Five Blind Men, First Edition (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover illustration by Robert Stanley (illustrator). First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with edgewear.

First edition Very close to fine and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Trifle age tone.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. An anthology of poetry by Harrison, Dan Gerber, George Quasha, J.D. Reed and Charles Simic. This is the issue in wrappers. Near fine. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Cover edges are worn, and there is a crease on cover. Previous owner's gift note on half-title pg. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked. Book.

Paperback. 61p., lightly-worn with heavily-foxed top edge, first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Fairly early Harrison piece from his fortchoming "Outlyer" Also very early Simic.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Octavo. Prints poems by Harrison, Dan Gerber, J.D. Reed, Charles Simic and George Quasha. Fine.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Dan Gerber on the title page. Contains a early Harrison piece from his 'Outlyer'; also very early Simic poems. Slight bumping to the corners, else Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber on the title page. Illustrated wrappers. 61 pages. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. Octavo. 61, [3] pp. Limited edition, one of 100 copies, this copy is out of series. Signed by Simic. As issued, in full cloth. Quite a fresh copy with only a faint mark on the front cover; a few leaves with marginal creasing from binding; contents clean. There was also a lettered edition which is signed by all 5 poets. This copy has been signed by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Charlie Simic on the half-title.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, clothbound issue. Octavo. 64pp. Gray cloth stamped in gold. Gilt stamping a little tarnished, else a near fine copy, issued without dust jacket. Copy 54 of 100 numbered copies, from a total printing of 126 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, clothbound issue. Octavo. 64pp. Gray cloth stamped in gold. Bottom corners a little bumped, a near fine copy, issued without dust jacket. Copy 40 of 100 numbered copies, from a total printing of 126 hardcover copies.

Sumac Press (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, gilt on front board and spine. 61 pages. Poems by Dan Gerber, Jim Harrison, George Quasha, J.D. Reed, Charles Simic. First edition limited to 126 copies, of which this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by all five of the contributors. A fine copy. Each author contributed a varying number of poems (Jim Harrison only contributed one, yet Charles Simic contributed over twn). cloth, gilt on front board and spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large quarto 27.5x22.5 cm., wrappers, (8) pp. The Omanuth or Omonut publishing house (Moscow-Odessa-Frankfurt-Tel Aviv) and its Gamiliel Library of children's literature was founded by the scion Shoshana Persitz (1894-1969), funded by her father Hillel Zlatopolskii and her husband Iosif Persitz. Shoshana was 24 when she began the press. Omanut is the Hebrew word for "art." Shoshana was deeply involved already in the Tarbut group which in 1917 vowed to restore Hebrew language, and she wanted Hebrew to be the mother tongue of Russian Jews, who were historically prosecuted and Hebrew was confined to religious texts. Persitz was inspired by the esthetics of the Mir iskusstva group of artists and to print children's books with fine works of renowned Western authors --- Lewis Carroll, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, and printed as beautifully as possible. Jewish children would thus be able to partake of best children's literature in their own language. This would be a hidur Mitzvah --- a sanctification of the world through beauty, inculcated into young Jewish readers. Originating in Moscow in 1918, Persitz was unable to print the first titles there, because the Bolsheviks nationalized her equipment. She with her family, together with the entire Tarbut group relocated in a special train provided by a German diplomat to Odessa where the press found temporary quarters. In Odessa the artist group Havarut Tzavarim was formed and connected with Omanut. It consisted of four Jewish artists who provided graphics for most of the books issued under the Gamiliel Library imprint. They decided not to attribute work to any one member, acting as a single bunt. After Odessa fell to the Soviets and the revolutionary government posed the same threat to the press there, Persitz exiled to Germany at Homburg vor der Höhe near Frankfurt, where Omanut continued to publish and release the largest number of titles of the Gamiliel Library, which were twelve in all. In 1925 the press moved from Europe to Tel-Aviv and Shoshana became a member of the Knesset. The Omanut publishing house continued to 1945 with a strong emphasis on educational texts. But the Gamliel Library was discontinued after leaving Europe and received scant attention thereafter. A beautiful chapter of Hebrew children's literature deserves to be more widely known and honor paid to this wonderful series, released in small quantities and currently held by institutions. The present work, Hamisha ivrim (Five Blind Men), An Indian folktale adapted by Tolstoi. A group of blind men encounter an elephant. Each man touches a different part of the animal, and based on the personal experience develops a different idea of what the elephant is. The story illustrates the limitations of relying on partial perspectives and the importance of incorporating multiple viewpoints to understand a complex whole. The graphic artist is not indicated, but it is one of the Havurat Tsayarim (Band of Painters) a group of Russian artists consisting of Iakov Apter (1899-1941), Moses Mutselmakher (1900-1961), Aaron Kravtsov or Karavatsov (1896-1941), and Efim Khiger (1899-1955), who were commissioned to illustrate the Gamiliel Library editions. No institutional copies found worldwide for this work. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition: Very Good to Good; 19 first editions, *first printings; original bindings with clean and bright letters to spine and straight boards; just three previous owner's marks; clean and tight text blocks with some spotting and tanning. Dust jacket condition: 19 with wrappers with mainly very good front panels; some tears, nicks and scuffs to extremities; not priced clipped, other than three jackets. This a heavy set of 35 books and will require additional postage.

First Edition. Limited (cloth) issue, one of 100 copies (this one unnumbered, most likely an overrun). Octavo (23.5cm); dark greyish-green cloth with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [4],5-61,[3]pp. Tiny spot to upper edge of textblock, gilt spine imprint slightly dulled, else a clean, very Near Fine copy, without dustjacket, as issued. An anthology of poetry. Orr & Torrey B20.

Condition: Very Good +. Fremont, MI: Sumac Press, 1969. First Edition; Limited issue of 26 lettered copies signed by all contributors, this being letter T. Octavo; 61pp. Gray cloth lettered in gilt; no dust jacket as issued. Light rubbing to edges; front board very slightly bowed towards fore-edge; binding sound; touch of dust soiling to top edge, else unmarked; Very Good or better.