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THE SACRIFICE
New York: Viking. Second printing Oct., 1956 (first was Sept., 1956). Dark blue cloth stamped in silver, red topstain. Fine copy. In the Canadian issue (Macmillan) jacket, as some were issued. Black jacket has a few short edge tears, light rubbing, VG, attractive, red unfaded. The Winnipeg author's first book, a novel of the immigrant experience, especially Jewish, in Western Canada, and a winner of the Governor-General's Award.
Book ID: 42730More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE SECOND SCROLL
Edition: First printng
New York: Knopf, 1951. Black and orange on white decorated boards, yellow top page edges. Light rubbing to spine tips , as usual; bit of darkening to top page edges, as usual, else fine.. Price-clipped dust jacket is a bit yellowed to spine, and flap folds; very small chips and nicks to spine ends; one small tear; VG otherwise. The only novel of this major Canadian poet, set in Canada, Italy, Morocco, and Israel, inspired by the new Jewish state.. A very nice piece of book design by Lucian Bernhard, with a quite striking and visually active pattern to the boards. An attractive copy.; Octavo
Book ID: 49208More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
THE SECOND SCROLL. (signed)
Edition: First printng
Book ID: 49207More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
The shadows behind me
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2010. Card covers. 209 pp, photos, index. Fine copy. The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs.; Octavo
Book ID: 47745More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
THE SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET
Edition: First printing
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1961. Cloth & boards. Bookstore sticker at rear, else fine. Price-clipped jacket is a bit yellowed and dusty; small chips and rubbing to spine ends; closed tears; good. 11 short stories.
Book ID: 46830More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
THE TREASURE. A Drama in Four Acts. Translated by Ludwig Lewisohn.
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Huebsch, 1915. 12mo, black cloth. [2], 194, [2] pp. Minor wear to spine tips, yellowing to page edges, occasional small soil spots in text, small light spots to front cover, ink name at front, else a VG copy. This noted Jewish-American playwright and journalist's first book in English, produced in a German translation from the Yiddish by Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1910. Lewisohn, in his introduction, calls this "the first play of the modern Jewish theate to be offered to an English reading audience." He also published novels, a collection of short stories, and other plays. An important figure in modern Yiddish literature.
Book ID: 10704More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
The violin / A child's testimony
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, c2007. Third printing. Card covers. 232 pp, photos, index. Independent Publisher Book Awards sticker on front cover. Fine copy. Two works in one book. The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs.; Octavo
Book ID: 47750More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
THE WINE OF VIOLENCE: an anthology on anti-Semitism
New York: Association Press, 1947. Pale grey cloth. pp 362. Private owner rubber stamp to front pastedown (hidden by jacket flap) and to dedication page, VG+ otherwise. Thin price-clipped jacket has chip and rubbing to spine ends, VG otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50968More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. Translated by William Whiston
Grand Rapids, MI: Associated Publishers and Author. Red cloth. Yellowing to page edges. Text in double columns. Contains Antiquities of the Jews, Wars of the Jews, Flavius Josephus Against Apion. Index. Photo reprint from some old, perhaps 19th century, edition. Small type. 1.32 kg parcel; Tall octavo; 684 pages
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 54251More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
TOURO SYNAGOGUE of Congregation Jeshuat Israel Newport, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island: Society of Friends of Touro Synagogue, 1972. Cream card covers. pp [2], (165), [3] + plates. VG. Oldest synagogue building in the United States, founded 1658.; Folio
Book ID: 44814More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
YOSHE KALB. Introduction by Isaac Beshivis Singer. Translated from the Yiddish by Maurice Samuel (THE SINNER)
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Black cloth. Very light yellowing to fore edges, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. First published in English in 1933 as THE SINNER.
Book ID: 46359More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96