Brooklyn Jewish book dealer asking almost $25,000 for three of first prayer books printed in America

Brooklyn Jewish book dealer asking almost $25,000 for three of first prayer books printed in America

Three Ashkenazi prayer books, reportedly the first known machzors printed in the United States, are up for sale for nearly $25,000.Dan Wyman, a Jewish rare book dealer in Brooklyn, is selling a two-volume Polish-rite set for $17,000 and a German-rite Rosh Hashanah volume for $7,500. The trio, which the Jewish publisher Henry Frank printed in New York in 1854, were made for newly arrived German and Polish immigrants seeking Jewish prayer books al…