![The Fools of Chelm and their History [...] Translated by the Author and Elizabeth Shub....](/pictures/medium/21316.jpg?v=1529353305)
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
![A Young Man in Search of Love [Limited Edition, Signed]. Isaac Bashevis SINGER, Raphael Soyer](/pictures/medium/21320.jpg?v=1529353305)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1978. First American Edition. Limited to 300 copies with laid in color print signed by Raphael Soyer of which this is no. 199. Octavo (24.5cm.); original cloth, author signature facsimile embossed in silver on upper cover, silver-lettered spine; blue marbled board slipcase, decorative paper label..... 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
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
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: 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
![TITLE IN YIDDISH] : , 1910. [Der...](/pictures/medium/43026.jpg?v=1556835214)
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
![Bleter fun Mayn Leben. Vol 1: in der alter heym [Inscribed copy]. SOCIALISTS, Abraham CAHAN](/pictures/medium/35002.jpg?v=1561500779)
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
![Text in Yiddish] Yudzshin Debs: A mayse fun a mentshn. SOCIALISTS, Naftoli GROSS](/pictures/medium/29880.jpg?v=1554414991)
[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: 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
![Title in Yiddish: Dos Untererdishe Rusland. [Underground Russia]. SOVIET UNION, Sergei aka Sergey...](/pictures/medium/45854.jpg?v=1590638164)
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, 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, 1971. First Edition. Works by and about Stein, including interviews and criticism. Edited and with a preface by Robert Bartlett Haas. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 500 copies. Octavo; maroon cloth and illustrated paper-covered boards, with printed title label applied to spine; dustjacket; 158..... 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
River Edge, NJ: Search fo Truth Forum, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 31pp. Very Good. Laid in, a 4-pp response to this work , also issued by Search for Truth Forum, titled "Labels." 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
![Text in Yiddish] Lider. Meyer STIKER](/pictures/medium/34125.jpg?v=1529353754)
[Nyu York: Amerike, 1945]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; 126pp.; dust jacket illustration repeated on title page. Upper jacket panel and flap separated at spine but still present, several losses to extremities, as well as a long closed tear with subsequent creasing to upper..... 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
Cambridge: Printed for the Author, 1908. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original maroon gilt-lettered cloth; [6],202pp. Minimal shelf wear, spine a hint cocked and gilt rather dulled, else Very Good and sound. Collection of short stories "detailing the religious rituals of Jews in different ghettos" (David Brauner, Edinburgh Companion to Modern..... 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: Minton, Balch, 1925. 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. Second Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); green cloth, with titling and rule stamped in black on..... 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: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1983. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 31cm). Brown leather boards (hardcover) with author's signature blind-stamped on cover and titling in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; [12pp] + 180 photographic plates; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to corner tips, else clean and tight..... 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
