Search Results: israel by ludwig lewisohn

Boni, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1925. 1936,1st thus? . Hardcover. Very Good+. Age-toned endpapers, 1 bumped corner. Attractive. very good+, no dj, navy-stamped taupe cloth. Clean text. Tight 280 pgs

New York: Albert & Charles Boni. Good. 1930. Softcover. Covers are smudged. Spine has a slight crease. .

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition/fifth printing book is tight with no markings, tanning and soiling to page edges, front and back paste down have some soiling, boards have rubbing and soling, edges have bumping and fraying.

Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1936-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Hardbound without dust jacket. Published by Behrman's, 1936. Spine darkening. Pages unmarked, moderate wear.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. Paperback. Very Good. 279, [3] p.: music; 19 cm. Paperback with purple and blue wrapper; illustrated endpapers designed by Rockwell Kent. The Rockwell Kent-designed emblem originally of Charles Boni Paper Books on the title page and wrapper. List of Bonibooks through number 33 on unpaginated page following text; this title is number 3. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Sara F. Bodine. First published in 1925. Lewisohn examines the failures of Jewish assimilation and the potential offered by Zionism. In Very Good Condition: wrapper lightly soiled and rubbed; lower wrapper corners creased; pages clean and tight.

NY: Behrman's Jewish, 1936. Reprint. 8vo, pp. xv, 280. Ivory cloth, printed in blue. Cover somewhat soiled, o/w VG.

New York: Boni, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. Reprint. Text clean. Light brown spots inside cover and on endpapers. Corners on cover slightly bent. Spine lightly faded. Spine ends bumped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Greenwood Press Reprint, 1971-10-29. Hardcover. Like New. in x in x in. Mint condition

London, UK: Ernest Benn, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xviii, 19-280pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Wear and stains to covers. Bumped spine ends. Cocked. Text block edges just starting to fox. Free endpapers tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo.

Greenwood Press Reprint, 1971-10-29. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Gilt stamped red and maroon cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 279pp., not illustrated, with "Good Books, Fall 1925" pamphlet laid in. Book has slight lean to spine, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has edgewear that includes some mild tears and creases, rubbing and soil, now in archival mylar wrap.

New York, Boni & Liveright. 1925 Hb. Scuffed. G.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. 1st . hard. Very Good+/Dust Jacket Included. With Boni's "Good books Fall 1925" (Sherwood Anderson, H. Van Loon,others) small leaflet laid in. very good+, good+ chipped dj, maroon & deep red cloth 280 pgs

London, Ernest Benn. 1926 Hb. Remains of Dustjacket. Good

Greenwood Press. Very Good. 083715698X. no dustjacket, 1971 rep clean bright copy . 1971. Hardcover.

Very Light toning, else content appears as New, unopened, unread and unblemished with Fine Brown & Tan, cloth covered boards, displaying no significant surface/edge wear as shown. Good++ DJ displays minor surface/edge wear, Taped ID at Heel of spine.as shown.The first fifty pages of Unambo almost defeat the good will which is inspired by the name of Max Brod. The effort-ridden writing gives the impression that this critic, scholar, musician, poet-famous once in Czechoslovakia, and now in Israel-has set himself an impossible task in applying a medieval devil-fantasy to the contemporary scene and its problems. Then at page 57 he uses the fable of the tyrant Phalaris and his steer of bronze: "Into the belly of this steer rebels against his despotism were thrown and then within the steer a great fire was lit under them. The victims screamed. But a subtle artist had inserted into the steer's belly so many carefully placed convolutions that the desperate screams of tortured… Read More

Paris, : Librairie Stock, 1930,. 185x125mm,. 290 pages, broché. Ex-libris. Bon état. Edition originale sur papier alfa satiné d’Outhenin-Chalandre, numéroté n.° 519 / 1100.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. One corner slightly bumped else a fine crisp copy in near fine dustwrapper with very slight loss to the spinal extremities and one small chip on the front panel. A nice copy of Lewisohn's defense of Judaism and plea for understanding of the race.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. Fine a lightly rubbed dust jacket with a few small chips and closed tears.. 8vo, [280]pp; two-tone cloth. A child of assimilated German Jews who emigrated to the United States when he was a child, Lewisohn faced unrelenting anti-semitism nonetheless as he pursued an academic career and ultimately returned to Judaism, rejecting assimilation as a failure and embracing Zionism. This book is his "passionate plea for understanding, for self understanding and appraisal by Jews as well as an appeal for understanding among the Gentiles" (from the dust jacket), in which he warns, already in 1925, of the antisemitism of Adolf Hitler.