Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Form of Service for the Two First Nights of the Feast of Passover, with English Translation

1901

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Jos. L. Werbelowsky, 1901. New Illustrated Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderate wear to covers, especially along front joint, some loss of paper to spine, but clean and u...

Through Gentile Eyes: A Plea for Tolerance and Good

Holmes, John Haynes · 1940

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, New York (1938, 1940. . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Oddly, title page says 1938, but the copyright page says 1940. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only...

The Land Where Two Streams Flow: Music in the German-Jewish Community of Israel

Bohlman, Philip V. · 1989

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.50 | ¥2,428)

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf...

Jewish Identity in Modern Art History

Soussloff, Catherine M., ed. · 1999

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. x + 239 pp., profusely illustrated, and w...

An Artful Life: A Biography of D.H. Kahnweiler, 1884-1979

Assouline, Pierre · 1990

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated from the original French by Charles Kuos, being the first U.S. edition of an important biography of perhaps the 20th century's greatest Jewish art dealer, who traded in the wor...

Susan Weil: Full Circle; Black Mountain College Dossiers #5

Stein, Donna, ed. · 1998

$13.60 (€12.34 | £10.29 | ¥2,172)

, Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to printed, illustrated wraps, in g...

The Galaxy: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. XVII, January, 1874, to July 1874

1874

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.24 | ¥5,749)

New York, Sheldon and Company, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Galaxy Magazine, or The Galaxy (subtitled "an illustrated magazine of entertaining reading") was an American monthly magazine founded by William Conant Church (who had been a war corres...

Backlog Studies

Warner, Charles Dudley · 1878

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1878. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Twenty-one fine black-and-white illustrations by Augustus Hoppin augment this handsome little tome, including at frontis, tissue-protected, with fetching initials beginning with the first chapter,...

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture

Goodyear, Anne Collins and James W. McManus, eds. · 2009

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The M.I.T. Press, 2009. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers; not ex-library, w...

L'Enigme D'Alceste: Nouvel Aperã§U Historique, Critique Et Moral Sur le Xviie Siã¨Cle

Boulan, Gerard du [Le Pelletier le Saint-Remy · 1879

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Paris, A. Quantin, 1879. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. French language text. Fine black-and-white engraving of Moliere after a portrait by Sabastien Bourdot at frontis. Bound handsomely in marbled paper over boards, leather to tips, to spine, fiv...

Imitation de Jesus-Christ, Traduite Du Latin a Thomas A. Kempis

Kempis, Thomas A. · 1859

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Paris, Neuchatel, Chez Louis Meyer & Comp., 1859. . Hardcover. Size: 64mo 3" - 4. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy of the Nouvelle Edition, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlin...

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

Burns, Robert · 1815

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Baltimore, Maryland, F. Lucas, 1815. . Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Published with woodcuts, being of the author at frontis and another at p. 286; bound in at rear is a short review item, "Highland Mary's Bibles," and a poem invoking Robert Burns by John Greenlea...

Wolfert's Roost, and Other Papers, Now First Collected

Irving, Washington · 1855

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

New York, G.P. Putnam & CO., 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Two fetching black-and-white engravings at frontis, separated by tissue guard, "The Contented Man" and "The Cow-Boys." A B.A.L. entry (10188) and two different notes by prior owners, both pro...

Vlamische Legenden

de Coster, Charles · 1916

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,661)

Weimar, Germany, Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Bound in brown illutrated, printed paper over boards, chipped front joint near spine, cracking to front paste-dow...

Poetry/la

Friedland, Helen, ed. · 1984

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Los Angeles, California, Peggor Press, 1984. First Edition. . Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A good-looking, structurally sound copy of an issue of a then premier L.A.-based poetry magazine, edited by Helen Friedland, and featuring original works by Nan Hunt, Kenneth Lincoln, Barbara Str...

Tomorrow Is a Day: A Story of the People in Politics

Beecher, John · 1980

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Chicago, Vanguard Books, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the wife, Barbara Beecher, of the author, John Beecher, signed for both of them in San Francisco on February 1, 1981. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy,...

Happy Families

Maloff, Saul · 1968

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, being inscribed to the Bay Area poet, Nan Hunt, penned by the then Books Editor at Newsweek. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally c...

Lillian Smith, a Southerner Confronting the South

Loveland, Anne C. · 1986

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Southern Biography Series. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainde...

A Jongleur Strayed: Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane

Le Gallienne, Richard · 1922

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.50 | ¥2,428)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. SIGNED by the author at page of limitation, noting that this is Copy #488 of 1,500 copies ...

Amado Nervo: Mexico's Religious Poet

Wellman, Esther Turner · 1936

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York, Instituto de las Espanas, en los Estados Unidos, 1936. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Printed wraps are a bit worn, lightly soiled, some chipping along edges, spine slightl...