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1863rif. 2935Cali: 26 de Mayo 1863. Very good. Small broadside 8 x 5.75 inches. Scattered foxing; light toning. This broadside announces the exile of the Franciscans from Cali and the Republic of Colombia for their failure to comply with new laws concerning taxes on religious orders. Interestingly this is signed by the Guardian of the Franciscans himself Rafael Ortiz who urges the citizens of Cali to pray for the order and to fend for themselves under a vain perfidious and deceitful government. Not in OCLC. 26 de Mayo unknown books
1891rif. 353993De Smet Mission Idaho: De Smet Mission Print 1891. 2 10; 11-17 1 blankpp. 8vo. Wrappers. 2 10; 11-17 1 blankpp. 8vo. "Though the Prayers was published separately this work often appears bound with other imprints from the same press particularly with Cataldo's Catechism . It is probable that the greatest portion of the work was done by Prando recognized by Jesuits as their great authority on the Crow language" Schoenberg. Because he wore spectacles Father Prando was known as Iron Eyes among the Crow. Schoenberg 74; Eberstadt 131-347 De Smet Mission Print unknown books
1867rif. 14046Paris: Libraire v. Gastinger 1867. First printing. Hardcover. g. Oversize folio 18" X 12". 1 of 2 volumes. Portfolio. 64 plates. Green paper covered boards over leather spine and corners with pasted-on title plate in German. Chipping to plate. Wear to head and tail of spine and corners. Scuffing staining and rubbing to boards. Writing to inside of front board. Title page and table of contents covered in protected tight mylar jacket. Pulling to edges on some pages. Magnificent collection of full-page color painted plates with captions depicting fashion from the 4th to the 9th century in Europe but mainly in France. Text in French. Cover in fair plates in very good condition. Rare. Libraire v. Gastinger hardcover books
1780rif. 374868Roma: Volpato et Morghen Sculp. et Vend 1780. Unbound. Good. Copperplate engraving. Measures approximately 12.5" x 11.25" to the plate mark. Engraved by the famous Italian printmakers Raphael Morghen and Giovanni Volpato after a painting by Pier Francesco Mola. This scene of an infant satyr raising a glass of wine filled to the brim illustrates a passage in the 6th elegy of Tibullus Book 3. Morghen a child prodigy and student of Volpato established himself as one of Europe's most famous engravers by the age of twenty. Old dampstain on the upper left corner that pervades only about an inch into the image a few small tears to the edges else good or better. Halsey 19. Volpato et Morghen Sculp. et Vend unknown books
1908rif. 67902Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution 1908. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. xxxv 1 240 vi; x 2 243-494 x; 97 plates including maps some folding some in color 548 illustrations in text; original blue cloth gilt-stamped spines; very good sound and clean. Volume I contains: Ancient Anau and the oasis-world / Raphael Pumpelly; Archaeological excavations in Anau and old Merv / Hubert Schmidt; Note on the occurrence of glazed ware at Afrosiab and of large jars at Ghiaur Kala / H.H. Kidder; Description of the Kurgans of the Merv Oasis / Ellsworth Huntington; Chemical analyses of metallic implements / F.A. Gooch; volume II contains: Physiography of Central-Asian deserts and oases / R.W. Pumpelly; Animal remains from the excavations at Anau / J.U. Duerst; Description of some skulls from the North Kurgan Anau / G. Sergi; Some human remains found in the North Kurgan / Th. Mollison; Wheat and barley from the North Kurgan Anau / H.C. Schellenberg; and Stone implements and skeletons excavated in Anau / Langdon Warner. Yakushi P327. Carnegie Institution unknown books
1855rif. 2763Guatemala 1855. Fair. 3pp. on a bifolium. Small folio. Leaves no longer integral. Heavy chipping and wear at edges quarter-sized hole through upper center of both leaves but only a small amount of text actually affected. Moderate tanning and soiling. A scarce 1855 broadside in which Guatemalan caudillo Rafael Carrera addresses Hondurans regarding the perceived malign intentions of their president José Trinidad Cabañas. Honduras with Cabañas at the helm had been in conflict with Guatemala since 1853 and it was Cabañas' stated goal to reunite the states of the defunct Federal Republic of Central America to which end he also invaded Nicaragua in 1854. In this address Carrera states the need to invade Honduras in order to halt the aggressions of Cabañas reiterates his desire for peace and friendship with "true" Hondurans and promises his assistance in reestablishing a reasonable government in their country. It reads in part: "En esa contienda las simpaticas del pueblo de Guatemala vecino y hermano vuestro no podian ser dudosas. El General Cabañas no contento con haber estado de mucho tiempo atras fomentado y auxilando la guerra desastrosa de la montaña en esta República invadió á mano armada nuestro territorio no teniendo comprometer la suerte de muchos hondureños arrancados á sus pacífcas ocupaciones. En estas circunstancias habeis vuelto los ojos á Guatemala y requerido su amistosa cooperacion para ayudaros á establecer en Honduras un Gobierno regular que consagre sus esfuerzos á la mejora interior de todos los ramos y al mantenimiento de las buenas relaciones con los Estados vecinos." A somewhat tattered copy but not in OCLC. unknown books
1992rif. 170713Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1992. Revised Second Draft for the 1993 film with rainbow revisions. Copy belonging to production accountant Ken Ryan with his name in manuscript ink on one of the title pages. Based on the 1993 novel by Rafael Yglesias who also wrote the screenplay about a man whose personality drastically shifts after surviving a deadly plane crash. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rosie Perez. Shot on location in Southern California. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 18 1992 noted as SECOND DRAFT REV. POLISH with credit for Yglesias. 152 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 08/20/92 and 11/09/92. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1972rif. 186707New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1972. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 349 pages. Text by Lloyd Goodrich. Includes 290 illustrations of which 77 are in color and many are tipped in color plates. A tight close to near fine copy in cloth boards with some minor wear in a very good plud dust jacket with some light wear. Signed by Soyer on the front free endpaper. Still one of the best monographs on this under appreciated Russian born American artist. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
1909rif. 001617Paris: Librairie des Amateurs A. Ferroud 1909. Limited Edition and First Edition Thus. Half Morocco with marbled cloth folio accompanying and both fitting into a slipcase. Fine. On Japon Imperial. Limited edition of which this copies was inadvertently unnumbered but which was probably part of the first or second most limited tranch of the first 65 or 130 copies based on this copy being accompanied by a suite of plates in one or two states the larger illustrations being in two states and thus probably fitting into the most exclusive tranch. 4to. 281 pp. 43 color illustrations contained within the work proper. Wraps bound in. Some minor wear to the leather spine and the marbled paper on the edges of the slipcase. Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud unknown books
1828rif. 50164Edinburgh: Published by C.S. Arnold Tavistock Street Covent Garden 1828. Good. Edinburgh: Published by C.S. Arnold Tavistock Street Covent Garden 1828. First Edition. Octavo; quarter contemporary sheep over marbled paper-covered boards; 256pp. though two sections with additional inserted lined paper leaves not included in pagination and presumably for owner's notes though they remain blank throughout. Illustrated hand colored frontispiece and extra engraved title page; engraved plate; illustrations; collated and complete. Boards rather worn with chipping and exposure along edges and joints; binding holding; spotting top endpapers and chips to preliminaries including plates else unmarked; a Good copy. Extra engraved title notes that this manual gives the art of foretelling "in a manner unattempted by any former Author and divested of the Superstitions of the Dark Ages." Raphael was the pen name of Robert Cross Smith editor of the periodical The Straggling Astrologer and the almanac The Prophetic Messenger. This copy notable for the striking hand-coloring of the frontispiece even with the aforementioned condition issues. Published by C.S. Arnold, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden unknown books
1918rif. 173971Paris: H. Laurens 1918. Limited 428 / 550 copies printed. Hardcover. VG covers are somewhat soiled but sturdy. Contents clean with two old repairs to inner tears on the first three leaves not bad. Beige cloth with mounted title from original paper wraps on cover spine and rear panel. xii 519 pages with approximately 500 illustrations. Text is in French. Edited by É. Chavannes after the death of the translator./ Originally published in 4 collections or series 1st ser. in 1679; 2d and 3d in 1701; and 4th in 1818 The plan of the work was developed by Shen Xinyou from an album prepared by Li Liu-fang and the first three series were edited by with the help of Li Yu who also contributed the introduction to the 1st ser. Wang Gai and his brothers Wang Shi and Wang Nie were chiefly responsible for preparing the commentaries and reproducing the plates from famous masters. The 4th ser. was largely the work of Ding Gao./ Contains the first three series. Limited to 550 copies this being number 428. "Translation and commentary by Raphael Petrucci augmented by a preface a biographical dictionary of painters and a vocabulary of technical terms; illustrated with about five hundred engravings." Shipping weight is 17 pounds. H. Laurens hardcover books
1968rif. 334481New York: Forum Gallery 1968. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Raphael Soyer. 80 un-numbered leaves each page illustrated some in color. Small slim 4to black cloth-backed boards with intentional edgewear and distress to binding cloth slipcase. New York: Forum Gallery 1968. Limited first edition -- number 37 of only 100 copies printed. Contains an individual b/w lithograph laid-in signed and numbered by Soyer in pencil. A near fine copy of this unusual production. A reproduction 1968 sketchbook belonging to Raphael Soyer which documents his time traveling through Europe. Printed by Copylab Publishing this is an exact facsimile including wear smudges doodles and handwriting inside covers. Forum Gallery unknown books
1974rif. 42010Paris: Georges Blaizot & Claude Guérin 1974. Five parts in six volumes including: Manuscrits a peintures Livres des XVe et XVIe siecles; Reliures de quelques ateliers du XVIIe siecle Livres en divers genres des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles. Douze tableaux synoptiques sur la reliure au XVIIe siecle / avant-propos de R. Esmerian; Livres illustres du XVIIIe siecle; Livres illustres du XIXe siecle. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Publisher's cloth gilt stamped A landmark auction catalogue documenting one of the most celebrated private collections of fine bindings rare manuscripts and early printed books. The first and only edition of the auction catalogue documenting 670 lots from Esmerian's renowned collection. The volumes showcase a stunning selection of early manuscripts incunables and works with royal provenance alongside modern artist books by figures such as Picasso Matisse and Chagall. This catalogue is celebrated for its lavish presentation featuring tipped-in color plates and black-and-white illustrations highlighting some of the finest examples of French bookbinding across centuries. It is a vital resource for bibliophiles and historians reflecting Esmerian's passion for craftsmanship rarity and the artistic legacy of notable binders such as Le Gascon and the Deromes. Georges Blaizot & Claude Guérin unknown books
1972rif. 15366Paris: Georges Blaizot/Claude Guérin 1972-4 First and only edition of this auction catalogue with a total of 670 lots. . Blue-green cloth with title in gilt on front covers. Six volumes quarto. . Lavishly illustrated with tipped in color plates and black and white plates. Spines just a trifle faded but a fine clean set. One of the great catalogs of French bookbinding. The books include early manuscripts incunables seventeenth- and eighteenth-century books with royal coats-of-arms and modern artists' books showcasing the work of Chagall Bonnard Picasso Matisse Laurencin and others. Georges Blaizot/Claude Guérin, hardcover books
1992rif. 1352814London: Folio Society 1992. Limited Edition #49/100. Hardcover. Octavo 174 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus slip case. Quarter purple Nigerian goatskin binding with boards in red purple and gold marbled paper. Spine faded with gilt lettering. Slip case covered in black paper showing mild shelf wear and soiling along with some fading to spine. Upper edge gilt; contains full color illustrations. Signed flat by Frederic and Sarah Raphael on limitations page and hand-numbered 49 at limitations page. Pages clean. Shelved in Case 9 3/4. 1352814. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Folio Society hardcover books
rif. 52831Madrid: Imprenta y Litografía de A. Rodero 1878. Octavo 22 x 15.5 cm. Original half-leather with paper-covered boards and marbled endpapers; 375 iv pp. Minor abrasions and wear especially to extremities of binding some hand-written notations to front flyleaf one folding plate with tear along one crease overall very good. Second edition of the 19th century work on Islamic architecture in Moorish Spain including the Alhambra of Granada the Real Alcázar of Sevilla and the Gran Mezquita or Grand Mosque of Córdoba. The Spanish-language text begins with an introduction to art in Spain followed by a brief chapter covering the comparable characteristics of various monuments and three longer sections one on each of the featured monuments. There are scattered illustrations throughout the text including elevations details and floor plans along with two large folding plates. The first is a floor plan of the Palacio Arabe at the Alhambra and the second is an overall plan or map of the Alhambra y Generalife. Rafale Contreras 1824-1890 was the head restorer of the Alhambra appointed by Queen Isabella II and who carried out a major restoration in the Nasrid palace between 1847 and 1889. He was preceded in his position by his father José and succeeded by his son Mariano making the Contreras family in charge of restorations at the palace from 1840 through 1907. Rafael was appointed after presenting the Queen with a three-dimensional scale model of the Hall of the Two Sisters with a goal of his restoration being to change the look of the Alhambra to one that was more "Oriental" in style. He focused only on the wall surfaces substituting original decorations with newer plaster casts. Some of the Contreras' restorations were quite controversial including the complete demolition of the Sala de Camas and the conversion of several gabled roofs into colorful tiled domes. Many of the walls were in a state of ruin lacking any original decoration and the Contreras family decided to fill in the gaps with decorative motifs which did not necessarily belong. Rafael Contreras also created a successful business seizing upon the influx of visitors to the Alhambra. He created architectural scale models and plaster casts of the Alhambra in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms which he sold as souvenirs. Asun González Pérez "Reconstructing the Alhambra: Rafael Contreras and Architectural Models of the Alhambra in the Nineteenth Century" Art in Translation 2017 Volume 9 Issue 1 pp. 29-49. unknown books
1915rif. TB33425Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1915. First Edition. First Printing Near fine in its original green cloth covered boards with slightly faded gilt text on the spine and bright text on the front board. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 4 7/8 inches with very light rubbing to the lower edge of the boards. Without a dust jacket.and doubtful if it ever had one.as none have been found. The second edition of this title published by Houghton Mifflin in 1923 did however have a colorful dust jacket. Printed in the same year as the first British edition. 362 pages of text. A very clean and bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Knight & Darley The Last of the Great Swashbuckler A Bio-Bibliography of Rafael Sabatini A.15.b J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
rif. 546585Unbound. Fine. Signed halftone image of Rafael Sabatini. Approximately 3¼" x 5¼" carefully mounted on a 4¼" x 7" photographic mount. Unexamined out of the mount but appears fine. Signed by Sabatini on the mount below his image: "Yours very truly Rafael Sabatini. 16 June 1924." Presumably an image from a magazine Sabatini is pictured on the ski slopes with hands on hips supporting himself with ski poles. unknown books
1876rif. 5735Chalchuapa El Salvador 1876. Still very good. 3pp. on a bifolium. Folio. Crinkling and minor wear at edges. Faint dampstain to upper right corner. The president of Guatemala Justo Rufino Barrios invaded El Salvador in 1876 following the presidential election there. Barrios suspected that both the elected and former presidents had been harboring Guatemalan opponents to his regime and hope to install someone more favorable. The present "political plan" for El Salvador reads more as an indictment of the two leaders Santiago Gonzalez and Andres del Valle than an as organizing document for a new government. The first signer here is Rafael Zaldivar the choice of Barrios for next president of El Salvador and the work was printed in the field at Chalchuapa on April 10 1876 approximately one week before the decisive battles that forced the capitulation of the Salvadoran government. Not in OCLC. unknown books
1864rif. 50647Krotoschin Krotoszyn/ Vienna/ Frankfurt am Main: Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch 1864. First German translations. Hardcover. g to vg-. Octavo. 3/4 black morocco over buckram boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Red speckled edges of book block. A complete set of the three parts of Maimonides acclaimed work The Guide for the Perplexed in German and Hebrew bound in one volume. All of the editions included here contain the first German translations of their respective parts of the text. Maimonides' intention with this work was to reconcile Aristotelian thought and logic with traditional Rabbinical Jewish theology. Originally written circa 1190 in Judeo-Arabic as Dalalat al-Ha'irin these writings takes the form of a lengthy three-part letter to his student Rabbi Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta and are seen as the main source for understanding Maimonides' philosophic view rather than his strictly being his views on Jewish law. It is the most known of his works in the non-Jewish world. The work's first translation into Hebrew was in 1204 by Rabbi Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon c.1150 - c.1230 a contemporary of Maimonides. Content: Moreh li-Tsedakah. Hu Sefer Moreh Nevukhim FIRST PART. 1839. Second German-language edition. 19 double-sided leaves with Hebrew pagination. 392pp. 3. In 1835 the first part of Maimonides acclaimed work was first translated into German with added commentary in Hebrew by Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal 1781-1855. That first edition featured the German translation printed in Latin script to accompany the Hebrew text. However for this second edition of that translation it is interesting to note that the text of the German is printed in Hebrew script. Content finely printed in double and single-column layouts with commentary printed in Rashi script. Divided in 76 chapters this part of the work contains discussions of an understanding and definition of the nature of God and divine anthropomorphism in the Hebrew bible including a detailed analysis of the Biblical Hebrew of the text to these ends. The final three pages included here contain and index in both Hebrew and German. BOUND WITH More Nebochim. Wegweiser für Berirrte SECOND PART. 1864. First German-language edition. x 99pp. This is the first German translation of the work's second part taken from the original Arabic text by way of the French translation by Salomon Munk 1861. The original Hebrew translation of the text is accompanied throughout by a translation and commentary in German by Max Emanuel Stern 1811-1873. Divided into 48 chapters the second part involves Maimonides discussion of proof of the existence of God the nature of creation the concept of prophecy and an examination of the 26 propositions for Aristotle's metaphysics. The initial pages contain introduction and foreword by Stern. Also included is a fold-out plate containing facsimile text from an original signed manuscript note from the hand of Maimonides himself written in Japhet son of Solomon's corrected manuscript copy of the Mishneh Torah held at Bodleian Library at Oxford MS Hunt.80 leaf 165a. AND WITH Dalalat al Haiirin Burechtweisung der Verirrten. Dritter Theil. THIRD PART. 1838. First German-language edition. viii 9 454pp. 5. This is the first German translation of the work's third part. Simon B. Scheyer 1804-1854 provides the translation and scholarly commentary in German to accompany the Hebrew of the text. This third and final part of Guide for the Perplexed is divided into 54 chapters and is considered the climax of the work and the culmination of Maimonides' previous analysis. Discussed are concepts including Jewish mysticism the Chariot of Ezekiel the moral aspects of the universe the problem of evil free will and the 613 mitzvot of the Torah. The final pages contain a scholarly index in German. Binding tight with some rubbing to extremities including the hinges of the spine. Spine and covers lightly sunned. Text throughout with some sporadic minor to light foxing. Much of the text is quite clean. A very few instances of underlining or notes in pencil. Binding in good interior in very good- condition overall. Hebrew title: מורה לצדקה .×”×•× ספר מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×/ מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×/ מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×. ×•×”×•× ספר דל×לה ×לח×ירין .חלק שלישי Author: משה בן מימון רפ×ל בר"י ×¤Ö¼×™×¨×©×˜×¢× ×˜×”×ל Publication: פרנקפורט/ קר×ט×שין תקצ״ט Alternate titles and transliterations: Moreh Nevukim Doctor Perplexorum Bibliographic references: PART 1 Vinograd Krotochin 14. PART 3 Vinograd Frankfurt 578 Provinence: Previously owned by Oxford religion scholar O.H.M. Lehmann dated 1949. Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch hardcover books
1922rif. 298565Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co 1922. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket. A first edition with a pencilled name and address on the front endpaper. The dustjacket is Fair only. The jacket has not been price-clipped and has the correct First Edition price of $2.00 on the flap. There is about a 1” piece gone from the top the jacket spine and about 2” from the bottom. The N. C. Wyeth illustration to the front panel is mostly present but has a 1/2” x 1” amount of loss at the top edge of the illustration and there is minor loss at the front fold. The front of the jacket was in two pieces and has been discreetly repaired on the verso. Very Good binding / Fair dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Co unknown books
1957rif. 150334N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actors Anthony Perkins and Norma Moore. With the stamps of photographer Bill Avery and editor Bud Fraker on the verso along with the stamp of Photoplay and several manuscript pencil and ink annotations regarding layout. A dramatization of the experiences of major league baseball star Jimmy Piersall loosely based on his own 1955 memoirs following his 1948 contract with the Boston Red Sox to his eventual nervous breakdown and hospitalization for bipolar disorder. Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others. Set in Boston Massachusetts and Waterbury Connecticut. 8.3 x 13.5 inches. Very Good plus with a few small manuscript pencil annotations regarding cropping on the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1856rif. 11298London: Sherwood and Company; James Cornish Booksellers 1856. Fourth Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. Fourth Edition. Full Calf. "This essay is intended as a foundation for belief in revealed religion in connection with the theory of celestial influences or astrology." Richard James Morrison 15 June 1795 - 5 April 1874 was an English astrologer commonly known by his pen name Zadkiel and best known for the series known as Zadkiel's Almanac. Morrison in 1831 issued The Herald of Astrology subsequently known as Zadkiel's Almanac. In this annual pamphlet he published predictions of the chief events of the coming year. Morrison wrote with the signature Zadkiel Tao-Sze. Morrison wrote such articles as The New Principia or true system of astronomy in which the Earth is proved to be the stationary centre of the Solar System 1868 which made him a charlatan in the eyes of scientists. In 1863 he won a libel suite against Admiral Sir Edward Belcher who wrote in the Daily Telegraph that Morrison was "the crystal globe seer who gulled many of our nobility about the year 1852." He was awarded twenty shillings one pound damages but was deprived of his costs. The Athenaeum 16 May 1874 p. 666 noted that Morrison was "the restorer and Grand Master in this country of Tao-Sze a secret society intended to be of immense power and to outshine the Free-masons but which most probably by his death is reduced to two members and inanition". Robert Cross Smith 1795-1832 was an English astrologer writing under the pseudonym of "Raphael." Starting on upper and rear joints cracking rubbing to extremities repair to folding color plate otherwise tight bright and unmarred. Full blind stamped red calf with worn gilt decorative vignette. Red titling on tp. and charts. Elaborate large folding frontispiece printed in colors unprofessionally repaired backed with linen. xix 66pp. Illus. color b/w. Sherwood and Company; James Cornish, Booksellers unknown books
1912rif. 190356Paris: `H. Floury 1912. Hardcover. VG light soiling and scuffing to boards age toning and foxing spots to ffep plates are very crisp and clean all plates present. Oversized off-white paper over boards with orange and black lettering; 3 pp; 20 full page etchings with protective guard sheets. Issued in edition of 100 numbered and signed copies this being number 41 signed by Raphael Schwartz. Text is in French. Collection of etching portraits by R. Schwartz by Anatole France André Gide Emile Verhaeren Albert Bartholomé Auguste Rodin Albert Besnard etc. Preface by Anatole France. 19x15x1" `H. Floury hardcover books
1947rif. 28251New York: Forward Association 1947. Hardcover. vg to near fine. Oblong 4to. 575pp. 21 x 27 cm. Red cloth with woodcut-illustrated paste-down and gold lettering. Illustrated title-page. This 1947 publication is the finest photographic documentary of Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the 1920's and 30's. It has never been superseded. In addition to choosing from some thousands of postcards and family photographs submitted by readers of the Yiddish "Daily Forward" the editors were able to reproduce images previously published in the Forward's Rotogravure section by the photographers Alter Kacyzna and M. Kipnis. Additionally the now famous images of Roman Vishniak were first presented to the public in this work. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs. In two parts: 1 Jewish Cities. 2 Jewish People. Text in Yiddish and English. One of the most powerful photographic works on Eastern European Jewry ever published. Binding with some light sunning light staining extending slightly to the back cover and a sticker residue to the spine. A few tiny stains to the front cover. Book block tight with interior clean. Binding in very good interior in near fine condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. "In presenting this book to our readers we intend to give them the picture of the Jewish world in Eastern Europe as it existed during the 1920's and 1930's previous to the Second World War. This world does not exist any longer. It is a vanished world the world of East European Jewry that world in which for centuries the greatest concentration of Jewish people in history lived and worked. On the eve of the Second World War over seven million Jews resided in that part of Eastern Europe which was swept by Hitler's divisions in the years 1939-45. If we also include sections of Southern and Western Europe the Balkans Italy France Belgium Holland and Scandinavia the Jewish population under Nazi rule may be estimated at approximately 7.8 million persons. More than 9400000 Jews lived in the whole of Europe in 1939. Only about 3700000 are left now including the "Displaced Persons" in the UNRRA camps and those repatriated from Soviet Russia and Poland. Five million of these were exterminated in the death camps and the ghettos. About seven hundred thousand perished from starvation deportation epidemics and as a result of military operations. The East European period of Jewish history ended in the greatest catastrophe known to mankind." Raphael Abramovitch was a 20th century Russian Jewish political activist. As a Marxist he was part of the Jewish Bund. He took part in the Russian Revolution on the side of the Mensheviks. After the Bolshevik victory he fled to Germany France and eventually to the United States. Abramovitch was a vocal opponent of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Forward Association hardcover books
