Likwidacja Getta Wilenskiego (Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto)
by Balberyszski, Mendel
Warsaw/Lodz/Krakow: Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyczna, 1946. First edition. Softcover. vg- to vg. Octavo. 40pp. Grey stapled wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. The publication is Mendel Balberyszski's personal eyewitness account of life in the Vilna Ghetto and its subsequent destruction during the German occupation of Lithuania. During the Holocaust, Balberyszski, who was a prominent member of Vilna's Jewish community, became a member of the Advisory Council administering the "small ghetto", who continued to oppose the Judenrat's... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Likwidacja Getta Wilenskiego (Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto)
by Balberyszski, Mendel
Warsaw/Lodz/Krakow: Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyczna, 1946. First edition. Softcover. vg- to vg. Octavo. 40pp. Grey stapled wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. The publication is Mendel Balberyszski's personal eyewitness account of life in the Vilna Ghetto and its subsequent destruction during the German occupation of Lithuania. During the Holocaust, Balberyszski, who was a prominent member of Vilna's Jewish community, became a member of the Advisory Council administering the "small ghetto", who continued to oppose the Judenrat's... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Four Events and Reactions
by Baldessari, John
Florence. Centro Di, 1975. Softcover. g. Oblong 24mo. Unpaginated (50pp). Original wraps. Minor age wear and some creasing to wraps. Contents: 1) Putting a finger in milk. 2) Touching a cactus. 3) Putting out a cigarette. 4) Pushing a plate off a table. Illustrated with reproductions of b/w photographs. "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, from November 21st, 1975, through January 4th, 1976." Wraps in good, interior in... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
L'Inde des Tribus Oubliees (The Forgotten Tribes)
by Baldizzone, Gianni; Tiziana Baldizzone
Paris: Editions du Chene, 1993. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 232pp. Black cloth in original dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. A fascinating look at the indigenous tribes of India. Stunningly illustrated with color reproductions of photographs. Preface by Dominique Lapierre. Text by Declan Quigley and Vinay Srivastava. In French. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Head of spine bumped. Minor creasing and scuffing to dj. Small sticker to back of dj. Dj and binding in very good, interior in near fine condition.... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Chanson de Geste und höfischer Roman: Heidelberger Kolloquium, 30. Januar 1961 [Studia Romanica, 4. Heft]
by Baldinger, Kurt; Gerhard Hess; Hans Robert Jauss; Erich Köhler (Eds.)
Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, 1963. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. 83, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Publisher's logo on title page. Remarkable study on the Chanson de Geste and courtly novel being chivalrous romances which originated in Medieval France. Minor age-toning along edges of wrappers. Text in German. Wraps in overall good+ to very good, interior in very good condition.
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Die Maler und das Theater im 20. Jahrundert
by Balet, Denis et al.
Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 1986. First edition. Softcover. good+. Quarto. 577pp. Pictorial wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. An invaluable resource of costumes and sets for the theater by well-known modern artists, from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries, illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of drawings, sketches and paintings. Text in German. Wrappers lightly rubbed and creased with some sunning to spine. Block is slightly bumped at top right, not affecting images. Wrappers, binding... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Schwäbische Glasmalerei
by Balet, Leo
Stuttgart, Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. fair to g-. Large Quarto. 165 (3)pp. Original cream cloth with stamped color vignette and gilt lettering on cover and spine. color frontispiece on black heavy stock handmade paper. Second catalog by Leo Balet on Swabian glass painting for the National Collection of Antiquities. Illustrated with eight tipped-in color reproductions of glass paintings to heavy black handmade paper and numerous b/w in-text reproductions of glass paintings. Thorough inquiry on preserved... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
The Classic Watch: The Great Watches and Their Makers from the First Wrist Watch to the Present Day
by Balfour, Michael
Seacausus, N.J.: Wellfleet Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 192pp. Black cloth in original dj. Minor staining to cloth. Minor creasing and one small tear to dj. Illustrated with full-page and in-text color plates. In very good condition.
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
La Crucifixion sans Crucifie dans l'art ethiopien
by Balicka-Witakowska, Ewa
Warsaw: Piotr O, Scholz, 1997. First French Edition. Hardcover. vg. 4to. X. 188 pages of text followed by 66 pages of color and b/w photographs and drawings. Tan cloth cover with black art. Minor bump to bottom edge. Slight scuffing and creasing on dj. Ethiopian art portraying the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Illustrated with color and b/w plates. Part of a series "Bibliotheca nubica et aethiopica 4." Dj in very good book in near fine condition.
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Nuestras Raíces: Muestra de arte Iberoamericano (Our Roots: Exhibition of Latin-American art)
by Bali, Jaime (Ed.); Michel Zabé (Photographs by)
Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. g+. 1/5000. Folio. 143, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over red cloth, with blind-stamped lettering on spine and front cover. Illustrated with numerous color photographic reproductions, this catalogue was published on the occasion of an exhibition of Latin-American art held July 18-19, 1991 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The artworks featured in this volume show some of the finest and most spectacular examples of Pre-Columbian art dating... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Observations on the Chronological Problems of the Karum Kanus (Kanis Karum'unun Kronoloji Problemleri Hakkinda Musahedeler. Türk Tarih Kuruku Yayinlarindan VII. Seri - No. 28)
by Balkan, Kemal
Ankara: Türk Tarih Kuruku, 1955. First edition. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 101 pp. + 6 plates containing 12 b/w facsimile photographs of striking archaological artifacs. Green paper wrappers. The contents of this book were originally prepared for publication in Belleten, the Review of the Turkish Historical Society, however, the Turkish and Englih versions together exceeded the amount of space allowed for such articles. In this booklet, the tablets excavated in Kültepe by this society between 1948 - 1954. Kültepe... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Dosso Dossi: la pittura a Ferrara negli anni del ducato di Alfonso (Volume 2)
by Ballarin, Alessandro, Allesandra Pattanaro, Vittoria Romani, Sergio Momesso and Giovanni Pacchioni
Citadella (Padova): Bertcello artigrafiche, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Short folio. Unpaginated. Magnificently illustrated with 815 b/w facsimile photographs of the artwork of Dosso Dossi. Red cloth with decorative gold lettering on spine protected by original lovely decorative dj. Thick, blue ornamental front and rear endpapers. Text in Italian. Minor age wear to dj. Dj in good, book in near fine condition. Dosso Dossi, (a.k.a. Giovanni di Niccolò de Leturi, circa 1490 - 1542) the Italian Renaissance painter... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Gli Ebrei e gli Estensi. Con l'aggiunta di Il Tempio Maggiore Israelitico e Lettere del Rabbino Maggiore Jacob Israele Carmi
by Balletti, Andrea
Bologna: Forni Editore, 1969. Reprint. Softcover. vg. Quarto. 262, [2], 38, 158, [2]pp. Original printed wraps over cloth. Fascinating work on the history of the Italian Jews of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and their relations with the Catholic inhabitants. This work is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w full-page and in-text photographic reproductions of views and portraits. Minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in Italian. Wraps, binding and interior in overall very good condition.
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Gli Ebrei e gli Estensi
by Balletti, Andrea
Reggio-Emilia: Anonima Poligrafica Emiliana, 1930. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. 262, [2]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original decorative wrappers. Publisher's logo on title page. This remarkable scholarly study tells the history of the Jews of Reggio and Modena under the House of Este. This volume is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous b/w photographic reproductions of views and portraits. Foxing along edges of wrappers. Head and tail of spine chipped. Offsetting on very first and very last leaves. Minor... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
![Outland [SIGNED]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/043/1676043325.0.l.jpg)
Outland [SIGNED]
by Ballen, Roger (photographer); Peter Weiemar (introduction)
London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Square quarto. Unpaginated. (120)pp. Original white glossy boards with gray lettering on cover and spine, in original dustjacket with the same lettering. Black endpapers. Signed "Roger Ballen" on title page. Illustrated with sixty-one full-page duotone photos of mainly white South Africans on the outskirts of society. "Outland' is the culmination of almost twenty years work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen and amounts to one of the most... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
![Platteland; Images from Rural South Africa [SIGNED]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/971/077/1676077971.0.l.jpg)
Platteland; Images from Rural South Africa [SIGNED]
by Ballen, Roger
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Quarto (11-1/2" x 9-1/2"). (22)pp., 57 leaves of plates. Original white paper-coverd boards with black lettering on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. 2 frontispiece photographs. Signed "Roger Ballen" on title page. This work was first published in 1994 in Rivonia, South Africa by William Waterman. "For almost two decades Roger Ballen, an American, has been photographing in the... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Platteland; Images from Rural South Africa
by Ballen, Roger
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Quarto (11-1/2" x 9-1/2"). (22)pp. Plus 60 leaves of plates, each with a facing page of description. White photographic dust jacket lettered in black, over white boards lettered in black. Very minor (1/4") gouge at fore-edge of front board, otherwise a near fine copy. This book was (and remains) shrink-wrapped for protection by a previous dealer. This work was first published in... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
![Decorative Motives of Oriental Art. With Six Hundred and Seventy-Three Illustrations [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/085/888/1457888085.0.l.jpg)
Decorative Motives of Oriental Art. With Six Hundred and Seventy-Three Illustrations [Signed]
by Ball, Katherine M. [signed]
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio (13" x 10"). xxvi,(2),286pp. Double column text. Index. Plus (2)pp. publisher's ads. Original black cloth, gilt (some minor stains and corners slightly worn).T.e.g. Illustrated throughout with nearly 700 black & white examples. Signed by Katherine M. Ball on the title page, dated May 24, 1944. The meanings of the patterns that decorate Chinese and Japanese art. This work originally appeared as a series of... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Light From the East or The Witness of the Monuments: An Introduction to the Study of Biblical Archaeology
by Ball, Rev. C. J.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Quarto. XXXIII, [1], 256, [32]pp. Uncut. Original red cloth covered boards, with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Bevelled boards. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Color frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Title-page in red and black lettering. First edition of this fascinating Introduction to the Study of Biblical Archaeology, compiling a list of the proper names In the Old and New Testaments with the signification of... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Avram: Peculium Abrae. Grammatica Hebraea
by Balmes, Abraham de
Venice: Daniel Bamberg, 1523.
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Carpets of The Vakiflar Museum Istanbul - Teppiche des Vakiflar-Museums Istanbul [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]
by Balpinar, Belkis; Udo Hirsch
Wesel: Uta Hülsey, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 343, [1]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over gilt-stamped cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Title page inscribed and signed by Belkis Balpinar to her friends Stella and Fred [Krieger]. The carpets published in color in this book have been selected from the carpets on display and those in the depots of the Istanbul Vakiflar Carpet Museum collection. Most of them were collected from mosques in Anatolia which had been constructed... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Flatweaves of the Vakiflar Museum, Istanbul - Flachgewebe des Vakiflar-Museums Istanbul [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]
by Balpinar, Belkis; Udo Hirsch
Wesel: Uta Hülsey, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Folio. 295, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-stamped brown cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Title page inscribed and signed by Belkis Balpinar "to Fred and Stella [Krieger], to great textile lovers. 28. 1. 2001." Illustrated with one hundred twenty striking color photographic reproductions of kilims (each with its technical and descriptive entry), this remarkable work discusses the donation process of flatweaves, their background, the historical context of... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Third Joint Report of the Federated Jewish Charities of Baltimore. [RARE]
by Federated Jewish Charities of Baltimore
Baltimore: Press of Kohn & Pollock, Inc, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. 168pp. Original full cloth with gold-stamped borders and lettering on front cover. Decorative endpapers. Rare and interesting work giving an inside look at the various American Jewish charity organizations in the very first years of the 20th century. 1" closed tear at upper front joint. Some age-toning and soiling on binding. Binding in overall fair to good, interior in near fine condition.
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
Stahl Überall. Monatliche Werbeschrift (Steel Everywhere. Monthly Advertising Paper) 2 Issues
by Baltrusch, Walter (ed.)
Düsseldorf: Beratungsstelle für Stahlverwendung, 1930. First edition. Softcover. Very good condition. Original wraps illustrated with color photomontages and blue, respectively white lettering. Designs of covers and issues by Hans Stövhase. 1. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4"). 32pp. Original orange wraps illustrated with photomontage and blue lettering on cover. Volume 3, Issue 6-7, June-July 1930. Issue providing an overview of steel furniture as they were used in offices at the time. The offers include work desks, cabinets,... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
![The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California [SIGNED]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/278/666/1506666278.0.l.jpg)
The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California [SIGNED]
by Baltz, Lewis
Los Angeles: RAM Publications, 2001. Hardcover. Very good- to near fine condition. Oblong Quarto. (2) 51 (3) leaves. Original gray cloth with black lettering on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with black lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Tan endpapers, ad laid in tissue guard to protect original signature of Lewis Baltz on title page. Designed by Thomas F. Barrow. One of the publications by Lewis Baltz, the visual artist and photographer and member... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller