Ben Gurion David Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. A large, coffee-table style book that is an extended photo essay and history of the Jews in Israel, from the biblical period to the present. Edited by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister, it is divided into six sections, each written by a prominent scholar. The are: Part One, Entry to Exile, 1200 BCE to 587 BCE, Professor Yohanan Aharoni; Part Two, The Prophets, Dr. Elisha Auerbach; Part Three, From the Bablyonian Exile t the Bar Kochba Revolt, 58 BCE to 135 CE, Professor Yehoshua Guttmann and Dr. Menahem Stern; From Bar Kochba's Revolt to the Turkish Conquest, 135 CE - 1517, Part Four, Professor Benzion Dinur; Part Five, Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1917, Dr. Izhak Ben-Zvi; and part Six, From the Founding of Petah Tikva to the Present Day, 1878 - , David Ben-Gurion. 352 pages, with glossary and index.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping to boards. Cracking to the binding visible from the inside of the back cover. This book is in acceptable condition and is a reading copy. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 539p., first American edition, hardbound in gray cloth boards titled in blue and gilt. Lacks the jacket, casing is just a little edgeworn and the spine panel a trifle dim (remains quite legible), good hinges and all the rest: sound, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. "The dramatic, firsthand story of this remarkable army is re-created here by a man who was an active member from 1934 to 1948, who draws his facts from personal experience as well as from secret documents kept hidden during the British Mandate. Mardor reveals how he posed as a dock worker to spirit a mine aboard the Patria." - dust jacket. "The Patria disaster was the sinking on 25 November 1940 of the 11,885-ton SS Patria in the port of Haifa. She was about to depart with about 1,800 Jewish refugees whom the British authorities were deporting. The bomb Mardor planted, purportedly to simply disable the ship, sunk it in sixteen minutes, killing 267 and injuring 172." - Wikipedia. In later years Mardor played an important role in Israel's nuclear weapons program. Translated from the 1957 Hebrew first edition. 295 pages. Glossary. Index. Book clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this important history. ; 8vo.