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
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
[Bialystok]: NP [Printed by O. Portnoj], 1928. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. [2], xx, [1]pp. Green-beige lithographically illustrated paper wrappers. This extremely scarce work is the first published collection of poetry by Yiddish-language poet, lyricist, playwright and writer Weflkie Hochman (aka Wolf Younin, 1908-1984). The seven poems included here are accompanied..... 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
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
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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
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
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
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 31pp. [1]. Original white printed wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. Wrappers protected by white tissue paper covers. Illustrated publisher's device on the back cover and verso of the title page. Modernist cover design by artist and graphic designer Joseph..... More
Jerusalem: B'nai Bezalel, [1926]. First edition. Softcover. 12mo. Unpaginated. [12 pages]. Original multicolored lithographic illustrated wrappers. Exquisite illustrated rendition of Chad Gadya, the tradition song sung at the conclusion of the Passover Seder. In this work, Ze'ev Raban, the acclaimed painter, decorative artist, and one of the founders of the..... 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
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..... 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
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London: 1795/ 1797. 1) The Jew: A Comedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry. 1797. Sixth edition. 8vo. 64, [2]pp. Modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gold lettered red title-label. English dramatist Richard Cumberland wrote "The Jew" in 1794, attempting to..... 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
Chur/ London/ Oxford: Harwood Academic Publishers/ Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies/ Oksford Yidish Press/ Oxford Institute of Yiddish Studies, 1990-1995. First edition. Hardcover. 2 quartos, 1 folio. Vol.1: [4]. 401pp. [4]. Vol.2: [5] 313pp. [4]. Vol.3: 984 columns [+5 pages]. Volumes 1 and 2 in tan glossy paper boards..... 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
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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