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
Vienna: The Golem, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 247 pages. Translated from the German by Harry Schneiderman. With prefatory note by Hans Ludwig Held. Ten plates. Professionally rebound in black cloth, short octavo. Titles in gilt on cover and spine. Spine shows some light wear. Interior clean and bright, binding tight. Contains 32 stories. 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
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1986. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 32 pages, illustrated with photos throughout by Rachel Cowan. Purple cloth, tall octavo. A clean bright copy in nice dust jacket with tiny closed tear at top by spine. Describes training, materials and tools and process of transcribing handwritten torah scrolls. More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1904. HARDCOVER. In Hebrew and English. Published as part of "A New Edition of the Festival Prayers with an English Translation in Prose and Verse", based on the scholarly edition of Heidenheim and upon manuscripts of the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. 82 pp. Shelfwear... 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
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. 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 to... 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
Germany: WURTTEMBERGISCHE, 1973. Hardcover. In Hebrew. Bound in light brown cloth boards, with maroon lettering to spine and cover, slightly faded. Sewn in silk ribbon. Very minor staining to boards, which are slightly shaken. 1434 pp, not counting maps. A 14-page English Key to the Symbols and Latin Words and Abbreviations laid-in. 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
NEW YORK: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1965. Schwarz, Hans. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. Set in a Jewish community in 12th century Yorkshire, England, tells the story of two children who find themselves orphaned after a pogrom kills their parents. Setting out to find relatives in Oxford, they are befriended by Robin... 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
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
