1936 “The Chuetas of Majorca” Hardcover Book by Baruch Braunstein (Signed Copy)

Up for sale is a 1936 “The Chuetas of Majorca” Hardcover Book by Baruch Braunstein (Signed Copy)! It measures 10 5/16” by 7 1/8” around the outside cover and contains 227 points. The piece is in very good overall condition with signs of wear consistent with its age and use (all pages intact; surface wear to outside cover). Please message us if you have any questions. Thanks!

Unearth an exceptionally scarce academic treasure with this author-signed first edition of The Chuetas of Majorca: Conversos and the Inquisition of Majorca by Baruch Braunstein, Ph.D., published in 1936 by the Mennonite Publishing House as Volume XXVIII of the Columbia University Oriental Series. Standing as a cornerstone text for researchers of crypto-Jewish heritage, the Spanish Inquisition, and marginalized Mediterranean communities, this specialized university press monograph is notoriously difficult to find in the wild, let alone bearing the author's hand-written signature. This particular collector's copy is significantly enhanced by Baruch Braunstein's authentic pen signature boldly inscribed directly across the title page, accompanied by the rarely-surviving original publisher's loose errata slip laid in between the pages to correct early printing pagination. While the exterior red cloth hardcover exhibits typical age-related wear, sun fading, and corner rubbing from decades of library or shelf storage, the interior text block remains remarkably sound and clean, offering a profound and genuinely rare artifact for the serious Judaica historian, institutional collector, or antiquarian book enthusiast.

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