Bar-Kokhba Hardcover - 1971

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1971* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, gilt title to spine and logo to face. No bumps, very slight rubs, minor shelf wear to edges and corners. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £3.70 net. Heavy rubbing and shelf wear to top & bottom edges, flap folds and to head & tail of spine. Small tear to back top edge but no loss. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning. VG++* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 253 pp. text. xx pp. appendices, references, glossary, bibliography, index & acknowledgements at rear.* Description: Kokhba, was a Jewish national hero as great as Arthur or Ulysses, who had until recently been known only from a few coins bearing his inscription and a few references by Jewish and Roman historians. He was famous in Jewish legend as the guerrilla leader of the second revolt against Hadrian's Rome, during which, for an intoxicating moment, the Holy city of Jerusalem was recaptured before the Romans fought their way back. The book is illustrated throughout, and the story brings Bar - Kokhba out of the shadows of romance and legend and restores to the Jewish people a real life hero. The reader can himself experience the excitement of discovery in pictures taken at the moment when the finds were made in a canyon near the Dead Sea.* A VG+ copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS reduced by a worn dust jacket to GOOD* This is a heavy volume and a contribution is included in the price for the extra cost of carriage.*