The Israel Administration in Judea, Samaria and Gaza; A Record of Progress
Hakirya, Tel Aviv: The Ministry of Defence, n.d. (1968). First edition. 8vo, 80pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Official analysis following the Six Day War. More
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General Zionism in Eretz Israel; April, 1948
New York: World Confederation of General Zionists, American Office, 1948. First edition. 12mo, 22pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Explanation of the program of General Zionism. This copy has been inscribed by the author on the front wrapper to the great American journalist/photographer Ruth Gruber, who famously covered the plight of... More
The Jewish Co-Operative Movement in Palestine; With a preface by R.A. Palmer.
London: Poale Zion - Jewish Socialist Labour Party, (1944). First edition. 12mo, unpag. pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. With four pages of photographs on coated paper. More
Jews, Arabs and the Middle East
London: Poale Zion, 1944. First edition. 12mo, 47pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. A pair of essays that originally appeared in The Left News" here combined and re-edited. More
The Arab War Against Israel; Statements and Documents.
Jerusalem: Ministry for Foreign Affairs Information Division, June 1967. First edition. 8vo, 52pp + maps; printed wrappers, stapled. Collection of public statements, official records and data issued in the immediate aftermath of the Six Day War. More
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Jewish Economic Development Facts and Prospects; [cover title]
Jerusalem: Jewish Agency for Palestine Information Office, 1947. First edition. 8vo, 39pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Data submitted to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in advance of Israeli statehood. More
Glimpses of Jewish Settlement History; 1.Gvuloth, 2.Beth Ha'arava, 3.Kfar Etzion, 4. Ma'ale Hahamisha, 5. Gezer, 6. Elyashiv.
Jerusalem: "Goren" 1946. First edition. 12mo, [60]pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Fragile pamphlet documenting six Jewish settlements in Palestine, illustrated with photographs. More
Artzi; The Palestine Almanac, Compiled and Edited by Jacob Tchernowitz, English Editor: Molly Lyons Bar-David.
Tel Aviv: Palestine Pioneer Library / Lion the Printer, (1947). First edition. 12mo, 95pp; pamphlet in printed wrappers, stapled. Poems, songs, stories, essays, and facts and figures, documenting life and culture of Israel on the brink of statehood. Illustrated. More
Love in Chartres
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 240pp; three-quarter black cloth and red boards. The author's second book, very scarce, especially in its Mac Harshberger-illustrated dust jacket. More
Dream of a Woman.; Translated from the French by Lewis Galantiere.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 203pp; cloth-backed violet boards. English translation of the French symbolist's 1899 epistolary novel "Le Songe d'une Femme", this copy with the bookplate of music and art critic Warren Wilmer Brown. Seldom encountered in its lovely Hans Flato dust jacket. More
Salome of the Tenements
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 290pp; pale green cloth stamped in black, with pictorial medallion in black and yellow on the front board. Yezierska's first novel, following on her successful debut with the short story collection Hungry Hearts. The earlier book brought her to Hollywood for... More
Viento Entero
Delhi: N.p., 1965. First edition. 8vo, unpag.; printed wrappers. One of 197 numbered copies (this being copy number 56), signed by Paz, the entire edition of this key mid-career poem. Additionally, Paz has inscribed and signed this copy on the half title page at the time of publication to Pierre... More
A Rose for Katherine Anne Porter; Drawings by Robert Dunn.
New York: Albondocani Press, 1970. First edition. 8vo, chapbook in wrappers, saddle stitched. One of 180 numbered copies (copy 7), signed by Smith, the entire edition. Smith wrote this poem on the occasion of Porter's seventy-fifth birthday in 1965 and published here on her eightieth birthday. With publisher's separately printed prospectus laid in. More
Lucretia Borgia; A Play.
New York: Albondocani Press, 1968. First edition. Square 12mo, unpag. chapbook in wrappers, saddle stitched. One of 150 numbered copies; there were also 26 lettered copies bound in boards. The play is here printed from Stein's original manuscript in the Beinecke Library at Yale University. An earlier 1939 publication in... More
Primitive Society
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. First edition. 8vo, 463pp; cloth. Early work from the prominent anthropologist and protege of Franz Boas, from the library of George W. Maxey, Justice of the State Supreme Court in Pennsylvania, with his private bookplate. A scarce book, especially in dust jacket. More
Water Street; Poems
New York: Atheneum, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 53pp; cloth. Generally accepted to be Merrill's scarcest trade publication. More
Water Street; Poems.
New York: Atheneum, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 53pp; printed wrappers. The softcover issue of one of Merrill's more elusive trade titles, inscribed and signed by Merrill on the title page at a later date. More
First Poems
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First edition. 8vo, 72pp; maroon cloth. One of 990 numbered copies, the entire edition, this being copy number 897. Signed and dated by Merrill on the title page at a 1978 reading at New York's 92nd Street Y, the program for which is loosely inserted. More
The Longest Journey
London: Edward Arnold & Co., (1941). Later edition. 8vo, 320pp; maroon cloth stamped in gilt. An association copy, inscribed and signed by Forster on the title page for his friend the anthropologist and BBC official John Morris, whose ex libris stamp is present. More
Nordic Twilight
London: Macmillan, 1940. First edition. 12mo, 32pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled. Published as the third in the publisher's series of Macmillan War Pamphlets. This copy has been inscribed by Forster on the inside front wrapper: "C.H.C.B. from E.M.F. 6-12-40". The recipient was Forster's friend Collins Baker (Charles Henry Collins Baker)... More
The Eternal Moment; and Other Stories.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1928. First edition. Crown 8vo, [188]p; burgundy cloth. An attractive copy of this collection of six short stories. More
Poet's Choice
New York: The Dial Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 303pp; terracotta cloth. For this anthology, the editors asked 103 poets to choose a favorite from their own poems and to explain their choice. At the end of each contribution, a facsimile of the poet's signature is printed. In this copy... More
Anonymity; An Enquiry
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 23pp; variant cream-colored card wrappers with illustration by Vanessa Bell. One of 2000 copies published as No. 12 in the first series of Hogarth Essays. Woolmer 61. More
Animula.; Wood Engravings by Gertrude Hermes.
London: Faber & Faber, 1929. First edition. 8vo, unpag.; boards. One of 400 numbered copies signed by Eliot (this being number 166), published as number 23 in the Ariel Poems series of illustrated chapbooks. As with other titles in this series, the signed edition was preceded by the ordinary pamphlet... More