1. Alpha of the Plough, [that is Alfred George Gardiner].

Leaves In The Wind. With illustrations by Clive Gardiner.

First Edition. London / Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1918. 12 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 270 pages, 85 illustrations. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Private gift inscription on half-title. Spine faded, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Illustrated front and rear endpaper.

2. Arendt, Hannah.

Vor Antisemitismus ist man nur noch auf dem Monde sicher. Beiträge für die deutsch-jüdische Emigrantenzeitung >>Aufbau<< 1941-1945. Herausgegeben von Marie Luise Knott.

München / Zürich, Piper, 2000. 14 cm x 22 cm. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

3. Avinoam, Reuven (ed.).

Such Were Our Fighters. Anthology of Writings By Soldiers Who Died for Israel. Introduction by Gertrude Hirschler.

New York, Herzl Press, 1965. 16.5 cm x 24.3 cm. 335 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Deckled Edge. Very good condition with minor losses and slight discolourations to the dustjacket only.

4. Baeck, Leo.

The Pharisees and other Essays. Introduction by Krister Stendahl.

First Schoken Paperback Edition. New York, Schocken Books, 1966. 13.5 cm x 20.2 cm. 164 pages. Original Softcover. Slight mark of folding and discolouration on the front cover and spine. Binding is firm and the interior is very good. Bookplate / Exlibris of Erick Haugaard to endpaper.

5. [Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua] / [Quine, Willard Van Orman] Kasher, Asa (Ed.).

Language in Focus : Foundations, Methods and Systems. Essays in Memory of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel.

Boston, D.Reidel Publishing Company, 1976. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. 679, (xxviii) pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Even though there is no sign of it within the book, this is the personal copy of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, who also contributed to the Volume. [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science].

6. [Beer-Hofmann, Richard / Feuchtwanger, Lion] Fraiman, Sarah.

God and Judaism in the Lives and Works of Richard Beer-Hofmann and Lion Feuchtwanger. A Dissertation presented to The Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University, Joined Program of Literary Studies, Prof. Harry Zohn, Advisor, In Partial Fulfillment ofthe Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy.

First Edition. Waltham, Brandeis University, 1996. 22.5 cm x 30 cm. 280 pages. Original Softcover. Spiral-bound. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Buhlmann, Walbert. O.F.M. Cap.

The Chosen Peoples. Translated from the German by Robert R.Barr.

Slough, St Paul Publications, 1982. 14 cm x 22.2 cm. 285 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8. Cantor, Jay.

On Giving Birth to One’s Own Mother – Essays on Art and Society.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 15cm x 22 cm. 177 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Red painted top edge. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very slight discoloration to margins of endpapers and pastedowns only.

9. Enderle, Alfred / Meyerhöfer, Dietrich / Unverfehrt, Gerd.

Small People – Great Art / Restricted growth from an artistic and medical viewpoint.

Hamm, Artcolor Verlag, 1994. 24.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 324 pages. Illustrated with 116 full-colour plates. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. [Frame, Janet], Alley, Elizabeth

The Inward Sun – Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame. Selected and Edited by Elizabeth Alley.

Wellington, New Zealand, Daphe Brasell Associates Press, 1994. 14 cm x 22 cm. 214 pages. One black and white portrait photograph of Janet Frame by Jane Ussher on frontispiece. Softcover. Designed by Margaret Cochran. Edited by Ruth Munro. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! Out-of-Print !

11. Freitag, Sandria B.

Culture and Power in Banaras – Community Performance, and Environment, 1800 – 1980. Edited by Sandria B. Freitag.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, University of California Press, 1992. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 290 pages. 17 Illustrations. Cover illustration ‘Drawing of Ramlila’ by James Prinsep 1833. Softcover. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

12. [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von] Pelikan, Jaroslav.

Faust the Theologian.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995. 15 cm x 24.5 cm. XI, 145 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Designed by James J. Johnson. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

13. Graham, Henry Grey.

Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1901. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XII, 441 pages. Includes an illustrated Frontispiece with a reproduction of a mezzotint after Allan Ramsay (protected with a tissue guard). With a further 31 black-and-white illustrations (portraits). Original Hardcover (blue cloth with gilt lettering). Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Some foxing evident with one illustration plate detached. An interesting Exlibris / bookplate with the engraved Motto: ‘Semper Paratus’ from the library of Albert A. Smith on front pastedown.

14. Greenblatt, Stephen.

Hamlet in Purgatory.

Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2001. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 322 pages. 8 Colour Plates, 10 figures. Cover illustration ‘Vision of the Otherworld’ Hieronymus Bosch. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

15. Harman, Avraham / Kohn, Paul et al.

Israel Today. Collection of eight volumes of Israel Today including No.2 – Agricultural Settlement / No.6 – The Negev / No.9 – How Israel’s Democracy Works / No.14 – Sport / No.21 – Galilee / No.22 – Health and Medical Care / No.27 – The Kibbutz / No.29 – The Land and the Book.

Jerusalem, Israel Design, 1961-1964. 11.2 cm x 16 cm. 203 pages including back and white photographs. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Stains and slight discolourations on covers. Some folding of corners of No.2 and 27.

16. [Harris, Wilson] Adler, Joyce Sparer / Adler, Irving (Editor).

Exploring the Palace of the Peacock – Essays on Wilson Harris. Edited by Irving Adler. Foreword by Janet Jagan.

Jamaica / Barbados / Trinidad & Tobago, University of The West Indies Press, 2003. 15 cm x 22 cm. XLI, 106 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the editor Irving Adler to Ann Malamud on endpaper.

17. Harrison, Jim.

Just Before Dark. [Signed]

Livingston, Montana, Clark City Press, 1991. 17 cm x 24 cm. XIII, 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

18. [Hughes, T.Jones] Smyth, William J. / Whelan Kevin.

Common Ground – Essays on the Historical Geography of Ireland: presented to T. Jones Hughes.

Cork, Cork University Press, 1988. 19,5 cm x 26 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 332 pages, [36] figures, [13] plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Pencil underlining on pages XIV and XV, otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

19. Hugo, Richard.

The Triggering Town. Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing.

First Edition. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1979. 14.8 cm x 21.9 cm. XII, 109 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor closed tear to page 75. Otherwise bright and clean. Contains original review slip from W.W. Norton & Company.

20. Irving, Washington.

Knickerbocker’s History of New York & Knickerbocker Miscellanies.

New York, P.F. Collier & Son, No Year (c. 1920). 14.5 cm x 20 cm. 450. Frontispiece illustration – engraving entitled ‘Dutch Weight’. Original Hardcover. (Black cloth with embossed decoration on front board – title embossed in gilt on spine.) Very Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor pencil markings on rear endpaper. [The Works of Washington Irving].

21. Jabes, Edmond.

Le Livre Lu en Israel.

Première Édition. Paris, Point hors ligne, 1987. 14 cm x 22cm. 159 pages. Original Illustrated Softcover. French edition. Couverture ill. en couleur. Bon état général. Intérieur impeccable.

22. Jung, Leo.

Guardians of our Heritage (1724 – 1953).

First Edition. New York, Bloch Publishing Company, 1958. 16.5 cm x 23.5 cm. VIII,728 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

23. Marmon Silko, Leslie.

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today.

Advance Uncorrected Reader’s Proof. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1996. 13.5 x 21cm. 205 pages, with illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition, other than very mild foxing to jacket.

24. May, Ekkehard / Schönbein, Martina. [Hrsg].

Blütenmond: Japanisches Lesebuch 1650-1900. Mit 19 Schwarzweißillustrationen.

München / Zürich, Piper, 1990. 12 x 19cm. 352 Seiten, mit Abbildungen. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand, neuwertig. [Serie Piper, Band 1192].

25. McCarthy, Patricia (Editor).

Agenda – Requiem: The Great War. Front cover Davis Jones: frontispiece for In Parenthesis.

East Sussex, Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust, 2014. 15 cm x 21 cm. 256 pages. Two black and white illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Agenda (Vol 48, Nos. 3-4, Autumn / Winter 2014)].

26. [Nabokov, Vladimir] Rampton, David.

Vladimir Nabokov – A Critical Study of the Novels.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. 13.5 cm x 21.5 ccm. X, 233 pages. Softcover. Cover design by Jan van de Watering with a cover photograph of Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, 1968. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

27. Nachama, Andreas et al (eds.).

Jüdische Lebenswelten. Berliner Festspiele. Katalog (vol. 1)/ Essays (vol.2).

Erste Auflage. Berlin, Suhrkamp, 1991. 17 cm x 24 cm. 755 / 406 Seiten. Original Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. 2 volumes.

28. Norris, Kathleen.

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography.

Uncorrected Proof. New York, Ticknor & Fields / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. 13.5 x 21cm. (8), 225 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

29. Ocampo, Victoria.

Soledad Sonora.

Primera edición. Buenos Aires, Editorial Sudamericana, 1950. 14 x 21cm. 290 páginas. Encuadernación en rústica. En buen estado, la encuadernación puede presentar signos de desgaste.

30. Ortega, Julio.

Poetics of Change. The New Spanish-American Narrative. Translated from the Spanish by Galen D. Greaser in collaboration with the author.

First Paperback printing. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1988. 15.2 cm x 22.9 cm. 192 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor damage on right edge of front cover. Minor bump on bottom right coner of the front cover. Interior is clean and binding is firm.

31. Oz, Amos.

The Silence of Heaven: Agnon’s Fear of God. Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav.

Advance Uncorrected Reading Copy. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. 15.5 x 23.5cm. (11), 197 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

32. Parabola.

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning. Vol. 1, No. 4, Fall 1976.

Seventh printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition / Tamarack Press, 1991. 17 x 25.5cm. 129 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text underlining.

33. Parabola.

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning. Vol. 3, No. 4, November 1978: Androgyny.

Sixth printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition / Tamarack Press, 1992. 17 x 25.5cm. 143 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

34. Parabola.

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning. Vol. 4, No. 1, February 1979: The Trickster.

Fifth printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition / Tamarack Press, 1990. 17 x 25.5cm. 135 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

35. Parabola.

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning. Vol. 4, No. 4, November 1979: Storytelling and Education.

Fifth printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition / Tamarack Press, 1992. 17 x 25.5cm. 144 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text annotations.

36. Parabola.

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning. Vol. 5, No. 4, November 1980: Woman.

Seventh printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1992. 17 x 25.5cm. 127 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text underlining.

37. Parabola.

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning. Vol. 8, No. 3, August 1983: Words of Power.

Third printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1993. 17 x 25.5cm. 128 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text underlining.

38. Parabola.

Parabola: Myth, Tradition, and the Search for Meaning. Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 1998: Fear.

New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1998. 16.5 x 25.5cm. 127 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text annotations.

39. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 11, No. 2, May 1986: Mirrors.

New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1986. 17 x 25.5cm. 127 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text annotations.

40. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 12, No. 4, November 1987: The Sense of Humor.

Second Printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1993. 17 x 25.5cm. 128 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

41. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 13, No. 1, February 1988: The Creative Response.

Second Printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1994. 17 x 25.5cm. 135 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

42. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 13, No. 2, May 1988: Repetition and Renewal.

New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1988. 17 x 25.5cm. 135 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name on title page.

43. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 19, No. 1, February 1994: The Call.

New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1994. 17 x 25.5cm. 127 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text annotations.

44. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer 1994: Twins.

New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1994. 17 x 25.5cm. 127 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text underlining.

45. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 19, No. 2, Summer 1994: Twins.

New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1994. 17 x 25.5cm. 127 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text annotations.

46. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 19, No. 3, August 1994: Clothing.

New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1994. 17 x 25.5cm. 128 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

47. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 19, No. 4, November 1994: Hidden Treasure.

New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1994. 17 x 25.5cm. 128 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

48. Parabola.

Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition. Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1977.

Seventh Printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1992. 17 x 25.5cm. 126 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text annotations.

49. Pearson, Michael.

Imagined Places – Journeys Into Literary America. With photographs by John Lawrence and Joel Mednick.

Jackson (Mississippi), London, University of Mississippi, 1991. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XIX, 323 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Front cover of dustjacket: detail from ‘Breaks the Blank Day’, a painting by Lynn Green Root. Author photo by Bob Firek. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

50. Quispel, Gilles / Scholem, Gershom.

Jewish and Gnostic Man. Gilles Quispel: The Birth of the Child. Some Gnostic and Jewish Aspects. Gershom Scholem: Three Types of Jewish Piety.

First Edition. Dallas, Spring Publications, 1986. 17.8 cm x 25.5 cm. 46 pages. Original Softcover. Stapled. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor stains on front cover. [Eranos Lectures 3]

51. Shaked, Gershon.

Geschichte der modernen hebräischen Literatur. Prosa von 1880 bis 1980. Bearbeitet und aus dem Hebräischen übersetzt von Anne Birkenhauer.

1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main, Jüdischer Verl., 1996. 12.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 373 Seiten. Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

52. Snyder, Gary.

Back on the Fire – Essays.

California, Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 167 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New. Signed by author Gary Snyder on the titlepage. Rare !

53. The Jewish Publication Society of America.

The Jews of Czechoslovakia. Historical Studies and Surveys. Volume 1.

New York / Philadelphia, Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews / The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 283 pages. Original Hardcover in original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [The Jews of Czechoslovakia]

54. Valade III, Roger M.

The Essential Black Literature Guide. Published in Association with the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture.

Detroit, New York, Washington D.C., Toronto, Visible Ink Press, 1996. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 446 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white portrait photographs. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

55. Warner, Marina.

Signs & Wonders, Essays on Literature and Culture.

London, Chatto & Windus, 2003. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. XII, 516 pages. Jacket photo – Chris Stammers. Author Photo – Elke Bock. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

56. Waxman, Mordecai (ed.).

Tradition and Change. The Development of Conservative Judaism.

Second printing of the first edition. New York, The Burning Bush Press, 1964 16x 24 cm. 477 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Former library copy with the typical stamps and markings (Simmons College Library).

57. Wolf, Christa.

Lesen und Schreiben: Neue Sammlung: Essays, Aufsätze, Reden.

Darmstadt, Luchterhand, 1980. 11,5 x 18cm. 320 Seiten. Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand, neuwertig. [Sammlung Luchterhand, Band 295].