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1917réf. 37885Leipzig: Kurt Wolff 1917. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. 2951pp. Original illustrated gray boards with black lettering on paper and spine. Diederich Heßling an industrial magnet exploits his workers in his paper manufacturing plant. The young worker Karl Balrich thinks he has proof to be the rightful owner of the plant. Balrich prepares to study jurisprudence to seek his right but ends up being one of the first German workers to march enthusiastically against France in World War I. The novel is considered a tragic comedy and drew criticism e.g. from Hermann Hesse who wrote to the publisher Kurt Wolff expressing his displeasure with Mann's comedic simplification of the the capitalist-proletarian relation. Text in German. Binding with light wear and tanning along edges. Block slightly age toned. Binding in overall good interior in good condition. Kurt Wolff hardcover books
1966réf. 35898Cincinnati: Jewish Publication Society 1966. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. XI 1 574pp in English 346pp Hebrew text XLI 1 255pp in English 239pp Hebrew text. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece in second volume. In the last years of his life Jacob Mann 1888-1940 embarked on the study of one of the most difficult branches of Hebrew literature the Midrashim. In his work "The Bible as read and preached in the Old Synagogue" he tried to establish the dependence of the Midrashim from the chapters of the Torah and from the haftarot which were read on the Sabbath on cycles of three and one-half years respectively. The first volume of the book was published in 1940. Material left by Mann for the second volume was prepared for publication by Isaiah Sonne; after the latter's death the work was continued by Victor Reichert; it appeared in 1966. Text in English and Hebrew. Slight wear to covers. Inscriptions from previous owners on front free endpapers. Overall in good condition. Volume I was owned by Morton M. Applebaum a prominent Reform rabbi who served on the Executive Board of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and was on Hebrew Union College's Board of Governors. Jewish Publication Society hardcover books
1977réf. 34549Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1977. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. X 310pp. Original beige cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover. The purpose of this study is to investigate the form and function of motifs of divine presence and guidance in the Old Testament. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page. Binding and interior in very good condition. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
1930réf. 33709Berlin: S. Fischer 1930. Elfte bis zwanzigste Auflage. Softcover. fair. 8vo. 31 1pp. Original printed wraps. Work contains a speech by Thomas Mann held on October 17 1930 at the Beethoven-Saal in Berlin. In this powerful address Mann pointed out the dangers of National Socialism and warned the German public not to vote for the Nazi's in the upcoming election. Text in German. Age wear creasing sunning on wraps. Top corners bumped affecting pages throughout. Minor chipping on bottom edge of front wrapper. Wraps in fair interior in good condition. S. Fischer unknown books
1969réf. 28958Oxford: Oxford University Press 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. 280 427pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spines. This book is an attempt to reconstruct the life of the Egyptians and Palestinian Jews and to produce a skeleton history of the Jews from 969 C.E. to 1204 C.E. from an extensive examination of Genizah MSS. First published in 1920-2 this work went out of print in 1950. Wrappers binding and interior in very good condition. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1948réf. 29189Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag 1948. First edition. Hardcover. g. Gold-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Captivating tetralogy by Thomas Mann. Joseph und seine Brüder Joseph and his brothers is the largest most comprehensive work by the author based on the biblical story of Jakoob's favorite son Joseph. Vol. 1: Die Geschichten Jaakobs & Der junge Joseph. 737 4pp. Vol. 2: Joseph in Ägypten. 684 2pp. Vol. 3: Joseph der Ernährer. 617 3pp. Text in German. Minor age wear and staining on binding. Spines sunned lettering on spines faded. Bindings in good interior in very good condition. Stockholmer Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Thomas Mann. Bermann-Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1941réf. 29382New York: Frederick Ungar 1941. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. 282pp. Original illustrated wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Top edge green. This book is a lively political history of Germany. It shows the true face of Junkerism but at the same time its adversary German liberalism in its hopes longings struggles and defeats. It explores the deepest cause of Germany's tragedy the Chinese wall that has thus far separated German thought from political power. Moderate age wear on wrappers with covers slightly soiled and head of spine partly chipped. Offsetting on endpapers. Wraps in overall good binding and interior in good to very good condition. Frederick Ungar unknown books
1922réf. 29684Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning 1922. Softcover. fair. 8vo. pp. 257-98. Original printed brown paper wrappers. Article by the distinguished early 20th century medieval Jewish historian Jacob Mann in which he published and analyzed a fragment of a text written by an early medieval Karaite living in Jerusalem. Karaites are a group of non-rabbinic Jews who reject the Talmud. This anonymous Karaite pleads with his brethren outside of the land of Israel to settle in Jerusalem in order that the city not be dominated by rabbinic Jews. This text is an important source on the roots of Zionism within the Jewish tradition. Text in English and Hebrew. Wrappers chipped with a creased edge. Error in text corrected by pen. Overall in fair condition. The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning unknown books
1934réf. 18447Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Placement Bereau 1934. Softcover. g. 8vo. 81pp. 14pp. Green wrappers. Original publisher's staple binding. The author Jacob Mann avoided the pitfalls of narrow specialization and provided the outlines of a synthesis of the life of the Jewish communities in the Near and Middle East. He came to England in 1908 and then to the United States in 1920. First teaching at the Baltimore Hebrew College and later until the end of his life at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. From Cincinnati Jacob Mann dominated the field and provided the solid bricks needed for future work. As he himself put it: "The more the material stored up in manuscripts is made accessible in a scientific manner the better will the history of the Jewish life and activities in the course of the past ages be reconstructed anew." Some regular age wear to books ex library copy as indicated by stamp books are in good condition. Author also wrote: "The Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs: a contribution to their political and communal history based chiefly on Genizah material hitherto unpublished" "Asenath's Petition" on the Jews of Kurdistan and "The Bible as Read and Preached in the Old Synagogue Hebrew Union College Placement Bereau unknown books
1933réf. 22248Detroit Michigan: The Classes of 1933 Central High School 1933. First edition. Hardcover. g. Ex-Libris. Square Sm. 4to. 168pp. Cream colored linen gray lettering on front. Frontispiece dedication to and b/w photographic reproduction of Miss Helen Delbridge. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of drawings and photographs. Detroit Michigan's Central High School's yearbook from 1933. Contains sections on Faculty Graduates Study Halls Organizations Features Activities Athletics Humor funnies and Advertisements. Name of former owner on front endpaper. Student signatures throughout pages next to pictures and on rear endpapers. Soiling to boards. Binding in good interior in very good condition. The Classes of 1933 Central High School hardcover books
1926réf. 22341Berlin: S. Fischer 1926. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 12mo. 126 1pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards in original decorative cardboard slipcase. Illustration on cover by Karl Walser. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece. Mann wrote Unordnung und frühes Lied Disorder and Early Sorrow in 1925. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks 1901 The Magic Mountain Der Zauberberg 1914 and his numerous short stories. Text in German. Slight staining on small part of top edge on front and back board. Very minor age wear on slipcase. Slipcase in very good book in near fine condition. S. Fischer hardcover books
1948réf. 56742Zurich: Verlag Oprecht 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Slender quarto 28 cm Tan and black pictorial paper over boards with toning to boards. In a dust jacket which is split in half. Text in German. With 22 full-page woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel. Verlag Oprecht hardcover books
1932réf. 010209Boston: Boston Book Merchants 1932 Color printed illustrated wraps previous owner's name to upper cover light wear. A cooperative catalog assembled by ten Boston book merchants highlighting the books they felt were the best of the fall and holiday season. . Pictorial Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Boston Book Merchants unknown books
1975réf. 002608Los Angeles: Keep America Committee 1975. First Edition. Very good. First separate publication n. d. 1975; 10 1/4 x 8 1/2; pp. 4; illustrated with a photographic image; two horizontal fold lines with two small punctures along spine; age-toning to margins; a stamped note to last page; in about very good condition. Michael Goleniewski 1922 - 1993 was a Polish officer Counter-intelligence Deputy Head in the Polish People's Army Russian spy and a triple-agent revealing Polish and Russian secret documents to the CIA and eventually defecting to the US in 1961. His biggest claim to fame was his statement that he was Tsarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich Romanov who had officially been murdered with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The current publication initially appeared in "The Truth Crusader No. 52" journal and later in the "Double Eagle" monthly bulletin the latter edited and issued by Michael Goleniewski. The entire leaflet was centered around Goleniewski's history of helping the US his work for this country the various scientific proofs that he was indeed Aleksei Romanov etc. It was published by the Keep America Committee a conservative anti-Communist women's organization in Los Angeles which among other things together with other similar groups launched a concerted campaign against UNESCO for allegedly spreading internationalist ideas in line with Communist ideology. OCLC lists one copy at U of Kansas; none in the trade as of February 2020. Keep America Committee unknown books
1948réf. 591391Urbana Illinois: Accent 1948. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 132-191pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Page edges slightly soiled wrappers with modest toning and foxing front wrap with a few small chips about very good. Prints Four American Portraits in Elegy by William Goyen; additional contributions by Joseph Warren Beach Francis Fergusson W.S. Graham J. Radcliffe Squires Klaus Mann and more. Accent) unknown books
1938réf. 105873NY:: Knopf. Very Good. 1938. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. The third book in the Joseph and His Brothers tetralogy. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Color map at the end of the first volume. Stated first editions first printings. Fading along the spines else both volumes are near fine in black cloth. No glassine dust wrappers. Housed in a good age darkened minor edge wear slipcase. ; 664 pages . Knopf, hardcover books
1980réf. 34323Los Angeles: J.P.Tarcher. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A biography of the visionary thinker whose books were banned in 3 countries. Known for his controversial ideas about sex and sexual orientation as well as many ideas on health and society his influence on culture has been widely studied by critics and advocates alike. Fine book in near fine dust jacket with a small dig on the spine. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 295 pp . J.P.Tarcher hardcover books
1969réf. 601277New York: Burt Franklin 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint a facsimile of the 1851 first edition. Blue cloth. Fine. Burt Franklin hardcover books
1974réf. 601163New York: Delacorte Press 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Modest stains on topedges of pages spine slightly cocked very good in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket. A very nice copy of this pseudonymous novel apparently novelized from an article about a true incident in which a Brooklyner took over a bank in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation. Made into an excellent Sidney Lumet film featuring Al Pacino John Cazale and Charles Durning. Delacorte Press hardcover books
1961réf. 154038Skokie Illinois: George E. von Rosen / Publisher's Development Corporation 1961. Softcover. Near Fine. Single issue. Quarto. 82pp. Comb-bound wrappers. Edges lightly worn else near fine. Includes fold out display of The Lincoln Derringer. George E. von Rosen / Publisher's Development Corporation unknown books
1938réf. 176223New York: American 1938. Very Good. Very good. The corners of the binding are slightly worn and faded. American unknown books
1953réf. 266644germany: Fischer 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers a paperback. In German. Pages and cover slightly brown. 60 pages. Fischer unknown books
1939réf. 150700Netherlands: Forum 1939. Softcover. Very Good. Later. Very good in wrappers a paperback. Edges of pages slightly brown. Top edge of spine torn. In German. Forum unknown books
1945réf. 146138New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Name very good in very good dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1935réf. 158483New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good hardcover. Corners lightly rubbed and bent. Edges of spine slightly bumped. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
