NP: NP, 1953-1954. Original document. Hardcover. Originally published in 1953, "Battle Cry" is the enthralling first novel by legendary American author Leon Uris, best known for such classics as "Trinity" and "Exodus." Many of the events in the book are based on the writer's own World War II experience with..... More

1880-2009. An extensive collection of Yiddish literature written by women 1880-2009 with over 950 books and periodicals of poetry, prose, history, journalism, memoir and biography. Created by booksellers Henry Hollander and Eric Chaim Kline, the archive expresses how Jewish women saw themselves and the broader culture as they moved into..... More

Glasgow, Edinburgh and London: William Mackenzie, 1862. Deluxe Edition. Two volumes, folio (450 x 330 mm), published between 1862 and 1863. [16], 1344pp., 57 unnumbered leaves of albumin prints (230 x 160mm), mounted on card stock. Crimson morocco over wooden boards, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind; edges mounted in..... More

An important pre-World War I photographer, von Gloeden utilized body makeup, controlled lighting, special filters and tints to create elegant homoerotic portraits, for which his models were well paid. The full-length nudes, of boys ranging in age from early childhood to young adult, present the form frontally in all but..... More

[Frankfurt]: [Matthaeus Merian], [not before 1627]. Matthaeus Merian. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio (leaves: 20.6 by 31.2 cm; plates: 10 to 11.5 by 14.5 to 15.5 cm). Engraved titlepage borders without letterpress; 231 (of 233) engraved plates printed on the rectos with no printed text, depicting biblical scenes from the..... More

(1935). Original artwork. Loose leaf. Sleeping Beauty* color drawings: main panel (8 x 16 7/8"); top panel (7 1/4 x 6 1/4"); two wing panels (9 3/4 x 7"). Complete one of a kind concept design on four panels (14 7/8x 30 5/8") in graphite pencil, color pencils, watercolor, and..... More

Budapest: Schweizerische Gesandtschaft/Swedish Red Cross, 1944. Loose leaf. Large Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 1/4"). Stiff broadside. Printed in red and black with Swiss emblem at top and framed in red. Printed on front in German and on verso in Hungarian. This broadside is a protective sign for the clothing..... More

NP: 1942-1945. Paperback. 62 silver-gelatin photographs by Zdenek Tmej, including four self-portraits, twenty-two images from his 1946 book "Abeceda Dusevniho Prázdna*" (some of which are flopped in the publication), some similars to images chosen for the book, with others taken on May 5, 1945--the first day of the Prague uprising..... More

Paris: Jeanne Walter, 1931. Limited first edition. Softcover. 1/1000. Quarto. 44 unpaginated double-sided leaves (including 80 pages of photographic images). Photo-illustrated wrappers with blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Glassine wrappers and modern mylar. Copy #286 from a limited edition of 1000 copies, numbered on the colophon at..... More

Cologne: Tolksdorf & Friebe, 1994. Original photograph(s). Loose leaf. Elephant Folio (24 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 1 1/8"). 5 matted photographs. 10/20 of edition of 20 + VII. Original powder blue paper-covered box with printed labels on cover and inside cover, housing a b/w photograph and four C-Prints. All..... More

[likely early 19th century; prior to 1876]. Leather - Hardcover. A significant and very large manuscript comprising the second half of the Shahnameh: 332 leaves. Size: 19.2 x 29.4 cm; (written surface: 13.5 x 22.7 cm). Written in four columns, on beige paper, in nasta`līq script in black ink, with..... More

New York: John Fenno, no. 41 Broad-Street, near the Exchange, 1790. First edtion. Softcover. Two leaves, folio (16.25 by 10 in.). Edges slightly trimmed; a touch of mild foxing, else a fine, crisp copy. Housed in linen clamshell box with gilt paper label at spine and previous owner's dediction pasted..... More