BOOKS FOR SALE
The below-listed items are a small sample of items from my collection now offered for sale. Prices are in U.S. dollars. Shipping charge will be added to invoice. Please contact me by email ([email protected]) to order or to request a copy of my sale catalog.
LITERATURE
The below-listed items are a small sample of items from my collection now offered for sale. Prices are in U.S. dollars. Shipping charge will be added to invoice. Please contact me by email ([email protected]) to order or to request a copy of my sale catalog.
LITERATURE
- Ascher, Isidore G. Collected poems. — London : Elliot Stock, 1929. — xii, 300 p. ; 19 cm. — First Jewish Canadian poet. — $200.
- Bentley's miscellany. Vol. 56 (1864). — London : Chapman and Hall, 1864. — 655 p. — Partial contents: In the fields [poem] / by Isidore G. Ascher. P. 635-636. — Bound copy. — $150.
- Dewart, Edward Hartley. Selections from Canadian poets. — Montreal : John Lovell, 1864. — 304 p. ; 21 cm. — Includes five poems by Isidore G. Ascher from his Voices of the hearth, published in 1863. — $150.
- Layton, Irving. Nazi airman. [S.l.] : Colophon Books, 1990 (New Westminster, B.C. : Pie Tree Press & Type Foundry). — 1 sheet : 1 ill. ; 30 cm x 47 cm. — [No.] 19 in an edition limited to 50 numbered and 25 lettered copies, all signed by the poet. — $200.
- Cataract. — No. 3 (July 1962). — Montreal : Cataract., 1962. — [45] leaves ; 29 cm. — Editors: Leonard Angel, K. V. Hertz, Seymour Mayne ; contributing editor: Henry Moscovitch. — Poetry. Includes "An open letter to Irving Layton," by George Ellenbogen and Layton's reply. — Forty-five 8½x11-inch mimeographed sheets printed one side only and stapled in yellow cover with green titles painted on. — $60.
- Korn, Rachel H. Di gnod fun wort. — Tel-Aviv : HaMenorah, 1968. — 94, [6] p. ; 23 cm. — Inscribed and annotated with numerous emendations by the author, Montreal, 1968. — $100.
- Grafstein, Melech. Meah shanah Y. L. Perets. — London, Ont. : M. Grafstein, [1952]. — 53, 55 p. : ill., ports., music ; 21 cm. — Hebrew, Yiddish or English. — Title on back book jacket: Isaac Leibush Peretz : published in commemoration of his 100th birthday. — $75.
- Trunk, Isaiah. Antologye fun der Yidisher proze in Poyln : tsvishn beyde velt milhomes (1914-1939). — New York : Cyco Bicher Farlag, 1946. — 637 p. ; 24 cm. — On verso of t.p.: An anthology of Yiddish prose in Poland between two world wars (1914-1939) / compiled by Aaron Zeitlin and J. J. Trunk. — $75.
- Kowarsky, Paul. Synagogue music for cantor and choir / composed by Paul Kowarsky. — Toronto Council of Hazzanim, 1990. — [v], 134 p. ; 28 cm. — Between 1980 and 2001, Paul Kowarsky served as Senior Cantor of Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto. — $100.
- Yacobovitz, Eliahu. Havah naaleh. — New York : Bagolah, 1947. — 31 p., piano-vocal score (46 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm. (hardcover). — Added t.p. title: Neginot l’Havah naaleh = Music to ‘Havah naaleh’ / Joseph Rumshinsky. — Illustrated by Nota Koslowsky, with a full page drawing of the horah dance by Saul Raskin. — "In a moving pageant, consisting of a prologue and six scenes, Havah Naaleh depicts the spiritual yearning and eternal aspirations of the Jewish people for the peace and fulfillment which can come only thru a return to the Land of Israel." — Two inserts. -- Edition of 1,000 copies. — Copy inscribed by the author. — $100.
- Diamond, Avi. מקדשי תיראו — Toronto : [Avi Diamond], 2016. — 62 p. ; 24 cm. — English with frequent words or phrases in Hebrew. — The author, a congregant of Toronto's Orthodox Toras Emes Congregation, compiled various teachings with the aim of adopting a zero talking policy during services. — HC. — $45.
- Rosenberg, Stuart E. “The inter-faith dialogue now : what’s right, what’s wrong, what’s new?” — [Toronto?] : Published privately, [1969]. — 13 p. ; 22 cm. — “An address to the annual inter-faith dinner, Beth Tzedec Men’s Club, February 19, 1969, Toronto, Canada.” — Toronto bookseller's blind stamp on last page. — $50.
- Shtern, Yekhiel. Kheder un beys-medresh. — New York : Bibliotek fun YIVO, 1950. — 128 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. — On verso of t.p.: Kheyder and beys-medresh : a study in traditional Jewish education. — $75.
- Lask, Israel Meir. The Kalish book. — Tel-Aviv : Issued by the Societies of Former Residents of Kalish and the Vicinity in Israel and U.S.A., 1968. — 327, [5] p., [76] p. of plates : ill., facsims., map, ports. — A condensed English version of Sefer Kalish,, published in Tel-Aviv in two volumes in 1964 and 1968. — $75.
- Shinar, Mordehai. Sefer zikaron li-kehilat Pints’ev. — Tel-Aviv : Published by the Union of the Remnants of the Jewish Community of Pinczów (Poland), 1970. — 480 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. — A book of memory of the Jewish community of Pinczów (Poland). — $100.
- Hart, Moses. Power of attorney by Moses Hart to Alexander Hart. — Montreal, Jan. 12, 1832. — 1 leaf folio ; 18.4 x 30.5 cm. — Paper seal present, remains of red wax seal. Signed by Hart, witnessed by H. K. Major and E[zekiel] M. Hart. — A larger-than-life figure in his day, Moses Hart (1768-1852), the eldest son of Aaron Hart, dealt in land, banking, beer, steamboat navigation, as well as philosophy, politics, and law. — $500.
- Freshman, Charles. The autobiography of the Rev. Charles Freshman : late Rabbi of the Jewish synagogue at Quebec, and graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Prague; at present German Wesleyan Minister at Preston, Ontario. — Toronto : Samuel Rose, Wesleyan Book Room, 1868. — xvi, 316 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 19 cm. — Provenance: Private library of George Scales, Belleville, Ont., 1876. — Bookseller's stamp. — $150.
- B'nai Israel Congregation (London, Ont.). Dedication : B'nai Israel Congregation, London, Canada, September 11th, 1960, 19 Elul, 5720. — [London, Ont. : The Congregation, 1960]. — [92] p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm. — Cover title: Congregation B'nai Israel, 1885-1960. — Provenance: Signed on t.p. by Rabbi Morris D. Margolis, first rabbi (1944-48) of the Conservative-affiliated synagogue. — $100.
- Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta. Land of promise : the Jewish experience in southern Alberta. — Calgary : The Society, 1996. — viii, 270 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 x 27 cm. — “1889-1945.” — Inspired by an exhibit of the same name which made its debut at the Calgary Jewish Centre in Nov. 1992 in honor of Canada’s 125th anniversary year. — Book coordinator: Jay Joffe. — Copy no. 717 of original edition of 1,000 copies. — Presentation copy to John Loftus, author, former Army intelligence officer, and former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit. — $125.
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal). Yoyvl shrift fun der Yidisher Folksbibliotek, 1914-1964. — Montreal : Jewish Public Library, 1964. 82, 13 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 23 cm. — Chiefly Yiddish, with some text in English. — English cover title: Fiftieth jubilee, 1914-1964. — Library stamp of the Bund Archives, N.Y., on front cover. — $75.
- Shapira's Studio (Winnipeg). [Studio portraits]. — Winnipeg, [1920s-1930s]. — 13 photographs : b&w postcards ; 14 x 9 cm. — Eleven photo postcards are blind-stamped Shapira's Photo, Winnipeg (one varies slightly). Two are overstamped with a Rosh Hashanah greeting in Hebrew. — One portrait is by S. Klein, 324 Selkirk, W[innipeg]; two postcards are by unidentified photographer(s). — These photo postcards, most of which were sent as Jewish New Year's greetings to family and friends, portray members of Winnipeg's Jewish community during the interwar years. — $150.
- White, William Charles. Chinese Jews. — Ottawa : Printed for the Royal Society of Canada, 1944 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press). — P. 191-200 ; 25 cm. — Cover title. — Offprint from: Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Third series, section II, v. 38, 1944. — $35.
Hora dance. Drawing by Saul Raskin in Havah naaleh by Eliahu Yacobovitz.
