Pardes Shoshanim … Asirei ha-Tikvah (Garden of Roses … Prisoners of Hope). Amsterdam: Joseph Athias, 1673

First edition of Asirei ha-Tikvah which, apart from Purim Spiels, was “the first Hebrew-language drama to be printed” (Davidi).

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The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A fine presentation copy inscribed by Longfellow on the day of publication: “Mrs. Palfrey with best regards of the Author.  October 16. 1858.”

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Marian Seldes’s personal correspondence, comprising mainly letters and notes to Seldes, with some photographs and other objects inscribed to her. Various places, 1940s-1990s

“All I’ve done is live my life in the theater and loved it … If you can get an award for being happy, that’s what I’ve got.”

– Marian Seldes on receiving the 2010 Tony Lifetime Achievement Award

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Der jüdische Gil Blas. Leipzig: Friese, 1834

First edition. This is the first printing of the legend of the Golem of Prague.  

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“A Solution to the Question of the Jews” (in Hebrew) in Ha-Tzfirah, issues 11 and 14 (January 24 and 28, 1896). Warsaw, 1896

FIRST HEBREW EDITION of this landmark essay by Herzl on “A Solution to the Question of the Jews.” This is the first appearance of Herzlian Zionist thought before a Hebrew-speaking audience, preceding the publication of Der Judenstaat.

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Midrash Rabbah, on the Five Books of the Torah. Constantinople: [Joseph Gabbai and Abraham Yerushalmi], 1512

First edition of the Midrash Rabbah on the Torah, the most influential homiletic (aggadic) commentary on the Pentateuch. A foundational repository of biblical exegesis and rabbinic thought, this collection of writings has shaped the interpretation of the Torah from Rashi down to the present.

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Netzach Israel. Jerusalem: Aynot, 5724 [1963]

First collected edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by David Ben-Gurion: “To Michael Levy on the occasion of your Bar Mitzvah, with blessings from Paula and David Ben-Gurion.”

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Massa’ot shel Rabbi Binyamin (Travels of Rabbi Benjamin). Constantinople: Eliezer son of Gershom Soncino, 1543

First edition of this Jewish classic of the Middle Ages, the most famous secular work by a Jew of the era. “No other medieval traveler has left us so full and trustworthy an account of the condition of the Jews in the various countries which he visited” (Marcus Nathan Adler).

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Der Judenstaat. Leipzig & Vienna: Breitenstein, 1896

FIRST EDITION of the manifesto of Zionism. More than any other work, Herzl Der Judenstaat (the Jewish State) represents the foundation of the modern state of Israel.

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