Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher, copied and illustrated by Ben Shahn. Paris: Trianon Press, 1967. Hebrew and English.
The Book of Ecclesiastes, written and illustrated by Jewish-American artist Ben Shahn. The book was published in an edition totalling 240 copies. The present copy is from the deluxe edition of 26 copies, including 2 original lithographs signed by the artist and a portfolio with a set of the works and a series of progressive states of one of the plates. The book and portfolio are held in the original cardboard case.
[46] pp, [2] signed lithographs, [8] plates, [28] prints (progressive states), 33 cm. Good condition. Damage to cardboard box, one side detached.

Martin Buber XX Récits Hassidiques, traduits de l'allemand par Armel Guerne, eaux-fortes originales de Eric Brauer, Editeuropa Anstalt & Galerie Sydow, 1972. French.
Récit Hassidiques, 20 engravings in color, numbered 66/300 and signed in pencil by Eric Brauer, depicting Hassidic stories by Martin Buber. Translated from German by Armel Guerne. 150 copies were published in French and a similar number of copies in the original language – German. In addition to the engravings, ornamented initials appear at the beginning of each story. Handsome folder.
93 pp (20 engraving sheets), [1] leaf, [4] pp, 36 cm. Good condition.

* Pasn likhṭ (a ḳinder-ṿelṭ in finf bilder) by Esther Shumiatcher. Published by Arbeyṭer ring bildungs department, New-York,1925. Yiddish.
Several illustrations by Baruch Aronson.
48 pp. 23 cm. Good-fair condition. Some stains. Tears to title-cover. Detached cover.
* Beny (kinder roman), by B. Mozer. Published by Umparteishe yidishe arbeter- kinder-shuln, New York, 1930. Yiddish.
Front cover illustration by Baruch Aronson. Illustrations within the book by Yasha Zeldin.
156, [2] pp. 20 cm. Good condition. Damage to binding.

Statute of Kalisz, artistic adaptation of the first charter of rights granted to the Jews of Poland (1264), created by Arthur Szyk. Facsimile edition of the original edition, printed in Paris in 1932. Published by Wydawnictwo Graf_ika, Warsaw, 2012. English, Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Polish, Italian and Spanish.
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), one of the most outstanding Jewish artists in the twentieth century, started his work on the scroll in the mid-1920s, when he resided in Paris. In the face of rising anti-Semitism in Poland, Syzk decided to react through a work of art expressing the unique and long affinity between Polish Jews and their homeland. As subject of his
work Szyk chose the Statute of Kalisz, the first document of its kind securing the liberties of Jews in Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland. The original statute was issued by Duke Boleslaus (1224-1276) in 1264 and reflected tolerance, sympathy and closeness towards his Jewish subjects.
45 illustrated plates. Size of plates: 32X38.5 cm. Very good condition. Thick paper. Plates are wrapped with inflexible paper and inserted into an elegant leather portfolio partly covered with cloth and in an outer slipcase. Enclosed are a book and an explanatory booklet with introductions.

Wieland, Deutsche Wochenschrift für Kunst und Literatur. Berlin: Wieland Verlag Julius Bard, 1915-1916. German.
A volume of the first-year issues of "Wieland", a German art and literature weekly, published during World War I. The journal's entire revenue was donated to the Red Cross. Issues 1-52 (some doubled). 44 booklets in all.
Writers include: Gerhard Hauptmann, Hermann Hesse, Lotte von Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Arthur Silbergleit and Jakob Wasermann.
Artists whose works appear in the journal include Erich Büttner, Lyonel Feininger, Max Liebermann, Emil Orlik and Hermann Struck.
Volume 33 cm. Good condition. Slightly brittle paper.