Emanuel hertz editor (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Light wear to the binding. No slope no twist from reading or improper shelving. Pages tight clean no marks. Front and rear blank end sheets age-toned. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water stains. No soiling. No sun fading. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Jacket Has New Mylar Cover. -----------Brown cloth covers, 8 1/2" tall, 698 pages. . . . Book VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight solid binding and hinges, text no longer bright white and inside each cover browned with age. Former owner underlined 2 words 562 and wrote the date 1864 in margin ! - - - Dust jacket chipped.…

Condizione: Good. 1941 Reprint. Hardcover. Good. No Dust Jacket. Wearing and some rubbing on covers and spine. Some foxing on endpapers. Smudges on some interior pages. 698p.

Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 698pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Endpapers typically age toned, else internally near fine. Nice reprint edition. See Monaghan 3680.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. None. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. States 'First Published in February 1939' on the copyright page. With a hitherto unpublished and unretouched photograph of Lincoln by Alexander Gardner (the photographer had rejected the photo as imperfect due to a scratch on the forehead). An attempt to compile an autobiography and biography by collecting and collating all the valid, extant anecdotes by and about Lincoln. A monumental work of 672 pages with a selected bibliography and index. Fine, clean and tight. Extremely scarce. Signed.…

Condizione: vg. First edition. Large octavo. xxi, (3), 682pp. Later acetate dust jacket over burgundy cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Lincoln, several facsimiles of documents and 24 photographic portraits. A large article from the Yiddish language "Forward", dated January 8, 1955, has been pasted to the front free endpapers, with expected attendant browning, but the book itself is still a very good reading copy with no other problems. A fascinating work containing a cross section of sermons and essays both written and delivered by America's Jewish spiritual leaders marking the life of Lincoln from the very weekend of his murder to the first decades of the 20th century. This remarkable collection includes various references to the numerous encounters that Lincoln had with American Jews and of the problems they faced as they evolved into an American based faith community. This included the problems dealing with the recognition of the Jewish faith as an equal religious expression both in civilian life and of its clergy in the military. Much of what we know of Lincoln's regard for the Jewish people comes to us from those who were to play a part in his rise to power, such as Abraham Jonas and Simon Wolf. There was never even the faintest hint of any disregard both to the Jewish people or their faith by this president. He was a true friend of the Jewish people, and his legacy is further testimony to this. This book also details the loving and affectionate regard that American Jewry had for the slain president both during his lifetime and in the decades to follow.…