Cecil Roth Ed (50 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 515 pages. Moderate wear; pages yellowed, a little staining to the outer edges; a reading copy of an old book. The dust jacket is present but heavily torn, chipped and worn. Sections are The Biblical Age; The Hellenistic Age; The Talmudic Age; The Judeo-Islamic Age; The Eu…

Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Wraps have small tear at top of spine, overall light soiling and shelf wear, faint spine crease. Pages clean, slightly age-darkened. Illustrated with color, black and white photographs. Contents: Sandberg, "The Message of Human Creativity"; Mansfeld, "Unity in Diversity"; Kiesler and Bartos, "T…

HEAVY, tidy ex-library; quarto hardcover (VG-, sl. crack to front hinge (minor)) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book m…

Condition: Good. 1938. First Edition. 333 pages. Brown jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription in pen to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a li…

New edition, revised and enlarged, 1937. Short tear to lower edge of front free endpaper and half-title page; otherwise internally VG. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine; wear to cloth at board edges, spine foot, and short repaired split at upper front joint. Corners bumped. Used - Good. Good hardback in gr…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The version in the blue velvet binding with metal borders, embroidery on the front board in white, silver, red, blue and green. Hebrew text and illustrations recto, English text facing. A small p.o. inscription on the front free endpaper, a chip from the bottom of the rear panel of the clear acet…

Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. XIX, [1], 332, [2]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine and printer's device in gilt on front cover. Compilation of 147 letters written by English Jews between 1158 and 1917 throwing some interesting sidelights on English history. Many of the letters are…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Clamshell box. Quarto in blue velvet covered, beveled boards, with Kiddush goblet in gilt on both covers. Unpaginated. Frenchfold. Introduction on the history of the Haggadah and its illustration by Cecil Roth. Jewel-like intricate colored illustrations and text by Arthur Szyk t…

Hardcover. 4to. 42pp. 167pp. vi. Original half brown cloth over pink cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Hebrew and English title-pages. Scholarly edition of the work of the 13th century English Tosafist Rabbi Elijah of London. Includes a lengthy biographical introduction by Cecil Roth. Includes b…

Softcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto. 16, 171pp. Original gray printed wraps. Introduction by Cecil Roth. The Sepher haShoham or "Onyx Book" is one of the very few surviving literary relics of medieval Anglo-Jewry. The work has been described as "first in time (ca. 1200) and probably in value" of the grammatical…

4th printing. Mit zahlreichen, zum Teil farbigen Abbildungen und einer großen farbigen Faltkarte von Israel. Large format. Original cloth covers. Books in good condition. In volumes 13 and 14, there are underlinings in red colored pencil on three pages of one article in each volume. Otherwise, the text is clean. Books from a non…