Rabbi Silverstone (7 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 71 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. The Great Beyond and Other Essays on Resurrection, Immortality, Spiritualism, and Cognate Matters. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible sunning & crushing to spine. Minor splits causing fraying to cloth at spine ends. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 71 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light water staining, foxing and noticeable tanning to pages; text unaffected. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to plate on front free endpaper. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hb. G+.

Hb. G+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Text in Hebrew. This was the first Hebrew book published in Belfast (and only one currently listed in Vinograd). Worldcat only locates copies in the USA. JTS, NYPL, Princeton, Stanford and UCLA. The Second Suppl Cat of the BL lists it.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In Hebrew. 64 pages. 200 x 137 mm. Unpaginated except for the 7th leaf which is numbered "1". Complete [32] leaves. With one picture. Some pages still uncut. Seder Haggadah shel Pesach. With commentary Korban Pesach by R. Gedaliah Silverstone. First edition of commentary. Original wrappers within contemporary boards. 8vo. Yudlov 2472; Yaari 1784. The first hagadah printed in the nation's Capital. See Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America #162.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Text in Hebrew. This was the first Hebrew book published in Belfast (and only one currently listed in Vinograd). Worldcat only locates copies in the USA. JTS, NYPL, Princeton, Stanford and UCLA. The Second Suppl Cat of the BL lists it. INSCRIPTION ON EXTRA PAGE IN FRONT with ink impression of Rabbi Silverstone's seal (G. SILVERSTONE RABBI, BELFAST) - in Hebrew too. The inscription is to the Rabbi's sister and brother in law, wishing they'd live to 120, giving them the book as a gift. A child has written something rudimentary in pencil on the front blank pastedown and also drew a picture of a man and a a woman, the man wears a top hat, the woman a head covering. Inscription by Author on Speci.