Cincinnati: Verein jüdischer Schriftsteller, 1901–1902. First edition. Large Octavo. Vol. I. Nos. 1, 5-12 (1901); Vol II. Nos. 1-5, 7, 9-12 (1902), ca. 30pp. each. Original gray stapled wraps with black lettering on cover. Originally established as weekly by Rabbi Isaac M. Wise in 1855, this new series (Neue Folge)..... More
Stuttgart: Akad. Verlag Dr. Fr. Wedekind & Co., 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 152pp. Original gray cloth with black and red lettering on cover, black on spine, protected by modern mylar. Typography by Willi Baumeister. Contains the buildings of the Weissenhof Settlement in Stuttgart, built in 1927 as proposed..... More
Paris: Musées Nationaux, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. 573 (5)pp. Original color-photographic dustjacket over beige boards with blue lettering on cover and spine. Profusely illustrated exhibition catalog with color and b/w photographs, maps, diagrams, and drawings throughout. This exhibition, originated by the Musée national des Arts d'Afrique, Paris, traveled to eight..... More
Livorno: Carlo Giorgi, [1779]. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 4, 80 leaves (double-sided). Rebound in modern brown cloth over brown decorative paper boards. Title page with decorative woodcut borders. This the first printed edition of Medieval Italian Rabbi Isaiah ben Mali of Trani's (ca.1180 – 1250) work collecting discussions of 92..... More
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1931. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. (4) 90pp. Original gray wraps with blue lettering on cover and spine in original dustjacket illustrated with photomontage by Erich Dieckmann, and b/w lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece photographs. Publication on modern furniture design and manufacturing..... More
Neukirchen-Vluym: Neukirchener Verlag/ Butzon & Bercker Kevelaer, 1973 (vol. 1-4), 1986 (vol. 5). Hardcover. 5 volumes. xii, pp.1275 (continuos pagination vols. 1-3), 856pp. 814pp. Vol. 1-4: Gray cloth with black lettering to spine in original dj. 3" tear to bottom of rear side of dj on vol. 2. All the..... More
Berlin: Wilhelm Limpert, 1941. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 63pp. Original illustrated wraps, white and red lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. "Wenn die feindliche Lügenhetze nicht müde wird, uns vorzuwerfen, wir gäben dem deutschen Volke in unseren Darstellungen einen falschen oder unvollständigen Eindruck von den Kämpfen im Osten, so..... More
New York: Ktav Publishing House, (1976). Hardcover. 4to. xiii. 377pp. Gold lettering on front board and spine over blue cloth. Volume 1, Education, only volume ever published. Interesting work discussing the many philosophies behind Jewish education through the centuries. Included are articles by notable modern Jewish scholars such as David..... More
Moscow: Mezshdunarodnye Knyga un Farlag Emes, 1935. Hardcover. 4to. 284pp. Ex-libris. Beige cloth with silver lettering to cover and spine. Photographic endpapers. Photographic frontispieces of Lenin and Stalin. Symposium on the History of Jews in the USSR, illustrated throughout with b/w photographs. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped, corners..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1968). Third revised. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to. xix, 473pp. 452pp. Original mottled olive cloth with red title-plate in original matching slipcase. Yellow top edge and endpapers. Provides an introduction to the history of the alphabet. Volume 1gives a historical overview of the development of the..... More
Göttingen: Verlagsabteilung der Göttinger Studentenschaft, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 76pp. Original cream wraps with black lettering and German Eagle and Swastika on cover, protected by modern mylar. Photograph of Göttingen on front endpaper. Frontispiece advertising. Title page with b/w photograph of Bernhard Rust, Reichminister for Education, Science and People's..... More
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Artystyczno-Graficzne, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo. Unpaginated. Original tan cloth with blind-stamped illustration and black lettering on cover. Graphic design by Maria Englisch. Text by Seweryna Szmaglewska, a Polish writer focusing on her wartime experiences initially but later became a successful writer of adolescents. Illustrated with sixty-four mostly..... More
Krakow: WAG (Wydawnictwo Artystyczno-Graficzne), 1957. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. 6 1/2 x 4 3/4". Unpaginated. [64]. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, with white lettering to back cover. Decorative title page. Published 12 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, this poignant Polish monograph is illustrated throughout with 34 photographs reproduced..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. Hardcover. Octavos. Vol.1: (xcviii) 147pp. Vol.2: (xcv) 270pp. Light blue printed dust jackets with dark blue lettering on the front covers and spines. Dark blue boards with blind stamped publisher's device at front cover, gilt lettering on spine. This is the complete 2 volume set of..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (lxxvii) 294pp. (1). Light blue printed dust jacket with dark blue lettering on front cover and spine. Dark blue boards, with blind stamped publisher's device and gilt lettering and ruling on spine. The work is a collection of poems by the acclaimed..... More
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 24pp (text), 30 loose photographic plates, as issued. Text pages and plates housed in their original decorative cardboard envelope with printed title pasted on front. Catalogue of an important exhibition featuring a series of striking photographs exploring Tel..... More
Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. 4to. 294pp. Original brown cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Hebrew and English title-pages. A collection of essays by leading Judaic studies scholars in honor of the late bible scholar Gedaliahu Alon. Includes essays on the rabbinic..... More
Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Studies, (1991). Hardcover. 4to. 218pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine in orginal printed red illustrated dust jacket. Dj creased and chipped. Overall in good condition. More
Prague: Svet Publishing House, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 171/300. Oblong Octavo (8 x 12 3/4"). Unpaginated. Original brown paper-covered boards in Japanese stab binding with black, silver and blind-stamped lettering on cover, black and silver on spine; housed in plain cardboard slipcase with blind-stamped lettering. Small printed white hand-numbered paper..... More
Warsaw: Farlag Yidish Bukh, 1956. Second edition. Softcover. Octavo. 162pp. [2]. Illustrated wrappers in blue and tan, with red lettering on the front cover and spine. This is the second edition of the scarce leftist short story collection Oyfshtayg first published Moscow in 1935, by the Polish-born Communist activist, dissident..... More
New York: August Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 110pp. Brown cloth, gilt, small blue tinted self portrait mounted on front cover. Illustrated with 52 blue tinted cyanotype prints, each with a leaf of description. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Signed and inscribed on the title page by John Dugdale..... More
Privately Printed, 1900. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated. Twelve individual sections of prints relating to Shakespeare and his plays. Contains prints of the Stratford-upon-Avon Church, Shakespeare' signature, portraits, and many prints of early actors from the plays, as well as some color renditions of productions. Decorated green boards. Front board detached but..... More
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2007. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. 320pp. Original photographic stiff wrappers. The Berlin Wall fell over 20 years ago, and since then a generation of artists has come of age in reunified Germany. Reality Bites investigates the effect of that historical context, identifying the new kinds of..... More
Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 1/800. Crown 8vo. 131pp. Green-patterned cloth boards backed in orange buckram with paper titling label. Woodcut illustration on the title page and frontispiece photograph of Zeitlin. Typography by Saul and Lilian Marks. Newspaper clipping put inside book on front..... More
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. Third printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 167pp. (1). Photo-illustrated dust jacket, with white lettering on the front cover and spine. Grey cloth boards with white debossed lettering on the front cover and spine. Signed and inscribed by Harold Edgerton at the free front endpapers. The publication..... More