New York: 1917. Hardcover. IN YIDDISH. Two 4tos, measuring 10.5" x 8", with lovely four-color design (black, red and blue on white) to front boards, and a smaller three-color image to rear. Bottoms and fore-edges deckle edged, tops trimmed. Images and graphics throughout, including line drawings of each poet, with biographical... More
New York: Behrman's Jewish Book Shop, ca. 1950's? Paperback. UNIQUE! Small 12 pp, continuous fold-out pamphlet. Measures 6.25 x 3.50". Contains one green and one goldenrod-colored separate sheets of advertisements. Black lettering to tan paper. Clean, solid. Contents suggest books such as : The Story of the Jews ; Justice... More
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc. 1991. Hardcover. Very slight wear to DJ extremities. Gilt lettering to spine and front board, brown cloth-covered boards, brown topstain. With a few interesting illustrations. Very clean, tight, bright. 226 pp with glossary and index. "An intriguing collection of linguistic gems that will entertain readers... More
Northvale, New Jersey: JASON ARONSON INC. 1995. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. The author addresses the fundamental Jewish concept of reward and suffering. How can one maintain faith in a benevolent God i light of such events as The Holocaust, or incurable disease. Just a hint of shelfwear to the jacket. 299... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1933. FIRST THUS. HARDCOVER. One slight bump. Started front hinge now carefully and neatly repaired with archival hinging tape. Tight and clean copy. Sunning and light chipping to top of spine to dust jacket. More
New York: Pantheon, 1987. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very slight edgewear, a little bit of shelfwear to DJ. Some very faint little speckles to top edge. Silver lettering to navy spine, gray boards with a small silver "S.F." to front board. Very clean, tight, bright. With six maps. 277 pp... More
New York: Pantheon, 1987. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very slight edgewear, a little bit of shelfwear to DJ. Some very faint little speckles to top edge. Silver lettering to navy spine, gray boards with a small silver "S.F." to front board. Very clean, tight, bright. With six maps. 277 pp... More
1111. Hardcover. Book is completely intact. Moderately worn and soiled boards with four bumped corners. Shaken. Head and foot of spine creased and frayed. Front hinges started. Black lettering on spine of yellow-green cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering is worn on front board. Illustrated. Pages are 789 pp with index. Flavius... More
NEW YORK: CCAR Press, 1984. Baskin, Leonard. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. New translations of Ecclesiastes, Esther, Song of Songs, Ruth, and Lamentations, enriched with 37 watercolor paintings and each joined with an introduction, special liturgies, explanitory notes, and essays. 323 pp. Oversized volume with blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine... More
NEW YORK: Ktac Publishing House, Inc. 1971. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Translation of the first part of the manuscript entitled Sefer ha-zikronot, a unique manuscript located in the Bodleian Library. This is a reprint, with prolegomenon, of the 1899 edition which was issued as New series, v. 4 (i. e. 11)... More
Jerusalem: L. Gershensohn, 1947. Litvinovsky. Hardcover. SPIRALBOUND. Light rubbing to edges, moreso at corners. A tiny ding to front lower edge and to front upper corner. Scratched and lightly gouged 4" area to front upper corner along fore edge. A 2" light scratch, a less-than dime-sized gouge, and a 2"... More
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society Of America, 1906. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards. Light wear to extremities. Top corners lightly bumped. Scuff to rear board. 347 pp. Unmarked. More
Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. First comprehensive critical bibliography of Judaica in English. Majority of entries are in English, but works in Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, French and German are included where necessary, and also as guides for advanced study. Companion volume (Part II) also available. More
Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. First comprehensive critical bibliography of Judaica in English. Majority of entries are in English, but works in Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, French and German are included where necessary, and also as guides for advanced study. Companion volume (Part I) also available... More
Berlin: Judischer Verlag / Herlitz and Kirschner, 1927. Hardcover. IN GERMAN. 3/4 LEATHER. Leather is very worn. Corners nudged. Front cover attached half-way by mesh cloth only. Five classic bands and 5 panels (top panel missing). Gilt lettering on panels. Olive-green, cloth-covered boards. Frontispiece, color illustration of the Ten Commandments... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. FIRST PRINTING. HARDCOVER. Hardback (8vo) in blue cloth; 151 pages. True 1st printing, with "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page. Clean, square, fairly tight; occasional pencil marginalia; lovely Hebrew bookplate on fep. With dust jacket; DJ edgeworn, price-clipped; two small chips at spine... More
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc. 1987. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. New foreward by author's daughter. Religion, according to the Rabbi Heschel, is an answer to man's ultimate questions, a response to the grandeur and mystery of human life. Offers a rational analysis of faith without using rationality to try and justify... More
Los Angeles, California: Max Cohn, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth-over-boards, with gilt lettering to front. Recently rebacked in deep-red Niger Morocco (small-grained goatskin leather), ruled in gilt, with 5 raised bands, and dual contrasting spine labels. Head and tail untrimmed. Offsetting to endpapers, small edge-tears and occasional spotting... More
Los Angeles, CA: Nash Publishing, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. The late Rabbi Kahane warns all American Jews that the potential for a significant wave of Hatred against the Jews, similar to that which occurred in Europe, exists in the U.S. today. Detailing the comparison between pre-Nazi Germany and the America... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. SHARP VOLUME. Dustjacket near fine. Mild shelf and edgewear. Sunning to jacket spine. Silver metallic lettering debossed to spine of chocolate-brown, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 261 pp with notes, bibliography and indices. "Bringing to bear recent methods in the history of religions... More
Jewish Currents Offprint, 1962. Pamphlet. 12pp. Includes THE JEWS IN THE CIVIL WAR: 25 SIGNIFICANT DATES (Charles White, courtesy, ACA Gallery, New York). A JEWISH CURRENTS reprint from the September 1962 and April, 1961 issues). 12 pp. From the Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation -- Issued Sept. 22, 1862, in effect Jan. 1, 1863. More
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1925. Reprint. HARDCOVER. Almost new in dust jacket, with the exception of just a hint of wear to bottom edge and a bit of corner wear. With two silk marker ribbons. Beautiful copy of an 80 year old book. More
Tel Aviv: Sinai, 1969. Paperback. Fascimile edition. Illustrated bilingual Haggadah, with Hebrew text parallel to Italian translation. Originally published in 1864 in Trieste. This was the first Haggadah in the history of Hebrew printing to make use of lithographs. Many black and white illustrations and decorations. Features sheet music for... More
New York: Shapolsky, 1989. Hardcover. Very mild edgewear. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of black boards. Dustjacket very good plus. Jacket is lightly scuffed, with very mild edgewear. Clean, bright, tight. 310 pp with appendices, after-word, Hebrew index, English index, and bibliography. A unique reference text that traces the vast... More
Oxford: East and West Library, 1946. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING. Mild wear to boards. Repaired blue, black and white jacket. Jacket price-clipped. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering in dark blue gilt trimmed label to front of blue boards. 197 pp with appendix, bibliography and index of names. Clean, tight. The... More
