Jewish Fiction
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The Great Wall Of China
by Franz Kafka
Kafka tells the tale of one of the building overseers on the Great Wall of China. As he reflects on his work, his minor bit of authority, he recognizes his part in the system, and realizes the worth of his small bit of responsibility. He speculates and yet revels in his contented position of achieving a job well done.
Maus
by Art Spiegelman
The Complete Maus is a moving graphic novel that depicts the devastating experiences of the author’s father, Vladek, during the Holocaust. Art Spiegelman, an acclaimed artist, uses animals to represent those present in his retelling. He weaves his relationship with his father into the fabric of the tragic tale, demonstrating the cascading effects of trauma through exploring his father’s experiences surviving the Holocaust and Art’s own experiences growing up with his father. The tragic story, which...
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Jewish Fiction Books & Ephemera
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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£32.38
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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£12.95
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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£45.57
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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£26.98
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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£101.19
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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£10.63
GENTLEMAN FROM CRACOW; THE MIRROR
by SINGER, Isaac B
Northampton: Limited Editions Club, 1979. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Raphael Soyer. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound with a gray buckram spine and gray paper board sides. One of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by Raphael Soyer and SIGNED by both the artist and the Nobel Prize-winning author on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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£126.52
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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£14.57
The Dybbuk
by S. Ansky; John Hirsch (Translator)
Presumably first edition. 119 p.; ill. Small 1 cm tear and sticker residue to dust jacket with minor edgewear. Pastedowns have manufacturing flaw (slightly wrinkled) but book is otherwise in Fine condition. Edited by Barbara Kaufman and Michal Schonberg. Illustrated by Paul S. Weldon. From the dust jacket: The Dybbuk is the classic drama of the Yiddish theatre. Written in the early twentieth century by S. Ansky, the play is set in an isolated Polish community of Hassidic Jews, and tells the story of...
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£26.98
Safta's Diaries
by Bina Appleman with Shera Aranoff Tuchman Translator)
2011 hardcover as pictured. The edited diaries of Bina Appleman, a woman born in Imperial Russian Poland, was separated from her family who eventually emigrated alone to the United States at 17. Includes 68 pages of photographs and illustrations. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with gold stamping show minimal wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows only light shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OE2
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£58.28
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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£15.28
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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£95.20
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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£40.48
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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£75.93
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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£40.48
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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£86.05
Perfidy
by Hecht, Ben
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1962. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 281 pages. Extensive footnotes. Fourth printing of the 1961 first edition. "In my own time, governments have taken the place of people. They have also taken the place of God... I have written chiefly of one government in this book - that of the new Jewish state of Israel... I am a Jew. I come of a long, never-broken line of Jews... They did well by the world... What happened...
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£105.19
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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£50.59
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Der Shem Ham'forash Mensch [Human, God's Ineffable Name]: Yiddish Poems.
by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Ohalah, Rabbinic Fellowhip et al, 1973. Pamphlet Fine in Wraps: binding square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 86pp. A "Nachdichtung" Freelyn Rendered by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi. Published by Ohalah, Rabbinic Fellowhip/Aleph, Alliance for Jewish Renewal/Yesod, Foundation for a Jewish Future. Originally published in Warsaw by Indsel Verlag in 1933. Paperback: Staple-bound Wraps. Abraham...
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£39.67
The Kabbalistic Bible: Genesis : Technology for the Soul
by Yehuda Berg
Road West Publishing Company, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£6.61
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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£40.48
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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£34.34
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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£32.38
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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£8.86
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Three Novels [Signed & Inscribed]
by Fuchs, Daniel
NY: Basic Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed copy of this first collected edition of Fuchs' enduring novels about life in Depression-era Brooklyn, "Summer in Williamsburg," "Homage to Blenholt," and "Low Company," originally published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. Fuchs has lovingly inscribed this copy to Susan Foster, a long-time personal assistant to film and literary mega-agent Irving Paul Lazar, and later Frank Sinatra....
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£404.75
