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Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/1500. Lg. 8vo. 15pp.[text] 150pl. Gray cloth, red lettering on front and spine, in sturdy cardboard slipcase with title plate. Profusely illustrated with 110 color reproductions of b/w drawings by Lautrec reproduced directly from his notebooks. Slipcase slightly sunned and soiled. Rippling in top 2" of all pages due to exposure to moisture. Overall very good condition.

Londini (London): Gulielmus Pickering (William Pickering), 1843. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6"). xii, 781, [1]pp (Vol. 1); [5], [782]-1493, [3]pp (Vol. 2). Later brown cloth rebacked, with handwritten white lettering to spines. Title pages in red and black lettering. Decorative initial and headpieces. Edited by Edward William Grinfield (1785-1864), who founded and endowed an Oxford lectureship on the Septuagint in 1859, this "Helenistic edition" presents the T. R. (following Mill), illustrated by citations from the LXX., Origens's Hexapla, Josephus and Philo, given after each verse. In citing the LXX. the editor used chiefly L. Bos' text. (Darlow & Moule 4835). Covers partly age-toned, with corners rubbed. Hinges reinforced with binders tape. Ex-library copy, with bookplate on inside of each front cover, and pocket on inside of each back cover. Stamp at verso of each title page, and at top and bottom paper edges. Previous owner's name in ink at upper margin of each title.… Read More

NP, 1930. Softcover. g. Oblong quarto. 73pp. Lacking title-page. Original printed wraps. HCN catalogue profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs and drawings showing quality furniture for living & dining rooms, boudoir & study. Contents: Wohn- und Damenzimmer / Speisezimmer mit Aufsatz / Speisezimmer, Sideboard mit Vitrine / Herrenzimmer / Stuhl- und Tischkatalog sowie Preislisten. Minor creasing and staining on wraps. Name of previous owner, date and place handwritten on front wrapper. Contents page and captions in German. Some plates protected by tissue-guard. Wraps in good-, interior in overall very good condition. Scarce.

Janesville, Wisconsin: The Artist, 1972. First edition. Softcover. g to g+. Oblong Quarto. (ii) 26pp. Original textured black stiff wrappers. Illustrated title page. Series of 21 "self-portraits in hiding" by Fred Escher. Artist book with full-page b/w photographs showing the artist in various scenarios, e.g. hiding behind a mailbox on a post, hiding between coats in a coat-check, hiding under a writing table in an apartment, hiding behind a parked car in a city street, etc. The photographs are interspersed with full-page single capitol letters of the word HIDING starting with H on the title page. Each letter corresponds to shapes of objects in the photographs. Moderate foxing of the transparent endpapers. Minor age-toning in margins not affecting images. Wraps and interior in overall good to good+ condition.

(Upper) Armenia, 1680. Manuscript on paper scroll (45 ft. 6 in. by 3-1/2 in. = 13 meters 87 cm by 9 cm.). 35 sheets glued together, with occasional later reinforcements at verso. Text in single column: 31 illuminated miniatures; 44 ornamented initials. Opening 8-inch section detached; small tears and wear mostly confined to margins. Overall a well-preserved and complete scroll, with concluding colophon. Written, and later printed amulet scrolls (հմայիլ, pronounced hum-eye-eel) were quite popular in Armenian culture throughout the Early Modern era though relatively few examples survive due to their delicate format and constant use. Written in Bardzr Hajq in Upper Armenia and dated May 13th 1129 (=1680) of the Armenian era, the colophon of the present scroll notes: "This book for Protection was copied by the hand of sinful deacon Jakob, who is from the province Vorotna, from the village Aghuerdz. Amen. For the enjoyment of Čianshah, Msrshah and Halapshah, the sons of khoja Paghtasar, who is… Read More

Merhavia: Sifriat Poalim/ Ha-Shomer Hatzair, 1970. First Hebrew edition. Hardcover. vg- to near fine. Octavo. 301pp. [2]. Original white, orange and black dust jacket, with black lettering on the covers and spine. Black cloth over tan paper boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. Red ribbon marker. Frontispiece b/w photographic portrait of the author. First Hebrew-language edition of Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man", inscribed in English with a dated signature by the author in pen on the front free endpaper. The inscription is to Zev Levy head of the philosophy department at the University of Haifa at the time, who hosted Marcuse on his trip to Israel. Published at Kibbutz Merhavia, in Israel, the headquarters of the leftist Zionist movement Ha-Shomer Hatzair, and released by their publishing house Sifriat Poalim. This edition includes a new introduction from Marcuse titled "A Word to the Reader in Israel", and the shorter written pieces, "An Essay on Liberation" (1969) and "A Political… Read More

New York: Ogen Publishing House of Histadrut HaIvrit BeAmerica, 1957. Hardcover. vg. 4to. x. 562. Black cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. Important collection of essays on Jewish education in Europe before the Holocaust, with sections on elementary education, secondary education, professional education, press, libraries and the arts. Includes both secular and religious schools. With contributions by Dr. M. Brayer, Rabbi Dr. I. A. Alcalay, Dr. S. Z. Kahane et. al. Edited by the renowned Professor Emeritus, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Dr. Zevi Scharfstein. Illustrated throughout with many in-text b/w photographs/ In Hebrew, with additional English title page and table of contents. In very good condition. Part of a series: "This book is the second in the series of "Morasha" aiming to perpetuate the heritage of Jewish culture in the shattered communities of Europe.

Basel: Ludwig König, 1619. First edition (in part). Hardcover. Good. Eight parts in three volumes, folio (biblical texts and commentary in four parts, continuously foliated; three supplemental sections, each with separate foliation; Tiberias (1655), with separate pagination, here bound after the Haftarot) - Vol. 1: [6, title and prelims], 1-228, [1, sect. title], 234-441, [1, blank]ff. Vol. 2: [1, sect. title], 442-705, [1, blank], 707-837, [1, blank]ff. Vol. 3: 839-881, [1, blank], 883-946; 8 (Targum Yerushalmi; last leaf unfoliated); 67 (Masorah), [1, blank]; [1, title], 2-36 (Haftarot)ff.; [8, title and prelims], 108pp. Despite the gap in foliation between the first and second parts, and numerous errors in foliation throughout, the Rabbinic Bible collates complete, with all blanks noted in Prijs (Die Basler hebräischen Drucke), and the Haftarot bound at the end. Largely arranged in two columns of biblical texts in square font, surrounded by commentaries in rabbinic (Rashi) font; biblical texts… Read More

Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press/ Hotsaʼat Universitat Bar-Ilan, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. vg+ to near fine. Quarto. 686pp. Glossy blue illustrated paper boards with orange and white lettering on the front cover and spine. A wide and comprehensive survey of the history of Kabbalah and its interaction with and effect on other strands of Jewish life and observance, including prayer, religious law and customs. The work examines the reactions of Rabbinic authorities over the centuries and the extent to which the these mystical ideas and practices were accepted by the general Jewish public. Extensive bibliographic and scholarly footnotes throughout the text, as well as an extensive index at the rear. Text throughout in Hebrew. Binding with minor scratches and/or smudges to the cover and minor bumping to corners. Binding in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. Hebrew title: הקבלה : בתפילה, בהלכה ובמנהג Alternate: Moshe Hallamish.

Warsaw: Y. Goldman, 1887. Hardcover. g. 8to. 340pp. (2), 164pp. 8pp. Modern green leather binding with gold borders and raised bands. Illustrated title-page with images of a vineyard, children playing and a globe. Scholarly anthology edited by the Eastern European maskil Eleazar Atlas. Includes essays by Samuel Joseph Fuenn, Jacob Reines and Israel Tropp. Topics include the rabbinic yeshiva and Hebrew grammar. There are also stories, songs and information about the world. Atlas was heavily involved in Hebrew journalism, which led to his association with the Zionist historian Nahum Sokolow. Text in Hebrew. Stamp from previous owner. Wear to cover. Foxing to leaves. Overall in good condition. Previously owned by the rabbi and historian Meyer Abraham Halevy.

Tel Aviv: Barlevi/ Barlevy, 1945. First edition. Softcover. vg-. Small oblong 12mo. 8pp. Illustrated white, white paper wrappers, with blue lettering on the front cover. A scarce and powerful Hebrew children's book on the subject of the Holocaust, written by pioneering publisher and writer of children's books, and game designer Benyamin Barlevy (1894-1964), with illustrations by Lev Dickstein. The book tells the story of a young girl in Germany known as "Blue Hood", who with the help of partisans, ultimately manages to save Jewish children from being shot to death by the Nazis. Notably Hitler is portrayed and illustrated in the form of a "wolf with the face of a man", at the beginning of the story. Hebrew text and lithographic illustrations in blue throughout. The interior back wrapper contains publisher's advertisements. The work is now extremely scarce with only 3 known holdings worldwide on OCLC. Minor rubbing to extremities, with light age toning to wrappers. A few very small worm holes running… Read More

London: Greenberg & Co, 1903. Hardcover. g. 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. Head and tail of spine worn. Title on spine faded. Some staining to front cover. Dried glue remnants from previously present library plate on endpapers. Blind library stamp. Some rippling to outer leaves due to damp exposure. Plates are all in very good condition. Overall in good condition. One of the first English collections of pictures of Jewish poets. Includes pictures, and dates accompanied by short biographical notes for the following poets: Jacob Eichenbaum, Hertz Imber, Joseph Almanzi, Haim N. Byalick, J. L. Boruchovitz, Abraham Ber Gottlober, Isaac Goldman, Abraham Goldfaden, Leon Gordon, Samuel Leib, Joshua Davidowitz, M. M. Dolitzki, I. B. Hurwitz, Joseph… Read More

Amsterdam: Levisson Freres/ Ha-Ahim Levisson, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Large octavo. [24] 178pp. [2]. Period 3/4 brown pebbled buckram over marbled paper boards, with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Separate Hebrew and French title pages. Inscribed and signed by the author in ink at the top of the half-title. This scarce work, the second published by Yitzhak Isaac Roller (1832-1900), discusses the history of the Franco-Prussian War and the Sieges of Paris, including the author's firsthand recollections of the events, in detail as he experienced them. The text is notable as an early example of secular writing in Hebrew, on a subject of contemporary history. It can be assumed that this was the very first work in Hebrew on the subject. The author states in the preface that his aim was to write on the subject using the poetic language of Biblical Hebrew (including the addition of a few contemporary expressions). To this goal he choose to publish and print the book in Amsterdam,… Read More

[Jerusalem]: Hebrew University, 1961. First edition. Softcover. g+ to vg+. Quarto. [4] 59pp. Tan heavy stock paper wrappers, with stapled binding. Handwritten text in pen on the front cover. Inscribed and signed by the author to Dr. Aryeh Bauminger, in pen at the top of the first page. This scarce mimeographed work was submitted by the author as his thesis for a degree in Public Administration, at the Eliezer Kaplan School of Economics and Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It examines the history, organization, and activities of the Judenrat in the Bialystok ghetto (1941-1943) during the Holocaust. The Judenrat (meaning "Jewish Council" in German) was comprised of a group of 24 Jews who presided over and administered the Jewish population of the ghetto, and was one of many such similar groups set up by the Nazis in Jewish communities across eastern Europe. Text throughout in Hebrew. Wrappers with some sunning, creasing and some light foxing along the right edge of the front cover.… Read More

Jerusalem: The Bialik Foundfation" of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1937. Hardcover. vg. 12mo. 8pp. 175pp. Followed by three unpaginated plates and fold-out. 1/4 beige cloth over faux-vellum paper covered boards with embossed gold lettering to cover and spine. Illustrated title page. Work on the Administration of the Ancient Roman Empire in the Holy Land (Israel/Palestine), which was part of the Roman Empire and, hence, the "Pax Romanum". With three photographic plates and fold-out map at end. Minor age wear. Owner's signature to Hebrew title page (at beginning) and English title page (at end). Some pencil marks to first few pages of introduction, easily erasable. In Hebrew, with additional English title page. Very good condition.

Warsaw: Ahi'asaf, 1912. fair. 4to. 584pp. 526pp. 552pp. 597pp. 122pp. Original half-leather over black cloth. Dictionary of terms found in rabbinic literature with quotes from source material. Hebrew and Aramaic words are translated into Russian and Yiddish. The first volume was published in 1884. Samuel Joseph Fuenn was a moderate Russian maskil, who worked for the Czarist government as a professor at the rabbinical school of Vilna and later as the superintendent of Jewish public schools. Fuenn did this as a means of advancing his own Enlightenment agenda of reforming Jewish education. Fuenn's dictionary was the first to cover the Bible, Talmud as well as medieval poetry and philosophy. He was heavily influenced by the grammatical work of ibn Janah and R. David Kimhi. In addition to his lexicographical work, Fuenn authored the first Hebrew literary journal, "ha-Karmel," and an encyclopedia of rabbinic personalities, "Keneset Yisroel." Saul Phinehas Rabbinowitz was a student of R. Israel Salanter… Read More

New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950. First edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. xv, consisting of English summary + 102 pp. of Hebrew text. Original paper wraps. Includes independent Hebrew and English title pages at opposing ends of book. Monumental work exploring the historical validity of the famed "Men of the Great Assembly" often spoken of in Pharisaic and Rabbinic literature. Some age wear to wraps, cover of spine cracked, otherwise book is in very good condition.

New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950. First edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. xv, consisting of English summary + 102 pp. of Hebrew text. Original paper wraps. Includes independent Hebrew and English title pages at opposing ends of book. Signed by author on front endpaper in Hebrew. Monumental work exploring the historical validity of the famed "Men of the Great Assembly" often spoken of in Pharisaic and Rabbinic literature. Minor age wear to wraps, otherwise book is in very good condition.

New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950. First edition. Softcover. g. 8vo. xv, consisting of English summary + 102 pp. of Hebrew text. Original paper wraps. Includes independent Hebrew and English title pages at opposing ends of book. Monumental work exploring the historical validity of the famed "Men of the Great Assembly" often spoken of in Pharisaic and Rabbinic literature. Text mostly in Hebrew. Wrappers chipped and creased. Interior leaves in good condition.

Jerusalem: Sifre Tarshish, 1944. Hardcover. g.. Octavo. 159 [1] pp. Blue buckram with gold lettering on spine. On the history and institutions of charity among the Jews. Judah Bergman was a German rabbi and scholar, who emigrated to Palestine after the Nazi takeover. Tape marks on lower spine. Slight toning in interior. Book plate from previous owner, Alfred Gottschalk, on front endpaper. Binding and interior in good condition. Text in Hebrew. Alfred Gottschalk was a leading American Reform rabbi, who served as president of Hebrew Union College.