Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era fans This is one of two

This is one of two hard-backed math notebooks with marbleized paper covers and printed endpapers with "A Collection of Arithmetical Tables for the Use of Schools" of a Samuel Gifford studying at Mr

and think I would have liked its star

I just love the silhouettes of the figures

Aged and worn in the best of ways

9 1/8" x 7 1/2" x 1/4"

Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era fans This is one of twoThis is among a several drawings I purchased together by Dr. Arthur Tilo Alt (1931 2019) a scholar and professor of German in Yiddish language and literature in the Judaic studies program at Duke University which came from his estate in Younsgsville, NC. Born in Java, Indonesia, Alt's family returned to their native Germany in 1933, where Tilo grew up in West Berlin, ultimately moving to the U. S. in 1956 to study at the University of Texas. While I