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New Yirk: Harper and Row, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. An impressive argument to substantiate the Exodus Story and also a new perspective on the whole chronology of the second meilenium B.C. Originally published in Great Britian. Photographs of pharaonic statues and tombs, papyrus fragments, Egyptian tablets, frescoes at Akrotiri, excavations at Jericho, victims of ritual sacrifice, and the eruptions of Tambora, Krakatau, and Mount St.Helens. Clean and unmarked blue half cloth binding, gilt lettered, black boards. Tight, solid, square. Lower edge rubbed, spine heel compressed, otherwise fine. Internals very clean and free from any marks, no creases. Clean and bright jacket cover with edgewear, spine head and heel chipped. 10 x 7.5 inches. 208 pages with Chronology of Egypt's Pharaohs, Notes and References, Bibliography, and Index. 1986, Harper and Row, San Francisco, CA, USA

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. 25 Jewish Writers, from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, write in fiction and essay about childhood in America--Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Grace Paley, Chaim Potok, Edna ferber, to name a few. Clean and bright ivory cloth binding with silver titles, spotless, solid, square, sharp corners--handsome volume. Interior is also as new. Clean and bright unclipped dust jacket with light wrinkling and a small closed slit on the rear top edge. 249 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1996, William Morrow & Co, New York, New York, USA

London, England,: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Hardback First Printing of the Revised Edition with New Preface and Bibliography. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. The most readable, comprehensive, and up-to-date history of the Jews in the English Language. It addresses itself vigorously to the defining moments in Jewish History from Biblical times to the present day. The front cover shows the candelabrum (Menorah) and other vessels of the Temple, from mid 14th Century Duke of Sussex Spanish Bible. Handsome volume in clean blue cloth w/gilt titles; tight and solid, square with sharp corners; unmarked except for a small barely seen damp stain on back side, upper edge, near spine head. Endpapers red, small scratch near lower edge of front endpaper. Internals spotless, lightly toned. Jacket also very clean and unmarked with slight waviness of spine head and damp stain inside the jacket around… Read More

New York, Toronto, and Oxford: Free Press/Macmillan, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Fine Condition. Mylar cover. Saving Remnants demonstrates that in the absence of traditional givens-a given community, a given faith, even a given enemy-Jewish involvement becomes purely elective, a matter of choice and hence, fragile. This is decade-long researched study, interviewing Jews from all walks of life and philosophies. Rich and deep, glossy, brown full cloth with gilt titles, clean, no edgewear, tight and solid volume. Interior is clean and completely unmarked. Jacket not price-clipped. 333 pages with Notes and Index; Free Press, New York, Toronto, and Oxford 1992,