Genesis 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First Printing. 750, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index, slight discoloration ins bds, DJ soiled, worn, & creased: sm tears, sm chips missing. More
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First Printing. 750, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index, slight discoloration ins bds, DJ soiled, worn, & creased: sm tears, sm chips missing. More
New York, NY: Shapolsky Books, a division of Steimatzky Publishing of North America, 1986. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. A Shapolsky book. [6], 58, [4]. Illustrations. More
New York: Thomas Dunne Books; St. Martin's Press, 2002. First U. S. Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxii, 408 p. Illustrations. Maps. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. Book Club? Edition. 631, illus., maps, endpaper maps, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, source notes, index, DJ somewhat wornsmall tears/chips to DJ edges, larger tear in rear DJ. A comprehensive and exhaustively researched history of the House of Sa'ud and the country of Saudi Arabia, in five major sections: The Desert, The House of Sa'ud, The Brethren, Oil, and Petropower. This is the definitive book on the subject. More
Berkeley, CA: University of CA Press, c1997. First Printing. 24 cm, 331, illus., references, glossary, index. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 331, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Index. Table of Cases. During the course of her legal career, Pnina Lahav has published nearly 50 journal articles and three books, including the critically acclaimed Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Winner of Israel’s Seltner Award and the Gratz College Centennial Book Award, she is presently completing a biography of Israel’s fourth prime minister, Golda Meir, a biography that asks how a lone woman surrounded by men makes it to the top. Among the prestigious research fellowships that Professor Lahav has earned are a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, a fellowship at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Professor Lahav delivered several endowed lectures, including the Lapidus Lecture at Princeton University in March 2015, the Rockoff Lecture at Rutgers University in March 2017 and the Taubman Lecture at the University of California in Santa Barbara in November 2017. More
Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. 462, sources, bibliography, index, DJ creased, red highlighting on several pages. Includes "A Convert's Bibliography. " More
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 259, map, DJ slightly soiled. More
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 259, map, pencil erasure on front endpaper, publisher's ephemera and black and white photograph of author laid in. More
New York: Quadrangle, The New York Times Book Co., 1974. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xi, 308 pages. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Index. Minor edge soiling. DJ flap price clipped. DJ in plastic sleeve: somewhat worn and soiled. More
Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xvii, [3], 345 p. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliographical Essay. Index. One of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series. Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. Born between 1914 and 1928 (approximately), they were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. Many would go on to make great contributions to their new countries and to the world. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1972]. Second Printing. 25 cm, 639, illus., maps, glossary, footnotes, bibliography, index, DJ worn. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1972]. First Edition. 25 cm, 639, illus., maps, glossary, footnotes, bibliography, index, some wear and small tears to DJ, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1992. First Printing. 25 cm, 418, illus., index, DJ slightly worn, soiled, and sticker residue, several page corners bent at rear, black marks on bottom edge. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1969. Second Printing. 18 cm, 371, wraps, map, bibliography, corner of rear cover and last page missing small piece. More
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. 256 pages. Includes full page black and white illustration of Mordechai Anilevicz (the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters) opposite the title page, four black and white maps designed by Golda Carmi of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, and footnotes. Illustrations include diagrams of the battle positions and a few unique photographs of the kibbutz. Margaret Larkin (July 7, 1899 – May 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, researcher, journalist and union activist. She wrote The Hand of Mordechai on a kibbutz in Israel and its stand against the Egyptian Army in 1948, Seven Shares in a Gold Mine about a murder conspiracy in Mexico, and the Singing Cowboy, a collection of Western folk songs. Her last book was The Hand of Mordechai, on kibbutz Yad Mordechai around the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It was published in Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German, and Russian. The Israeli edition was published by Ma'arachot, the official publishing house of the Israeli Defense Forces, with a preface by General Laskov. More
New York: The Twentieth Century, 1967. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xiii, 298 p. Maps. Footnotes. Tables. Figures. Index of Sources. Subject Index. More
New York: Columbia University Press, c1996. First Printing. 24 cm, 400, corners bumped, minor crinkling to DJ. More
Kensington, MD: Woodbine House, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [10], 366 pages. DJ has some wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Meaningful inscription that reads in part to ',,,my JFAS colleague who understands firsthand the pain, pleasure,a and privilege of living with one foot in two worlds." This is the author's first novel; in it, he examines the phenomenon of Jews leaving Israel to live in the United States. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 324, bibliography, index, some page corners turned, DJ worn. More
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xvii, [3], 379, [1] p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. . DJ has slight wear and soiling. The author is a journalist, long associated with Time, Inc., and a historian. Morris Abraham "Two-Gun" Cohen (1887-1970) was a British and Canadian adventurer of Jewish origin who became aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army. When the Japanese invaded China in 1937, Cohen eagerly joined the fight. He rounded up weapons for the Chinese and even did work for the British intelligence agency, Special Operations Executive (SOE). Cohen proved that the Japanese were using poison gas on the Chinese. Cohen was in Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked in December 1941. He placed Soong Ching-ling and her sister Ai-ling onto one of the last planes out of the British colony. When Hong Kong fell, the Japanese tossed him into Stanley Prison Camp. There he languished until he was part of a rare prisoner exchange in late 1943. More
Tel-Aviv: n.p., 1964. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 144, illus., DJ worn, soiled, small tears, and chips. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1965. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xii, 420 pages. Includes index. Endpaper map. References. DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips. Name of previous owner written in book. Publisher's comment postcard laid in. More
New York: The Macaulay Company, [c1928]. Second Printing. 24 cm, 279, illus., ink notations on half title. Introduction by Dr. Stephen S. Wise. More
New York: Putnam, 1976. First American Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 288, illus., DJ worn, soiled, and small tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More