Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 428pp. Original yellow illustrated cloth with green lettering. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Color frontispiece picture protected with a tissue-guard. Decorative title-page with printer's device. Fascinating work compiling stories of Jewish life, some relating to the religious..... More
![Item #26843 Reaching for the Moon [SIGNED BY BUZZ ALDRIN]. Buzz Aldrin, Wendell Minor, illust](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26843_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759948621)
New York: Harper Collins, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated (40pp). Color illustrated paper-covered boards in original matching dust jacket. Signed by Aldrin in black ink on title-page. "I walked on the Moon. This is my journey. It didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on..... More
Stuttgart: J. F. Steinkopf, 1868. Second edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. [157], [1]pp. Original gilt- and blind stamped red cloth with gold decorated spine. All edges gilt. Silk-moire endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. Illustrated with 50 original views of important places mentioned in scripture, drawn from nature by J. M. Gernatz and..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, (1937). First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. xii,145pp. Blue cloth, gold pictorial gold design by Bosschere. Illustrated color endpapers. Color reproduction frontispiece of the Sea monsters and the Fisherman by the illustrator, with full page tissue guard. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white..... More
Augsburg: Maro, (1997). First (limited) German edition. Softcover. 1/2500. 8vo. 27, [1]pp. Tan wraps in original color-illustrated dust wrapper. Color frontispiece. Delightful fictional short story by T. C. Boyle in which the author spends an evening with Jane Austen, her sister Cassandra, as well as a character from one of..... More
Nederland: Joodse Vrouwenraad, n/d. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. 59pp. Quarter blue cloth over color illustrated paper-covered boards. Binding protected by clear plastic jacket. Tipped-in photographic reproduction in sepia tone. Introduction by A. Schwimmer-Vigeveno. Collection of 18 Jewish children's songs about life in Palestine as well as Jewish holiday songs (Chanukah, Purim..... More
Leyden: Hendrik van Damme, 1702. First edition with Jan Luyken's engravings. Hardcover. 24mo. [16], 522, 31, [1]pp. Modern half leather over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Modern endpapers and fly leaves. Additional engraved title depicting a series of engravings. The larger one shows Moses..... More
![Item #26888 Diary of a Fly [SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR]. Doreen Cronin, Harry Bliss, illust](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26888.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1428617143)
New York: Joanna Cotler Books. An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, (2007). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated (36pp). Color illustrated paper-covered boards in original matching dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Signed by Cronin and Bliss on color illustrated title-page. "This is the diary...of a fly. A fly who, when she's not landing..... More
Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, ND (ca. 1912). Hardcover. 12mo. 158pp. Original quarter-cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards. Decorative endpapers. Delightful German adaptation for children of Defoe's classic tale (edited by Ludwig Tesar). The title character, Robinson Crusoe, is a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad..... More
![Item #29535 Krotkaja (A Gentle Creature) [WITH ORIGINAL ETCHINGS & SIGNATURE(S) BY WILLI GEIGER]....](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29535.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1428617628)
München: Drei Masken Verlag, nd (1921). Limited edition. Hardcover. 1 of 70 copies with Roman numerals. Original illustrated handstiched publisher's deluxe vellum binding, brown title-label with gold lettering. Screened image of one of Geiger's etchings on front cover. Top edge gilt. Deckled bottom edge. Marbled endpapers. Title-page with original signed..... More
London: Martin & Parnham, ca. 1900. 17 loose chromolithographic plates hightened in gold, depicting ancient Israelite sacrificial rites. Includes pictures of the High Priest, the offering of the paschal lamb and the Day of Atonement scapegoat. Housed in original publisher's printed card chemise. Includes explanatory pamphlet. In very good condition..... More
Stuttgart: Wilhelm Meyer-Ilschen, 1917. Limited deluxe edition. Hardcover. 1/20. 4to. Original vellum, gold-stamped with stunning floral designs on cover and spine, resting in matching sturdy gold-stamped vellum clamshell box. Binding protected by modern mylar. All gilt edges. Ribbon marker. Decorative front- and rear endpaper in vibrant colors. Numbered limitations page..... More
![Item #26076 Alexis und Dora [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR & WRITER]. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26076.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1428615698)
Leipzig: Veb E. A. Seemann, (1957). Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. Original paper-covered boards with color lithograph by Horlbeck. Signed by Horlbeck and Irmgard H. Kappler on limitation page. This poem in elegiac metre was written by Goethe in 1796. In it, the Greek youth Alexis, just before his departure by..... More
Lwow: 1935. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. Signed by author and artist. 4to. xi. 208pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering and bordering. Frontispiece illustration. A study of Polish Jewish art and culture written just before the Holocaust. Includes an introduction by the famous historian Majer Balaban as well as numerous..... More
Frankfurt a. M. Dominicus a Sande, 1716. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [48], (Prefaces and Index), 976, [45]pp (Index). Latin text, with Hebrew passages throughout. Contemporary full calf with raised bands. Green speckled edges. Frontispiece illustration of Moses and Aaron surrounded by a number of pictures including that of the Molech..... More
Flagstaff: Northland, (1982). First edition. Softcover. [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST]. Folio. 83, [1]pp. Original color illustrated wraps. INSCRIBED BY GORMAN on half title-page: "To Jackie - Merry Christmas! R. C. Gorman 1983." Color frontispiece. Publication with a collection of drawings by Native American (Navajo Nation) artist, Rudolph Carl..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. 4to. 253pp. Publisher's original black pebble grained cloth, gold lettering and color reproduction of Chapman's illustration mounted color paste-down on front board. Color reproduction frontispiece. Stated first Edition ("i-x"). Previous owner's inscription" Dec. 25th, 1926. Preston..... More
Breslau: Ostdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, (1927). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 39, [1]pp. Original quarter cloth over color illustrated paper-covered boards. Illustrated title-page. 1927 publication containing 18 German children's songs with delightful color illustrations by Johannes Grüger. Text in German, Sütterlin script. Some age wear and sunning on binding. Tight copy with binding..... More
New York: Viking Press, (1979). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated (40pp). Tan half-cloth over illustrated green paper-covered boards in color illustrated dust jacket. Golden blind-stamped Caldecott (paper) medal pasted on dj. The work won the 1980 Caldecott Medal & Honor Books award. Delightful tale of the days and..... More
![Item #26887 Moo Cow Kaboom! [SIGNED BY HURD]. text, illust](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26887.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1428617142)
New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated (32pp). Color illustrated paper-covered boards in original matching dust jacket. Signed by T. Hurd in black ink on color illustrated title-page. Delightful children's tale about the abduction of Moo Cow Kaboom by a low-down space cowboy from Planet 246. Color..... More
Praha: Nase Vojsko, 1947. First edition. 1.-5000. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated (98pp). Original photographic paper-covered boards. Pictorial title-page. Rare photographic postwar account of a Czech Army ski-unit. Profusely illustrated with reproductions in photogravure of soldiers in practice and at play. Includes images of stunning landscape winter scenery. Photographs by Major Jiri..... More
Tel Aviv: Rolnik Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Cardboard flipbook version of the Passover hymn "Who Knows One?" from the end of the Seder. Each passage asks about a number from 1 through 13 and offers an example of how that number appears in Judaism. For example, 1 is..... More
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1923. Limited numbered edition. Hardcover. 1/300. 4to. 54, [2]pp. Original three-quarter vellum over paper-covered boards with cover vignette, gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Title-page vignette. Klabund's poems in this limited edition are adapted from work by Chinese poet, Li Bai..... More
Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, ND (ca. 1900's). Hardcover. 12mo. 96pp. Original quarter-cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards. Decorative endpapers. Collection of 45 poems by Austrian poet, Nikolaus Lenau (Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau), who was a typical representative in German language literature of the pessimistic Weltschmerz. Poems accompanied by delightful..... More
München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1981. Limited numbered edition. Hardcover. 1/400. Elephant folio. 40,[2]pp. Blue paper-covered boards with cover- and title-label, housed in original blue cardboard slipcase. Includes original 12" x 16" b/w lithograph of Siegried Lenz by Celestino Piatti (1922 - 2007), signed and numbered by him in pencil. Piatti..... More