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
Poznań: Nakładem Wojewódzkiego Urzędu, 1947. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 26, [1] pp. Wrappers detaching along spine fold, else very good. Second Polish edition (first edition printed in Kraków in 1945). A rare Soviet report on the atrocities committed at the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin..... 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
![Zolotoe serdtse: misteriia. Veter: tragediia [The golden heart: a mystery. The wind: a tragedy]....](/pictures/thumb/P4774.jpg?v=1593515523)
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
Paris: Gide, 1861. Octavo (24.5 × 16 cm). Later cloth with original front and rear wrappers preserved; [4], 61, [1] pp. The wrappers lightly chipped, else very good. This effusive memoir about Empress Alexandra Fedorovna (nee Charlotte of Prussia 1798–1960), wife of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, was written by..... 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
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
![Nutnost revidovati process Polenský [On the need to revise the Polná legal case]. Prof. T. G....](/pictures/thumb/P4917_1.jpg?v=1591525682)
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
![Tainstvennaia natsiia (Iaponiia) [The mysterious nation - Japan; An Unknown Nation]. Juji Nakada,...](/pictures/thumb/P4450.jpg?v=1593529683)
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
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
![Pieśni żałobne getta [Ghetto dirges]. Izabela Gelbard, Por. Czajka, Izabela Stachowicz](/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
![Pankrác - Terezín, Malá pevnost [Pankrác - Terezín, Small Fortress]. Antonín Macht](/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