1) Mayer, Lou. Jewish War Sufferers - Shall They Plead in Vain? New York, (1917). Grinnell Litho Co. 21" x 28" lithograph by Lou Mayer mounted on 25" x 32" linen-backed high-quality white paper. Color lithograph shows a devastated woman and her son with the child's head buried in her..... More
Paris: Société des Etudes Juives, 1880-1953. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. This a incomplete run of 74 volumes of the publication from 1880-1953 (vols 1-114). Missing vols 59-81, 83-84, 87-89, 94-96, 99-100, and 105-111. This is a mixed set with some volumes bound in purple/blue cloth, black cloth, blue buckram, blue..... More
Warsaw: Spoldzielnia Bycher, n.d. [ca. 1929]. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 16pp. Grey-green staple-bound paper wrappers with black lettering on the covers. Interior flap with printed publisher's text. 16 illustrated double-sided fold-out leaves, each measuring 15.5 x11". This extremely scarce work is a lavishly produced illustrated catalog of multi-volume collections of..... More
![Item #45045 Tealit: Teater un Literatur (#1-5) [WITH] Our Theatre/ Unzer Teater (#1-3) [8 ISSUES...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45045.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1554418675)
New York: Aroysgegebn fun der Idisher Teater Gezelshaft/ Farlag "Idish kunst-teater" (Yiddish Art Theatre), 1921-1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. This collection of Yiddish theater periodicals contains the complete 5 issue run of the Yiddish theater and literary monthly periodical "Tealit: Teater..... More
Leyden (Leiden): Thomas van Ge'el, 5482 (1722). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 3/4 x 8"). [8], 426, [1] blank leaf, [1] leaf (Second title), 427-906pp. Contemporary full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Contemporary previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper: "Ce livre appartient à moi..... More
Berlin: Hoveve ha-Shirah ha-Ivrit, 1923. Deluxe limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/200. Quartos. Vol.1: 364 pp. Vol.2: 333 pp. Vol.3: 329 pp. Vol. 4: 185 pp. Full modern vellum boards with gilt lettering and decorative tooling on the front covers. Gilt ruling on the spines. Top edges of book block in..... More
Basel: Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, 1544. First edition in original Greek. Hardcover. Folio. [12], 967, [1, blank]pp. Title in red (principally) and black, with woodcut printer's device (repeated in black at verso final leaf); large woodcut historiated initial at beginning of preface; white-on-black decorative headpiece at beginning of main..... More
NP: 1930s. Original photograph(s). Hardcover. Small Oblong Quarto. 48 pages of tissue-guarded original photographs. Original string-bound decorative cloth in tan and pink. This photo-album containing at total of 420 b/w photographs, documents the trip of an unidentified Jewish couple (likely from Switzerland or Germany) through northern Italy, a sea voyage..... More
Leipzig: Wilhelm Gottlob Sommer, 1784. First edition. Paperback. Small quarto. A-D4, E2 (= 18 leaves). 36pp., half-page woodcut vignette at A4 recto; quotations in Hebrew throughout. Unbound, with contemporary red paper overlay along spine. Text lightly toned, else fine. Doctoral thesis examining how the cleanliness of the body is understood..... More
![Item #33719 Biblioteca Espanola [2 vols.]. D. Joseph Rodriguez De Castro](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33719.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1516413035)
Madrid: Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1781, 1786. Complete 2 volume set. Prologue, 668pp, plus index. (6), 748pp. (1). Contemporary leather binding with leather clasps. An important work on the history of literary scholarship by Rodriguez de Castro. Volume 1 covers Iberian Rabbinic authors writing in Spanish and Hebrew from..... More
Lemberg [Lviv]: Tsushteyer, 1930. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. ii, 72pp. [+ 4 linocuts on red paper]. Original cream wrappers with red lettering on cover. Inscribed and signed by the author in pen at the bottom of the front free endpaper. The first published collection of avant-garde Yiddish poetry by Lviv-based..... More
London: F. Haes, 1888. Limited First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 x 7 1/2"). xxvi, 214pp. Later 3/4 red morocco over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. All paper edges gilt. Frontispiece. Deluxe edition of this catalogue of an Exhibition illustrating Anglo-Jewish History and Jewish Ecclesiastical..... More
Krakow: Nakdalem Stowarzyszenia "Opieka nad Oswiecimiem" 1948. First edition. Softcover. Oblong sextodecimo. 6x 7.5". 24 leaves, including 20 plates of images. String-tied tan and grey wrappers with black and white lettering, and a triangle graphic on the front cover. We believe this publication to be the earliest official photo-illustrated monograph..... More
Cassel (Kassel): [Impe. Royale]/ "Orphanage Printing House" 1808. First edition. Loose leaf. 17x10". Bilingual publication in French and German, printed in a two-column format. Issue no.22, February 16th, 1808. This Napoleonic-era newspaper was the official government press organ for the short-lived Kingdom of Westphalia (1807-1813), a client state of the..... More
Palestine: Bezalel School? ca. 1920. Scroll. Approx. 10x2" (full scroll). 4" tall parchment. Silver filigree, with some inlaid jewels at the top. Locking mechanism on the side. Scribed on the parchment in Ashkenazi (Beis Yosef) style Hebrew script. Created in a style after the famous Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem..... More
Warschau: Druck D. Mil. Kart. Inst. 1941. First edition. Softcover. A 28 3/4 x 30 1/2" large rolled up color map of Warsaw published by the Nazis in occupied Poland, showing the Jewish ghetto* (outlined in pink) with the footbridge (outlined in orange) constructed over ul. Chłodna to connect the..... More
Jerusalem: Police D'Israel, 1961. Softcover. Oblong Octavo. Six volumes, 3564 numbered pp. Stiff tan and blue-gray wraps with blue-gray cloth back strips. Following his kidnapping and abduction by Israeli agents, Adolf Eichmann was remanded and pending the completion of an investigation was to stand trial under Law No. 64: "Nazis..... More
Vienna: Jüdische Kultusgemeinde, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. (1) 11, (1) 16, (1) 7, (1) 6, (1) 6 leaves. Original black quarter library tape over green stiff wraps with black lettering, ruling and publisher's device on cover, protected by modern mylar. The 1939 report of the Jewish Cultural Society in..... More
Berlin: Commissions-Verlag W. Issleib (G. Schuhr), 1882. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. (4) 36pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering and publisher's device in decorative border, protected by modern mylar. Housed in red half-leather over gray cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. Educated in..... More
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Vienna: Haybach-Verlag, 1923. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/60. Elephant folio. 21.5x15". Unpaginated. 3/4 vellum over blue paper boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. Pages uncut. This is #12 from a limited edition of 60 copies, hand signed by the artist on the colophon at the back. The book consists..... More
Geneva [Tel Aviv]: [Hotsaat Keren Tel-Hai ve-Shilton Betar], 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [3] 106pp. (single-sided leaves) + photo-illustrated plates. Soft tan cloth boards. This extremely scarce work is a compilation of writings, essays, tributes, poems and articles on executed Irgun member Shlomo Ben-Yosef (1913-1938), who has been seen as..... More
Москва (Moscow): Издательство Акц. общество "Школа и книга" ("The School and the Book"), 1926-1927. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/5000. Folio (10 3/4 x 14 1/2"). 134, [2]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, with silver lettering and decoration to covers. Decorative initials. Illustrated with no less than 219 photogravures, this work is based..... More
Stugart: J. F. Steinkopf, nd (ca 1840). Fourth edition (Ausgabe No. 4). Softcover. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. [18], [21], [20], [23] leaves. Original printed wrappers. Volumes housed in a modern custom-made red cloth clamshell box, with gold lettering on spine. Striking collection of 40 tissue-guarded engravings depicting views of important places..... More
Geneva: Henri Estienne (Stephanus), 1566. First edition. Octavo. A-C8 (= 24 unnumbered leaves). Text and register reads from right to left. Hebrew characters in both square (vocalized) and rabbinic fonts. Contemporary vellum over flexible paper boards, exposed thongs. Fine, crisp copy. First edition of this succinct alphabet and grammar, including..... More
[Paris]: [Imprimerie Impériale], [1867]. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 9"). [2], 81, [1]pp (Text), 11 double leaves (Plates). Uncut. Modern half black calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Printed on rag paper and splendidly illustrated with 11 photolithographic plates after original images..... More