Ben Zvi Itzhak Abbady Isaac (5 results)

Hardcover. Octavo; G-/Fair+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, blue with white and black print; DJ has light edgewear, light smudging/shelfwear, moisture damage to bottom edge; Boards in blue cloth, light wear to spine caps and corners, moisture stain to bottom edge, else clean and strong; Text block has blue tinted top edge, clean and tight; xiv, 334 pages, frontispiece (port.), illustrated (b&w plates). 1368439. FP New Rockville Stock.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR - YITZHAK BEN-ZVI (1884-1963), an eminent historian, Labor Zionist leader and the second and longest-serving President of Israel. This book is a study of Oriental Jews, Samaritans and Karaite Jews, and the Jews who were coerced by their Moslem conquerors into adopting the Moslem faith. Contains the author's b&w portrait as frontispiece and many b&w plates with photographs of various diaspora Jews. 215x145mm. XVI+285 pages. Red cloth Hardcover with gilt front cover and spine. Cover faded, slightly dirty and slightly age-stained. Spine faded/yellowing and slightly dirty. Spine edges bumped. Author's signature on front whitepage. Endpaper age-stained. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This comprehensive study of different categories of Jews, bearing the signature of the illustrious author, is in good condition. The book is in : English.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English Edition (SD, 1957 on the title and copyright page). This may be the only signed book in collectible condition for sale on the Internet. The signed inscription is on the front end paper. The signature is in Hebrew (see photo) the inscription reads: 'To: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Green, with best wishes, 17/5/61.' I'm guessing on the last name Green. You can see the front cover of the book in the fifth photo. The spine and rear cover is just as clean. The lettering and design on the spine are both in very good condition. The edges and corners are in very good condition as well. The front top corner has a speck-sized spot of light rubbing. There's also a tiny spot of rubbing on the front side of the spine which you can see in the fifth photo. There is a little crinkling at the spine ends. The page edges are exceptionally clean. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I'm not finding any instances of soiling. There are sixteen pages containing a total of forty-six photographs. They too are the book is the exceptionally clean. There is no toning. There isn't any foxing anywhere in the book. They photographs are in four sections. The pages are also in excellent condition. I'm not seeing any creasing, no turned-down corners of placeholder creases. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And with the exception of the former President's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It's quite clean. There is one tiny spot on the rear cover. The wear is minimal, a small tear and a crease off the front bottom edge, a couple of tiny tears off the rear bottom edge, a few small spots of rubbing at the spine's top edge. The flaps are in very good shape. They are very clean. There is a sliver of a crease at the rear flap's top corner. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. I have always had it in a fitted protective cover. From the dust jacket: 'Mr. Ben-Zvi unrolls a fascinating historical panorama before the eyes of his readers. He calls upon history, ethnology and religion to support his claims. He brings evidence from the works of scholars of many nations, from the reports of travelers for many ages, and from the results of his own extensive travels and investigations. In a real sense this volume represents an extraordinary piece of historical detection. It is also an intimate and loving report on the process of the 'ingathering of the exiles' into the State over which the author has presided since 1952.' 'Itzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving President of Israel. A member of the B'ne Moshe and Hoveve Zion movements in Ukraine, he was (with Theodor Herzl) one of the organizers of the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in the fall of 1897. At that Congress the World Zionist Organization was founded, and the intention to re-establish a Jewish state was announced. Shimshi was the only organizer of the first Zionist Congress to live to see the birth of the modern State of Israel in 1948. On 10 December 1952, Zvi Shimshi was honored by the first Israeli Knesset (parliament) with the title 'Father of the State of Israel'. Yitzhak Ben-Zvi's parents were banished to Siberia following the discovery of a cache of weapons he had concealed in their home. Ben-Zvi's brother was author Aharon Reuveni, and his brother-in-law was the Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar.'. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Gd. condition - A study of Oriental Jews, Samaritans and Karaite Jews, and the Jews who were coerced by their Moslem conquerors into adopting the Moslem faith. Contains the author's b&w portrait (AN6).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second English Edition. Signed by Ben-Zvi atop front free endpaper, beneath an inscription dated 11/4/1963 which may or may not have been written by the author who passed away 23 April of the same year. First printed in English in 1957. Translated from the Hebrew. "An intimate and loving report on the process of 'the ingathering of the exiles' into the State [Israel] over which the author has presided since 1952." - dust jacket. xv, 285 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white photographic plates illustrate the broad range of physical appearances of members of the many scattered Jewish communities the author sought to bring together. Brilliant gilt lettering and signature upon red cloth. Binding tight. Bump and one-inch opening to cloth at bottom of back board. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy signed by its distinguished author who served three consecutive terms as President of Israel, 1952-1963. EMANUEL p.49. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed.