Warsaw: Paṅstwowe Wydawnictwo Literatury Politycznej, 1945. Octavo (20.3 × 14.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 50, [1] pp. Very good; small owner signature to title. Early volume documenting the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. The book was published shortly after the end of WWII in May 1945. Aside from numerous..... More
![Book ID: 51526 Literatura v obozie [Literature in the camp]. Michał Borwicz](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/51526_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678450869)
Kraków: Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna przy C.K. Żydów Polskich - Oddział w Krakówie, 1946. Octavo (15.5 × 22.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by cartoonist and satirist Karol Ferster; 76, [8] pp. Numerous illustrations and decorative initials throughout. Light chipping to spine; evenly discolored; still very good. This collection of essays..... More
![Book ID: 52465 Evreiskaia poeziia: Antologiia [Jewish poetry: an anthology], vol. 1:...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52465.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680181151)
New York: Futuro Press, Inc., [Izdanie Russkih Evreev v N'iu-Iorke], 1947. Octavo (23.4 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 240 pp. Signed by Grebnev. Slight discoloration to spine and boards; else good or better. This anthology showcases Jewish poetry written in the United States over the span of sixty years..... More
![Book ID: 52798 S. Iudovin: graviury na dereve [S. Iudovin: woodcuts]. I. Ioffe, E. Gollerbakh](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52798_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698790624)
Leningrad: self-published (tip. Akademii iskusstv), 1928. Octavo (24.5 × 18 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers; 47, [1] pp. With forty-nine woodcut illustrations. Very good; in protective mylar. First and only edition of this monograph on Solomon Iudovin (or Yudovin, 1892–1954), an important Soviet Jewish artist originally from near Vitebsk, in..... More
Berlin: Jüdischer Literarischer Verlag (Idishe literarisher farlag, printed by Lutze & Vogt), 1923. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Y. Tshaykov; 163, [3] pp. Light wear and traces of professional restoration to spine and hinges; else about very good; the best copy we have encountered in the..... More
Prague: Nákladem "Času", 1899. Octavo (24.6 × 16.2 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 pp. A very good copy; small chip to upper right corner of front wrapper. Scarce Czech edition of a pamphlet, later confiscated, through which Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk sought to intercede in the Hilsner Affair, which provoked..... More
Harbin: Mech Gedeona, [1933]. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 119 pp. Very good; text evenly toned due to stock; very discrete repairs to spine extremities. Russian translation of this 1933 work by Nakada, a Japanese protestant minister and the first bishop of the Japan Holiness Church. Influenced..... More
Geneva: Verlag "Meister der Baukunst," 1931. Octavo (20.5 × 16.8 cm). Original decorative cloth; XX pp. of text, 46 pp. of plates on coated stock. Illustration, plans. Signed and inscribed (addressee illegible) by Málnai. Boards lightly rubbed and discolored; about very good. First and only edition of this illustrated monograph..... More
Berlin: Skify (A. Shreider, also: Partiia levykh sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov), 1921. Quarto (31 × 22 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Polina Khentova; 24 pp. About very good. Rare first issue, one of only two published, of this Berlin journal by the SR (Socialist Revolutionary) Party, edited by Aleksandr Shreider (1895-1930), a...... More
Berlin, A. Rogall, 1921. Original half-linen folder with cover illustration by Hermann Struck, with 1 title leaf and 11 leaves of plates measuring 40 × 29 cm. In German and Hebrew. The portfolio lightly soiled and rubbed, with professionally repaired tear; overall still about very good. A complete set of..... More
Warsaw: Nakładem C.K. "Bundu", 1945. Small octavo (16.6 × 12 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jan Kosiński; 67, [1] pp. Wrappers lightly discolored; else very good. First edition of these memoirs of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943), written by the last surviving leader of the uprising, Marek Edelman (1919–2009). Born..... More
![Book ID: 50837 Pieśni żałobne getta [Ghetto dirges]. Izabela Gelbard, Por. Czajka,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50837_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602571220)
[Katowice]: Nakładem Wyd. Julian Wyderka, 1946. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 58, [3] pp. Photographic frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by the author. Very good. First edition. A collection of laments and funerary songs for the dead of the Warsaw Ghetto written by the Polish-Jewish writer Izabela Stachowicz..... More
![Book ID: P6431 Pankrác - Terezín, Malá pevnost [Pankrác - Terezín, Small Fortress]....](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P6431_1.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631048231)
Prague: self-published (printed by Knihtiskárna Bureš), 1946. Octavo (23 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 187, [5] pp. Laid in separately is a booklet of fifty-five sepia photographs on 12 leaves. About very good; light overall wear; small tear to lower right corner of front wrapper. Early account of the..... More
Novi Sad, Serbia: [Russkaia tipografiia S. Filonova], 1936. Octavo (22.5 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 88 pp. Small chips to wrapper edges; spine with tape repair; internally very good. An émigré biography of the Orthodox mystic Sergei Nilus’ (1862-1930), the first Russian publisher of the “Protocols of the Elders..... More