Catalogue of works published, and on sale, at the establishment of P. Vallentine. Printer not indicated. [London? 1868?]. English and some Hebrew.
Catalog of books published and on sale at the establishment of Philip Vallentine, a London publisher, binder and printer (his address is given as 34 Alfred Street, Bedford Square). The catalogue lists books and prices, with a short descriptive entry for each book. With an additional list of books (titled "Continuation of Addenda – 5628-1868") printed on the margins of the first thirteen pages.
31, [1] pp. 11.5 cm. Good condition. Closed tears and small open tears to edges of several leaves. New leather binding; missing original cover.
Not in OCLC.

22 book listings and catalogues of Hebrew and Yiddish books (and games), published on behalf of book publishers and booksellers in Palestine and Poland, 1920s to 1940s. Hebrew and Yiddish.
1. Catalogue of the "For the Sake of the Book – Office for the Distribution of the Hebrew Book in Israel" bookseller. Tel Aviv: HaShahar Publishers, ca. December 1927 / early 1928.
2. Catalogue of Hebrew books, Student Library of the Gymnasia Herzliya Hebrew High School. Tel Aviv: A. Strod Printing, 1924.
3. Book list of the Moriah Bookseller and Book Agency, 1929.
4. Catalogue No. 1 of textbooks, teaching aids, and games. Tel Aviv: Amsom Stationery and Bookseller's Organization, 1936.
5. Catalogue of books of the Land of Israel. Warsaw: Zentral Co., 1929. Featuring paintings by Reuven Rubin.
6. "Prospekt," Catalogue of Tomor Publishers, Vilnius, 1936.
7. Bikher-Katalog, Kooperativer Bikher-Lager ‘Kult-Bukh' ("Kult-Bukh" Cooperative Book Warehouse), Warsaw, 1939.
8. Books and Games from Palestine, catalogue, published by the Institute for Foreign Trade, Ltd., (Department of Products of Palestine for the Diaspora), in cooperation with the World Hebrew Alliance, Tel Aviv, 1946. With photographs.
9. Catalogue of A. Y. Stybel Publishers, Moscow, August 1935.
10-16. Seven catalogues of the Dvir publishing company from the years 1936-40, 1945, and 1949.
17. Catalogue of the Yavneh publishing company, September, 1945.
18. Catalogue of the Kiryat Sefer publishing company, June, 1946.
19. Catalogue of the Sifriyat Poalim publishing company, the Kibbutz HaArtzi / Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, 1946.
20. Catalogue of the Am Oved publishing company, 1950.
21. Catalogue of the Center for Culture of the Histadrut Labour Federation (The General Organization of Workers in Israel), [ca. 1951].
22. Catalogue of the Hebrew Book Fair at the Tel Aviv Museum, 1949.
The signature or handwritten comments of the composer Gabriel Grad appear on some of the catalogues.
Sizes and condition vary.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.

Dos Yidishe Bukh, Muster Katalog far Folksbibliotekn, Hantbukh far Bibliotekarn un Lezer [Model Library Catalogue of Yiddish Books for General Public Libraries, a Guide for Librarians and Readers], edited by Dem Biblioteken Tzenter [Center for Libraries]. Warsaw: Kultur Lige, 1929. Yiddish.
Detailed catalog of Yiddish books covering a wide range of fields. A designation of "Year 1, No. 1," appears on the cover, but no further issues are known to have been published.
With inked stamp of "Haikel Lunsky, Vilna," - Haim Haikel Lunsky (1881-1942), a renowned Lithuanian Jewish author of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, a folklorist and bibliographer, a librarian at Vilnius's Strashun Library for almost a half century (1895-1941), and a historian of Lithuanian Jewry. Perished in the Holocaust, in the Vilna Ghetto.
[2] ff., 4 pp., [1] f., 189 pp. + [8] pp. of advertisements (ad pages do not appear in NLI copy). Good-fair condition. Stains. Several detached leaves. Adhesive tape to edges of several pages. No back cover. Original binding, worn and somewhat damaged.

The Pentateuch. Berlin: Soncino, 1930-1933.
A fine bibliophile folio edition printed in 850 copies. The letters and initials were designed by Marcus Behmer "after the letters used in the printing press of Gershom Cohen in Prague".
The Soncino Society of Friends of the Jewish Book was founded in Berlin in 1924 and published books with meticulous attention to typographic design. The society was dismantled by order of the Nazi authorities in 1937.
The Soncino Society meant to continue and print all the other books of the bible, but the dramatic political changes in Germany at the time led to the early termination of the project.
[132] ff., 40 cm. Without the German introductory leaves. Good condition. Dark stains to several leaves (most of the leaves are clean). New, fine, half-leather binding.

Three booklets by and about S.Y. Agnon. Belin, 1919-1926.
1. Givat HaChol [The Hill of Sand]. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1919.
77, [2] pp. 15 cm.
2. MeChamat HaMetzik [From the Wrath of the Oppressor]. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1921.
82, [1] pp. 15 cm.
3. S.Y. Agnon, by E.M. [Elazar Meir] Lifshitz. Berlin, 1926.
An essay about Agnon and his work. An edition of 200 copies printed by Moses Marx for the bar Mitzvah of his son, Joseph Abraham Marx.
[1], 41, [1] pp. 20.5 cm. Detached cover, with tears.
Good overall condition.