Jewish Fiction
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Meshugah
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Singer's third posthumous novel, is an impressive work which the author published serially in 1981 - 83. It concerns Holocaust survivors in New York in the early 1950s. The story is narrated by Aaron Greidinger, a writer just beginning to receive recognition, who finds himself inextricably involved with a group of refugees on the Upper West Side after Max Aberdam of Warsaw, a...
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SGD 34.23
Passage From Home
by Rosenfeld, Isaac
NY: The Dial Press, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First and only novel by the childhood friend and literary rival of Saul Bellow, who died prematurely at the age of thirty-eight and was later eulogized as the character King Dahfu in Bellow's Henderson the Rain King. NY: The Dial Press, 1946. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. 280pp. Green cloth; black spine titles and front panel embossing; dust jacket. Light to moderate shelfwear. Textblock edges moderately toned, with...
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SGD 103.47
The Fire Eater
by Berkowitz, Henry J
NY: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 394pp. First edition (no subsequent printings noted; 1941 date on both copyright and title pages). Full brown cloth with matching brown topstain, and black spine titles & front panel motif. NF/VG. Light bumping at spine ends, very faint spotting to fore-edge of textblock and endpapers, else near fine. In an unpriced jacket shallowly chipped at all four corners, with several short closed tears and...
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SGD 206.94
Journal Intime
by Kafka, Franz and Pierre Klossowski(Translator)
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1945. First Edition/29th Printing. Paperback. Very Good /N/A. In wraps. Stated 29th Edition. Some vertical creases to spine with wear at bottom and short tear to bottom of rear spine crease. Small paper stamp to bottom of spine with a few tiny spots. Tiny stamp to bottom of rear cover. Short tear to bottom of rear cover as well with a couple tiny chips/nicks. Creasing at front bottom corner. Deckle edge.
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SGD 22.07
The Trial
by Kafka, Franz
New York: Modern Library, 1956. Reprint Ediiton/First Printing. Hardcover. Fair/Good. The First Modern Library Printing of the definitive edition. Stated First Printing. In red cloth with black title panels and dulled gilt. Soiling to boards and wear at corners and spine ends with small spot of fraying to head of spine. Names to ffep, and top of title page which has price stamp as well. Intermittent underlining and a few notes in text. Jacket is unclipped($1.95) - though price inked out - and well worn...
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SGD 16.56
The Emperor's Tomb
by Roth, Joseph
NY: The Overlook Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English language edition of the Austrian Jewish writer's final novel, originally published in 1938, a sequel of sorts to his earlier "Radetzky March." Translated by John Hoare. Octavo (8.25 x 5.75 in.); 157pp.; blue papered boards backed with dark blue cloth, in dust jacket. Light sunning along top edge of boards, former owner's seal blind-embossed on title page. Else fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket...
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SGD 68.98
Dangerous Luck
by David Makow
First Edition.
120 p.; ill. Scarce book with minor scrapes/shelfwear to dust jacket. Heel and tip of spine slightly bumped, otherwise Fine. From dust jacket:
In Dangerous Luck, David Makow brings into focus the profound questions as to whether a person's life unfolds by his own volition, circumstances, fate, or luck.
A teenager when the Nazi war machine rolled into his native Poland, he survived on his wits and his ability to make quick decisions that turned out to be the correct ones.
His first... Read more about this item
120 p.; ill. Scarce book with minor scrapes/shelfwear to dust jacket. Heel and tip of spine slightly bumped, otherwise Fine. From dust jacket:
In Dangerous Luck, David Makow brings into focus the profound questions as to whether a person's life unfolds by his own volition, circumstances, fate, or luck.
A teenager when the Nazi war machine rolled into his native Poland, he survived on his wits and his ability to make quick decisions that turned out to be the correct ones.
His first... Read more about this item
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SGD 45.98
Yisroel: The First Jewish Omnibus
by Joseph Leftwich (Editor)
Revised edition, published 1963. Jacketed hardback, jacket as shown with this listing is rubbed, scuffed, chipped and torn. Cover is stamped on the spine only. Edges aged, text appears unmarked. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi(O–B1)
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SGD 59.32
Half the Kingdom
by Segal, Lore
NY: Melville House, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Segal on the title page. First edition. Octavo (8.75 x 6 in.); 167pp.; off-white papered boards, in dust jacket. Lightly bumped to top rear corner, else fine in a fine, unclipped jacket, just lightly scuffed at base of spine. The most recent novel by the celebrated American writer, a dark comedy about an inexplicable Alzheimer's epidemic at a hospital.
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SGD 82.78
The Trial
by Kafka, Franz; Willa and Edwin Muir(Translators)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First US Edition Thus/1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A first printing of the definitive edition - 'revised, reset and reprinted from new plates'. In beige pictorial cloth with brown and blue line work. Top page ends tinted blue. Some foxing to board ends and peripheries and a few to page ends and endpapers. Interior otherwise clean and binding solid. New Yorker article on Kafka by Cynthia Ozick from The New Yorker laid in. Jacket is price-clipped with some...
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SGD 165.55
Centaur In The Garden, The
by Scliar Moacyr, translator, Margaret A. Neves
Ballantine Books. Near Fine. 1984. Trade Paperback. 034531669X . Trade Paperback in Near Fine condition, tightly bound and unmarked, very light cover wear. "Brazilian Jewish writer Scliar explores the life of (an apparently) well integrated member of "modern" (70's booming economy) Brazilian society. With a gleeful and winking eye, Scliar offers at time a tongue in cheek description of the main character, a Jewish boy born to East European parents recently settled in the open wild...
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SGD 15.05
Life and Fate
by Grossman, Vasily
New York: Harper & Row, 1985. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . First U.S. Edition stated and full number line down to 1. In green cloth with silver foil to spine text. Top rear corner bumped with small split and lesser dings to bottom corners. Clean with tight binding. In unclipped jacket ($22.50)with some general edgewear, lamination lifting to top of front panel and 1/2 inch tear to top of rear panel. Tanning to edges of flaps.
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SGD 96.57
The Dybbuk
by S. Ansky; S. Morris Engel, trans
First printing stated.157, [3] p.; ill. Original dust jacket has minor closed tearing and a chip to top edge, otherwise Very Good over a beautiful red hardcover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, top page edges in red, and illustrated endpapers. (See images.) This aesthetic book in Fine condition was designed by Kadi Karist Tint, whose masterful calligraphy is found throughout, along with many black and white illustrations by Jennifer Coleman. From dust jacket: The Dybbuk is a classic story of...
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SGD 58.52
The Butcher of Lyon
by Brendan Murphy
First edition. 336 p.; illustrated; includes index (pp. 331-336). Yellow-orange hardcover with gilt lettering to spine shows minor bumping to corners, minor sunning, slightly shaken, but is internally Near Fine with only previous owner's name in pen to ffep. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographic images. Dust jacket in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition, with only minor shelfwear (mostly edgewear) including minor abrasions, chipping, creases, but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent...
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SGD 18.11
BECAUSE I WAS FLESH
by DAHLBERG, Edward
New York: New Directions, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Fine, with reply card laid in. Uncorrected Proof in printed white wraps. Wonderful book about growing up as the son of a lady barber in Kansas.
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SGD 77.67
Reinventing Tradition
by Klavdia Smola
2023 hardcover as pictured. An exploration of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union and Russia. The author explores how the Jewish tradition was reinvented in Russian-Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust and decades of Communism. The process of reinventing the tradition began in the Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s and continues to the present day. Binding is firm. Pre-printed cover shows only light shelf wear. Pencil notation on half title page. Text has pencil notations...
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SGD 71.74
My Longest Year: In the Hungarian Labour Service and in the Nazi Camps
by Sandberg, Moshe
Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. xxxiv+114pp. Stated second printing. Grey cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Near fine in a near fine jacket with light rubbing along rear spine hinge and some very faint dampstaining along top of rear panel.
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SGD 34.49
Himmo, King of Jerusalem
by Kaniuk, Yoram
NY: Atheneum, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 246pp. First edition. Full blue cloth with gilt spine titles, front board blind embossing, and light yellow topstain. Light bumping to spine ends, light dulling/soiling to topstain. Unclipped "$5.75" jacket has a 1/4" closed tear and related crease at top of front panel, a very short nick at top of spine panel, and light rubbing/soiling to rear. Second book by the Israeli novelist Susan Sontag praised as being one of...
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SGD 55.18
Resisting the Storm: Romania, 1940-1947.
by Rabbi Alexandre Safran
Jerusalem, Israel Yad Vashem, 1987. Hardcover First Ed, unstated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Ed, unstated. Very Good: shows very light wear to extremities; mild rubbing; slight spine lean and the binding is also somewhat cocked; a split at the bottom two inches of the frong hinge gutter has been carefully repaired by the previous owner and appears to hold perfectly. Binding secure; text clean. Despite noted flaws, remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library....
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SGD 162.24
Verdn af i Gaar(The World of Yesterday)
by Zweig, Stefan
Copenhagen: Jesperson og Pios Forlag, 1953. First Danish Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. The author's magnificent homage to the disappearing face of Europe which inspired Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. Assumed First Danish Edition. A very nice copy in patterned boards and leather corners and spine. Page ends sprayed/speckled blue. Small sticker removal scar(1/2"" X 3/4"") to rear board and a few scuffs to boards in general. Light edgewear. Smudge to one page, otherwise clean interior and...
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SGD 137.96
The Open Cage: an Anzia Yezierska Collection; selected and with an introd. by Alice Kessler-Harris ; afterword by Louise Levitas Henriksen
by Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970. Kessler-Harris, Alice
New York: Persea Books, 1979. 1st ed. Paperback. new. xiii, 262 pages ; 22 cm. Contents: The miracle -- America and I -- Brothers -- Where lovers dream -- The fat of the land -- The lost "beautifulness" -- The Lord giveth -- Children of loneliness -- Hester Street -- Important people -- My last Hollywood script -- Bread and wine in the wilderness -- A chair in heaven -- A window full of sky -- Take up your bed and walk -- The open cage. Jewish fiction. Juifs -- Ãtats-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc....
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SGD 24.83
Signs of Life: The Letters of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer from Nazi Transit Camp Westerbork, 1942-1944
by Verdoner-Sluizer, Hilde; Yoka Verdoner, Francisca Verdoner Kan(Editors) and Jacob Boas(Introduction)
Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., 1990. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. In blue boards with gilt to type. A little wear at spine ends and bottom front corner. Jacket is unclipped with some short tears to bottom of front panel and top of rear. Wear with nicks to spine ends and general edgewear.
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SGD 20.69
The Trials of Israel Lipski
by Martin L. Friedland
First Edition.
219 p.; ill.; includes Notes (p. 207-19). Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine shows some minor bumping and edgewear, with a few tiny spots to foredge, but is otherwise Near Fine, with illustrated (map) endpapers, clean, bright, and well-bound. Price-clipped dust jacket is in Very Good condition with some edge and shelfwear, but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear. From the dust jacket: On Tuesday morning, June 28, 1887, in the East... Read more about this item
219 p.; ill.; includes Notes (p. 207-19). Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine shows some minor bumping and edgewear, with a few tiny spots to foredge, but is otherwise Near Fine, with illustrated (map) endpapers, clean, bright, and well-bound. Price-clipped dust jacket is in Very Good condition with some edge and shelfwear, but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear. From the dust jacket: On Tuesday morning, June 28, 1887, in the East... Read more about this item
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SGD 26.03
The Trial
by Kafka, Franz; Willa and Edwin Muir(Translators)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First US Edition Thus/1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A first printing of the definitive edition - 'revised, reset and reprinted from new plates'. In beige pictorial cloth with brown and blue line work. Top page ends tinted blue with fading towards spine end and pale spot to middle. Cloth is very nice with just a few tiny smudges to spine. Previous owner's address label to front pastedown, otherwise clean interior with sharp corners and tight binding.
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SGD 41.39
