates. G+.…