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![Item 222030. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS [NR 5 OF 1000, SIGNED BY AUTHOR]](/pictures/thumb/41940.jpg?v=1663587175)
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1947. Hardcover. First edition thus. Original Printed Boards in slipcase. 8vo, [28] double [French-leaved] pages. No. 5 of "the first one thousand copies," signed by Arthur Szyk. Includes four color illustration, designed by Franklin Whitman, commentary by the Reverend Clarence Edward Macartney. Light bump..... More
No Place [Cincinnati]: Dunie Printing Co, 1913. Poster. 1st edition. Poster, 9x12 inches on 13 x 16 inch linen backing. Text in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish. “Prof Dr. Gottlard Deutsch, Prof. Dr. David Neumark, and Mr. Joshua Bloch will speak. Miss Jennie Mannheimer will recite some of H.N Bialik’s poems..... More
Cincinnati: Hirschfeld Printing Co., 1912. Poster. 1st edition. Poster, 9x12 inches on 13 x 16 inch linen backing. Text in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish. Ibriah, a Cincinnati organization committed to Hebrew conversation and literature, was, not surprisingly, also a center of Zionist support, despite the Reform’s dominance in local Jewish..... More
![Item 190573. KIYUM: HOYDESH-ZSHURNAL FAR LITERATUR, KULTUR UN GEZELSHAFTLEKHE PROBLEMEN. “KIYOUM.” VOL I, 1948 [ NRS. 1,2,4,5,7/8,9/10,11]; VOL II, 1949 [NRS 2/3,7/8]; VOL IV, 1951 [NR 10]](/pictures/thumb/41982xt.jpg?v=1662753725)
Frankraykh, 1948-1950. Paper Wrappers. 8vo; 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 4to (large), ca 50 pages per issue. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Existence: A Monthly Journal for Literature, Culture and Societal Problems.” Tipped in Woodcut Ex-libris by A. Kolnik on cover of issue of 1949, #2-3.Kiyum was a Yiddish..... More
![Item 190572. KIYUM: HOYDESH-ZSHURNAL FAR LITERATUR, KULTUR UN GEZELSHAFTLEKHE PROBLEMEN. “KIYOUM.” VOL I, 1948 [COMPLETE, NRS. 1-12]; VOL II, 1949 [NRS 1-4, 6-12]; VOL III, 1950 [NRS 1-4, 6-12]; VOL IV, 1951 [NRS 1-4, 9-12]; VOL V, 1952 [NRS 1-11]; [53 ISSUES TOTAL] [NEARLY COMPLETE FOR FIRST FIVE YEARS]](/pictures/thumb/41981xt.jpg?v=1662753722)
Frankraykh, 1948-1952. Paper Wrappers. 8vo; 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 4to (large), ca 50 pages per issue. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Existence: A Monthly Journal for Literature, Culture and Societal Problems.” Tipped in Woodcut Ex-libris by A. Kolnik on cover of issue of 1949, #2-3; additional tipped in..... More
![Item 190571. POYLISHER ID: YORBUKH LIKHVOYD DER ... KONVENSHON FUN DER AMERIKANER FEDERATSYE FAR POYLISHE IDN. POLISH JEW. ELFTER YOR BUKH. ELEVENTH YEAR BOOK [1944]](/images/noimage.png)
Nyu York [New York] : American Federation for Polish Jews, 1944. Hardback. 1st edition. Original glossy printed wrappers, bound into later cloth, 4to [Life Magazine Size], 112 (Yiddish) + 95 (English) pages. In Yiddish and English. Annual Yearbook of the American Federation for Polish Jews, started in 1932-33, as Hitler..... More
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Tel-Aviv, Published by Lion the Printer, 1946-1947. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original printed wrappers, square 12mo, 126 pages. 17 cm. Early post-war Zionist annual almanac with some Holocaust-related content. Includes 8 full page drawings. Text contents include: Palestine Parachutists Over Europe; Portrait of a Year, The Balfour Declaration; Why the..... More
![Item 149705. JUDAISM AND ITS HISTORY … CLOSING WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE [&]](/pictures/thumb/41976.jpg?v=1661273730)
New York; Thalmessinger & Cahn, 1866. 1/4 Leather. 1st English Language Edition. Original publisher's quarter leather. 12mo. VIII, II, 343 pages. 20 cm. Singerman 1942. Vol. 1, no more published. Judaism and its History, by Abraham Geiger; translated from the German by Maurice Mayer, closing with the destruction of the..... More
Brescia: F. Apollonio, 1890. Hardcover. 1st separate edition. Later boards with original colored wrappers bound in, 8vo, 15 pages; 27 cm. In Italian. Title translates as, “On the Incunabula and Some Rare or Precious Hebrew Editions in the Library of the Royal University of Bologna.” "Estratto (reprint? pagination starts at..... More
and Brown, Paternoster-Row, by W. Savage, Bedford Bury, Covent-Garden, 1809. Hardcover. 8vo; 1st edition. Period marbled boards, 8vo, iv + 87+ [1]; 22 cm. Title printed in red and black, title with the famous woodcut vignette of the “Foolish Bibliophile” from Sebastian Brandt’s Ship of Fools (1494). With Erratum on..... More
![Item 149699. FOYGLEN [FOYGELN FOIGLEN FOIGELN]](/pictures/thumb/41970.jpg?v=1661273645)
Berlin: Farlag "Shveln" [Schwellen], 1922. Hardback. 1st edition. Period boards with original multichrome illustrated wrappers bound in. Oblong 4to, 15 pages. All pages illustrated with large modernist illustrations by Ryback 24 x 32 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Birds.” Illustrations in color appear on the front and back covers..... More
Newark, N. J. ; Argyle Press, 1941. 1st edition. Original Boards in dust jacket. 8vo. [4], 104 pages. 19 cm. Fold out map by Kaufman titled, “Map Showing Possible Dissection of Germany and Apportionment of Its Territory.” This famous polemic “outlines a comprehensive plan for the extinction of the German..... More
Wien [Vienna], Jasper, Hügel & Manz, 1851. Paperback. 1st Edition. Period half-leather binding, 12mo, 416 pages. 17 cm. In German. Title translates as “Bohemian Jews: Stories.” Bohemian Jewish writer Leopold Kompert's most famous work, showing the life, customs, and manners of the region’s Jews. OCLC: 12936533. OCLC lists 5 copies..... More
Jerusalem: Irgun Yots'e Vilna Bi Yerushalayim, 1969. Paperback. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to. 48 pages, 30 cm. Title translates to “The Vilna Memorial Book: Compilation for the History of the Vilna Community in the World.” Second volume of six-volume series focusing on the surviving members of the Vilna Jewish..... More
New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1983. 8vo; 1st edition. Original Blue paper wrappers, 4to. Various pagings [ca. 400 pages]. Mostly in English, with some Hebrew. "These papers are for information only; they are not for publication or distribution. Some of them are not in their final form and..... More
![Item 86473. TOLDOT HA-HAKHAM HA-HOKER ELOHI RABENU MOSHEH BEN MENAHEM ZTS"L…MENDELSSOHNS LEBEN VON ISAK EICHEL. [STANDS ON ITS OWN; VOL I, PART II OF ZEMIROT ISRAEL. SEMIROTH JISRAEL: SAMMLUNG DER KLASSISCHEN WERKE NEUHEBRÄISCHER POETEN UND PROSAIKER]](/pictures/thumb/41834.jpg?v=1657723688)
Lemberg: In Kommision bei J. Millikowski, 1860. paperback. 1st edition. Original printed wrappers, 16mo (small), 208 pages. In Hebrew with German-Heberw title pages as front cover. Biography and some writings of Moses Mendelssohn (Moses of Dessau; 1729–1786) philosopher of the German Enlightenment in the pre-Kantian period, early Maskil, and a...... More
Jewish Frontier Association, New York, 1942. Paperback. 1st edition. Undated, but definitely published Dec. 1942-April 1943 based on ads and statements inside. Octavo, original stapled paper covers, 98 pages. Important Holocaust-era documentation of the attrocities befalling the Jews of Europe,Opening with a statement from FDR from Dec 1942 and continuing..... More
![Item 76017. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS [ONE OF1000, SIGNED BY AUTHOR]](/pictures/thumb/41941.jpg?v=1656692356)
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1947. Hardcover. First edition thus. Original Printed Boards. 8vo, [28] double [French-leaved] pages. No. 5 of "the first one thousand copies," signed by Arthur Szyk. Includes four color illustration, designed by Franklin Whitman, commentary by the Reverend Clarence Edward Macartney. Light bump to front..... More
![Item 76014. INK & BLOOD: A BOOK OF DRAWINGS [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY SZYK, LIMITED EDITION]](/pictures/thumb/41938.jpg?v=1656692346)
New York: The Heritage Press, 1946. Hardcover. 4to ; 1st edition. Full leather in original magenta slipcase decorated in pattered orange paper mâché, matching the endpapers. Folio, 19 text pages + 74 single-sided plate leaves. Gilded lettering on the spine and black pebbled leather boards. Gilded top edge. Patterned endpapers..... More
New York: Bloch Publishing Co, 1917. hardback. First edition. Original publisher’s blue cloth, 12mo. 191, [1] pages. "Manual of religious duty giving ethical, spiritual reasons that appeal to the emotions, as well as to modern intelligence naturally so influenced by modern thought" (from author's preface). Henry Pereira Mendes (1852-1937) was..... More
Cincinnati, Bloch & Co, 1866. hardback. 1st edition. Later cloth, 12mo, 307, 55. In English, Hebrew and German. Singerman 1949, Goldman 53. The original two volumes of the Minhag America prayer book had both been published in 1857, one with Hebrew-English text (Prayer Book for Public and Private Worship) and..... More
Cincinnati, Bloch & Co, 1866. hardback. 1st edition. Original Tooled cloth, 12mo, 307, 55 pages plus two leaves tipped in at end for the Family Record (total of 366 pages). In English, Hebrew and German. Singerman 1949, Goldman 53. The original two volumes of the Minhag America prayer book had..... More
Cincinnati, Bloch & Co, 1866. hardback. 1st edition. Original Tooled cloth, 12mo, 307, 55 pages plus two leaves tipped in at end for the Family Record (total of 366 pages). In English, Hebrew and German. Singerman 1949, Goldman 53. The original two volumes of the Minhag America prayer book had..... More
Cincinnati, Bloch & Co, 1868. Leather. First edition. Original Gilt leather binding, 12mo, 263 pages. All edges glit. Published by Wise as third and last volume of his grand project for American-Jewish liturgy titled "Minhag America", this final volume is a collection of liturgical hymns, psalms and prayers in English..... More