Charlotte: Life or Theater? An Autobiographical Play by Charlotte Salomon, 1981, Near Fine hardcover w/dust jacket.

Salomon, Charlotte, and Judith Herzberg [intro.]. New York: The Viking Press, 1981. 

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 11" 9 3/4", 784 pp.

ISBN: 0670212830

Hardcover in light gray cloth. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket, minor scrape to back panel and light edgewear, soiling, and shelfwear, now in Mylar. 784 pp. Includes full-color reproduction of Salomon's illustrations. The complete autobiographical play with 769 gouache paintings German-Jewish artist and a victim of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Charlotte Salomon, created while living in France, while in hiding from the Nazi regime.  Here she theatricalizes major events from her life, such as the deaths of many family members, as well as romantic relationships, in order to find meaning in life while experiencing the terrors of her reality. Renowned for its historical importance, this book sheds light on Salomon's life through her deeply personal storytelling.