Benn - Tswiuntswantsik Illustratsies tsu der Bibl [22 Illustrations of the Bible]. Paris: A. B. Cerata, 1947. Yiddish.
The first book published by A. B. Cerata, which is also the first in the series of books called "Shir Kalektsie", named after the father of the painter Benn - Shlomo Ya'akov Rabinovitch - who died in the Bialistok Ghetto. Printed in 360 copies.
Benn - Ben-Zion Rabinovitch, born in Bialistok in 1905. Lived in Paris from 1930. During the Nazi occupation he was detained and released following the intervention of influential friends. He then hid out with his wife for over two years, during which he created the series of illustrations in this book.
At the beginning of the book is a dedication in Benn's handwriting to H. Leivick (Leivick Halpern - a Yiddish poet, playwright and author), with a small illustration of a dove.
[112] pp. 30 cm. Good condition. Old ownership stamp, torn spine.

The Book of Jonah, taken from the Authorised Version of King James I. With Engravings on Wood by David Jones. London: Clover Hill Editions / Douglas Cleverdon, 1979. English.
The Book of Jonah with wood engravings by the British artist David Jones. The book was published in an edition totalling 470 copies, including 10 copies printed on vellum with an additional set (portfolio) of 39 wood engravings, identical to the ones in the book, printed on vellum, Japanese paper and handmade paper - 13 of each kind. The present volume is copy B, printed on vellum. The leather binding, decorated with a gilt design of a whale and sea waves, is signed on the inner binding “Sangorski & Sutcliffe”.
The book and portfolio are held in the original cardboard slipcase. Enclosed an advertising pamphlet about the book with a wood engraving, and a client’s order form and three letters handwritten on official stationery, written by the publisher Douglas Cleverdon to the copy’s buyer.
Book: [2]. 19 pp. [1] leaf, 29 cm. + [39] wood engravings, 25 cm. Pamphlet: [4] pp, 28/5 cm. Very good condition.

Les dimanches de la Comtesse de Narbonne, Daisy Fellowes, Illustrations de Vertès [Sundays]. Paris: Editions de France, 1935. French.
The most famous book by Daisy Fellowes (1890-1962), a Parisian socialite of Jewish origin, renowned beauty and fashion icon, French editor of American "Harper's Bazaar", heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune and novelist.
Numbered copy, 15/20 out of an edition totalling 1000 copies, signed on half title page by the author and the illustrator Marcel Vertès, and including two original illustrations by Vertès.
Marcel Vertès (1895-1961) - Hungarian painter, printmaker and illustrator, emigrated to Paris and was one of the city’s outstanding painters in the 1920s. In his paintings and prints he succeeded in capturing the spirit of the dynamic city and its residents.
191 pp., 26 cm. Very good condition. Light foxing. Red-pink leather binding with gilt frame

A book, catalogues and booklets related to Herwarth Walden (1879-1941), a Jewish-German artist, curator, founder of the periodical "The Storm" (Der Sturm), as well as a publishing house and art gallery.
The book "Expressionism, the turning point in art" published by Walden in 1918 (item no. 1), includes essays about the expressionist movement and the prominent artists of the movement with reproductions of important works. The book also includes two original woodcuts by the artists Arnold Topp and Jacoba von Heemskerck and two lino-cuts by the artist Rudolf Bauer. In addition offered here are catalogues of exhibitions and booklets about modern art published by Walden, as well as a catalogue of an exhibition of his wife Nell Walden's art collection, exhibited in Basel, Switzerland in 1943, two years after his death.
Walden, born as Georg Levine, was married for a decade to the Jewish-German poet Elsa Lasker Schuller, who gave him the name by which he was known. Being a communist, he fled Germany in the early 1930s fearing the Nazis, and went to the Soviet Union, where he was persecuted due to his relations with Avant-garde art. He died in the Soviet prison in 1941.
1. Expressionismus, die Kunstwende, herausgegeben von Herwarth Walden. Berlin: Der Sturm, 1918. German. 143 pp, 31 cm. Re-bound. Original wrapper is integrated into the binding. Several restored pages. Damages to binding.
2. Die Futuristen – Umberto Boccioni, Carlo D. Carra, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini. Berlin: Der Sturm. No year indicated. German
3. November 1916, Sechsundvierzigste Ausstellung Franz Marc Gedächtnis Ausstellung, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon. Berlin: Der Sturm, [1913]. German.
4. Gemälde und Aquarelle / Holzschnitte. Berlin: Der Sturm, [1916]. German.
5. Sammlung Walden, Gemälden / Zeichnungen / Plastiken. Berlin: Der Sturm. No year indicated. German.
6. Die Neue Malerei, Herwarth Walden. Berlin: Der Sturm. 1919. German.
7. Die Neue Malerei, Herwarth Walden. Berlin: Der Sturm, 1919. Third edition. German.
8. Francis Picabia, Sammlung Nell Walden. Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1943. German.
Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.