Genre & Subject / Religious / Judaica from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Cloth, vi, 202 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tips lightly bumped. Fine DJ. "In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the… Read more about this item

Montecito, CA: Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, 2015. 83 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 26 cm. Exhibition Catalogue. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's signature/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Includes an essay "Rembrandt's Jews in Context," by Lisa J. DeBoer. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2007. 150 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 x 27 cm. Text in Hebrew and English. Exhibition "Adi Nes: Biblical stories" held at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, opening 16 March, 2007. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. . 1st. Paperback. Fine.… Read more about this item

Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2008. 176 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Spring to Summer 2008. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: The decade of indifference, by Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi; The end of days and new beginnings: reflections on art in Israel, 1998-2007, by Amitai Mendelsohn.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Random House, 2006. xxvii, 447 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Engrossing read, fascinating character. "Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1998. Pictorial boards, 415 pages, map; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Stated First Edition. Glassine dust jacket toned, with light shelfwear. A near-fine copy of the first printing. The great Michelangelo sculpture of Moses graces the front board, visible through the semi-transparent glassine DJ. "Lawgiver and liberator. Seer and… Read more about this item

New York: Beaux Arts Editions, 1995. Cloth, 320 pages, illustrations (some colour); 34 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "This magnificent volume is the first major survey of Jewish art to be published in thirty years. Superbly illustrated, Jewish Art presents a sweeping panorama of… Read more about this item

New York: New York Public Library; Oxford University Press, 1989. xiii, 223 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Studies in Jewish History. Published in conjunction with an international exhibition, held at the New York Public Library, October 15, 1988 to January 14, 1989. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.… Read more about this item

London: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, 2016. Cloth, 159 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Rothenstein's Relevance: William Rothenstein and His Circle" by Ben Uri Gallery, London, September 2015 to January 2016. Catalogue entries by Samuel Shaw, Sarah MacDougall, Rachel Dickson and Jonathan Black. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 2000. Cloth, 234 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Issued in a slipcase. Translated from the Italian. Tight, clean copy. Slipcase in fine condition. Illustrated with etchings by Jane Joseph.. Hardcover. Fine. Illus. by Joseph, Jane. 8vo. Collectible.

New York and Berkeley, CA: Jewish Museum; University of California Pres, 1999. xix, 265 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918," The Jewish Museum, New York, November 14, 1999 to April 23, 2000. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: The… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2014. xviii, 349 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O'Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece -- the breathtaking portrait of… Read more about this item

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. ix, 233 pages, [12] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 and was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of… Read more about this item

Berlin and Cologne: Edition Hundertmark, 1988. 135, 283, 109 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Text in German and English. Tight, clean copy. The countercultural No!art movement was at its height in New York City from c. 1959 to 1964, based in the East Village, with Boris Lurie (a Holocaust survivor) and Sam Goodman as its leading protagonists. . 1st. Paperback. Fine.… Read more about this item

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. Cloth, xv, 186 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Exploring the influence of the local cultural scene as well as events taking place in Europe, Matthew Baigell reexamines the work of Jewish artists inspired to… Read more about this item

Stockton, CA: Michael G. Berolzheimer, 2014. Cloth, 239 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated, beautifully-bound volume on the German Jewish art collector Michael Berolzheimer (1866-1942), a connoisseur of drawings.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Geneva: Skira, 1972. Cloth, 122 pages, mounted colour illustrations; 19 cm. The Taste of Our Time Series. First published 1956. New edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. CONTENTS: Chronological Survey; Lines of Approach; The Background; 1907-1910; The Shock of Paris; 1910-1914; The Return to Russia; 1914-1922; Hopes… Read more about this item

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989. x, 237 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "A well-written, insightful, and meticulously researched study of Shahn's mature work in the context of McCarthyism. Given Shahn's deep commitment to politics throughout his career, a book such as Pohl's is long overdue. A pathbreaking study that will… Read more about this item

New York: New American Library, 2016. viii, 385 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The memoir of one woman's emotional quest to find the art of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, lost during World War II. Moshe Rynecki's body of work reached… Read more about this item

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Duckworth, 2003. [208] pages, chiefly illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. One corner lightly bumped. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Jeff Gusky, a doctor of emergency medicine, decided at the age of 42 that he wanted to… Read more about this item