New Mexico's Crypto-Jews by Herz Cary, Photographer - 2009: Image and Memory

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 298 pp. Brown cloth binding with black titles. Spine cloth darkened, spine titles faded but clear, spine ends frayed, light soiling to covers, corners bumped, interior toned, spine a bit shaky but hinges and text secure, corner of page 9 torn off not affecting text, text clean, prior owner's pencil signature on front endpaper. Yezierska's first book, a collection of short stories previously published in magazines, and later made into a movie, about Jewish immigrant ghetto life on the Lower East Side of New York. Scarce first printing of author's first book.

New York: Columbia University, 1917. First edition. Near very good condition; Paper tape repair to title page.. Columbia University Oriental Studies Series, Vol. XI; 125 pages. Professor Efros was a Rabbi, Hebrew poet, professor of semantics at University of Buffalo and, later, rector of Tel Aviv University. He also translated many of the great English poets into Hebrew.

HARD TO FIND! The Family Moskat. A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Copyright 1950 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY. VG/VG green and orange original dust jacket is included. Translated from the Yiddish by A.H. Gross.

The Book House for Children, n. 1947. Hardcover. Good+. The Book House for Children, 1947. Good+. Wonderful set of art nouveau/ art deco style illustrations .. great reading for kids , great art books for adults

n. 1974. Soft cover. Good. 1974 Soft cover Good hippie counter culture newspaper

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 298 pp. Brown cloth binding with black titles. Spine cloth darkened, spine titles faded but clear, spine ends frayed, light soiling to covers, corners bumped, interior toned, spine a bit shaky but hinges and text secure, corner of page 9 torn off not affecting text, text clean, prior owner's pencil signature on front endpaper. Yezierska's first book, a collection of short stories previously published in magazines, and later made into a movie, about Jewish immigrant ghetto life on the Lower East Side of New York. Scarce first printing of author's first book.

New York: Columbia University, 1917. First edition. Near very good condition; Paper tape repair to title page.. Columbia University Oriental Studies Series, Vol. XI; 125 pages. Professor Efros was a Rabbi, Hebrew poet, professor of semantics at University of Buffalo and, later, rector of Tel Aviv University. He also translated many of the great English poets into Hebrew.

Rotterdam: Regner Leers, 1686, 1686. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved emblematic titlepage + folding portrait + large folding Maps of Holy Land, City of Jerusalem, plan of Temple area + 2 half page maps. . Two Volumes folio, vellum on 6 raised bands with blind ruled spine tails and double panels with 4 foliated corner tools & large baroque centerpiece with interlaces (repair to Vol II at head & foot of spine, part of one corner ornament lost, tips bumped and some marks). Engraved title + printed title with woodcut Leers printer's mark +[29]pp prelims + [58]pp life of Lightfoot etc. +804pp + [52]pp index & blank; Vol. II Printed title with same woodcut printer's mark +[8]pp half title & preface +940pp +[60]pp index. Printed shoulder notes and a few foliated initials and many Hebrew words in the text. A few faulty paginations but all signatures and catch words follow correctly so complete. Book plate of Writer's Library to both front free endpapers but no stamps or other library marks. A few edges… Read More

HARD TO FIND! The Family Moskat. A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Copyright 1950 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY. VG/VG green and orange original dust jacket is included. Translated from the Yiddish by A.H. Gross.

Octavo, paper boards, 22 x 15 cm, [viii], 132 pages; backstrip chipped, paper toned and a little brittle, with torn title page and occasional chipping, decent condition overall. Half-tone photos throughout.A very evocative guide book to "Jewish excursions" in Frankfurt and Hessen, dedicated to "My wife, Bertha Lilienthal, née Fuchs. My hiking companion on rocky roads." The preface is dated almost exactly a year before Kristallnacht. The author was the chief cantor at the main synagogue in Wiesbaden. He and his wife fled to Amsterdam in June 1939. He was transported to Theresienstadt in 1943 and murdered in October 1944. His wife's exact fate is unknown.