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x + 102 pages. Black and white reproduction of one-page photo-montage entitled Editorial Staff, Jewish Canadian Eagle & Canadian Jewish Chronicle. "We believe that these pages constitute an addition to the small shelf of Canadian Jewish histories, a supplement to Sack's volume which is the premier book of Jewish Canadiana." - from v. Chapters include: Unmarked with moderate wear. Staining to edges of textblock. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important work. Book
Original cloth. 8vo. VI, [2], 229, [1] pages. 20 cm. First edition. Singerman 2284. BAL 11485. Emma Lazarus dedicated Admetus and Other Poems, her second book of poems, which appeared in the twenty-second year of her life, To my friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who had encouraged her poetic career. The volume contains perhaps her earliest poem on a Jewish subject, In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport, written in July 1867, when she was not yet eighteen. (From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, 1991) . Author's second book, only 500 copies were printed. Her rare second book. Lazarus is most famous for her poem, "The New Colossus," the final five lines of which are inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Translations on pages [195]-229, [1], of Giacomo Leopardi, Goethe, and Heine. Bound in publishers red cloth boards, with gilt title on spine. Subjects: Emma Lazarus Poems. American poetry - Translations from German. German poetry - Translations into English. Head and tail of backstrip torn at outermost edge, light wear to cloth, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (KH-1-12)
1st edition. Original boards with embellished spine and gilt lettering. 8vo. 214 pages, 29 cm. In English. Emma Lazarus (1849 1887) was an American poet, writer, and translator from New York City. She wrote the sonnet The New Colossus in 1883, which includes "lines of world-wide welcome". Its lines famously appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, installed in 1903, a decade and a half after Lazarus's death. (Wikipedia, 2018) . No copy appearing at auction in the last 50 years. SUBJECTS: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Brion, Friederike-Elisabeth, 1752-1813 -- Fiction. Very good condition. A beautiful copy. (AMR-65-5)
12mo., Second Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light marginal spotting; contemporary mottled red and brown calf, sides with floral frame border in gilt, back tooled and ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt edgesexpertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With fine early nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate bearing the widespread motto 'pro aris et focis'. This scarce work contains the twenty-four prayers and orisons of the Armenian patriarch Nerses IV (1102-1173). Effectively a type specimen book, it was printed at the Armenian monastery on the isle of St. Lazarus off Venice and presents the prayers in no fewer than 24 different languages, including Dutch, Gaelic, Hungarian, Spanish and Russian. The collection was first issued in 1818 with the prayers present in fourteen languages; a fourth edition (1837) was several times reprinted. Brunet IV, 859; Nersessian 510.
