RABBI HAIM ISAAC CARIGAL HIS NEWPORT SERMON AND HIS YALE PORTRAIT
Boston: Privately Printed, 1940. Item #42692
1st Edition. Period Boards. 8vo. 43 pages; 22 cm. Privately printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount press "This tells of the publication of the first Jewish sermon to have been both delivered and printed in the United States, of a mystic oriental visitor to Colonial America, and of his portrait which through four generations of the family of the third president of Yale, journeyed from the college to Chicago, with the background of the Jewish community which made Newport a great commercial center in pre-Revolutionary days." Gilt lettering on spine. Ex-library with usual marks. Covers are waterdamaged, but not bowed, text pages have some staining but are mostly clean and solid. Otherwise good condition. (Sef-43-8B).
Price: $100.00