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
New York/Prague: B. Pollack, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 63pp. [1]. Cream-colored "embossed cover paper" wrappers, with blue lettering on the front cover. String-tied binding. A scarce commemorative and promotional publication, produced on the occasion of the 18th Zionist World Congress, held August 23- September 4th 1933 (although the title..... More
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New York: Funk & Wagnalls/Sabra Books, 1971. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/2000. Quarto. xxii, 862pp. Dark blue faux-leather boards, with gilt-stamped Star of Israel and facsimile Ben-Gurion signature on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase as issued. Blue silk endpapers. Signed by David Ben-Gurion..... More
Paris: Privately Printed [Sybille Hess], 1880. Second edition. Hardcover. Scarce [Only two libraries worldwide own this book, according to OCLC]. 8vo. 182 [1] pp. Half maroon leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Modern endpapers. Inscribed by Sybille Hess [post mortem] to original free..... More
Paris: General Management of the Tel-Chai Fund, ca.mid 1930s. First edition. Softcover. Square 24mo. 4.5x5.5". Unpaginated [22p]. Graphic wrappers with modernist typography and text in black, white and red on the covers. This scarce promotional brochure for the for the Tel-Hai fund (Keren Tel Hai) seems to have been printed..... More
Hamburg: Hamburger AULIM-Gruppe, 1924. First edition. Large Quarto. xi. pp. Original mimeographed stapled wraps with black lettering on cover. Working plan and six instructional texts of Dr. Nathan Birnbaum delivered during meetings of the Hamburg Aulim from January 15th to the 18th of March of the year 1924. These instructions..... More
Krakau: Josef Fischer, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 15(1)pp. Half green cloth over paper covered boards with brown lettering and original printed plum wrappers bound in. Publisher's device on wraps with oval stamp of bookseller S. Marcus underneath imprint. Herzel's "Judenstaat" as discussed during the general assembly of "Chowewe Erez..... More
New York: New York Branch of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, ND (1908/09). First edition. Softcover. Oblong 12mo (6 x 9"). 16pp. Original string bound printed wrappers. Decorative initials. Illustrated with 11 photographic reproductions (including 7 full-page), this scarce publication documents the 1908 activities of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, a Paris-based..... More
Buenos Aires: Federacion Sionista Argentina, 1926. First edition. Softcover. Thin octavo. 10 unpaginated double sided leaves [20 pages]. Tan and light blue staple-bound printed paper wrappers, with blue lettering and star of David on the front cover. This extremely scarce promotional pamphlet was produced by the Zionist Federation of Argentina..... More
Strasbourg: Keren Kayemeth L'Israel, 1922. First edition. Softcover. 16mo. 24 pp. Original illustrated blue wraps with black lettering on cover; protected in modern mylar. Calendar with the Torah portions, the Jewish and Christian Festivals. Illustrated with b/w photographs, reproductions of artwork and maps. The booklet also contains short essays on..... More
Los Angeles: Jabotinsky Yahrzeit Committee, 1962. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 18pp. Spiral-bound illustrated white wrappers, with black lettering on the covers. This publication commemorates the 22nd anniversary of the death of influential Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and was produced to coincide with the event held in his honor on July..... More
Praga: Zionistische Propagandastelle, 5697 (1937). First edition. Softcover. Octavo. [4], 20pp. Original printed wrappers. This ethnographic study of Muslims and Arabs was published in 1937 by the Zionist propaganda office in Prague. Its author, Jizchak Ben Zwi, was a historian, a Labor Zionist leader, and who ended up becoming the..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 480 (30)pp. Original illustrated orange red cover with brown lettering on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Zangwill's work earned him the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto" and his play "the Melting Pot" popularized the term "melting pot" in America..... More
Brünn: Verlag der "Jüdischen Volksstimme" n/d. Softcover. 8vo. 16pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Publisher's information on other works by same publisher printed on both sides of rear wrapper. Work on Zionism, written by renowned Zionist thinker and writer Max Nordau (see below). Minor age wear and staining to wrappers, with library..... More
Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann Verlag, 1919. Softcover. 8vo. 41 (1) pp. Original wrappers. Forepage edge untrimmed. Printed in high quality, clean and thick cotton rag. Book reviews of other works by same publisher printed on inside of front and both sides of rear wrapper. Work on Judaism and Zionism. Minor age..... More
Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1922. Softcover. 4to. 111pp. Original printed wraps. Frontispiece of Theodor Herzl. Participants of the 1897 Zionist congress in Basel reflect on their impressions and experiences. With contributions and photographs by D. Alcalay, R. Alcalay, N. Berkowicz, N. Birnbaum, M. Bodenheimer, Z. Bychowski, J. Cowen, Mayer-Ebner, D. Farbstein..... More
Vienna: Phaidon-Verlag, 1927. Softcover. This work is a presentation copy: It is inscribed in black pen at free front endpaper by the author, Nathan M. Gelber, to Solomon Liptzin, a renowned Educator and Advocate of Yiddish Study (see below): "Herrn Doz. Dr. Solomon Lipkin zur Erinnerung überreicht vom Verfasser. Wien..... More
Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization, 1960. Softcover. 8vo. 58 pp. Writing by three prominent Zionists of the time as well as the Constitution as it was newly drafted in 1960. Very interesting and nice work. Green wrappers with some sunning to spine and front cover. Book is in good condition. "This..... More
Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1932. Later printing. Softcover. Octavo. 31 (1)pp. Original ochre wraps with red ruling and lettering on cover. Leon Pinsker was a physician and Zionist pioneer. He was the founder and leader of Hovevei Zion, considered a for-runner of modern Zionism. In his commentary on the nature of..... More
Warsaw: Meir Jehiel Halter, 1899. Second edition. 8vo. 88pp. Blue half-cloth over black pebbled cloth. A Zionist tract by one of the founders of the religious Zionist movement. This work was first published in 1891 and is a collection of pro-Zionist statements by rabbis. This Text in Hebrew. Corners worn..... More
Holon, Israel: Published by the author, 1962. Softcover. This book is inscribed by the author's son, Dr. Matthew Drosdoff in pencil at (dedication) page following title page [where the author dedicated the book to, among others, Matthew]: "With Compliments. Matthew Drosdoff." 12mo. 236pp, followed by errata slip. Wrappers. Frontispiece. Stamp..... More
Montreal: The Eagle Publishing Company, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XII, [13]-128pp. Original brown cloth with black lettering on front cover. Interesting work in which the author views Jewish Agriculture, farming, the cultivation of land, and a return to nature as solutions of 'the Jewish problem.' Back joint stained. Binding..... More
Jerusalem: Mount Scopus Publications, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 4vo. 195pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed jacket. An analysis of zoning laws and other local ordinances in Jerusalem during the late 19th and early 20th century. Includes numerous maps. Translated from Hebrew. Dj slightly creased. Book..... More
Jerusalem: B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, 1993. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 22pp. Original paper wrappers with an abstract facsimile sketch of a wounded child on front cover. B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was founded in 1989..... More
Brill: Leiden, 1980. Hardcover. Small Quarto. xii. 410pp. Olive cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's device on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Publisher's device on title page. Inscribed to the Hebrew literary scholar Arnold Band by Stanley Nash on front free endpaper. Laid in a two-page, typed letter..... More