Bloch Chayim (36 results)

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. Binding tight and square, Covers have some small amount of creasing to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Soft-cover in white illustrated wraps has light rubbing and some light staining to covers, slightly discolored tape to spine and quarter-inch each side, tight and unmarked. Date stamp May 19 1979 on title page, name stamp inside front cover. Subtitle on title page, 'Legends of the Ghetto of Prague'. 36 tales, plus notes by the translator and Hans Ludwig Held, and an introduction. A solid copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. CLEAN COPY.

Paperback. Condition: New condition. Facsimile edition. Kessinger Publishing, 1997. NEW and unread in near PERFECT condition. The cover has only a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear (like you sometimes find in any new book store). NO chips, tears or fading. Bright and shiny. Flat, uncreased spine. Square and tight. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Biographical profile of the author by Harry Schneiderman (pages 13-24). Prefatory Note by Hans Ludwig Heid. Bound in the original orange yellow and white wraps, lettered in black. Oversize Softcover. 8.25" wide by 11" tall. This large book may require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for International shipments, but only the standard charge for priority or media mail. Facsimile edition. Oversize Softcover. New condition. 244pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st English Translation. Slight edge wear. No dust jacket. Name inside. 1st English Translation.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Translated by Harry Schneiderman. Discoloration to white paperback due to age and use. Interior is clean.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Hardcover / No jacket / Blue Denim colored boards with red lettering / Text: English /No publishing info beyond original 1925 date/ Translated from the German by Harry Schneiderman with prefatory note by Hans Ludwig Held.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Trans. by Harry Schneiderman. Illustrated. Hardback. Binding Loose. Reading Copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st thus. Prefatory note by Hans Ludwig Held. 244 pages + one-page list of other titles published by Steiner. Moderate handling wear, light soil, sticker (covering price) to top left corner of front cover. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: VG+. Paperback Original; 1st Printing. Light edgewear, rubbing; Tight binding, clean cover. Solid copy. Paperback first edition ; Mass market paperback; 244 p.

Condition: New.

Paperback, 28 cm, 244 pp. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 0766101118.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 12mo in dark blue wraps. Corners slightly rubbed, front cover slightly loose, gilded print on spine rubbed off. Property of Shaare Zedek stamped in inside cover. First Edition. This is Bloch's famous work that popularized the Golem in modern Jewish culture.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: g to g+. Octavo. 247 (1)pp., 10 plates. Textured blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Collection of legends surrounding the character of the Golem of Prague, a man of clay supposedly brought to life by means of a cabalistic ceremony by Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague. In some of the popular accounts the Golem's purpose was to patrol the Jewish ghetto to guard against Christians attempting to frame Jews with blood libel accusations. Illustrated with ten b/w reproductions of photographs and artwork. Translated by Harry Schneiderman with prefatory note by Hans Ludwig Held. Text in English, translated from the German. Binding with light wear along edges, spine sunned. Light pencil markings on title page, inked number on in lower left margin of dedication page. Some remnants of removed paper on inside back cover. Binding and interior in overall good to good+ condition.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 12mo, 247 pages, black cloth, tender front hinge, tight, bright. The Golem, the legendary Jewish bogeyman. Translated by Harry Schneiderman. The stories here originally appeared in 1917 in "Oesterreichischen Wochenschrift". "One feels a kind of rapture in reading these stories. I think that the same longing for deliverance, which led our ancestors to the compiling of such beautiful tales, also transports us into a beautiful dream, makes us forget the terrible truth and thus we feel so happy in the reading of such tales!" - Dr. Isaac Alcalay, Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia. With ten plates, including "The Golem" by Georg Jilovsky. This text shows the signs of having been printed by a non-English speller. Bloch had traveled to America to raise the funds to have this edition produced from the German original. First English Language Edition, regular state.…

Condition: VG. Vienna 1925 first edition. Vernay. Hardcover sm octavo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Translated from the German by Harry Schneiderman. Preface note by Hans Ludwig Held. 247pp. illustrated and tissue guards present.cloth. VG hinges not cracked; binding secure. no owner marks; no dj.…

Trans. by Harry Schneiderman. Illustrated. Hardback. Bookplate. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. First Edition. VG/1st ed. (U.S) Wonderful and mystical legends of the Golem, in this case, created by Rabbi Loew to protect the Jews in the Prague Ghetto from crimes comitted by non-Jews and blamed on them. These legends were translated by Harry Schneiderman with prepatory note by Hans Ludwig Held. The book is clean and tightly and securely bound. No marking or foxing. Sweet inscription to previous owner---this was a present for good Religous School attendence 1935-1936. Ten inserted b&w plates fronted with tissue paper. Spine has faded to a light gold color with black lettering on front and spine. Small dent to cover under title. 247 pages, with Table of Contents and Illustrations listed last in book. A quite remarkable book.…

Trans. by Harry Schneiderman. Illustrated. Hardback. Good Condition.