Item 42592JACK LONDON, SAILOR ON HORSEBACK--A BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL
Garden City: Doubleday, 1956 (1938). Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket w/ lightly sunned spine; 8vo; 337 pages; Includes 5-page index. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1956 (1938). Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket w/ lightly sunned spine; 8vo; 337 pages; Includes 5-page index. More
Be'Amsterdam: Beveyt ha-bahur ‘Emanu’el Yosef ‘Ati’as, 1702. Original Boards, (front only), 16mo (small) 311 + [2] leaves. 14 cm. In Hebrew. “ha-motsi veha-mevi David Nunes Tores.” OCLC: 858805550. Lacks rear board and backstrip (spine covering); front board detached. Paper and internal binding strong and bright. Good condition thus. (Bible-19-1). More
Be'Amsterdam: Beveyt ha-bahur ‘Emanu’el Yosef ‘Ati’as, 1702. Original Boards, (front only), 16mo (small) 311 + [2] leaves. 14 cm. In Hebrew. “ha-motsi veha-mevi David Nunes Tores.” OCLC: 858805550. Lacks front board and backstrip (spine covering); front board detached. (Bible-19-1). More
New York, N.Y.: The Gay Presses of New York, 1983. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 173 pages, includes illustrations 22 cm. Signed by the author The award-winning and popular work broke new ground in the theater: “At the height of the post-Stonewall clone era, Harvey challenged both gay and straight..... More
New York: Medicina Rara; Great Britain: Curwen Press, 1972. 1st edition. Original oversized loose portfolio in slipcase, mostly illustrations. 7 unnumbered text pages, 13 leaves of plates in portfolio. 56 cm. "Twenty-five hundred single suites have been placed in boxed portfolios covered in a Bugra laid paper, and have been..... More
New York: Landmark Press, 1980. 1st edition. Original publisher’s portfolios in slipcases, in unsewn quires, as issued. Large Folio size, 47 text pages plus 24 unnumbered leaves of plates, each signed by the artist. Numbered and signed by author and artist on the text volume colophon. 46 cm. "An edition..... More
New York, N.Y.: The Gay Presses of New York, 1979. [sic, 1980] 1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 173 pages, includes illustrations 22 cm. The scarce first printing with no exclamation point in the 3rd play’s title and no description of the 1981 production preceding the table of contents..... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1914. 1st edition. Original printed cloth, 8vo, 315 + [1] + [4] pages + advertisements. Includes frontisportrait of Goldman. Study of several major and a few minor dramatists from Goldman's anarchist, social revolutionary viewpoint. Contents include: The Scandinavian drama. Henrik Ibsen; August Strindberg -- The German..... More
Nyu York [New York]: Aroysgegeben fun dem Yublieum-Komite, 1910. 1st edition. Later paper wrappers. 8vo, 111 pages, Includes frontispiece and portraits ; 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Jubilee Writing[s] for Ab. Cahan’s 50th Birthday.” Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109). Abraham "Abe" Cahan (1860 - 1951) was a “Lithuanian-born..... More
Kaunas [Kovno, Kovne]: Bukhhandlung, 1939. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 95 + [1] pages. Includes frontis photo. 19 cm. In Yiddish. With bookplate of “Jewish Cultural Reconstruction,” indicating that the book was found by the western Allies after WW II and given to a Jewish institution as part..... More
Vilne [Vilna, Vilnius]: Farlag "Der haver" 1939. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers bound into pamphlet protector, 12mo,56 pages. Includes illustrations; 17 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “A Trot in the Arctic: the Polish Polar Expedition on Bear Island. Includes bibliographical references. With bookplate of “Jewish Cultural Reconstruction,” indicating that..... More
Amsterdam, G.W. Breughel, 1945. 1st edition. Original illustrated color cartoon boards, oblong 12mo, [94] pages. Illustrations in dark blue and text in red. In Dutch. Title translates roughly as “The German-Hoppers Plague (and the Naughty Things They Did). A Storybook for Great People.” In the best traditions of children’s literature..... More
Paris : P.-V. Stock, 1898-1900. No date [1898-1900]. Presume 1st edition. Period marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. Folio (Small Newspaper sized), [16] pages. Mostly photographic portraits on every page, with paragraph or two of text at the bottom of each page as well. In French. Title translates as..... More
Amsterdam: Defus ‘al yad Gerard Yohan Yanson uve-vet Yisra’el Mondavi, 1764. Period leather binding with brass clasps, Large 8vo, 149 + [1] leaves (ie 300 pages), 24 cm. In Hebrew. Title translate as, “Book of the Gatherings of Manna.” Vinograd: Amsterdam, #1839.Title page has a decorative woodcut border. Compiled by..... More
Amsterdam: [No Publisher Listed], 1740. 2nd edition (1st is 1827). Period Vellum binding, 12mo, 132 leaves; 17 cm. In Hebrew. Mayer Sulzberger’s copy with his bookplate. Like the Mishnah, Mishnat Hasidim is arranged in "Sedarim" which are divided into "massechtot" and subdivided into "perakim." With an introduction entitled: Olam Katan..... More
Berlin : Rimon, 1922-1924. 1st Edition. Original illustrated publisher's orange boards with all original illustrated wrappers bound in. 4to. 52, 48, 52, 52, 44, 40 pages; 32 cm. In Hebrew; No. 1 has added table of contents in German; Nos. 2-6 have added tables of contents in English. A complete..... More
[New York] : Published by American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-street, 1850s. No dates, both circa 1850. History of Joseph Nichols is the first US edition. Period boards, 16mo (pocket sized), 16 + 16 pages. Includes engraved title pages and illustrations. 11 cm. Two works of juvenile religious fiction bound in..... More
Amsterdam: Gerardus Borstiyus, Fransiskus Halma, Guli’elmus van de Vater, 1701. Quarter-leather over speckled boards, 12mo, 306 pages. Includes added engraved title page and illustrations. 16 cm. In Hebrew. Darlowe & Moule; 5139. Roest 172.The Old Testament in Hebrew. Text in double columns. Edited by Georgius Desmarestz, with a eulogy by..... More
New York, The Maccabaean Publishing Co., 1904. 1st US edition. Paper Wrappers. 8vo, xxii, 102 pages. Preface and notes by Jacob de Haas. With celebrated photographic portrait by E. M. Lilien of Herzl leaning over the balcony-rail of the Hotel Les Trois Rois, with original tissue present, Basel. First American..... More
London & New York: R. Mazin, Bookseller, 1899-1900. 1st edition. Period boards, 4to (Life Magazine size), ca 16 pages each. Issued weekly. Bound into 10 separate volumes. Complete set of all issues published. In Yiddish. Singerman S557. Published jointly in London and New York, this is the first British Humor..... More
London: Wertheimer, Lea, 1898-1900. 1st edition. Original advertisers' wrappers (one lacking), 8vo, ca. 28 pages each issue. 24 cm. Continued after Vol III by “Israel: the Jewish magazine.” Some issues include a membership form for the “Young Israel League” in which the applicant promises, “1. To be true to my..... More
Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser-C. Sherman, Printer, 1843-1869. 1st edition. Mixed period half leather (most) or modern cloth (5 volumes); single issue is in original canary yellow wrappers. An almost complete monthly run of Isaac Leeser’s Occident, the first widely circulated Jewish periodical in America and an unmatched source for details of..... More
Wien [Vienna]: Verlag der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde in Wien, 1900. 1st edition thus, 8vo, original printed paper wrappers, [51] pages. In German. Title translates as, “Statutes of the Jewish Community in Vienna. 1900” The Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien or IKG) “is the body that represents Vienna's Orthodox Jewish..... More
Wien [Vienna]: Verlag der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde in Wien, 1920. 1st edition thus, 8vo, original printed paper wrappers, 48 + 8 pages. Includes 8 page insert on rules for voting. In German. Title translates as, “Statutes of the Jewish Community in Vienna.” The Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien or..... More
London: J. and W. Rider, 1881. 1st edition. Later uniform cloth, bound in 6 volumes. 4to (large), 1980 pages; 32 cm. Parallel titles, and text in Hebrew and English. “English translation in the Authorised Version, revised by M. Friedländer.” The title page notes that “This Bible is printed with the..... More