JEWISH from Barbara Bilson Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Very good (a few light foxing spots on page edges, one bumped corner) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear including some small chips at folds, one fold looks fragile but the dust jacket is fully intact). A first novel.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 2007. Near fine (top corners bumped, giver's bookplate on first free endpaper) in fine dust jacket.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Schocken, 1985. Translated and with an afterword by Hillel Halkin. Set in turn of the century (19th-20th) Poland. Very good+ (one bumped corner, otherwise near fine) in very good dust jacket (edgewear, especially at spine, one taped reinforcement inside). Agnon was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1906. Very good- (faded spine, some corner wear, soiled page edges). Gilt decorated cover and spine in red cloth. Translated from the Yiddish by Helena Frank. 455 pages including a glossary of terms, primarily Hebrew. Tales of Russian and Polish Jews, written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. A slim book in near fine condition (top corners bumped) with a near fine dust jacket (lightly rubbed with a tiny bit of top edgewear). The author, a well-known sociologist, writes of his difficult childhood growing up in a Jewish remnant in Harlem, a ghetto within a ghetto. His family had fled persecution in… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Inscape Publishes, 1976. A collection of short stories, included in his "Children of the Holocaust" and conceived as a single work by Lustig. Translated by George Theiner, this is a reprint of the 1962 edition. Made into a film, there are 8 stills from the film included in the book. Near fine (some slight edgewear, mostly at the… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982. Fine in very good dust jacket (a bit of edgewear at top of spine; two smudges on front panel). A small, well-illustrated book on the happiest of Jewish holidays. About 30 pages (unnumbered). One of series of books on Jewish holidays by the same author and illustrator.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. Very good (faded cover tops and a small, faint smudge on the top page edges) in good only dust jacket (intact but heavy edgewear with a few small missing chips, now in Brodart to prevent further wear; price-clipped). 333 pages including index, a bibliography of Sholom Aleichem's works in English translation, and a 16-page… Read more about this item

Washington DC: New Israel Fund, 2001. A pamphlet (27 pages) intended to enrich the seder not only through inclusion in the formal elements of the seder ("Miriam's Cup" and "We were strangers in the Land of Egypt") but through discussion groups as guests arrive ("At the Red Sea: Two Midrashim" and "The Embattled Leader: Rabban Gamaliel II of Yavne"). The… Read more about this item

Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1991. New Series, Volume XIII Number 2, Spring 1991. Very good (wrinkled back cover, some edgewear, interior clean and unmarked). Paper covers. 200 pages. The central work in this issue is the translation of Czech writer Arnost Lustig's short novel (about 60 pages), "Colette," which grows out of Lustig's Nazi labor camp experiences. Colette is a… Read more about this item

Sherman Oaks CA: Weiss Books, 1975. Soft cover book with about 35 humorous illustrations of the cultural changes that the Messiah will bring, including the draydle table in Las Vegas and Wonder Challah (builds spirits eight ways!). Includes a few repetitions of the pages at the end--either a binding error or just to see if you're paying attention. Very good… Read more about this item

New York: Reconstructionist Press , 1968. Near fine in good+ dust jacket (rubbed w/ tears at top of spine but protected from further wear by Brodart archival cover). . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Near fine (slightly cocked) in very good dust jacket (price clipped, some rubbing and light edgewear, one crease on inside flap). Author's first book. First edition, first printing. Subject is contemporary marriage.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co , 1993. SIGNED by author on title page. Near fine (1 bumped corner, rear) in near fine dj (1small closed tear on rear panel, now protected by archival plastic cover). 1st edition. Illustrated by photographs from the play featuring the original cast members like Franncis McDormand, Madeline Kahn, Jane Alexander, the three sisters. .… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, 2003. Near fine (minimal edgewear, a couple of light marks on the front cover) in very good+ dust jacket (very light edgewear). A startling story of abuse of power and murder. Jewish only in the sense that in this case the criminal happened to be a rabbi, but the author does investigate the way in which… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. This is the true 1st British. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Author's FIRST BOOK. Very Good+ (some fading of top edges) in Very Good dust jacket (sunned, light edgewear). Lind lived in Holland during Nazi occupation, after the war going to Israel. Later a resident of Great Britain.. 1st British edition.… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Very good (sunned, some spotting on pastedowns) in very good dust jacket (edgewear, especially at top of spine). Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. Life in a kibbutz in the 1960s when they were thriving.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Third printing. Very good (black remainder mark along top page edges, some edgewear, previous owner's name on first free endpaper; interior clean and unmarked) in very good dust jacket (edgewear as on book itself). Library binding, but NOT ex-lib. 168 pages. Aimed at young readers but suitable for all ages. . Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Near fine (small nick in bottom cover edge) in very good+ dust jacket (very slight edgewear at spine top and bottom, rubbed and lightly scratched). SIGNED by author on half title page.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. Fine in near fine dust jacket (slightly wrinkled, edgeworn at top of spine). Author's second novel.. 1st British edition. Hard Cover.