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1982ref. 70276Chicago: Regnery Gateway. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. Cloth. 0895265974 . Edition in Fine condition in like dust-jacket; The History of the Jewish People: The Late Middle Ages is an exhaustive history of the Jewish people from the late Middle Ages to the modern era. The book covers a vast array of topics from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal in 1492 to the Holocaust. Shulvass provides a detailed analysis of key events and figures as well as their impact on the Jewish people. This comprehensive work is essential reading for anyone interested in Jewish history and culture.; Vol. 3; 8vo; 325 pages . Regnery Gateway hardcover books
1921ref. 73185Washington: Government Printing Office 1921. First separate edition extracted from the Proceedings of the United States National Museum vol. 59 no. 2371 8vo pp. 2 291-347 1; 48 plates at the back; very good sound and clean copy in original printed gray wrappers. Government Printing Office unknown books
2000ref. 9015664New York: Knopf 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket. Knopf hardcover books
1953ref. 168613New York: Galerie St. Etienne 1953. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition which ran from April through May of 1953 at Galerie St. Etienne. With black-and-white reproductions of Moses' work. Outsider artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known as "Grandma Moses" began painting in earnest at the age of 78 drawing on her memories of rural life in New England. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. Galerie St. Etienne unknown books
1990ref. RBENGOS00drpMorning Star 1990. Very Good. Bennett Joshua Moses. The Gospel of the Great Spirit. Salt Lake City: Morning Star 1990. 661pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with bumped foot of spine. Decorative marbled pastedowns. Morning Star unknown books
1968ref. 32252New York: KTAV Publishing House Inc 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. g. Quarto. LXV 3 314 2 208pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Originally published in 1924 this remarkable work is a collection of more than 300 Hebrew stories – the largest collection of its kind compiled in the Middle Ages – so entitled by M. Gaster who discovered them in manuscript. Each story is related in content and ideas with those preceding and following it thus forming an interconnected chain of stories. Abraham's search for the true God for instance is preceded by the story of his destruction of the idols and subsequent trial by Nimrod and is followed by the account of Hadrian's attempt to present himself as a god.Lower edges of binding slightly damp-stained. Lower edges of pages sporadicly and slightly rippled throughout due to damp exposure. Binding and interior in overall good condition. KTAV Publishing House, Inc hardcover books
1973ref. 47258New York: Ktav 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. vii 1 233pp. Light brown buckram boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Reprinted for the series of Dropsie College Editions on Jewish Apocryphal Literature this work reproduces the content of the famous text known commonly as "Letter of Aristeas" a Hellenistic work of the 2nd century BC. This text purportedly describes the historical account of the creation of the Greek Old Testament or Septuagint the first version of the complete Hebrew bible translated into Greek. According to the text this took place by way of a group of 72 translators from Jerusalem sent to the Library of Alexandria. The book presents the original text in Greek with its corresponding translation into English on the opposite page. Text throughout contains running footnotes comprised of bibliographic and other scholarly notes. Index at rear. Binding with some very minor rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Binding and interior in overall near fine condition. Ktav hardcover books
1937ref. 79371New York: Liveright. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. "A Complete Non-Technical Narrative-Treatise on Salt Water Gamefishes and Angling in Florida and Elsewhere." Hard-bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping on the upper cover and spine. The covers show scuffing and light soiling edge-wear and rubbing to the joints corners and spine-ends and the spine is sunned. The hinges are cracked and the text-block is loosening at a few spots - BUT the contents are bright and clean and fully illustrated and book is sound overall. . Liveright hardcover books
1949ref. 16663New York: Bloch 1949. Hardcover. g. 4to. 93b-165a 2pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Hebrew and English on opposing pages. The Mishneh Torah subtitled Yad ha-Chazaka is a code of Jewish law by one of the most important Jewish authorities Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon better known as Maimonides or by the Hebrew abbreviation RaMBaM usually written "Rambam" in English. The Mishneh Torah was compiled between 1170 and 1180 while he was living in Egypt and is regarded as Maimonides' magnum opus. It consists of fourteen books which subdivide into sections chapters and paragraphs. To this day it is the only post-Talmudic work that details all of Jewish observance including those laws which are only applicable when the Holy Temple is in place. Corners bumped spine faded. Scuffing rubbing staining to boards. Hinges starting back board. In Hebrew and English. Good condition. R. Moses Maimonides Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj Kitab al-Fara'I a book on precepts and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. Bloch hardcover books
1974ref. 132530London: Marron Films 1974. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1974 UK release of the 1973 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos and 1 still with layout annotations. A horror-comedy about a reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the US President. He is sent to Hungary where he is bitten by a werewolf and then gets transferred back to Washington. Suddenly the murder rate in Washington DC escalates. 8 x 10 inches. A few ink annotations on the versos and faint discoloration to 2 stills else Near Fine. Marron Films unknown books
1909ref. 37050D. Appleton & Co 1909. ALCOTT Louisa May. MOSES Belle. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: DREAMER AND WORKER. NY: D. Appleton & Co. 1909. 8vo. embossed brown cloth stamped in white. First Edition. Very Good some wear white stamping on spine gone but still quite nice on front cover. $45.00. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
1977ref. 035820n.p.: Woodland Graphics. 1977. Signed limited edition broadside of this poem. Copy No. 23 of 300 copies signed by the author. 8" x 13". Shallow lower corner crease. Folded in half; near fine. Scarce: perhaps someone noticed the misspelling in the title before all copies were issued. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. No Binding. Near Fine. Woodland Graphics unknown books
1955ref. 79520Daytona Beach FL.: College Publishing Co. Very Good. 1955. Hardcover. Ex-Library with the usual markings. This book is hard-bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping on the upper cover and spine. The covers show light soiling and light sunning to the edges and spine. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. . College Publishing Co. hardcover books
1959ref. 1398773New York: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc 1959. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xxxv 632 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Age toned tan spine with dark green lettering. Dust jacket has moderate age toning along the spine and edges and tears to the spine head/tail head fore corners tears along the spine and head fore corners and a pencil mark along the front cover. Boards have minor bumping to spine tail and minor wear to edges. Textblock has mild age toning along the edges and a small stain along the fore edge of page 186. Shelved in Room A. 1398773. Special Collections. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc hardcover books
1970ref. 32732Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers 1970. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 3 of 5 volumes. 8vo. 1036pp. 906pp. 876pp. Original ivory cloth with gold lettering on cover and red title-label. Anointed edition of the Old Testament. Includes Pentateuch and Prophet sections. Text in Hebrew. Covers foxed. Heads and tails of spines slightly bumped. Interior leaves in very good condition. Am Oved Publishers hardcover books
1901ref. 266452St. Paul: E. W. Porter 1901. hardcover. good. Illus. 456pp. 8vo maroon cloth corners worn on bottom edges and bumped cloth lightly soiled. St. Paul: E. W. Porter 1901. Compiled and enlarged form the author's "Early History of Dakota Territory in 1866." E. W. Porter unknown books
2023ref. 16803New York: Scribner 2023. Paperback. Very good . Paperback. Signed by Agustina Bazterrica in ink to bookplate at front endpaper. Third Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". x 154pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm tight and sound. A very presentable signed early printing of this collection of stories from the award-winning author of Tender is the Flesh. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An NPR Best Book of 2023 A collection of nineteen dark wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica this collection of nineteen brutal darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence alienation and dystopia Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex unexpected ways-often unsettling sometimes thrilling and always profound. In "Roberto" a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman's neighbor jumps to his death in "A Light Swift and Monstrous Sound" and in "Candy Pink" a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five easy steps. Written in Bazterrica's signature clever vivid style these stories question love friendship family relationships and unspeakable desires.Publisher. Scribner paperback books
1950ref. RDELCAR00drpSecretaria de Educacion Publica Circa. 1950. Very Good. de la Fuente Angelica Castro. Cartilla Maya. Three books in one. Romero Moises. Naucalpan de Juarez: Secretaria de Educacion Publica Circa. 1950. 79 119 134pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges. Pages yellowed throughout. Secretaria de Educacion Publica unknown books
1983ref. 12410Bene Berak: Yeshivat Ohel Yosef 1983. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 448pp. Modern cloth binding. The author Rabbi Moses Feinstein was the leading judicial arbitrator of Jewish Law in the 20th Century see below. This volume is devoted to his lectures in Seder Nezikin of the Mishna including discussion of Torts property rights and inheritance. Minor age wear. In Hebrew. Very good condition. On the author source: Public Domain: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein March 3 1895–March 23 1986 was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi scholar and posek 'decisor' i.e. an arbiter of questions pertaining to Jewish law who was world-renowned for his expertise in Halakha and was regarded by many as the de facto supreme rabbinic authority for Orthodox Jewry of North America. In the Orthodox world it is universal to refer to him simply as "Reb Moshe. Yeshivat Ohel Yosef hardcover books
1923ref. 45659Berlin/London: Rimon Publishing Co 1923. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg-. Large Octavo. 54 pp. Tan cloth over illustrated tan paper boards with gilt lettering and illustration on the front cover. This monograph by Dr. Moses Gaster 1856-1939 discusses the Jewish historical tradition of the Ketubah marriage document. The book is illustrated throughout with 8 plates containing b/w and color reproductions of Ketubahs. Binding with rubbing to the extremities and some foxing and age toning to the covers. Interior with sporadic minor smudges and some light age toning to the edges of some pages. Binding in good- interior in very good- condition overall. Rimon Publishing Co hardcover books
2000ref. 614615Atlanta Georgia: Longstreet Press 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 301pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Longstreet Press hardcover books
1791ref. 37491791. 8vo. Hardcover. Very good. Rebound in faux vellum. New marbled endpapers. Original German text. This was the main philosophical work of Mendelssohn who was the first Jewish Philosopher of the modern period. It is modeled on Plato's dialogue of the same name. This edition first published after Mendelssohn's death. There is some age discoloration & some of the pages are untrimmed. This edition is over 200 years old. unknown books
1891ref. 106995Thick 8vo decorative binding with title on top cover and spine illustrated 939 pp.Joint on top cover cracked but still attached a little binding wear normal aging and browning. Massively illustrated with maps and pictures some in color.Tons of information on all things American. Moses King Corporation, books
1961ref. 34241New York: Kraus Reprint Co. 1961. Reprint. Cloth. A very good copy sunned spine light soiling along top and fore edge. xx 661 pp. Illus. with 33 b/w reproductions. Sm. 8vo. Hispanic Notes & Monographs. Essays Studies and Brief Biographies issued by the Hispanic Society of America. Hispanic American Series I. Reprint of the 1922 edition. Provenance: Library of Alberto Parreño with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Palau 183412 1st. Kraus Reprint Co. hardcover books
1899ref. 20985New York: Bartlett and Company -The ORR Press 1899. First printing. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 616 pp. Book has been expertly rebound in light blue cloth covered boards eith title written in yellow ink on spine. Entire book is filled from cover to cover with b/w facsimile photographs of important citizens of New York.Book is in overall good condition. Bartlett and Company -The ORR Press hardcover books
