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  • G.I. Gurdjieff. All and Everything. Full black goatskin with inlaid rosewood and ivory. Bound 1978.
  • Lawrence Hyde. Southern Cross. Full terracotta goatskin with green, blue and tan onlays. Bound 1980.
  • Poems by Amir Gilboa. Etchings by Raanan Levy. Full gray goatskin with blind tooling. Bound 1993.
  • Shemesh. Poem by Zali Guerevich. Etchings by Larry Avramson. Full transparent vellum with pen & ink drawing on the reverse and an inlaid feather. In a box of quarter brown goatskin with marbled sides. Bound 1993.
  • Kovez hoza'at Schocken le-divrei sifrut. Full transparent vellum with ink drawings. Bound 1994.
  • Avraham beboker. Even Hoshen Press. Full brown goatskin with onlays. Bound 1998.
  • La Kanto de la Kantoj de Salomono. Shalom Yehuda Press. (The Song of Solomon in Esperanto. Translated, designed, printed and bound by Yehuda Miklaf). Half brown goatskin with rosewood sides and inlaid ivory. Bound 2005.
  • Tales of the Witch Queen. Full gray and green goatskin with multi-coloured onlays.
  • Eugene O'Neill. The Last Will and Testament of Silverdene Emblem O'Neill. Toronto. David B. Kotin. 1988 Bound in full transparent vellum with dogs and butterflies painted on the under surface of the vellum. Bound 1987.
  • That's Not the Way. Text from a story by John Cage. Images by Gary Goldstein. Jerusalem: Shalom Yehuda Press. 1992. Edition of 14. Full transparent vellum over a linocut by Yehuda Miklaf with imprints of the feet of his daughter Shoshi Fridlender.
  • Kehilat Yedidia Donor Book. Full butted goatskin covers joined with leather strips onto which the book is sewn. The signatures can be removed and replaced for additions and changes.
  • Heinrich von Kleist. Michael Kohlhaas. Original woodcuts by Ya'akov Pins. Jerusalem Print Workshop. Full black goatskin with onlaid portraits of Michael Kohlhass and Ya'akov Pins. Bound 2007.
  • Yitzhak Navon. Six Days and Seven Gates. Images by Arie Azen. Shalom Yehuda Press 1999. Full brown goatskin with onlays. Collection: Yale University Library.
  • In the Dawn of the World. Drawings by Edward Burne-Jones. Full scarf-joined goatskin with onlays of the sun and moon and a sanded underlay of the world.
  • St Francis of Assisi. Brother Sun, Sister Moon - translated into 210 languages. Full red and yellow scarf-joined goatskin with white alum-tawed onlays. In a quarter goatskin box resembling a Franciscan habit.
  • 13 poems by H.N. Bialik with original etchings by Moshe Gershuni. Jerusalem Print Workshop. Full black goatskin with mosaic portraits of the author and artist using more than 5000 small leather squares. Bound 1987.
  • A papercut book by Archie Granot for the bar mitzvah of his son Roi.
  • Dan Zalka. Pulchan horef. Full scharf-joined blue and white goatskin with maril inlays.
  • Claude Bragdon. The Beautiful Necessity. Full blue goatskin with an onlaid design based on the magic square of eight (the knight's tour). A very early binding (1970s).
  • P.D. Ouspensky. The Fourth Way. Full maroon goatskin with blind and gold tooling. A very early binding (1970s).
  • James Joyce. Ulysses. 2nd ed 1922. Full black goatskin with multicoloured onlays of events in the book extracted using chance operations.
 
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