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Heltai, Jenő [1871-1957]. Ismeretlen ismerősök: kis történetek. [Cover Title Trans.: Unknown Acquaintances: Short Stories]. Budapest, Hungary: Singer és Wolfner (Légrády testv. nyom.), (s.d.), 1944. First edition. pp. 163. 8vo., measuring 20 cm tall. Quarter leather over lovely and unusual black and white textured boards. Five raised bands, six compartments with gilt rules and lettering to spine. Delicate illustrated endpapers, silk ribbon-marker. Publisher’s red topstain. Light scuffing to the leather. Expected age-toning to page, contents remain clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good. OCLC #: 459862927. Scarce printing of this title with WorldCat indicating only two known institutional holdings. Text in Hungarian. Very Good. Leather Bound. (#1074) $125.00
![I’ve scarcely finished cataloguing this lovely little book of pressed flowers from the Holy Land. Just had to share it with all you. 🌺
Wild Flowers of the Holy Land; Matt. VI, 28, 29, 30 ; London Society’s Mission to the Jews.
[Ferdinand Vester]; London Jews’ Society’s “House of Industry”. Jerusalem, Palestine: Printed at the London Jews’ Society’s House of Industry, Jerusalem, N.D. [Circa 1890’s?]. First Edition. Unpaginated [Fourteen unnumbered leaves]. Oblong 12mo., measuring 12 x 18 cm. Original quarter maroon leather over gorgeous polished bevelled olive-wood boards bearing “Jerusalem” in black atop a deeply carved Jerusalem cross to the front board; like carving to the rear boards with Jerusalem printed in Hebrew characters to the centre; marbled edges, and ivory silk-moiré endpapers. Comprises of eleven beautifully arranged dried flower specimens mounted on stiff leaves, most (excepting two) accompanied with their original, remarkably well-preserved, tissue-guards, and individually captioned with their respective geographic origins (e.g.: “Flowers from Mount Zion”, “Flowers from the Mount of Olives”, etc.). Lightest wear to the leather spine, else, no other flaws noted to the extremities. Faint toning to the title page, otherwise, contents remain near-uniformly without blemish, and with firm, sound binding. A most lovely, and unique period offering from the Holy Land. Rare to be offered in commerce in this edition, and state. This edition unrecorded in WorldCat, however, nominally corresponds to OCLC #753636624 (with notable differences in pagination, and the number of specimens). See also OCLC #698494522. (#7243)](https://blacksbooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
