London: Peter Owen Limited, [1958]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in orange pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],205pp. Jacket spine faded, minor glue residue from previously removed price sticker on upper jacket flap, else Very Good or better. More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. First Thus. First printing of this novelization of Raphaelson's stage play, issued to coincide with the Warner Brothers film production - the first feature-length "talkie." With frontispiece and seven inserted leaves of plates illustrating scenes from the photoplay. HANNA 2959 (citing the stage version)..... More

Nyu York [New York]: "Forverts" Asosieyshon, 1926. First Edition. Uncommon signed copy of Cahan's monumental autobiography, this initial volume chronicling his childhood and young adulthood in Lithuania up to his arrival in New York in 1882. Cahan (1860-1951) was unquestionably the most influential Jewish-American intellectual of his time, reaching, through..... More

New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1935. First Edition. An appraisal of the state of Soviet Jewry at the conclusion of the Five Year Plan, with frequent comparisons drawn to the steady decline in Jewish autonomy under Fascism during the same period. "...the fact that the Russian Jews, during the seventeen..... More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Second volume of Stein's uncollected writings, containing essays and autobiographical sketches. As with Volume I, edited and with a preface by Robert Bartlett Haas. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 750 copies. Octavo; green cloth and illustrated paper-covered boards, with printed title..... 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

New York: Community Relations Service, [1951]. Reprinted from The Survey, September 1951. Staple-bound pamphlet; 11pp. Binder perforation at bound edge, else Near Fine. More

New York: Minton, Balch, 1925. First Edition. Uncommon "problem novel," dealing with Jewish-Gentile intermarriage, and attendant anti-Semitism, in a midwestern city. Tobenkin was the author of two Rideout novels, Witte Arrives (1916) and The Road (1922). HANNA 3520. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in black; 272pp. Front hinge cracked;..... More

New York: Putnam, 1964. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 348pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly sunned dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing at extremities; Near Fine. From the library of American inventor and entrepreneur John Hays Hammond, Jr. (1888-1965), with his photo-engraved bookplate and ownership signature..... More

Munich: Prestel, 2006. First Edition. Visual survey of 2000 years of Jewish contributions to the visual arts. Quarto (30.5cm); light blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 191,[1]pp; illus. Some trivial wear to spine ends, else Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket. More

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. Second Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); woven pictorial cloth boards, stamped in gilt, no dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; 80pp. Boards yawning, spine internally detached from textblock (preliminaries still intact); minor wear and soiling. Gift inscription on ffep (dated 1973); red ribbon marker intact. Overall Very Good. This book is a...... More

London: Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 56pp. Small (ca 1/8") surface abrasion to paper at spine, else Near Fine. More