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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. New York Review of Comics, 2017. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound/issued without a jacket. Fine, a clean tight copy. Smoke-free. Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg. Lettering by Jeremy Sorese. Elke Schulze wrote the biographical afterword. E. O. Plauen (often stylized as e.o.plauen) was the pseudonym of Erich Ohser (1903 1944) (some sources give his birth year as 1909), a German cartoonist best known for his strip Vater und Sohn ("Father and Son"). In his work for magazines such as as Vorwärts, he drew satirical representations of Goebbels and Hitler, which earned him the enmity of the Nazis, and he was prohibited from practicing his trade (Berufsverbot). He continued under pseudonyms, and was arrested on charges of expressing anti-Nazi opinions (reichsfeindliche Äußerungen). On 5 April 1944, the day before his trial, Ohser allegedly committed suicide in his cell.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Small octavo, red cloth spine with illustrated paper covered boards, 63 pp. Text is in Yiddish.