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Palestine: The Rebirth of an Ancient People.
by Hyamson, Albert M. (Montefiore)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- .
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, Knopf, 1917. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Crown octavo. Pp. xv, 299. Frontispiece with 2 photo illustrations. Plus 7 plates with 14 photo illustrations. Publisher's catalogue on verso of title-page. A citation, set in Hebrew type, "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither," on title-page. Bibliography, index. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in red and turquoise, lacks first flyleaf, first inner hinge cracked, remnant of a label, some foxing. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Albert Montefiore Hyamson (1875-1954). English administrator. From 1917 to 1919 he edited the Zionist Review. He served as Chief Immigration Officer in Palestine under the British Mandate, returning to England in 1934. He later became president of the Jewish Historical Society of England. He published studies of Palestine and Zionism as well as a history of the Jews of England. Here, he claims to have written a book which has no concern with Palestine either as a religious or an archaeological centre, but instead deals with the present and the future. The front paste-down bears the lovely, contemporary booksellers' ticket of R. Mazin & Co., London, "Publishers, Booksellers, Printers, Bookbinders, etc." displaying a banner in Hebrew. F-5 OUT
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- Bookseller
- Librarium of The Hague
(NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0864
- Title
- Palestine: The Rebirth of an Ancient People.
- Author
- Hyamson, Albert M. (Montefiore)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - .
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- New York, Knopf
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- PALESTINE MANDATE MANDAT BRITISH ZIONISM ZIONISTS HISTORY HISTORICAL POLITICAL POLITICS PALÄSTINA PALESTINA HOLY LAND JEWISH JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY ISLAM MUSLIM ISRAEL MIDDLE EAST LEVANT HEILIGEN LANDE ILLUSTRATED PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPH ILL
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Mandate in Palestine and Early Zionism: Documents; Reports; Narratives;
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- 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...
- Hinge
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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