Zurich: Orell Füssli Verlag, 1931. First German edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 7 (1)pp., 64 plates, 6 (1)pp. Orange quarter cloth over original b/w photo-sillustrated paper boards, protected in original glassine. Pre- W.W.II photo essay on the so-called Jewish Ghetto of Vilna and its residents. Published as number 27 in the famous..... More
Lodz: Printed by E. and M. Hamburski, 1919. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. [2] 32pp. Light brown printed wrappers with printed text in black on the covers. This is the first and only issue of this scarce literary and art journal issued and edited by members of then of the..... More
![Item #45045 Tealit: Teater un Literatur (#1-5) [WITH] Our Theatre/ Unzer Teater (#1-3) [8 ISSUES...](/pictures/thumb/45045.jpg?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
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
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1922. Second edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 35pp. [1]. Illustrated b/w wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Modernist avant-garde design on the front cover by artist and graphic designer Joseph Chaikov (1888 – 1979). This is the second edition of Russian-Jewish poet Peretz Markish's (1895-1952) noted poetry..... More
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Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 39pp. [1]. Illustrated black and white wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Wrappers protected by white tissue paper covers. Illustrated publisher's device on the back cover. Modernist cover design featuring a snake, by artist and graphic designer Joseph Chaikov (1888..... 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
Tel Aviv: Book Bureau of the Union of Hebrew Writers and Literature, 1926. First edition. Softcover. Small folio. 110 columns (in Hebrew numbering) + 9 pages. Tan printed wrappers with avant-garde typography ("Haim" font) on the front cover in red. Typography designed by the acclaimed Hungarian-born graphic designer, painter and..... More
Paris: Société d'Histoire de la Médecine Hébraïque, 1948-1963. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Original tan cloth with gold lettering on spines. Original wrappers bound in. Complete collection of all the 62 issues published during the first 16 years of the "Revue d'Histoire de la Médecine Hébraïque." Each issue contains important studies..... More
New York: NP (Printed by the Grover Brothers), 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 88pp. Rebound in 3/4 black pebbled cloth over black buckram boards. Original printed green wrappers with decorative motifs bound in. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper by Morris Rosenfeld to Baltimore-based Zionist activist S. Abel..... More
Johannesburg, South Africa: Printed by M. J. Wood & Co. for The Council of The Congregation, 1898. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 36pp. Original decorative wrappers. In the 1880s, Johannesburg was the largest city in the Transvaal and the principal center of Jewish life in South Africa. On Jan. 29..... More
New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1964-1973. First edition. Hardcover. The "Union Catalog of Hebrew Manuscripts and Their Location" is comprised of two volumes: - Volume One: Index (1973). Folio. XXXIV, 280pp. Original full green cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Index by Menahem Hayyim Schmelzer; Introduction by Salo Wittmayer..... More
Cincinnati: The Bloch Printing Company, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 57pp. [3]. Original black cloth over beige soft paper boards with black lettering on the front cover. A charming short story for young adults collected from the pages of the American Jewish youth literary magazine "The Sabbath Visitor" (1874-1885, also..... More
Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1588. Early edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7 x 4 3/4"). [8], 528, [32] leaves. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Publisher's title vignette. Decorative headpieces and initials. Originally published in 1575, this first French language edition of the works of Philo, a first-century Alexandrian philosopher known..... More
Paris: Albin Michel, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/300. Octavo (8 x 6"). [6], iv, [4], 323, [3]pp. Later blue cloth, with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Original wrappers bound in. Color vignette to title page. In this remarkable French novel by celebrated author Pierre Benoit, a young woman rediscovers..... More
Amsterdam: Ishak de Cordova (Yshak de Cordova), 1726. "Nuevamente Reimprimido" (Reprint). Hardcover. Folio. 13.5x8.5". 142pp. Original tan calf boards. Title page decorated and bordered with woodcut motifs. The work, original publisher in Rouen, France in 1649, and containing a mixture of prose and poetry, "La Torre de Babilonia" (the Tower..... More
Leipzig: Kommissionsverlag von Eduard Heinrich Mayer, 1899. Softcover. WITH ORIGINAL THREE-PAGE LETTER BY NAHIDA RUTH LAZARIUS, dated 12 April 1900. Ex-library. Library stamp in Hebrew on margins of few pages (transliteration "Haikhal Shlomo - Ha-Sifriah _?_ Ha-Merkazit L'Yisroel Yerushhalayim"). 8vo. viii, 213pp. Original gold-stamped and illustrated blue wraps protected by..... More
![Item #24566 Vilnah: Po'emah Metsuyeret [HEBREW]. Zalman Shneour, Hermann Struck](/pictures/thumb/24566.jpg?v=1434441593)
Berlin: Hasefer, (1923). First edition. Hardcover. 1/1700. Quarto. 32pp. Original gold- and silver-stamped black cloth with gilt and silver lettering on front cover. This beautiful vocalized poem is complete with its ten full-page sepia-toned reproductions of drawings executed by Herman Struck during the First World War, while stationed in Vilna..... More
Jerusalem: NP, 1969. Second edition. Lg. 4to. 2 vols. (2)pp. text plus 571 pages of Hebrew manuscript facsimiles. Title page in German and Hebrew. The Mishna Codex was most likely written in the 11th or 12th century and is the foundational text for all the later scientific editions of the..... More
Prag: Eigentum und Verlag von Wolf Pascheles (Self-published), 1854-1870. Hardcover. 5 volumes in 6. 8vo. Erste Sammlung (First collection): 1870. 224pp. Vierte Auflage (fourth edition). Zweite Sammlung: 1870. 252,[4]pp. Dritte Sammlung: 1854. 254,[2]pp. Vierte Sammlung: 1856. 362,[5]pp. Fünfte Sammlung, Erste Abtheilung: 1864. 192pp. Fünfte Sammlung, Zweite Abtheilung: 1864. 382,[26]pp. Three-quarter..... More
Paris: 1948. Limited Edition. Softcover. 1/1126. Inscribed by author. Folio. 25 leaves, plus 20 woodcut plates. Tissue paper guards. Original paper wrappers bound in cloth folder. Complete with slipcase. A collection of short stories by the 19th century Yiddish writer Y. L. Perets dealing with Hasidim. This special edition was..... More
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Paris: Arthur Kolnik, 1948. Hardcover. Limited edition of 226 copies on Lana paper. No. 51. Folio. [5], 25 pp., 20 pl. [4]. Portfolio resting in tan cardboard slipbox with gold lettering on spine. Book cover with red text, protected by glassine, as issued. Titlepage in red and black block lettering..... More
Berlin: слово (Slovo), 1927. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 335pp. [1]. Tan textured heavy stock paper wrappers with blue lettering on the front cover. This is the true first edition of Vladimir Jabotinsky's biblical novel, Samson the Nazirite (Samson Nazorei) published in Russian. Originally serialized from 1919-1926 in the pages of..... More
New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1933. Hardcover. 1/500. 4 volumes. 4to. lxviii.418pp. xiv.490pp. xii.544pp. xviii.500pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Vol. 1 has a pamphlet laid in with b/w facsimile photographs of Professor Israel Davidson and his..... More
London: Greenberg & Co., 1903. Hardcover. Ex-library. 4to. 94pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Title written in Hebrew, English, German, Russian, French and Italian. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard. Plates (portraits) of 18th and 19th century Jewish poets. Text in Hebrew and English. Corners bumped..... More