The Works. London: Tonson et al., 1766

This handsome edition includes The Ambitious Step-Mother, Tamerlane, The Fair Penitent, Ulysses, The Royal Convert, Jane Shore, Jane Gray, and various poems.

$250

Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. Mit einem Vorwort von Albert Einstein. Berlin: Springer, 1916

FIRST EDITION. This work on Albert Einstein’s theory of gravitation contains a foreword by Einstein. Freundlich is best known for his attempts to experimentally test the general theory of relativity using astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift.

$250

How to Form a Mark Twain Club. [Mayfield, California or Webster Groves, Missouri: Mark Twain Society], no year

First and only edition. This document provides guidance for forming local Mark Twain clubs from the Mark Twain Society, founded by Cyril Clemens in 1930.

Scarce: WorldCat locates only the copy at University of Virginia.

$200

The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger’s Revelations in Photography. Foreword by Phillip Prodger.. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016

First edition, one of 100 copies of the Deluxe Estate Edition, signed and numbered by the author and accompanied by your choice of one of four 8 x 10 inch archival pigment photographs (Einstein, Freud, Shaw, or Kahlo).

$165

From My Arm-Chair. [Boston], [1879]

FIRST EDITION. Signed by Longfellow. When the “spreading chestnut tree” referred to in Longfellow’s “The Village Blacksmith” was felled for the widening of Brattle Street, the children of Cambridge paid to have a chair made from its wood for the now elderly poet.

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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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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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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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