Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 1,170
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(JUDAICA.) Bound volume of The Big Stick / Der Groyser Kundes, a satirical Yiddish-language weekly. 52 issues, each 16 pages or more, bound as Volume VIII. Folio, 13 x 10 inches, contemporary gilt pictorial buckram, minor wear but coming detached from text block; first issue quite worn, minor dampstaining on bottom edge, otherwise only intermittent minor wear. New York, 31 December 1915 to 22 December 1916

Additional Details

A lively weekly edited by Jacob Marinoff, filled with editorial cartoons, political content, poetry, and local advertisements. Billed on the masthead as "The only Jewish Weekly Illustrated Journal of Humor and Satire." None traced at auction.