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1978Best.-Nr. 609835Wendover Buckinghamshire: Roberton Publications 1978. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Price stamp on the front cover light rubbing to the exterior and light bumping to the corners very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate number 1509. Roberton Publications unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 594787Berkhamsted Hertfordshire: John Cotton 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Number 14. Illustrated by Sylvia Rogers. Slim small quarto. Stapled card covers. 27 4 pp. Staples a bit oxidized a near fine copy. Laid in is a duplicate Contents page and a sheet printing D. M. Thomas's poem "War of the Roses" in manuscript facsimile. John Cotton unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 594783Berkhamsted Hertfordshire: John Cotton 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Number 16. Cover and one other illustration from linocuts by Juliet Standing. Slim small quarto. Stapled card covers. 29 1 pp. Front cover with a tiny edge chip staples a touch oxidized and lower wrap with a tiny bit of rust staining from other staples a near fine copy. John Cotton) unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 591955New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2000. Softcover. Fine. First American edition Advance Reading Copy. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. Small octavo. 169pp. Illustrated wrappers. Fine with a publishers sticker on the rear cover. The author's first book published in English. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 565685London: Stanley Paul & Co 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed later printing. Erasable owner name on front fly. Binding with modest wear and soil page edges foxed and a couple of leaves lightly so very good. Stanley Paul & Co hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 550693New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2000. Softcover. Fine. First American edition. Advance Reading Copy. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 546529New York: Atheneum 1973. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Paperback original. Parallel Spanish and English text. Just about fine in wrappers. Atheneum unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 535296Dalkey Archives Press 2001. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Translated and with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa. Trade paperback. Fine. Advance copy with the press release laid in. Dalkey Archives Press unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 328979Santa Barbara California: no publisher 1961. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Cover by Tony Guido. Octavo. 32pp. Stapled wraps with a touch of wear and soiling to the foredge and toned pages with similarly toned contributors sheet single sheet folded once to form four pages laid in near fine. A fragile poetry anthology with contributions from Robert Creeley R.D. Lancaster Curtis Zahn David Rafael Wang Anne Hyde Greet Gail Turnbull Tracy Thompson Robert Peterson W. Price Turner Lesie Daiken William J. Margolis Tom Rworth and Mary Graham Lund. (no publisher) unknown books
2008Best.-Nr. 587833Madison Wisconsin: Terrace/University of Wisconsin 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Briefly Inscribed by the editor and Signed by contributors Edmund White Ty Geltmaker Aaron Hamburger Dale Peck and Michael Klein on the title page. Terrace/University of Wisconsin hardcover books
1952Best.-Nr. 123386London: Mandrake 1952. Softcover. Good. Spring and Summer 1952 Edition. Bottom of spine torn binding is splitting at staples in a few spots but still fairly sound some staining on covers good or better in wrappers. Mandrake unknown books
1914Best.-Nr. 565689New York: John Lane Company 1914. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Octavo. 465pp. Illustrated. Contemporary New York bookseller ticket on rear pastedown. Spine a tiny bit dulled modest wear at the corners and spine ends with the bottom corners just worn through just about near fine. The interior is fine. Issued as a part of The Essex Library. John Lane Company hardcover books
1985Best.-Nr. 606725Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Translated from the Yiddish and with a prefaratory note by Eugene Orenstein. Translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein. Tall octavo. xi 411pp. Spine ends pushed else fine in a modestly worn very good dust jacket with two very short creased tears on the cover panel. The Jewish Publication Society of America hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. 92785Greefield Center NY: The Greenfield Review Press 1975. 41p. staplebound chapbook errata slip pasted inside front cover. Cover blurbs include Clarence Major Gary Snyder and William Carlos Williams. The Greenfield Review Press unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 51605New Haven: Yale University Press 1975. First edition. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. Octavo. xvi 178pp. Index and glossary. Blue dust jacket lettered in black over blue cloth gilt. Illustrated with 9 plates related to clay tablets 7 are photographs. A near fine copy. Kutscher traces the development of the literary tradition tht links the Sumerian lamentations. through nearly two millenia. Jacket Contents: Introduction: Sumerian congregational laments over the destruction of cities -- 1. The individual texts of a-ab-ba hu-luh-ha ; external data -- Textual questions -- The history of the reconstructed text in the light of the separate recensions -- Syllabic orthography -- The epithets of Enlil -- The texts. Yale University Press hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 49095New York: The Limited Editions Club 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg to near fine. 1/2000. Quarto. 59pp. 1 22 plates 1. Half beige cloth over marbled beige paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Housed in a grey paper slipcase. From a limited edition of 2000 copies numbered and signed by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Raphael Soyer on the colophon at the back. The book collects a pair of fantasy short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer. The text is accompanied by water color illustrations by artist Raphael Soyer 1899-1987. Introduction by Harry T. Moore. The final section contains 22 plates of sketched studies for the artist's illustrations in the book. A magazine clipping about Singer and a Limited Editions Club monthly letter laid. Slipcase with some smudges and stains. Spine of the book with a few small stains. Binding in very good interior in near fine condition overall. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
2001Best.-Nr. 204677Durham: Duke University Press 2001. Magazine. Six issue broken run various pagination 8.25x11 inches photos art articles literary criticism reviews very good glossy magazines in ictorial wraps. Quarterly literary and arts journal from Duke. A focus on Hispanic culture and arts. The Preview issue contains an article on John Sayles first film in Spanish. Issue 2:3 is made up of various translations of Don Quixote into English pieced together. Attractive and interesting magazine. Duke University Press unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 36037Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard 1959. Hardcover. g. Ex-library. 4to. 607pp. Green library buckram binding with gold print on spine. Decorative endpapers. Hebrew and English title pages and introductions. Posthumously published work that list references in Talmudic sources for thousands of specific topics. Each page includes 3 closely printed columns. Plate photographs of the author's notes. Text in Hebrew. Book plate from previous owner on front endpaper. Overall in good condition. Previously owned by R. Abraham J. Feldman a leading early 20th century Reform rabbi who co-founded the Jewish Ledger. Ejnar Munksgaard hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 36108Hoboken: KTAV Publishing House Inc 2000. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xiv 257pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and cover. Frontispiece b/w photograph of Alfred Jospe. A collection of essays by Alfred Jospe on Jewish life and education in the university as well as Jewish identity and thought. Alfred Jospe was a German-American rabbi who fled the Nazis right before the start of World War II. He served as one of the major leaders of the Jewish campus organization Hillel for a number of decades. Head and tail of spine bumped. Overall in very good condition. KTAV Publishing House, Inc hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 36565Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo 1973. Limited First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. 129 7pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blue cloth with facsimile signature of the artist in gilt on front cover. Laid in a print titled "Este mundo que creamos" hand-signed by Pérez Celis and dated Buenos Aires 1973. "Este mundo que creamos" can also be seen on page 61 of this book. This work is a delightful monograph on Argentine artist Pérez Celis 1939-2008 who earned international recognition for his paintings sculptures murals and engravings. It is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous color and b/w photographic reproductions of Celis' artwork. Minor shelf wear. Text in Spanish and English. DJ binding and interior in overall good to very good condition. Ediciones del Hombre Nuevo hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 32232Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1979. First edition. Hardcover. g/good. Octavo. LIII 1 373pp. Original decorative dust-jacket over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work presents the texts of the Jewish legends dealing with the coming of the Messiah and the events preceding accompanying and following his advent. These texts are excerpts from an exceedingly voluminous literature spanning three millennia beginning with early Biblical indications and concluding with Messiah legends written and Messiah dreams dreamt by modern authors. Spine of dust-jacket sunned. DJ in overall good- to good binding and interior in good to very good condition. Wayne State University Press hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 30985Columbus Ohio: Ohio Historical Society 1979. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. X 483 1pp. Original photographic wrappers over blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Marc Lee Raphael's fascinating saga of Jewish life in Columbus is peopled by women selling vegetables or chickens from garages beloved and not-so-beloved rabbis philanthropists peddlers turned merchant princes civic leaders Zionists and synagogue builders. Raphael describes the German and east European waves of immigration and the development of the Jewish community its synagogues temples and organizations; and surveys Columbus Jewry in the 1970s measuring attitudes toward Judaism politics Israel philanthropy and education. This work is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions. Previous owner's stamp on free front endpaper. Wrappers binding and interior in overall very good condition. Ohio Historical Society hardcover books
1960Best.-Nr. 19818München: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1960. Neue Folge. Softcover. g. 8vo. 8544pp. Original wraps. Front wrapper detached but present. Creasing pulling and age toning to wraps. Pages unopened as issued. Volume XVIII of the series "Quellen und Erörterungen zur Bayerischen Geschichte. Herausgegeben von der Kommission für bayerische Landesgeschichte bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften." Introduction by Friedrich Baethgen. Fascinating collection of documents relating to Jewish life in the Bavarian city of Regensburg between 1453-1738. Text in German. Wraps in poor interior in very good condition. C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 18473NP 1933. Softcover. vg. This work is inscribed and signed in pen by the author at front wrapper: "With kind greetings. R. Edelmann." 8vo. 437-447ppp. Original wrappers. Reprint of an article published in the "Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums" whereby acclaimed publisher and Judaica curator Rafael Edelmann see below talks about unknown Jewish liturgical poems a.k.a. Pijutim more often spelled Piyyutim he discovered at a fragmental manuscript from the Library of Leningrad today's Petersburg - collection under Prof. P. Kahle. The Paytan or author of the Piyyutim was renowned Andulusian- Jewish philosopher and Hebrew poet Solomon Ibn Gabirol 1021-1058 after whom a major street in Tel-Aviv is named. Minor age wear. In German and Hebrew. Very good condition. Raphael Edelmann 1902-1972. First curator of the Judaica collection of the late David Simonsen later to become the Judaica- and Hebraica-section at the Royal Library of Copenhagen Danemark. Among Edelmann's publications were the Corpus Codicum Hebraicorum Medii Aevi and the Codices Palatini I Part I of the Parma Pentateuch and the Parma Bible. The Subject Concordance to the Babylonian Talmud was prepared by Lazarus Goldschmidtt and edited by Edelmann. NP unknown books
1946Best.-Nr. 8225New York: Komitet far der oysgabe Di Yidn in Polyn The Committee for the Publication of "The Jews in Poland"; Farlag Unser Tsait 1946. Hardcover. g. 4to. xxvii 890 pp. of double column text. Text in Yiddish. Only one volume published. Brown cloth binding with corners bumped and some wear to cover. Otherwise in good condition. Fascinating work on Polish-Jewish history divided into four chapters starting from early Jewish settlement in Poland 16th century and ending after WWI. With a foreword by the publisher and an introduction by Menes titled "der Poylishe Yid in der Yidishen Geshikhte" the Polish Jew in Jewish History. Also contains a list of printing mistales at last page. In Yiddish. Komitet far der oysgabe Di Yidn in Polyn [The Committee for the Publication of "The Jews in Poland"]; Farlag Unser Tsait hardcover books
