Collection of posters, broadsheets, and ephemera pertaining to the Latvian-Jewish community in Riga, Daugavpils and Jūrmala in the 1920s and 1930s. Please inquire for a detailed list of contents and further images. The vibrant cultural, political and religious life of the community is captured in theater posters, announcements of political..... More
Gilgil internment camp in Kenya and Asmara detention camp in Eritrea, 1947–48. Hebrew and some Yiddish. Varying size and formats; condition overall good or better. Group of twenty-seven items formerly owned by Moshe Mariel (Marienberg), a member of the Lehi (Stern Gang), who was imprisoned by the British authorities in..... More
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
Warsaw: Państwowe Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych, 1971. Single leaf printed in color, with vertical and horizontal folds, measuring 60 × 48 cm. In Polish, Russian, French, English and German. Scale 1:1 500 000. Light soil to recto; still about very good. A stark pictogram map of Nazi atrocities and war crimes..... More
![Book ID: 52311 Ze Śmiercią na ty [On familiar terms with death]. Michał Maksymilian...](/pictures/thumb/52311_1.jpeg?v=1663704673)
Warsaw: Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza, 1946. Octavo (17 × 11.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 80 pp. Partially unopened and uncut. Signed and inscribed by the author to Tadeusz Kwiatkowski. Very good. First edition. A collection of poems by the Polish-Jewish writer, activist, historian, and Holocaust survivor Michał Borwicz (1911–1987). The first part..... More
Berlin: Knigoizdatel'stvo Gelikon, 1922. Octavo (19.3 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 194, [1] pp. Stamp of a private Russian library in Athens, Greece to ffep and title; text toned due to stock; else a very good copy. First edition of Erenburg's only two published plays. A Soviet writer, journalist..... More
One page of text in Hebrew preceding 28 linocuts presented without captions, depicting the artist’s imagined visions of the horrors of the Holocaust including torture, prison camps, fires, and graphic images of death. Some very minor toning. Large 4to. Original printed wrpps., some minor paper loss to front cover, small..... More
![Book ID: 51874 Ostatni etap: Oświęcim [The Last Stage: Auschwitz]. Promotional leaflet...](/pictures/thumb/51874_1.jpeg?v=1657818180)
Warsaw: PWZG, [1947]. Single leaf, printed recto and verso, folded twice to create three panels, measuring 14.5 × 20 cm folded. With four full-page photographs, two super-imposed with green stripes; two pages of text in red border. Private inventory number to one leaf; else about very good. Scarce illustrated brochure..... 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
![Book ID: P6556 Khevronskoe vino [The Wine of Hebron: poems]. Matvei Roizman, designer...](/pictures/thumb/P6556_1.jpg?v=1580327105)
Moscow: Vserossiiskii soiuz poetov, 1923. Octavo (19 × 12.9 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Georgii Echeistov; 46, [2] pp. Faint spotting to front wrapper; a very good copy. A striking Jewish-themed drawn wrapper design by Georgii A. Echeistov (1897-1946), who worked and studied under figures such as Vasilii Masiutin..... 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,...](/pictures/thumb/50837_1.jpg?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]....](/pictures/thumb/P6431_1.jpeg?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