Jerusalem / Tel Aviv: "Massadah" and "Alumoth" 1962. Arthur Szyk. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated (56 double-leaved pages). Blue faux velvet binding in gold-lined three-quarter fine black cloth over blue cloth clamshell box with blue faux velvet lining. Beveled edges. Front and rear of book as well as front of..... More
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXVI, 414pp. Original decorative wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped device on front cover. The Jewish Museum, London, contains a remarkable collection of over a thousand works of art and craftmanship illuminating the Jewish..... More
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXVI, 414pp. Original decorative dustjecket, blue lettering on spine, over blue cloth with blind-stamped museum logo on coverm gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Cream endpapers. Color and b/w photographic frontispieces. Museum device on title page. The Jewish Museum..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Small folio. (vi) [2] 219pp., 1 folding family tree, 44 full-page plates. Blue buckram boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Pages uncut. Color frontispiece. The text consists of four works on Sephardic Jewish history, “The Jews of Spain and Portugal" and..... More
London: The Jewish Historical Society of England, 1947. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 16, 171pp. Original gray printed wraps. Introduction by Cecil Roth. The Sepher haShoham or "Onyx Book" is one of the very few surviving literary relics of medieval Anglo-Jewry. The work has been described as "first in time (ca..... More
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xii, 373, (1)pp. Index. Dark gold colored pictorial dust jacket, spine lettered in black, over gray buckram, spine stamped in gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Menasseh ben Israel after a Rembrandt etching. Text with two plates and several facsimile..... More
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xii, 373, (1)pp. Index. Dark gold colored pictorial dust jacket, spine lettered in black, over gray buckram, spine stamped in gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Menasseh ben Israel after a Rembrandt etching. Text with two plates and several facsimile..... More
London: Soncino Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xix, 333pp. Gold-stamped black cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust wrapper. Collection of Anglo-Jewish documents from the 12th - early 20th century consisting of business letters, love letters, literary correspondence, private gossip, political epistles, and every other variety..... More
New York: Hermon Press for Bloch Publishing Company, 1967. First edition. Quarto. VIII, 321, [23]pp. Light green dustjacket with red decorative design on front cover, white lettering on front cover and spine. Black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Signature of previous owner on front free end paper. Fascinating work..... More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1964. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (viii) 311pp. [1]. Beige printed dust jacket with red lettering on the covers and spine. Dark blue buckram with gilt lettering and printer's device on spine. An authoritative history of British Jewry by acclaimed scholar Dr. Cecil Roth. Work begins with..... More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1964. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii, (1), 311, (1). Dark blue buckram with gilt lettering and printer's device on spine. An authoritative history of British Jewry by acclaimed scholar Dr. Cecil Roth. Work begins with the Jewish settlement and consolidation and covers important events such as..... More
London: The Jewish Museum, 1932. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. [8]pp. Original printed wrappers. Scarce work being a reprint of an article from the Jewish Chronicle and revealing the personality of the first Jew in Hampstead (Eliezer Isaac Keyser). Some age wear on wrappers with edges partly chipped. 1" closed tear on..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1925). Hardcover. Large 8vo. xii, 388pp. Original light blue cover with blue border. Black lettering on spine. History of Florence, covering the brief republican restoration of 1527-30 after the expulsion of the Medicis. Early work by the distinguished 20th century English historian Cecil Roth, best..... More
London: The Jewish Historical Society, 1934. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. ix, 11-27 (1)pp., 4 plates. Original cream wraps with black lettering on cover. Documentation and narration of the Jewish Historical Society of England's visit to Lincoln with a delegation of nearly 80 members. In his foreword Gustave Tuck calls the..... More
London: The Jewish Monthly, 1950. First published in book form. Hardcover. Octavo. 127, [1]pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Remarkable monograph based on the author's Presidential Addresses delivered before the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1941 and 1942. This work is an account of the..... More
London: The Soncino Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIX, [1], 332, [2]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine and printer's device in gilt on front cover. Compilation of 147 letters written by English Jews between 1158 and 1917 throwing some interesting sidelights on English..... More
London: The Jewish Historical Society of England, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, 11-28, [4]pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Scarce work on a tragic event in Anglo-Jewish history that took place in Lincoln, in 1255. There, the ritual murder myth against the Jews took shape in the..... More
London: The Jewish Historical Society of England, 1937, 1961. New Edition, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Quarto. xiii, 464pp; xi, 232pp. Library green cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. This useful reference aid is a new and revised edition of "Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica" compiled by Joseph Jacobs..... More
Jerusalem: Mossad Harav Kook, 1956. Hardcover. 4to. 42pp. 167pp. vi. Original half brown cloth over pink cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Hebrew and English title-pages. Scholarly edition of the work of the 13th century English Tosafist Rabbi Elijah of London. Includes a lengthy biographical..... More
Paris: Trianon Press, 1966. Limited First edition. Softcover. 175/228 hand-numbered on both limitation pages, lithographic signature on English page. Large Folio (17 3/16 x 13 5/8 x 2 3/8"). XXXIII, [5], 135, [1] loose pages, as issued. Uncut. Original glassine over gilt-lettered parchment wrappers. The book is housed in its..... More
Jerusalem / Tel Aviv: Massadah and "Alumoth" 1962. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated (56 double-leaved pages). Blue faux velvet binding in gold-lined three-quarter black cloth over blue cloth clamshell box with blue faux velvet lining. Beveled edges. Front and rear of book as well as front of clamshell box decorated..... More
New York: Paragon Book Gallery, Ltd, 1966. Second edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 3 parts in 1. viii, (4), 211, (1); (8), 186; (10), 228pp. Indices. Original white and green dust jacket with red lettering, over gray cloth with red spine label and red lotus relief front cover. Color frontispiece displaying..... More