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Kiev: NP, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. Size approx. 28 x 20 inches (50 x 70 cm). Rare micrographic portrait of Maxim Gorky composed from the letters of his short story Malva. The portrait was engraved by S. B. Khazin based on a photograph of the famous Russian author taken in Nizhny Novgorod by the Russian photographer Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev and printed by S. V. Kul'zhenko. Portrait passed by the censor in Kiev, 23 February 1903. The technique of portraiture using words and letters first appears in Russia in 1900 with Khazin's portrait of Count Leo Tolstoy which used 4700 characters to form the work. His second portrait in this style was the present work, that of Gorky, which used the approximately 82,000 characters of the story to form the hair, clothing, and chair on which Gorky is sitting. Though Malva was first published in 1897, Khazin used the latest edition which appeared in 1903 as the second piece in the third volume of Gorky's story, as identified in the title. Little is… Read More

Prague: Senders & Brandeis, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. fair. 12mo. 200, [6]pp. Original blind-stamped cloth with gold lettering on front cover. All edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author, protected with a tissue-guard. Scarce work being a compilation of Landau's writings, with a biography. Some age wear on binding with spine missing and covers detached (but present). Frontispiece detached and slightly chipped along edges. Text in German, gothic script. Binding in overall poor, interior in very good condition.

Versailles [Paris]: Société des études juives, 1891. First edition. Softcover. vg- to near fine. Small octavo. 12pp. [1]. Tan printed wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Finely printed on uncut leaves of high quality paper. This scarce publication was printed in the occasion of the 80th birthday of prominent French-Jewish scholar Joseph Derenbourg (1811-1895), by the society of which he was a prominent member. The text throughout, written by esteemed Jewish scholars Rabbi Zadoc Kahn (1839-1905) and Rabbi Isidore Loeb (1839 - 1892) honors Derenbourg's contributions to the Société des études juives (Society for Jewish Studies), and his work in the field of Jewish scholarship. All of the previously mentioned figures were prominent contributors the Society's publication, "Revue des études juives" (the Journal of Jewish Studies). Tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Derenbourg in black, at the front. Text throughout in French. Wrappers with some light rubbing to… Read More

Budapest: Royal Hungarian Ministry of Interior, 1944. First edition. Paperback. g+. Quarto. 14, [2]pp. On October 15, 1944, the Fascist and anti-Semite Nyilas (Arrow Cross) took power in Hungary, with the 'Nation Leader' Ferenc Szálasi as Prime Minister, and Gábor Vajna as Interior Minister. One of their first acts was to reconsider the list of the Jewish people who were exempted by the previous governments from the enacted laws against the Jews (Jews married to non-Jews, or on whom higher military distinctions were conferred in the World War). This signed printed document is thus a new revised (and dramatically downsized) list of less than 600 Jews exempted from the Hungarian anti-Jewish laws. Its last page bears the original signature in ink of Interior Minister Gábor Vajna*, and the stamped seal of his ministry. Until the spring of 1944 the position of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews can be described as relatively safe - this despite the fact that the Jewish Laws made their lives… Read More

Konstanz am Bodensee und Rhein: NP, 1937. Hardcover. vg. 4to. vii. 119,32pp. Gilt-stamped blue cloth (Vorzugseinband). Yellow top edge page. A beautiful book celebrating 100 years of the Stromeyer factory and looking at the history and main characters of this large coal and fuel manufacturer in Germany. Illustrated with reproductions of photogravures by Anne Winterer and 4 original, signed tipped-in lithographs by Oscar Graf. Some of the plates are protected by tissue-guards. Text in German, gothic script. In very good condition.

Konstanz am Bodensee und Rhein: M. Stromeyer Lagerhausgesellschaft, 1937. First edition. Softcover. g- to vg. Quarto. VII, [3], 119, [3]pp (Text), [32]pp (Plates). Original decorative wrappers. Title page in red and black lettering. Published in 1937 to comemorate the 50th anniversary of German shipping company M. Stromeyer, this work is splendidly illustrated with 4 woodcut headpieces, 22 full-page illustrations (aerial view of the company; some of the company ships; portraits of directors, and facsimiles of documents), and 45 stunning photogravures reproduced in the last 32 pages of the book. The history of "M. Stromeyer Lagerhausgesellschaft" is told throughout the first 119 pages. Moderate and sporadic creasing and soiling along edges of wrappers. A 1" closed tear along fore-edge of the first plate (not affecting image). Minor and sporadic smudges and foxing along fore-edge of a few pages (not affecting text or illustrations). Upper corner of pages slightly creased. Text in German, gothic… Read More

Paris: Galerie Dina Vierny, 1948. First edition. Softcover. Very good+ to fine condition. Exemplaire L/L, signed Jacques Prévert, JLBarrault and Mayo on verso of half-title. Quarto. 20 (5)pp. Original cream stiff wraps with handmade textured tan dustjacket attached to spine. Frontispiece color lithograph by Mayo. Printed to Vellum du Marais paper. Preface by Jean-Louis Barrault and a fragment of a letter to May by his friend Jacques Prévert with two full page b/w lithographs by Mayo. List of thirty-nine exhibited artworks at rear. Text in French. Very light wear of wraps along edges. Block uncut at edges and unopened at two signatures. Wraps in very good+, interior in fine condition. Antoinne Malliarakis (Mayo) (1905-1990) was born in Port Said, Egypt. Moving to France in 1924 he met Man Ray, Desnos, Tzara and Salmon in Paris. In 1927 he was introduced to André Breton by René Crevel and in 1929 Mayo exhibited his work with Chirico at the Galerie des Quatre Chemins. He returned to Egypt in 1934… Read More

Neuchatel: Nouvelle Bibliotéque, nd. Limited ed. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 1/3000 copies. Unpaginated. Black & white photo-illustrated paper boards. Thirty-four full page b&w photographs by Alain Delapraz. Text in French by Charles Noyer. Deuxième volume de la collection: A La Belle Image. Slight wear on corners and head and tail of spine. Minor staining on boards. Binding in good+, interior in very good condition.

Pisa; Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 1996. First edition. Softcover. vg. Large octavo. 279, [9]pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover, spine and title-page. Issue 37 of "Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici" (often abbreviated to MD; "Materials and discussions for the analysis of classical texts"). It is an Italian periodical within the realm of classical philology founded in 1978. The periodical serves as a forum for exchange on different methodological approaches to ancient literature confronting historical-philological method and modern literary theory and investigating the language of culture as well as forms and techniques of literary communication. MD was founded by a group of scholars around the editor Gian Biagio Conte in Pisa in 1978. The editor is helped by an international scientific advisory board, to which belong: Alessandro Barchiesi, Maurizio Bettini, Maria Grazia Bonnanno, Mario Citroni, Marco Fantuzzi, R. Elaine… Read More

Los Angeles: NP, n/d. Softcover. vg. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original wraps. Exhibition catalog. Profusely illustrated with color & b/w reproductions of photographs and drawings. Near fine.

Paris: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1934. First edition. Loose_leaf. g+ to vg. Small Poster (16 3/4 x 10 3/4"). Original three color illustrated design with photographs, illustrations and black and red lettering. Printed at Georges Lang, imp., Paris. 10 Year Anniversary promotion of Metro Goldwyn Mayer framed with thumbprint b/w photographs of sculptures of Lions in various European countries on one side: headlining "European capitals announcing the greatness of the glorious past! The Metro lion brand guarantee" and the Metro Goldwyn Mayer logo with thumbprint photographs of featured actors and actresses on the other. The actors featured are Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marie Dressler, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer and 19 others. The sculptures featured are in Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden and twelve other countries. Text in Hungarian. Minor wear along edges with two quarter inch closed tear at middle of top and bottom at folds. Red pencil mark framing the text on one side of poster.… Read More

München: F. Bruckmann KG, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 193, [1]pp. Original gold-stamped green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Höchst AG. The company was founded in 1863 under the name "Teerfarbenfabrik Meister, Lucius & Co." in Höchst near Frankfurt. In 1880 it became a stock company "Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning AG. In 1916, Höchst AG was one of the co-founders of IG Farben, a pressure group of Germany's chemicals industry to gain industrial power during and after World War I. Höchst dedicated this anniversary publication to IG Farben. "Dieses Buch widmet das Werk Höchst der I.G. Farben-Industrie A.G. aus Anlaß des 75 jährigen Bestehen seiner Gefolgschaft." Profusely illustrated with reproductions in photogravure by Dr. Paul Wolff. Few photographs by company employee, Willi Simon. Text in German, gothic script. Parts of gold stamping on front cover slightly chipped. Lettering on spine faded. Small closed cloth tear… Read More

Japan: Mesianica General Co, 1982. First edition. vg. Folio. 158pp. Beautiful red silk, patterned with green and white Japanese shapes. All in an original white slipcase with printed cover plate. Cover plate blind stamped onto front board. Frontispiece reproduction of b/w photograph of Mokichi Okada, the founder and first director of the MOA in Japan. Profusely illustrated with b/w and color reproductions of photographs. Overall fine condition.

[Los Angeles]: Academy of Jewish Religion, California, 2010. First edition. Softcover. vg to near fine. Quarto. (v) 173pp. Photo-illustrated glossy purple wrappers with orange lettering on the front cover, black lettering on the spine. Incribed and signed by the author on the interior front cover. Photo-illustrated title page. Submitted as a master's thesis for the Academy of Jewish Religion (California), this work is an examination of the perception of, and the laws and teachings surrounding the concept of disability in the Jewish tradition. Bibliographic and scholarly footnotes throughout the text. Interior with some light abrasions to the title page and some worming to the upper corners of p.13-16 (no loss of text). Wrappers in near fine, interior in very good condition overall.

Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio (14 x 10"). 112, [2]pp (Text). 79, [1]pp (Illustrated plates), x (10)pp (Photographic plates). Original brick cloth, with brown lettering to spine and front cover. Publisher's device on title page. Splendidly illustrated throughout with 9 in-text figs, 79 full-page illustrated plates and 10 full-page b/w photographic reproductions, this work is a monograph on the 1930-1953 excavations at the Predynastic site of Maadi and its cemeteries conducted by Mustapha Amer and Ibrahim Rizkana on behalf of the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts of Cairo University. Previous owner's Ex-libris on inside of front cover (J. Bisno). Binding and interior in overall very good condition.

Amsterdam: Yaccov Proops, 1781. Third edition. Hardcover. g-. Quarto. [2] 52 double-sided leaves. Rebacked in modern brown leather spine over original period brown leather boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Modern endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout with copperplate engravings. Includes both an initial illustrated title page with copperplate engravings surrounding the text (Ma'aleh Bet Horin) and a printed title page with decorative woodblock borders and the publisher's device. In addition to the Hebrew text, a few sections throughout are in Judeo-German (Yiddish) printed in Vaybertaytsh script. This third edition of the famous Amsterdam Haggadah, found the work reformatted into a smaller size, and saw the title officially changed to Maleh Beit Horin (meaning "house free men"). Most of the same famous copperplate engravings by Abraham ben Jacob (aka Abraham bar Yaccov), that previously appeared in the 1695 and 1712 editions, are retained here. The two images added to the 1712… Read More

Warsaw: W. Drukarni Ch. Kelter'a i Spólki, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. poor to good-. Octavo. 32, 136, 28pp. Original half leather over black paper-covered boards. Decorative ruling of title page, print partially in Polish. Rosenblum's approach to the revelation on Mount Sinai. The fist part approaches the issue from the rationalist perspective: Rosenblum elaborates on the Book on the Kuzari with R. Yehuda Halevi, but more so on viewpoints of Maimonides, the sages of the Torah, the Maharal, R' Y. Albo, and Bachya ibn Pakuda. The second part focuses on the question of how the Torah was defined as Torat Moshe and tries to answer that with a more spiritual approach. Text in Hebrew (half in Rashi Script). Binding reinforced with library tape at spine, wear along edges with two inch strip of paper-cover missing at bottom of front cover. Reinforced with paper strips at gutters of inside front and back cover. Stains due to water exposure on inside back cover. Bookseller's stamp on title page. Light,… Read More

Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 1951. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 175pp. Red quarter cloth over brown cloth in original printed dust jacket. Hebrew translation of Simone Luzzatto's classic Italian defense of Jews. This seventeenth century work of Jewish apologetics makes the case for Jewish tolerance on secular grounds in the sense that the presence of Jews is ultimately beneficial to the economy of the host country. Along with Menasseh Ben Israel's similar plea for tolerance, this work stands as an important step in the evolution of Jewish-Christian relations. Jews are beginning to have to defend themselves not against the old religious prejudices, but against a secular and economcially based anti-Semitism. Text in Hebrew translated from Italian. Dj scratched and stained. Stamp from previous owner on endpapers. Overall in good condition.

Mexico: Letras de Mexico, 1942. First Mexican edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. 157, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original glassine over printed wrappers. "Mañanas en Mexico" (Mornings in Mexico) is a collection of travel essays by David Herbert Richards Lawrence, first published by Martin Secker in 1927. This work displays Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the 'spirit of place' in his own vivid manner. Lawrence wrote the first four of these essays at the same time as he was completing and revising his Mexican novel, "The Plumed Serpent." Three of the others, about Pueblo Indians, were written earlier in 1924 in New Mexico, and the final piece "A Little Moonshine with Lemon" came later as Lawrence remembered his New Mexico ranch (Kiowa Ranch) from Italy. Minor age toning on glassine. Glassine in overall good, wrappers and interior in near fine to fine condition.

Paris: Antoine Vitré, 1629. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. Folio. Signed: a4, e2, A-3B6, 3C4 (= 298 leaves). [12], 584pp. Paginated from right to left. Full title and imprint in both Hebrew and Latin, with woodcut printer's device; title within decorative letterpress border; woodcut lettrines and head-pieces; printed marginalia. Text in two columns. Eighteenth-century calf, scuffed, especially at front cover; spine with raised bands and gilt morocco morocco labels; edges stained red; green silk ribbon marker. Title leaf skilfully mounted on eighteenth-century paper. Text crisp and clean, with ample borders. Only edition of this rare and highly unusual Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary, composed by the formerly Jewish convert to Catholicism, Mordechai Cresque of Carpentras, who derived his new name Philippus d'Aquin (or Aquinas; 1578-1650) from the place of his baptism in Aquino (Italy). Printed almost entirely in the fine bold rashi characters ("grosse glose hebraicque") cut by Guillaume I Le Bé in… Read More