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![Item 243103. FRAYD FUN NAYEM ZAYN: FERTE ZAMLUNG. [FREYD]](/images/noimage.png)
Moskve [Moscow]: Emes, 1933. Hardback. 1st edition.original modernist covers,12mo, 141 pages ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Text partially vocalized. David Hofstein (1889-1952) was a Russian-born Jewish poet who, “after the Russian Revolution of 1917, which he welcomed...wrote only in Yiddish. He was coeditor of the Moscow Yiddish monthly Shtrom, the..... More
Kiev: Kooperativer farlag "Kultur-lige" 1929. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original Soviet modernist gray black and white wrappers, 8vo, 265 pages. 21 pages. In Yiddish, usually translated as "Harsh Judgement” or “Measure of Justice.” A translation into English ["Judgement: A Novel”] was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017. The translators..... More
Nyu York [New York]: A. Hillman, 1904. Paper Wrappers. 1st Yiddish Edition. Original Green printed wrappers, 12mo, 86 pages, 17 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Jew: An Explanation.” Part of the Folks-bibliyothek series. A novel, translated from the Russian by H. Aleksandrov. Grigorii Aleksandrovich Machtet (1852-1901) was a “popular..... More
Vilna [Lithuania; Vilnius]: Di Velt, 1906. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Lacking original front wrapper (Original front wrapper was likely an identical imprint of the title page on colored paper), 8vo 64 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Bikher ferlag "Di Velt," no. 49 in the series. Not to be confused with..... More
![Item 232554. DRAY NAYE SKITSEN [BUT THIS COPY INCLUDING ONLY “A SHTIME FUN DER VAYTEN”]. [TRI OCHERKA]](/pictures/thumb/41993.jpg?v=1663854848)
Vilna [Lithuania; Vilnius]: Vitve un gebrider Rom, 1906. Paper Wrappers. 1st Yiddish Edition. Disbound, with title page present; Original front wrapper was likely an identical imprint of the title page on paper, 12mo, 24 pages [of 45 published, but complete for the first sketch, “A shtime fun der Vayten”] 18..... More
![Item 222047. IN HIMLISHN OKEAN [COVER DESIGN BY YOSEF TCHAIKOV?]](/pictures/thumb/XT41962.jpg?v=1663587185)
Varshe: Kultur-lige, 1929. Hardcover. 1st Yiddish edition. Period boards with original green, red, and white modernist illustrated wrappers mounted front and rear, 12mo, 95 pages. Modernist cover with original typeface initialed in the text in Yiddish “Y.T;” possibly for “Yosef Tchaikov.” Includes drawings (not by Tchaikov) and photo plates. In..... More
[Kharkov]: Melukhe-farlag fun Ukrayne, 1929. Hardcover. 1st edition of one of author’s “most significant books.” Period boards with original modernist wrappers mounted front and back. 12mo, 275 pages; 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translate as “Wells.” A novel. 1 of 3000 copies printed. Khayim Gildin (1884–1944) was a “Yiddish writer..... More
Moskva [Moscow]: "Shtrom"-oysgabe, 1924. Hardcover. 1st edition of author’s second book. Period boards with original modernist wrappers mounted front and back. 12mo, 62 pages; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Hard Reality.” Beautiful modernist typographical title and author on front cover, signed by artist in the print (illegible). Moyshe..... More
[New York]: Der komitet, 1929. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original printed wrappers, 8vo, 34 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “The Verdict: On the Jewish Communists and Their Main Newspaper "The Morning Frayhayt." On August 23, 1929, an Arab mob of hundreds set out from morning prayers and..... More
![Item 149702. SHTERN: LITERARISH-KINSTLERISHER UN POLITISH VISNSHAFTLIKHER KHOYDESH-ZSHURNAL. 1935 (NR. 10/11); 1937 (NRS. 4, 9, 10/11); 1938 (NRS. 3, 9); 1939 (NR. 1); 1940 (NR. 3) [8 ISSUES TOTAL]](/pictures/thumb/41973.jpg?v=1661273650)
Minsk: Organ fun Farband Sovetishe Shrayber fun U.S.S.R., 1935-1940. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 96 pages each issue (double-issues 174 pages). In Yiddish with title in Russian on rear wrapper. Title translates as: “Star: A Literary-Artistic and Political Scientific Monthly Journal.” Monthly journal, began in May..... More