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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A copy that may have been read, minimal to no highlighting/underlining of text, no missing pages. May have a remainder mark. Spine may show signs of wear. Could be a library copy.

Early reprint likely circa 1855 (first published by Lane & Scott in 1849). Collates as 3-66 pages. Hardcover: H 15cm x L 9.75cm. Contemporary cloth stained and soiled; cloth loss at frayed spine ends and at board edges; flaking and dulling to spine's gilt decoration but with gilt title lettering still legible. Foxing, staining, and soiling to leaves; mostly erased/faded pencil writing on pastedowns but other pencil writing/scribbling scattered amongst text leaves. Front and rear free endpapers and perhaps a half-title leaf missing; first leaf present (i.e. pages 3-4) is frontispiece. Only a good copy at best. OCLC dose not locate this Carlton & Porter imprint and no author is cited upon title leaf. OCLC cites the 1849 Lane & Scott edition as authored by a Methodist preacher and edited by Daniel P. Kidder.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR across the title page as follows: ¿Sincere good wishes / to you ¿ whose friendship / I cherish - / Mizpah[?] / Elizabeth Myers / To I¿m[?] / Just Beth!¿ [Her pen ran out of ink in the writing of Elizabeth, but the rest can be read from the indentations.] Illustrated with eight black and white full-page drawings by Myrtle Pepper. Laid in is a Christmas card signed ¿Beth Myers¿ which contains a handwritten Christmas poem presumably by her. Blue cloth with gilt letters on the front cover. Very minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, very slightly faded around the edges and along the spine, gilt still bright, all illustrations fine, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Elizabeth Myers was a member of the Poetry Division of the Schubert Club in Los Angeles and had several poems in their three-volume TOWERS IN THE SUN. Myrtle Peppers was also a member of the club and contributed both poems and illustrations to TOWERS IN THE SUN. Myrtle Peppers (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is an American reprint consisting of two stories bound together: "The Lost Knife", and "A Wet Afternoon" (the illustrations for which are quite similar in style). The book was published in 1884 by Dodd, Mead and Company. Again, it is a reprint . the stories (at least "The Lost Knife") were first published in England, and then there are earlier reprints issued in the United States. Indeed there are several versions of the stories . several binding variants. As we can see from the nature of the illustrations, it is obvious that the plates for the book had been frequently, and heavily used. This was typical of popular juvenile works. According to World Catalog (OCLC), Kate Greenaway contributed the illustrations for this story ("The Lost Knife"). She is not credited in this edition, but the illustrations, at least many of them, are obviously by her hand. The binding on this copy is a generic publisher's trade binding. All the same it has a charm of its own. Dressed in an embossed cloth-covered board binding, colored black on deep ultramarine (blue), the front cover design depicts a boy looking over a fence . behind him is a horse. The boy holds a riding crop. There are flowers in the foreground, and birds roost in the rafters above. The title is lettered in black beneath the boy. In the upper right corner of the front cover is a generic paper paste-down chromolithographic illustration depicting a lovely young girl. TITLE : "The Lost Knife" - bound with - "The Wet Afternoon" AUTHOR : Anonymous - [ but: Richard Handy, as per World Catalog ] ILLUSTRATED : [ Kate Greenaway - As per World Catalog . she is not credited anywhere in this edition] IMPRINT : Dodd, Mead and Company PLACE : New York DATE : (1884) EDITION : American Reprint PHYSICAL DETAILS : Small trade hardcover; Contains numerous line illustrations; 48 pages; 4 1/4" x 6 3/8"; deep ultramarine, cloth-covered boards; the front board is embossed with the details stamped in black. There is a chromolith paper paste-down (color illustration) in the top right corner of the front board, depicting a pretty lass dressed in shawl and bonnet. The rear cover is blank. The spine is blank. The title is lettered in black on the front. CONDITION - GOOD ONLY - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and serviceable. The book has seen much use and has cracked hinges and is considerably shaken. However no leaves are detached, and the whole remains clean and attractive, use considered EXTERIOR : Spine extremities are compressed and moderately abraded, with fraying just starting. Joints are rubbed.Modest surface rub to boards; corner tips are softly bumped. Board edges have a few small nicks. The text-block edges are darkened. BINDING : Much read, the text-block is shaken and hinges cracked, revealing binding thread. No leaves are detached, but the whole is considerably loosened. INTERIOR : Scattered small smudges and spots. Paper throughout is toned. No writing, scribbling or markings. Lacks a rear free end-paper. Kate Greenaway (illustrator).…

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Single-sided folded yellow paper sheet. Full dimensions: H 21.7cm x L 9.2cm. OCLC notes poem of 8 stanzas of 8 lines each - however this sheet has, after a prefatory five-line paragraph, a seven stanza poem of 4-4-6-6-6-6-4 lines respectively. Sheet extracted from a book with an 1867 inscription of a Memphis, Tennessee and Oxford, Mississippi dual resident so perhaps two locations of printing possibility and an approximate date. Extrapolating from the OCLC citations, it seems that "The Blind Woman's Appeal" may well have become a generic handout for those afflicted by sight loss and left to panhandling and thus variations/versions migrated around the country during 1860s-1870s. OCLC also notes "A similar work was published, with appropriate gender changes, under [the] title: 'The Blind Man's Appeal.'".…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1184 pages. 6.69x2.31x9.61 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket, as Issued. (4), 176 Pages. 148 x 96 mm. With many steel engravings. Penciled faintly on front free end paper: Hours Toues. Worn 3/4 leather binding with gilt lettering on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. First edition. Octavo. x, 158pp. Indices and bibliography. Forest green cloth stamped in gilt, publisher's device on front cover. An ex-library copy with minimal rubber stamping on title & at bottom of text block, and a library pocket on rear pastedown. Contents: Preliminary Material /; Francis T. Fallon --; Introduction /; Francis T. Fallon --; The Relationship of the Two Accounts : A Common Tradition /; Francis T. Fallon --; The Sabaoth Account in NatArch /; Francis T. Fallon --; The Sabaoth Account in OnOrgWld /; Francis T. Fallon --; Conclusion /; Francis T. Fallon --; Select Bibliography /; Francis T. Fallon --; Indices /; Francis T. Fallon. Volume 10 of the Brill series, "Nag Hammadi Studies." (N.H.S.). …

1st Russian Edition. Original wrappers with green and blue printing, 8vo, 241 pages. 22 cm. In Russian. Title translates as, "A Reply to Bernstein: (Anti-Criticism)." Liebman Hersch's copy, with his ownership stamp, "L. Hersch." on the front cover and title page. Karl Johann Kautsky (1854-1938) was a "Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theorist. A leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Second International, Kautsky advocated orthodox Marxism, which emphasized the scientific, materialist, and determinist character of Karl Marx's work. This interpretation dominated European Marxism for two decades, from the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914." Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) was a "German social democratic Marxist theorist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Bernstein had held close association to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but he began to identify what he believed to be errors in Marxist thinking and began to criticize views held by Marxism when he investigated and challenged the Marxist materialist theory of history. He rejected significant parts of Marxist theory that were based upon Hegelian metaphysics and rejected the Hegelian perspective of an immanent economic necessity to socialism. Bernstein was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg to Jewish parents who were active in the Reform Temple on the Johannistrasse whose services were performed on Sunday" (Wikipedia). Liebman Hersh (1882-1955), aka Pesach Liebmann Hersch, "was a professor of demography and statistics at the University of Geneva, and an intellectual of the Jewish Labor Bund, whose pioneering work on Jewish migration achieved international recognition in the period after the First World War. Liebmann Hersch was born in the small Lithuanian town of Pamu?is.Liebmann's father was a maskil and a journalist who published articles in various Hebrew journals, including Ha-Maggid and Ha-Melitz. Liebmann Hersch studied mathematics at the University of Warsaw. Because of his involvement in anti-Czarist political activity Hersch was eventually forced to flee Warsaw. He moved to Geneva in 1904. In 1905 he joined the Jewish socialist party-the General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Yiddish: Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund), also known as the Jewish Labor Bund, or simply the Bund-that had been founded in 1897. Influenced by the debates within the Bund about the economic and political future of the Jews in Eastern Europe, Hersch pursued research on the causes and characteristics of Jewish emigration.In connection with his Bundist activities, Hersch published articles on political and social issues in the Yiddish, Polish and Russian press, with a focus on emigration and the problems of Jewish nationalism.he wrote his book Immigration to and Emigration from Palestine, published in Warsaw in Yiddish in 1928, and subsequently translated into French. In 1931 Hersch's article "International Migration of the Jews," which became a classic work on the topic, appeared in the collection International Migrations (volume 2), edited by Walter Willcox and Imre Ferenczi, and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York. In the 1930s Hersch's research mainly comprised statistical and quantitative analyses of the conditions under which Jews lived. In 1937 he published a study in Yiddish comparing Jewish and non-Jewish crime in Poland, which appeared in Vilna in 1937. During World War II, Hersch was active on behalf of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, and those who had taken refuge in Switzerland, and was a representative on the American Jewish Labor Committee. He was also a member of the executive council of the World ORT. In 1954 Hersch was elected as chair of the World Population Conference of the United Nations (the fourth international conference for demography and statistics), held in Rome. At that time he was also president of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population" (Wikipedia). OCLC: 48061320. OCLC locates only 2 copies worldwide (Columbia and YIVO), none outside New York City. Bit of edgewear to front cover corners, more at spine. Stain on title page, many pages unopened. Good Condition. Nice association and rare. (B) (YID-44-13).…

1st edition. Original color-printed paper wrappers with later lamination, 12mo 241 pages. 19cm. In French. Title translates as: "Kosher: Jewish Cuisine, Modern Ghettos." Book was later re-issued under the less controversial title, "The Jews of Poland; Recollections and Recipes." Rebecca Miller discussed the book at length in the Jewish Forward in 2013: "De Pomiane (1875-1964), a physician, was also one of the most famous chefs and cookery writers of his day. Born Eduard Pozerski, he was born into the Polish aristocracy, brought up poor but refined. Both his parents were Polish patriots who fought against Russian domination of their homeland; his mother fled to France with the young Eduard when his father was deported to Siberia for insurrection against the Russians. Coming of age within the close-knit community of Polish exiles in Paris, he was sympathetic to liberal causes and was a proponent of the Dreyfus cause. His ethnographic book about Polish Jewish culture and cooking, written in 1928, was originally entitled 'Cuisine Juive; Ghetto Modernes' ('Jewish Cooking; Modern Ghettos'). It is, perhaps, the weirdest book I have ever read. A tantalizingly vague recipe for Carpe a la Juive ('Take a large, live carp. Kill it.') follows a horrifying description of a pogrom, relayed to de Pomiane by a museum guide who had survived the massacre by hiding under a heap of hay in which his sister suffocated overnight: 'A corpse, belly ripped open, lay with its guts wrapped around its neck.A child wandered aimlessly, haggard, mute, crazed, its body beaten to a pulp.' In de Pomiane's writing, appreciative paragraphs about the accomplishment of certain refined Jews rub shoulders with unwittingly racist pseudo-science. 'I observed as a biologist.wrote as a scientist,' claims de Pomiane, as he cheerfully divides all male Jews into three types: 'The dark-haired Jew, with a long beard and a delicate, aquiline nose. His lips are often thin, his ears lie flat against his head. His eyes are deep, almost mystical. He is less excitable than the others. It could be said that he belongs to an ethnic aristocracy. He has an Egyptian profile.' 'This type is also dark-haired, and much more common. His beard is black, shorter, his eyes are bulging and bloodshot, his nose is squat, his lips are thick and very red.This is the excitable Jewish type. When he laughs, he sniggers. The face, overall, has a cruel and bestial appearance. Certainly this type of Jew would frighten a child in France, even if that child were himself Jewish.' 'A third, and rarer, type is completely red-headed. The beard is shorter and divided in two. He has the same negroid facial characteristics as the preceding type. The lips look even thicker and frame the teeth with two red borders of equal size. Although they are red, the peyes look brown from being rolled, twisted, and curled between fingers that are constantly being licked.' Having provided us with this helpful diagram of Jewish types, he takes us on a tour of Jewish Poland, beginning with Kazimierz, the Jewish Ghetto in Crakow since the Middle Ages: The whole place seems fairly, and in some places, extremely, poverty-stricken. The more so since the population is dirty and strange. In Kazimierz, everyone dresses in black, everyone rushes about in a hurry, they all bustle about irritably, pushing, shouting, arguing. One would think the whole city was in the grip of some nervous disease. De Pomiane believes that these poor, nervous Jews give us a sense of what the tribes of Israel must have been like, 'these people who when settled among us became the educated and refined individuals with whom we are familiar.' So, De Pomiane argues, the less 'Jew-y' the Jews are, the more European, the more refined they are-and hence, it seems, equal to non-Jews. Unfortunately in only a few years there was no refinement that could save a Jew in Poland, or indeed, France: being Jewish was considered a racial fact, not a cultural subtlety. But de Pomiane's distinctions are fascinating because they are being spouted by a man who was actually sympathetic to Jewish culture. De Pomiane's observations are strikingly detailed. Describing the typical kaftan, he states, 'they wear a long black cloth gown which descends to their feet. It is not waisted like an overcoat, but is slightly fuller. Two rows of buttons secure it over the chest. This kaftan is quite high-necked.' And then, he describes a head-covering that can be found in contemporary Williamsburg: 'Older Jews wear black hats of brushed felt. These head-coverings are worn very far forward, a little over the eyes, because on the crown of the head, under the hat, they wear a little black scull-cap.' He speaks of prostitution: 'Just as in the Orient, one sees in the streets of Cracow and Warsaw, Jews attempting to draw in the passerby to admire a supposed daughter or niece.' And the book is not short of anecdotes: a friend of de Pomiane's was tempted by an old man who spoke of a girl 'as beautiful and fresh as a mountain stream.' Tantalized, he followed the old man into an ancient house and through a rather dark and very smelly courtyard. 'The Jew opened a door; my friend entered a room which was quite clean and saw a young girl in profile.' She was a perfect beauty. Then she turned to face him and he saw that one of her eyes had been gouged out. When he left in a panic, the old man cried, 'It wasn't for an eye that you followed me here!' De Pomiane takes us to a stylish health resort called Zakopane. There, de Pomiane finds a lot of rich Jews. 'What is so surprising?' he asks. 'They alone.engage in trade. They alone are rich, and they alone can afford to vacation in Zakopane.' Spending time with these wealthy, assimilated Jews, Pomiane is amazed at their patriotism. A doctor he met 'defended both Zakopane and the whole of Poland.he was a proud Polish nationalist. There are men like these among Jewish intellectuals who have achieved a certain status in life. havi.…

First edition. Original paper wrappers, 8vo, 7 pages, 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as "About the Bund in Poland: Facts and Figures in Connection with the Attack of the Poale Tsiyon on the Jewish Workers' Committee." Published by the Bundishn klub in New York, established in 1923 as an organization which would support the work of the Bund in Poland materially and ideologically. This pamphlet covers the organization's historical feud with Poale Tsion, the Marxist Zionist political party within Poland. "The rapid development of socialist movements in Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Bund's emphatic rejection of Zionism in 1901, and the Russian Revolution of 1905 hastened the consolidation of disparate Labor Zionist groups into an organized movement. These groups rejected the view of the Bund's founders that socialism and democracy sufficed to solve the Jewish problem and stressed that only a territorial base in Palestine could allay the economic marginality and abnormality of Diaspora Jewry. In Russia in 1906, [Ber] Borokhov founded the Jewish Social Democratic Workers Party-Po'ale Tsiyon. This party followed his 'prognostic Zionism,' outlined in the 1906 pamphlet 'Nasha platforma' (Our Platform) that stressed the role of objective socioeconomic factors and crises rather than Jewish nationalism and pioneering zeal in establishing a Jewish territorial base in Palestine (Borokhov himself later changed his views and embraced the "principled" Zionism that 'Nasha platforma' rejected)." (YIVO) SUBJECT(S): Socialism. Jewish socialists. OCLC: 122989580. OCLC locates only 3 copies worldwide (YIVO, Harvard, NYBC), none outside the Northeast. Light markings to cover, some cornerwear, Very Good- Condition. Scarce. (PSB-1-25).…

1st edition. Original silver printed tooled boards, 4to (large), 84, 68 pages. Includes many photo portraits, lists of names, and advertisements. 30 cm. In Yiddish and English. Title on added title page: "Anniversary journal. Published at a time of great anxiety for all who had Jewish family in Poland, this book clearly celebrates a successful landsmanshaft and its current leaders and members. But it is certainly also a focal point for rallying support to assist more family members and other immigrants from the old country who need to be brought to America for safety. Amshinov is a small town in Poland, about 30 miles southwest of Warsaw, by the name of Mszczonow was known to its Jewish residents by its easier-to-pronounce Yiddish name, Amshinov. "The town possessed a vibrant Jewish community, and it was once the center of the Hasidic Amshinov dynasty (Mszczonów being pronounced as "Amshinov" in Yiddish.) According to the 1921 census, the town had a population of 5,014, of which 80.1% declared Polish nationality and 19.7% declared Jewish nationality. During the invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded by Nazi Germany.In late 1940, about 2,000 Jews were concentrated in a ghetto that was set up in the town, from which they were marched to Zyrardów in February 1941. From there, they were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto" (WIkipedia) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- New York -- Societies, etc. -- Poland -- Amschenov -- History. OCLC: 27808741. OCLC locates only 3 copies worldwide, all on the US East Coast (NYPL, YIVO, UFlorida), none at any Ivy League Institutions. Very Good Condition, an excellent copy. Rare and very displayable (BER-1-2).…