First Edition of Ben Shahn's Haggadah, in VERY GOOD CONDITION. The main wear issue is associated with the beige cloth boards, which show very light wear on the edges and corners, but some visible foxing marks along the edges and on the boards - see listing photos - and a small strip along bottom edge of front board which appears to have been exposed over time in storage as it slightly darker. A previous owner neatly inked name on first free endpaper. Pages are lightly age-toned around the edges. CLEAN AND SOLIDLY BOUND WITH BEAUTIFUL COLOR PLATES - see listing photos for examples.
An overview of this version from the internet:
"Haggadah for Passover, copied and illustrated by Ben Shahn, is commonly referred to as “Ben Shahn’s Haggadah” (even by the book’s own spine), perhaps because it began as a deeply personal, artistic rumination over the artist’s memories of Passover seders past. Ben Shahn created the twelve primary, illuminated pages within Haggadah for Passover during the early 1930s in Massachusetts. In the 1960s, a serendipitous meeting between Ben Shahn and the publisher Arnold Fawcus inspired the men to publish Ben Shahn’s Haggadah in France with Fawcus’s own Trianon Press. At this point, Shahn and his editor, renowned scholar Cecil Roth, expanded the work, incorporating passages from Roth’s 1934 edition of a traditional, Ashkenazi haggadah."
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