Jewish Fiction
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THE WALL
by HERSEY, John
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. William Sharp. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in three-quarter black linen with tan linen. Introduction by George N. Shuster. One of 1500 numbered copies with pen drawings and 12 hand-pulled aquatints by William Sharp. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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SGD 129.20
DO THESE BONES LIVE
by DAHLBERG, Edward
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1941). First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor edgewear and a couple of closed tears. Dahlberg's unique takes on Thoreau, Melville, etc.
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SGD 86.09
THE WALL
by HERSEY, John
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Slight sunning to the spine. Close to Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. William Sharp. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in three-quarter black linen with tan linen. Introduction by George N. Shuster. Illustrated with pen drawings and 12 hand-pulled aquatints by William Sharp. Of a total edition of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this is one of only 15 Presentation Copies with the publisher's blindstamp attesting to such on the colophon...
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SGD 146.42
A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel
by SACK, Sallyann Amdur
MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good plus+. Book is very slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, beautiful gold stamping on front cover and spine, publisher's material laid in.
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SGD 68.87
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 18.09
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 161.98
Past Perfect
by Shabtai, Yaakov
NY: Viking, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 291pp. Grey boards with blue cloth backing and red spine titles. Fine in a near fine unclipped jacket, with minor rubbing, and some crumpling along top edge. The final novel by the inventive & experimental Israeli writer. Translated by Dalya Bilu, with an afterword by Edna Shabtai.
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SGD 55.10
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 77.55
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 34.44
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 58.43
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 103.30
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 71.62
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 34.47
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 15.06
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 45.91
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 55.10
In the Thicket
by Simon, Solomon
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of this autobiographical novel (his second, following My Jewish Roots) by the Jewish author of The Wise Men of Helm and others. Translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel. Octavo, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. 273pp. Black cloth boards, white spine lettering; in dust jacket. Some rubbing to spine lettering. Near fine, with a few spots of light soiling to textblock top and fore-edge. In an...
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SGD 68.87
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 82.64
A Child's Longing for Home
by Bach, Zellig
NY: Carlton, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. viii+94pp. First edition. Inscribed by the author to former owners' on the front free end paper. Grey cloth boards. Near fine in a very good unclipped jacket that shows Light wear at the spine ends and a few short closed tears. A stirringly written memoir about the author's boyhood in a Lithuanian shtetl. Rear jacket blurbs by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Freud, and others.
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SGD 55.10
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 206.61
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 68.87
THE LEAFLESS AMERICAN
by DAHLBERG, Edward
[Sausalito]: Roger Beacham, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine cream dustwrapper with light soiling. Of the total edition of 760 copies, @24 are the first issue without cancellations. This copy is one of the regular second issue, called by Billings (A15b) the trade issue. SIGNED by Dahlberg on the front free endpaper. Essays about Sherwood Anderson, Oscar Wilde, Stephen Crane, Niettzsche, Kansas City, and more.
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SGD 172.17
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 24.79
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 59.23
