Books from our inventory on exhibit at Booth B-20 during the International Anitquarian Book Fair in New York Park Avenue Armory from April 21st - 24th.
Download PDF of New York ABAA Book Fair 2022Prague: AIZ, 1933. Original artwork. Copper plate for gravure printing. 26 x 18.5 cm. This motif was rendered by John Heartfield three months after he emigrated to Prague in June 1933. The image depicts an SA-Officer screwing wooden boards to the ends of a cross carried by Jesus, creating thus..... More
London: Williams, Lea & Co., 1937. Sixth Edition. Softcoer. Duodecimo. xii, 76pp. Original stiff light blue wraps with black lettering in black frame on cover, protected by modern mylar. Especially adapted as a Class Book for Schools. "The want of an orthodox book, dealing with the preparation of economical dishes..... More
Moravská Ostrava: Eisenwerk Witkowitz, 1938. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Printed wraps in original attached stiff dust wrapper, printed in red and white. Dj protected by mylar jacket. Illustrated with 25 full-page photographs by Vladimir Hipman printed in rich gravure showing workers of the Eisenwerk Witkowitz (Witkowitz Ironworks). During the..... More
München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Frz. Eher Nachf., GmbH, 1937. Second printing (11.–20. Tausend). Hardcover. Small Quarto. 360(1, 24), 351pp. Original half leather over tan cloth with brown oak leaf stamped to covers and gilt lettering on spine, four raised bands, two of them framing the leather label with gilt title..... More
London: Printed for James Cawthorn, 1813. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xix, (1)1152 (5)pp., 21 plates, 2 folding maps. Rebacked in three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering, ruling and tooling on spine. Frontispiece engraving. Includes two folding maps, one of Albania and the Western Half of the Hellespontine Phygia..... More
Berlin: Zeitgeschichte Verlag und Vertriebs-Gesellschaft m.b.H., 1933. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 96pp. Original photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. With a preface by Baldur von Schirach. Dedication page: "That is what's the greatest about him: that he isn't just our leader and the hero of..... More
Camp McCain: n/a, 1943. Original document. Loose leaf. Original one page letter (11 x 8 1/2") in original POW Camp envelop (4 x 6"). Handwritten letter by Willibald Hoffmann, a Jewish soldier in the army of Nazi Germany who was taken prisoner and held in the POW Camp McCain in..... More
London: Mr. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Letter-Press by T. Bensley, from Figgins's types, 1794. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. vii, (1 leaf) 48pp. (13 leaves of Urdu script), 29 plates, 4 folding maps, one in color. Original green textured paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on red label of spine. Urdu frontispiece and..... More
東京 [Tokyo]: Yoshikawa Hanshichi (吉川半七), Meiji 34 [1901]. Second edition. Softcover. Quartos. Unpaginated double-sided rice paper leaves. Vol.1: 19 leaves, Vol.2: 22 leaves. String-bound tan textured cloth wrappers, with decorative flying crane motifs printed in grey and brown on the covers. White paper labels with printed black text are pasted..... More
Heidelberg: Samuel Browne, University Printer, 1659. First edition. Small quarto. [asterisk]2, 2[asterisk]4, A-2Q4 (= 162 leaves). [12], 311, [1, addenda]pp. Woodcut device at title; lettrines, head- and tailpieces; occasional use of Hebrew fonts. Recent plain boards; edges of text block stained in green. Contemporary annotations throughout. A touch of marginal..... More
London: Longman and Co., 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 6 3/4 x 5". [1], 31pp. (iv). Original black moulded papier-mâché binding, illustrated with intricate floral motifs surrounding six biblical vignettes and lettering. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated title page. This "gift book" contains biblical passages describing the various..... More
Livorno: Eliyahu ben Amozeg u-Vanav, [1887]. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 34, [4] (double-sided leaves). Rebound in modern brown buckram boards, with a gilt motif on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Floral woodblock borders on the title page. This interesting Passover Haggadah created by prominent Baghdadi Rabbi..... More
Tel-Aviv/Berlin: Dvir, 1924-1925. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.1: (xvi) 174pp. Vol.2: (xii) 156pp. Green cloth boards with blind-stamped lettering and motif on the front covers. Gilt lettering and motifs on the spines. Decorative endpapers. Signed and inscribed by acclaimed Hebrew poet Hayim Nachman Bialik and his longtime collaborator Yehoshua Hana..... More
Amsterdam: Pieter Niellius, 1651. First edition. Small quarto. [aster.]-2[aster.]4 A-3M4 (= 240 leaves). [16], 464pp. Contemporary Dutch vellum (very slightly bowed) panelled in blind with central stamped vignette, spine with raised bands and elegant calligraphic title. Title vignette depicting the arms of Amsterdam. A few old marginal annotations. Various old..... More
Tokyo: Shashin Tsushinasha, [1979]. First edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto. Photo-illustrated glossy wrappers with red lettering on the cover, black lettering on the spine. With original publisher's tan obi. Signed by Ann Tucker, the Houston Museum of Fine Art Curator, in pen on the interior front wrapper. This is a beautiful..... More
![Item #47250 Разсказы Razskazy (Stories) [SIGNED]. Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Arthur Szyk, by](/pictures/thumb/47250.jpg?v=1611456308)
Paris: Vladimir Jabotinsky, 1930. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/200. Octavo. 29pp. [1]. Half pebbled dark green leather over green-brown marbled paper boards. Title with stamped raised band and VJ at bottom of spine. Gilt ruling and lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers. With half title and b/w photographic frontispiece of..... More
Munich and London: Joseph Albert, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. 1/200. Folio. 4 leaves, iv (i), 194 (2)pp., 60 Albumen prints, including frontispiece. Original purple pebble-grain cloth, rebacked with brown pigskin, spine lettered and ruled in blind and gilt, blind paneling to covers, front cover lettered and ornately paneled in gilt..... More
![Item #40630 La Libération de Rouen (1944) [WITH] Rouen et ses Ruines (1945). Raymond Jacques](/pictures/thumb/40630.jpg?v=1573173676)
Rouen: Editions Liberté Normande; Editions Normandie, 1944-1945. First edition. Softcover. Two striking photobooks by French photographer Raymond Jacques, documenting the liberation of Rouen, the capital city of Normandy in France, and the damages caused during the battle of France (June 1940), and the allied bombing between March and August 1944: -..... More
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. Hardcover. Quarto. viii, (4), 527 (1)pp., 18 plates, incl. frontispiece. Rebound in ochre three quarter morocco over marbled boards, with gilt ruling on covers, gilt ruling and tooling on spine with gilt lettering on red leather label of spine; raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece..... More
London: Day & Son, [1865]. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated. 26 double-sided leaves. Rebacked in red pebbled buckram. Retaining beautifully-designed period red pebbled buckram covers, elaborately decorated with gilt embossed Egyptian motifs and geometric patterns. Period spine with gilt lettering laid down. Beveled edges. Gilt edges. Both front and..... More
Nürnberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1726. New edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 leaves, 226 (18)pp., 28 plates, not incl. frontispiece and half-title, 2 folding plates with list of engravings. Original calf binding with reverse lettering on label, blind-stamped decor and ruling on spine; raised bands. Copperplate engraved frontispiece by Puschner. Title page..... More
![Item #48815 Negerdigtning: Fortaellinger og Sagn (Negro Poetry: Tales and Legends) [INSCRIBED]....](/pictures/thumb/48815.jpg?v=1643852759)
Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Inscribed to Alfred Flechtheim by Carl Kjersmeier 9/4 1931 on front free endpaper. Duodecimo. 60pp. Original decorative wraps, printed lithographically, with black lettering on illustrated label on cover, protected by modern mylar. Decorative cover signed "Zoe." in plate. Illustrated with seven full..... More
Berlin: S. Calvary & Co., 1904. Second and third edition. Hardcover. Inscribed "Dem Quintaner Erich Kassel in Anerkennung seines Fleißes und... Oppeln, den 1. Nissan 5664 [1904]. Dr. Bäck Rabbiner" on verso of front free endpaper. Leo Baeck was the Rabbi in Oppeln from 1895–1905. Duodecimo. (2) 306pp. Original orange..... More
![Item #32035 Koen [Park]. Yoshiyuki Kohei](/pictures/thumb/32035.jpg?v=1434442045)
Tokyo: Seven Sha, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. [114]pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over stiff wraps. A controversial volume of 74 photographs taken by Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki, who, using a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash, documented people who gathered in several of Tokyo's parks at night for romantic..... More
Moscow: Goskinoizdat, 1942. First edition. Softcover. Oblong 16mo. 5x7.5". Unpaginated. 24 pages. Photo-illustrated staple-bound b/w wrappers with white lettering on the front cover. This finely printed piece of Soviet military propaganda celebrates the heroism of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade of the Russian Army, and serves as photo-documentation of their..... More