[Bookseller Philipp Feldheim's stenciled book list number Hey (=5)]

Feldheim, Philip

Published by Philpp Feldheim [Undated. Probably 1941 C.E.], 45 Essex Street, New York, New York

About this Item

16 legal size pages, printed on one side only, with a duplicate page 3, listing 968 books offered for sale. Philipp Feldheim escaped Vienna, Austria. in 1939 and opened a bookstore of Hebrew books on the Lower East Side, selling a large inventory he apparently managed to bring with him from Europe. He bought and sold and soon founded a publishing company specializing in Jewish books. He lived to be c. 100 years old. As the publishing company became very successful and the area where he had his last store was changing and the real estate there becoming valuable, with the ever enlarging Chinatown, he sold the building and his entire stock of old books. Some brand new copies from the 1930s on the 2nd floor were still unwrapped, in boxes and he sold them for ludicrously low prices. He was a bright and learned man, but he did know the prices of antiquarian Jewish books, selling some valuable ones for peanuts and asking astronomical sums for inexpensive ones. Not only scholars feasted on his books. Some old thick rag paper books in the basement were partially eaten by rats. A few weeks before the store closed there was still half century of dust on the books that were on the top shelf in the basement. Searching through the entire inventory, one volume after another, was well worth the effort. Seller Inventory # 008657

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Title: [Bookseller Philipp Feldheim's stenciled ...

Publisher: Philpp Feldheim [Undated. Probably 1941 C.E.], 45 Essex Street, New York, New York

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket