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Jacob: An Autobiographical Novel
by Fineman, Irving
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition / First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/good. Octavo, 295pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and front panel. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. In publishers dust jacket, $2.50 on front flap, loss at edges and toning to spine. From the personal library of Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz and signed by him on the front end paper. Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz was a spiritual leader for presidents, supreme court justices, Israeli prime ministers and the Washington DC community for three decades. As the leader of the Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, he was called upon by President Lyndon Johnson in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to help craft the Thanksgiving Day address to the nation. A few years later, he was called upon by President Jimmy Carter to assist with the Camp David Accords. He is remembered by the Washington DC community as a teacher and advocate for social integration. He passed away in 2012.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1559
- Title
- Jacob: An Autobiographical Novel
- Author
- Fineman, Irving
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir, Camp David Accords, The Assembly: A Century In The Life of the Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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