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SHEKSPIR [William SHAKESPEARE] and Apollon GRIGORIEV (translator)
Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid [Shylock, The Merchant of Venice [or in this case] The Jew of Venice]
Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid. [Shylock, The Merchant of Venice [or in this case] The Jew of Venice]
Published/created in: 1860
£1,950
Very rare translation into Russian of Shakespeare 'Merchant of Venice'. An appealing example.
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CHAGALL, Marc (artist) and Der NISTER [pseud. for Pinchus KAHANOVICH]
A Mayse mit a Hon; Dos Tsigele [A Story About a Rooster [and] The Little Goat]
A Mayse mit a Hon; Dos Tsigele. [A Story About a Rooster [and] The Little Goat]
Published/created in: 1917
£22,500
Chagall's first illustrated book, his only children book, and a landmark of Yiddish book illustration, published the year of the Russian revolution. Very rare, especially in this very good condition: about 5 other copies known.
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ZHABOTINSKII, V. (ALTALENA) [also JABOTINSKY]
Piatero [The Five]
Piatero. [The Five]
£4,950
Very rare first edition of Jabotinsky's best novel: one of 75 copies on papier Japon, out of a total printrun of only 125 copies. A fine novel about Jabotinsky's native city in Ukraine, Odessa, far from his important Zionist militant activities. In original Russian.
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Tainyia Obshchestva i Iudei. [Secret Societies and the Jews]
Published/created in: January 1934
£475
Rare booklet of 'great Russian patriotism', covering one of the favorite themes of a part of the émigré community. Printed in China by Russians with Nazi sympathies.
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Tainy masonstva. [The Secrets of Freemasonry]
Published/created in: [1930s]
£325
A fine if macabre cover design for this first Russian edition of a, anti-semitic and anti-mason (as expected) Nazi pamphlet translated for the Russian fascists. No copy traced outside Russia.
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Sionizm. Nauchno-populiarnoe izlozhenie sushchnosti i istorii sionisticheskago dvizheniia. [Zionism. A Scientifico-Popular Study of the Essence and History of the Zionist Movement]
Published/created in: 1903
£950
Fine summary of the Zionist question at an important time for the movement. A very good copy of the true first edition.
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'Chto nam v nikh ne nravitsia...' Ob Antisemitizme v Rossii. ['What We Do Not Like About Them...' On the Antisemitism in Russia]
Published/created in: 1929
£375
"Political anti-Semitism', to be distinguished from a racial one: first edition of this scarce work, which also gives an account of the situation of the Jews in Russia.
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Obvinitelnyi akt o meshchanine Menakhile-Mendele-Teveve-Beilis: Istoricheskoe delo o ritualnom ubiistve kievskimi khassidami khristianskogo malchika Andreia Iushchinskogo 12 marta 1911 g. [Indictment Against the Bourgeois Menahem Mendel Tevev Beilis: Historical Case of the Ritual Murder of the Christian Boy Andrei Iushchinskii by Kiev Hasidim on March 12, 1911]
Published/created in: February 1934
£475
A rare work of historical manipulation, printed in China by Russian émigrés with Nazi sympathies.
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TCHAIKOV, Joseph (artist) and Mendele MOCHER-SFORIM
Dos Kelbl [The Calf]
Dos Kelbl. [The Calf]
Published/created in: 1919
£3,950
A fine illustrated production of the Kultur Lige, published in Kiyv in 1919. A scarce Yiddish children book, especially unopened without significant restoration.
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Lenin. Risunki Natana Altmana. [Lenin. Sketches by Natan Altman]
Published/created in: 1921
£1,250
A pleasant example of this work, with its famous avant-garde cover design by Altman.
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Three Booklets: a Lecture, an Article, and a Rare-Book Catalogue.
Published/created in: 1963, 69 and 70
£200
Lovely group of Abramsky's wide-ranging production, including a great rare-book catalogue with some stunning pieces.
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Evrei v obshchei shkole. [The Jews in General School]
Published/created in: 1914
£1,950
First edition of this important work of sociology, focusing on the discrimination which Jews were suffering in the Russian empire at the school and university level. An extensive, detailed work, with much useful statistics. Uncommon.
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Puteshestvie po Sviatoi Zemle. [A Journey to the Holy Land]
Published/created in: 1838
£8,750
A great copy of this major Russian account of the Holy Land: in full red morocco with fantastic provenances. Rare first edition.
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Polovye rasstroistva u muzhchin: polovoe bessilie, muzhskoe besplodie, polovye izvrashcheniia. [Sexual Disorders in Men: Sexual Impotence, Male Infertility, Sexual Perversions]
Published/created in: 1926
£2,250
Very rare first edition of this study covering many aspects, with few taboos and much nuance - a surprisingly complete, scholarly and cultured work on the subject. Of great rarity: no other copy traced.
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[GORCHAKOV, M.K., Prince (publisher)]
Sionskie protokoly [The Protocols of Zion]
Sionskie protokoly. [The Protocols of Zion]
Published/created in: 1927
£650
Paris edition of these famous 'protocols', here with its cover showing a "forbidden" photography of the "Jewish government in Russia", with Trotsky and Sverdlov in the front row.
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SHAKESPEARE, William and I. GOLDBERG (translator)
Romeo un Zshulyete: tragedya in finf aktn [Romeo and Juliet: the Tragedy in Five Acts]
Romeo un Zshulyete: tragedya in finf aktn. [Romeo and Juliet: the Tragedy in Five Acts]
Published/created in: 1935
£2,950
Lovely example of a rare book: the first 'Romeo and Juliet' published in Yiddish, here in fine condition and inscribed by the translator to a famous Yiddish author and professor.
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Before the United Nations. A Plea for a Just Solution of the Problem of Palestine.
Published/created in: 1947
£3,750
Rare first edition of this speech, finely inscribed by Weizmann.
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