Boston: Little, Brown, 1965. First Trade Edition. First trade edition of Shahn's now-legendary Haggadah, originally issued in a limited edition portfolio by the Trianon Press. The trade edition is itself a handsome production and not over-common. Quarto (30cm). Tan linen boards, stamped in gilt; original acetate dustjacket (unprinted); xx, 130pp;..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, blocked and titled in white and gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; publisher's original paper-covered slipcase. Fine and unread, still sealed..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First Edition. Singer's translation of the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction, presented for a juvenile audience and superbly illustrated throughout. First Printing. Quarto; red cloth, with titling and illustrations stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; [39pp]; illus. Fine..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1950 (but ca. 1966). Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [10],611pp. Very light rubbing to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. This translation originally published by Knopf in 1950; while the only date given is the copyright date of 1950, this..... More

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1985. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original blue-grey cloth-backed decorative boards embossed in black and gilt, matching board slipcase; viii,[2],122,[14]pp. Fine. "Philip and Muriel Berman Edition." Forms part of the Author's Workshop series. Includes the title story "Gifts" in the original Yiddish. More

London: Abelard, [1975]. First U.K. Edition. Small quarto (22cm.); original simulated cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket; [4],57pp.; illus. Jacket spine faded, else About Fine. More

New York: Noonday Press, 1955. First English Language Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket by Ellen Raskin; xi,[1],239pp. Minor edge wear to jacket extremities, some toning to rear panel and spine, interior fine. Very Good. Novel set in seventeenth-century Poland in the aftermath of the Chmielnicki..... More

Boston: Stratford Co., 1922. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in white printed dust jacket, top edge gilt; [14],139pp. Upper jacket flap separated, large losses to upper panel affecting text without loss of meaning, spine ends perished, the whole toned to tan. Cloth boards slightly rubbed, else Very Good in..... More

New York: Arbeiter Ring [aka Workmens Circle], 1910. First Edition. Souvenir book and organizational history, issued in conjunction with the tenth anniversary convention of Der Arbeiter Ring, aka The Workmens Circle, a Jewish-American labor association and mutual-aid society that formed following the massive waves of Yiddish immigration following the Russian..... More

[New York: Workmen's Circle], 1933. Cloth issue. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original blue cloth, green pictorial plate printed in black, blue, and orange mounted to upper cover; photographic illus. throughout. Front hinge broken, some soil spots throughout textblock. About Very Good. Short young readers' biography of Eugene Debs, issued by the..... More

New York: Max Maisel, 1921. First Yiddish-language edition, translated by A. Frumkin. Octavo; red pebbled cloth over boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 253pp. A tight, Near Fine copy in scarce dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and edgeworn with small chip at base of spine (not affecting printed..... More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. First volume of Stein's uncollected writings, containing poetry, portraits, plays, and literary music. Edited and with a preface by Robert Bartlett Haas. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 750 copies. Octavo; blue cloth and illustrated paper-covered boards, with printed title lable applied..... More

New York: Combo Press, 1939. First Edition. Novel of Depression-era Jewish ghetto life in Chicago, by the Yiddish poet Noah Steinberg (b. 1889). A member in the teens and twenties of the "Die Junge" school of Yiddish poets and playwrights who consciously avoided the social themes of their "Sweatshop Poet"..... More