Yisroel, Signed (4 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by editor Tzvia Ehrlich-Klein on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Stated first edition, first impression, Signed limited edition first impression no 24/100. SIGNED BY JOSEPH LEFTWICH, IN SMALL NEAT HAND WRITING, IN BLUEISH INK, ON LIMITED EDITION SLIP, BOUND BEFORE TITLE PAGE. Limited edition bound in dark blue half leather (spine and corners) with gilt titling and boards covered in greyish green / pink 'Magen David' (Star of David design), jacket original innovative cellophane, much yellowed, worn and split at corners, folds and spine, with original glued on paper flaps. Not price clipped (no published price, no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and reasonably square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 1065pp. One of the first anthologies of short stories and other writings by Jewish authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Joseph Leftwich (1892-1983), born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a British critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology 'The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry' and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill. He was one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' (the others being John Rodker, Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End, in the period roughly between 1910-1914. He himself retrospectively coined the name, to include also the artists David Bomberg and Mark Gertler. His daughter Joan married the American writer Joseph McElroy. Very scarce in this first signed edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xxxvii, 1065. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the red leather spine label with top edge gilt. Signed by the editor on the limitation page. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being no. four. One of the first anthologies of short stories and other writings by Jewish authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Joseph Leftwich (1892-1983), born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a British critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology 'The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry' and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill. He was one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' (the others being John Rodker, Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End, in the period roughly between 1910 and 1914. He himself retrospectively coined the name, to include also the artists David Bomberg and Mark Gertler. anthology of Jewish short stories by seventy six authors, edited by Joseph Leftwich (1892-1983), is divided into nine sections, English, American, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Russian, Dutch and Czech. Very good indeed. Signedes.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Très bon. First edition; (in Yiddish). original DJ in very good condition; publisher's cloth binding with title, tight, good, inside as new; 388 pages; inscribed by the author on end paper for the Kurc family in Paris; very good signed copy of this first edition. Dédicacé par l'auteur.