Budapest: Friedrich Born, 1944. Softcover. 24mo. 4x3". Double-sided folded leaf [4 pages], on heavy stock paper. A small printed folded 4-page International Red Cross Committee ID card. The text of the card is printed in Hungarian, German, French and Russian and grants Hungarian journalist and newspaper editor Kocsy Jeno (1895-1962)..... More
Philadelphia: NP, 1924. Softcover. Sm. octavo. 63,[2]pp. Original printed wraps. Frontispiece b/w reproduction of a photograph showing Reverend Sabato Morais. "One Wednesday evening, April 18, 1923 (Iyar 2, 5683), the Congregation Mikveh Israel in the City of Philadelphia celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sabato Morais by..... More
Cochin, India: Kerala History Association, (1971). First English language edition. Hardcover. This work is inscribed to the Shames (synagogue caretaker) of the Cochin Synagogue in blue pen at page facing title page: " 25-11-80. To Jack + Gertrude Saffren. Shames of the Cochin Synagogue. Shalom. Jackie Cohen." 8vo. xxviii. 319 pp..... More
Cochin, India: Kerala History Association, (1971). First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxviii. 319 pp. Black cloth in original dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece of a photographic color reproduction of the Cochin synagogue. Festschrift on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Cochin synagogue in India. Illustrated with b/w..... More
New York: J.G. Wells Publishing Agency, 1856. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, 182 pp. (4) pp. of military terms, and (4) pp. of publisher's listings at rear. Brown buckram binding. With fifteen out of 16 steel-engravings (lacking the "Bombardment and Fall of Sebastopol"). Corners bumped and worn. Light scuffing to cover. Light..... More
Rome: UNIDROIT, 1953. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 324pp. Original light green staples wraps with black lettering on cover and mimeographed block. International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). Compendium of laws, ordinances and legal precedents for all states, except Hawai, and the District of Columbia. Hawaii received statehood..... More
London: Annely juda Fine Art, (1981). Softcover. 8vo. 72,23pp. Original wraps. Exhibition catalog. Some discoloration to wraps. Glue residue along gutter on front endpaper. Illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of art work. Very good condition. More
Merida: Editora Regional de Extremadura, 1998. Softcover. 2 volumes. 4to. Continuous pagination. 489pp. Original illustrated wrappers with white, black,, gray, blue and brown lettering to front wrappers and white lettering to spines. Head and tail of spine of vol. 1 worn. Corners of both volumes bumped. Great work on urban..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,359pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Gold lettering faded. Minor age wear on binding. Signed on title-page by Harry M. Orlinsky, the famous Semitic and Judaic scholar. Notes by Orlinsky on colophon, markings by the same on contents..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Ex library. 8vo. viii,293pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Gold lettering faded. Library inventory sticker near tail of spine. Minor age wear on binding. Small library number stamp on free front endpaper, stamp of "Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute..... More
Berkeley: Mobilized Women's Organizations of Berkeley, 1918. Third edition. Softcover. Octavo. 179 (28)pp. Original color-illustrated wrappers with blue and blue framed gilt lettering on cover with title handwritten in ink on spine, protected in modern mylar. War time effort, "Food will win the War," by Berkeley women's group promoting healthy..... More
Spain: Museu Comarcal, 1985. First edition. Softcover. Large 8vo. 74 pp. Original printed tan wrappers. A study of the Catalan Jews and their history including news from 1303-1486 and works by Mossé Natan (Mosé ben Natanel bar Selomó) which is translated from the original Catalá into Spanish. Illustrated with b/w..... More
Baltimore: King Brothers, State Printers, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 109pp. Green cloth, gold lettering and decoration on front and spine. Decorated endpapers. Full title stated as: "The Constitution of the State of Maryland: Formed and adopted by the Convention which Assembled at the City of Annapolis, May 8, 1867..... More
Rome: Tipografia Pio X, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,217pp. Rebound. Orange cloth with black lettering on spine. Minor staining and scuffing to boards. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous former UCLA Professor who was an expert on Ethiopian Language. Some age yellowing to outer edges of pages not affecting text..... More
(San Francisco: Angel Island Publications, Inc.), (1961). Softcover. 8vo. 156 (4) pp. of advertisements at rear. With an article laid in at back from John O' London's 7th July 1960 American Book Number by Carl Bode. B&W photographic paper wraps. With subscription envelope laid in at front. Contributing editors for..... More
London: Printed for W. Miller by S. Gosnell, 1803. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Original dark blue straight grain morocco with gilt and blind-stamped decorative ruling and tooling on covers and spine, gilt lettering on spine; raised bands and dentelles. Gilt edges. Burnt umber endpapers. Color frontispiece. Two title and..... More
Sachsenhausen concentration camp: NP, ND (ca 1942). Original document. Banknote. A 'genuine' counterfeit £50 British banknote produced by inmates of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during the Operation Berhard. The 50 pound note was the largest denomination produced by the mostly Jewish forgers. The average wage for a school teacher in..... More
Paris: Institute de Recherche et D'Histoire des Textes, 1975. Original document. Softcover. Quarto. 510, 511-966pp. Original quarter dark blue tape over illustrated light blue wraps, protected by modern mylar. "Course et Piraterie" presented to the International Commission of Maritime History on the occasion of its 15th International Colloquium of Historical Sciences..... More
New York: Sackett & Williams Lithographic Corporation, 1938. First edition. Spiral Bound. 4to. Unpaginated. Spiral bound original blue wrappers. Scuffing, creasing, discoloration and wear to wrappers. B/w reproductions of works by artists whose work are shown. A buying guide for art work for advertising and other commercial purposes. "The originals..... More
Editorial Arte y Literatura Ciudad de la Habana, 1983. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original wrappers. Some scuffing and rubbing to wraps. Illustrated with color & b/w reproductions of photographs as well as b/w drawings. Text in Spanish. Very good condition. More
NP, 1934. Softcover. Sm. folio. Unpaginated. Illustrated gilt decorated wrappers. Some creasing, chipping and small tears to wrappers. Head and tail of spine repaired with modern tape. Decorative string along spine. Some foxing to wrappers. Illustrated with full-page tipped-in b/w photographs and 3 fold-out drawings by Frank Mason. Most of..... More
Chicago, Ill. Cuneo Press, Inc., 1948-1972. Hardcover. 4to. 22 vols. 1948-49, 1951-54, 1956-1960, 1961-72. Gold - and blind stamped red leather with gilt top edge. partially uncut pages. Some vols. include original illustrations especially prepared for the publications. 1948 vol. - Charles Dickens: Famous Christmas Stories. 1949 vol.- Charles Dickens..... More
Berlin-Grunewald: Bruno Schultz, (1936). Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/7000. Quarto. 18,[2],128,23-80,16pp. Decorative gray cloth in original dust jacket. Dj in silver with black logo and lettering. Printed quote by Adolf Hitler preceding title-page. Foreword by Heinrich Kühn. 1937 German photography annual profusely illustrated with reproductions in photogravure. Photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann..... More
Leipzig: Carl Reißner, 1880. First edition. Octavo. 68 (2)pp. Original gray wrappers with large illustrated label laid down and orange and black lettering on cover, protected in modern mylar. Collection of cheerful verse by "Dr. Medicus" for young mothers concerned with the welfare of their children. Illustrated with drawings relating..... More
Berlin: Die Gemeinschaft/ Liberalen Synagoge Norden in Berlin, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 16pp. [7]. Textured grey paper wrappers with gilt lettering and ruling on the front cover. Published in Hebrew orientation, with pagination from right to left. Modernist typography and design on the front cover and title page. This..... More