Arthur Szyk; Cecil Roth Ed (19 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Text in English and Hebrew. Dust jacket is scuffed and top and bottom edges are lightly bumped. Corners of fabric cover spine are very lightly bumped, but binding is tight, Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Text in English and Hebrew. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed; bottom spine edge is rubbed and bottom front corner has a half-inch aesthetic tear. Back board is detached from end leaf at spine edge but is otherwise secure. Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Szyk (illustrator). First Thus. Some marking to faux red velvet covers; gift inscription on inside front cover; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectable condition; no date given. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). Massadah and Alumoth, London, UK 1962. Unpaginated pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Has slipcase in good condition. Size: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.1. Religion::Judaism Judaica::Religion 6142L.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color illus. by Arthur Szyk, 11 x 8.75", gilt-dec blue "velvet", unpaginated, covers rubbed, bottom of spine torn, hinges loose, textblock cracked else a nice copy in a worn and creased, pictorial slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color illus. by Arthur Szyk, 11 x 9", gilt-lettered and gilt-dec blue felt, unpaginated, covers a little rubbed but still a nice, clean copy in the worn leatherette backed blue-cloth clamshell case. Decorative cloth binding. Text in English with some Hebrew in illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Arthur Szyk (illustrator). Quarto in blue velvet covered, beveled boards, with Kiddush goblet in gilt on both covers. Unpaginated. Frenchfold. Introduction on the history of the Haggadah and its illustration by Cecil Roth. Jewel-like intricate colored illustrations and text by Arthur Szyk to every page. Fine, housed in a clamshell box wth Kiddush cup in gilt, and lined in matching blue velvet. Light sunning to top edge of box, else fine. A magnificent work. Arthur Szyk was a proud Polish Jew and Zionist; his anti-Nazi posters and cartoons were famous during WWII.

Condition: Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. 4 pp., Folded Page, Very Good with some creasing, minor edge wear, minor stains. Illustrations, color plates.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Arthur Szyk (illustrator). First Thus. Blue Velvet covered boards with gold Lettering taped in is a typed letter stating : to Larry Urbach on His Bar Mitzavah with a poem explaining the importance of Bar Mitzvah dated 1965. The Book is fine the clam shell slipcase is that is Very good with a dent to the front board and a scratch to the rear board. Assumed first. Text in English and Hebrew. Book.

220x175 mm. Unpaginated. Hardcover. Cover slightly stained. Few pages age stained. Title page edges slightly worn. Pencil inscription on few pages. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition. The book is in : Hebrew English.

225x185mm. Unpaginated. Gilt hardcover. Cover rubbed and slightly faded. Spine faded and slightly rubbed. Spine edges slightly bumped. Text block edges slightly stained. Inner cover slightly yellowing and slightly age stained. Few pages slightly age stained - no damage to text. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. The book is in : Hebrew English.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Szyk art (illustrator). 1st thus. FINE book in NEAR FINE clamshell. "MINT" text & artwork. Gilt goblet on both covers & clamshell top. 11"x9", unpaginated. Flawless but for bkplt. Gilt of goblets 100% intact, no flaking, as frequently the case. Clamshell edges & extrems with minor rubbing. FINE book. 1st thus. Blue velvet book covers. Bkplt on fep.

IN HEBREW AND ENGLISH. 22.5X27.5 cm. Pages not numbered. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. Spine slightly wrinkled at top. Else in great condition. The book is in : Hebrew English.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. This is an absolutely beautiful copy, with silver metal boards inlayed with turquoise jewels and embossed illustrations. Pages profusely illustrated in color. Fine, in original box.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. 1962 Massadah" and "Alumoth" issue. Szyk illustrated English and Hebrew Haggadah in faux blue velour binding in matching lined clamshell. (' x 11". "Front" board features a 6" x 8" three dimensional plaque representing the ten commandments under a crown adorned with turquoise stones. Book looks unread, clam shell shows hint of shelf wear. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Later printing. Quarto. Unpaginated (56 double-leaved pages). Blue faux velvet binding in gold-lined three-quarter black cloth over blue cloth clamshell box with blue faux velvet lining. Beveled edges. Front and rear of book as well as front of clamshell box decorated with gold-stamped Kiddush Goblet motif, gold-embossed decoration on spine of box. Inside of front and back board illustrated with b/w reproduction of a drawing by Szyk. Color frontispiece. English & Hebrew title-pages. "It has been left to a contemporary, Arthur Szyk, to rediscover the secret and to revive the art - not in terms of Jewish books alone, for his reputation is co-extensive with the book-loving world. To call him the greatest illuminator since the sixteenth-century is no flattery. It is the simple truth which becomes manifest to any person who studies his work with the care it deserves. Alone perhaps among modern artists (for he is an artist above all) Szyk considers his art in the terms of books, and books in the terms of his art. He does not illuminate a page, as many before him have attempted to do, considering it to be a unit in itself. He thinks of each page in its relation to the text and to the volume, integrating calligraphy, illumination, illustration and narrative into one harmonious whole. It is in this, even more than in the exquisite perfection of his work, that he inherits the spirit of his medieval precursors.Szyk sees the Haggadah as a unity. He worked upon it between 1932 and 1938, when the greatest perhaps of all the tragedies in its millennial history overwhelmed the Jewish people. It was natural therefore for him to be absorbed in that wonderful passage, the keynote of the whole ritual: It is this Devine pledge that hath stood by our fathers and by us also. Not only one man hath risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation have men risen against us to destroy us. But the Holy One (Blessed be He!) delivereth us always from their hand." Profusely illustrated with reproductions of exquisite illuminations and drawings by Szyk in brilliant rich colors. Text in English and Hebrew. Clamshell box in very good, binding in near fine, interior in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to near fine. Later printing. Quarto. Unpaginated (56 double-leaved pages). Blue faux velvet binding in gold-lined three-quarter black cloth over blue cloth clamshell box with blue faux velvet lining. Beveled edges. Front and rear of book as well as front of clamshell box decorated with gold-stamped Kiddush Goblet motif, gold-embossed decoration on spine of box. Inside of front and back board illustrated with b/w reproduction of a drawing by Szyk. Color frontispiece. English & Hebrew title-pages. "It has been left to a contemporary, Arthur Szyk, to rediscover the secret and to revive the art - not in terms of Jewish books alone, for his reputation is co-extensive with the book-loving world. To call him the greatest illuminator since the sixteenth-century is no flattery. It is the simple truth which becomes manifest to any person who studies his work with the care it deserves. Alone perhaps among modern artists (for he is an artist above all) Szyk considers his art in the terms of books, and books in the terms of his art. He does not illuminate a page, as many before him have attempted to do, considering it to be a unit in itself. He thinks of each page in its relation to the text and to the volume, integrating calligraphy, illumination, illustration and narrative into one harmonious whole. It is in this, even more than in the exquisite perfection of his work, that he inherits the spirit of his medieval precursors.Szyk sees the Haggadah as a unity. He worked upon it between 1932 and 1938, when the greatest perhaps of all the tragedies in its millennial history overwhelmed the Jewish people. It was natural therefore for him to be absorbed in that wonderful passage, the keynote of the whole ritual: It is this Devine pledge that hath stood by our fathers and by us also. Not only one man hath risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation have men risen against us to destroy us. But the Holy One (Blessed be He!) delivereth us always from their hand." Profusely illustrated with reproductions of exquisite illuminations and drawings by Szyk in brilliant rich colors. Text in English and Hebrew. Clamshell box with very light rubbing and scuffing, small light water stain on cover, overall in good, binding with minor chips, interior in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine condition. Arthur Szyk (illustrator). 40/125 on vellum. Large quarto. 59 Japan accordion-folded leaves: xxvi, [92] pp. Full blue levant morocco binding with gilt design, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Housed in three-quarter morocco, velvet lined box. One of 125 copies (no. 40) printed for sale in the United States. Signed by Arthur Szyk and the editor Cecil Roth on limitation page. Profusely illustrated with illuminations and drawings by Arthur Szyk, 48 of which are in color. Considered to be Szyk's magnus opus juxtaposing Passover narrative and Anti-Semitism during Nazi Germany. "While the miniature paintings depict historical scenes, in the text illuminations Szyk has combined figures in historical costume, characters from the east European ghetto, and young Jewish pioneers in Palestine. These figures illustrate a continuum, making the point that the struggle for freedom cannot be relegated to the past but is very much a current and contemporary concern" (Joseph P. Ansell, p. 93). Text in Hebrew and English, typefaces designed by Szyk. B. Box with light sunning at top of blue linen and lightly rubbed. Back cover linen with light water staining along gilt ruling near leather of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1967. Jerusalem: Massadah and Alumoth. 8vo. Hardcover. Illustrations by Arthur Syzk. Bound in heavy silver metal covers with stones inlaid. Pages unopened. Fine in near fine original box. Text in Hebrew and English. Scans available.