Tel-Aviv: Ihud ha-irgunim shel yots'e Besarabyah, 1963. First edition. 8vo, Later cloth library binding, 298 pages. Includes illustrations and portraits. 24 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates as, “On the Land of Bessarabia: Research, Memoirs, Lists, Documents, and Literature to Determine the Character of Its Jewry.” Bessarabia is the “Historical name..... More

Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1943. 1st English Language Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 40 pages; 19 cm. Koppel Pinson's copy, with gift bookplate. Contemporary account, published in 1943, of the very first war crimes trial against Nazi defendants, held following the Russians’ recapturing of Krasnodar From the Germans who had..... More

No Place [Malden, MA]: Maldener Relief Komite, 1919? No Date [1919?]. 1st Edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, [14] pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Verses of a Volunteer.” No city or date listed, but clearly published during or immediately after WW I, with the Leksikon suggesting Malden..... More

London: "Arbayter fraynd" 1906. First Yiddish edition. Period boards, 8vo, xiii, 426 pages, 19 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Words from a Revolutionary.” Translation of “Paroles d'un re´volte´.” Includes translation of the forewords by the author and Elise´e Reclus. Includes bibliographical references. “During his long exile, Kropotkin wrote a...... More

[Odessa]: Izd. "Burevestnik" 1905. 1st Russian Edition. Original wrappers with green and blue printing, 8vo, 241 pages. 22 cm. In Russian. Title translates as, “A Reply to Bernstein: (Anti-Criticism).” Liebman Hersch’s copy, with his ownership stamp, “L. Hersch.” on the front cover and title page. Karl Johann Kautsky (1854-1938) was..... More

[Munich?]; Prometheus, 1946. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 166 pages. 21 cm. First Edition. In Ukrainian. "Although his first poems were written in 1916, Osmachka began his literary career while he was a student at the Kyiv Institute of People's Education from 1920 to 1923. He belonged to the literary organizations Aspys..... More

New York: Friends of Democracy, Inc. 1943. 4to. Stapled, 4to, 4 pages each issue. Antifascist newsletter. Began with vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 15, 1943); ceased with vol. 4, no. 21 (Nov. 15, 1946). "Friends of Democracy, Inc. (FOD) was organized in Kansas City, Missouri in 1937 by Unitarian minister..... More

New York, Friends Of Democracy, 1946. Paper Wrappers. 4to. Each issue is 4 pages. 18 issues. Anti-Fascist periodical commonly touching on racist and anti-Semitic topics. Issue 7 has typo on date and issue number, corrected by hand. Contents Include: - “A Report on German Sympathizers,” - “Terminiello Tours North: Berates..... More

Berlin, Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1925. 1st edition. Original 3-color printed wrappers, 12mo, 176 pages. Foreword by the Dutch trade union official Edo Fimmen (1882-1942). Fimmen was committed to a workers’ united front and was chairman of the The International Federation of Trade Unions (also known as the Amsterdam International) from..... More

Eydtkuhnen [now Chernyshevskoye, Russia]: Bi-defus A. Ts. Katsineleboigen ve-Sh. Rabinovits, 1873. First edition. Attractive modern binding. 8vo, 27 pages, 18 cm. Text in Hebrew. Title translates as “Sayings of Jacob: Disputations Concerning Morals to be Conformed and Amended.” “Ya‘akov Reifmann was born in Lagow, Poland. He spent his childhood in..... More

Kaunas [Kovno]: Sh. Yoselevitsh, 1940. First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 215 pages, 9 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as: “Links: Collected Works for Literature.” One of the last Yiddish books published in Kovno/Kaunas prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941; OCLC-Worldcat lists not a single Yiddish publication from the..... More

Moskve [Moscow]: Melukhe-farlag der emes, 1943. 1st edition. Original period modernist-typeface covers designed by Aron Hefter, bound into stiff pamphlet protector, 12mo, 29 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Hot Hearts: Presentations.” A collection of short stories. 1 of 4,000 copies printed. Cover design by the painter and..... More

Tel Aviv: Farlag I.L. Peretz, 1960. First edition, Original printed boards, 4to. 172 pages including illustrations. 28 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “The Sparks Of Improvement.” Book-length Yiddish poem by Arie Shamri highly illustrated by Benn Rabinowicz. “After the Holocaust Shamri's poetry, filled with love for nature, displays a...... More