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"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence": First Edition of Israel: A personal History, Signed by David Ben Gurion
BEN-GURION, David.
Israel: A Personal History.
New York: Funk and Wagnalls Inc, 1971.
First edition of Ben-Gurion's Israel: A Personal History. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by David Ben-Gurion on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition, owner signature to the half-title page.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 99343
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"We need only Israeli lists. Too many small political groups can only affect our stability": Rare Autograph Letter Signed by David Ben-Gurion to Eliahu Eliachar
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Autograph Letter Signed.
[1954].
Autograph letter signed by and entirely in the hand of the founder of modern day Israel and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion. One page, text in Hebrew, addressed to Eliahu Eliachar, a notable Sephardic Zionist and Member of the Knesset, the letter reads in full, "Greetings, We don't need separate political lists - not those of independent Yemenite or Sephardic political parties. Those lists can only distort/falsify the democratic process in our country and the process of integration as well. We need only Israeli lists. Too many small political groups can only affect our stability. The only way to resolve…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 104802
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Autograph Letter Signed by David Ben-Gurion regarding his meeting with Angelica Balabanoff, a close associate of Benito Mussolini
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Autograph Letter Signed.
1965.
Autograph letter signed by the founder of modern day Israel and first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion regarding his controversial meeting with Angelica Balabanoff, a close associate of Benito Mussolini. Addressed to German-Israeli Holocaust survivor Walter Zvi Barak and dated October 26, 1968, the letter translated from Hebrew into English reads, "Shalom and greetings. I learned of the photograph only from your letter. Indeed, I exchanged a letter with Ms. Balabanova, but I do not remember ever meeting her or being photographed with her. I know that Mussolini was once a socialist. I would not have been ashamed to have a…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 110631
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Large Photograph of The Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion; Signed by Him
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Signed Photograph.
1947.
Large original silver gelatin photograph of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion, boldly signed by him. Ben-Gurion's signature measures 5.25 inches by 1.25 inches. x 1.25" alone. Also signed and dated "Charles Bergman May 1947" who was possibly the photographer. The photograph was taken in May 1947, one year before Ben-Gurion declared the formation of the modern state of Israel on May 14, 1948. The British had controlled Mandatory Palestine since 1920, but in May 1947, they asked for international guidance in resolving the complicated question of possession and ownership. The British submitted the Palestine question to the United Nations.…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 133617
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First Edition of David Ben-Gurion's The Jews in Their Land
BEN-GURION, David.
The Jews in Their Land.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966.
First edition of this finely illustrated work by David Ben-Gurion. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Shahn. Translated from the Hebrew by Modechai Nurock and Misha Louvish.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140977
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Rare First Edition of The Declaration of the Independent State of Israel
BEN-GURION, David.
Declaration of the Independent State of Israel.
Tel Aviv: Iton Rishmi, Official Gazette of Israel, 14 May 1948.
Rare first printing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. This was the first publication rescinding the British White Paper. With the names of all of the signatories, headed by David Ben-Gurion, printed on page two, this document heralded the end of British involvement in Palestine, and the start of unrestricted immigration into the new Jewish state. It publishes for the very first time the full declaration as read out by Ben-Gurion at 4pm on Friday 14 May 1948 in the Tel-Aviv Museum (known today as Independence Hall). It announced that the National Council was to become the Provisional Government of Israel until a Constituent Assembly was formed on 1 October 1948. Iton Rishmi records all the decrees, ordinances and notices of the Israeli government, as well as the appointments of all government officials. Rare first edition, first issue, printed on the first day of the birth of Israel. Housed in a…
Price: $11,500.00 Item Number: 144562
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Rare Presentation Copy of Democracy in the World; Inscribed by David Ben-Gurion to ADMIRAL LEWIS STRAUSS
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Inscribed Democracy in the World Presentation Copy.
March 12, 1966.
Copy of David Ben-Gurion's undelivered speech for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Unable to attend, Ben-Gurion sent the text of the speech, which was then published by the Center in 1963. Octavo, sixteen loose pages stapled in the upper left corner. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Admiral Strauss in friendship D. Ben-Gurion 12.3.66." In very good condition with some creasing throughout.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145288
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"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence": Signed Limited Edition of Israel: A personal History, one of 2000 numbered copies Signed by David Ben Gurion and with the rare original publisher’s cardboard box
BEN-GURION, David.
Israel: A Personal History.
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, Inc., 1971.
Signed limited edition of Ben Gurion's history of Israel, one of 2000 numbered copies signed beneath the photographic frontispiece by David Ben-Gurion. Thick quarto, original full dark blue morocco, watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated. Fine in a fine slipcase. Also includes the rare original publisher’s cardboard box.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 146980
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Rare Photograph of The Founding Father of Israel, David Ben-Gurion; Inscribed by Him
BEN-GURION, David.
David-Ben Gurion Signed Photograph.
Rare photograph of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion. Glossy black and white photograph of David Ben-Gurion seated with a book in his lap. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ben-Gurion in the top right corner, "To Karen Moss, D. Ben-Gurion." Framed. In near fine condition. The piece measures 11 inches by 9 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146735
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Jacinto Benavente's Cartas de Mujeres
BENAVENTE, Jacinto.
Cartas de Mujeres.
Madrid: Librería Y Casa Editorial Hernando, 1932.
Finely bound example of this work from the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist. Duodecimo, bound in full marbled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, patterned endpapers, engraved headpieces throughout. In very good condition.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145262
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First edition of David Benedictus' The Fourth of June
BENEDICTUS, David.
The Fourth of June.
London: Anthony Blond, 1962.
First edition of Benedictus' first novel. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 121643
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Marcus Benjamin's Washington During War Time; Inscribed to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
BENJAMIN, Marcus [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Washington During War Time: A Series of Papers Showing the Military, Political, and Social Phases During 1861 to 1865.
Washington City: Committee on Literature for the Encampment, 1902.
Official souvenir of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles, frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front flyleaf. Presentaton copy, inscribed to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman, "Mr. P. T. Sherman, with cordial regards. From Thomas M. Stewart, Brigadier General, U. S. Army. December 25, 1905." In very good condition with light toning to the spine and front panel, closed tear to the front free endpaper. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in…
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 145745
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“Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire”: Signed Limited Edition of Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale
BENNETT, Arnold.
The Old Wives’ Tale.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927.
Signed limited edition of Bennett's masterpiece. Quarto, bound in original half vellum, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. One of 5oo copies, signed by Arnold Bennett. Near fine in the rare original slipcase.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114732
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First Edition of Edmund C. Bentley's Trent's Last Case
BENTLEY, Edmund C.
Trent’s Last Case.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [c. 1913].
First edition of Bentley's groundbreaking detective novel, "one of the three best detective stories ever written" (Agatha Christie). Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece in color. In very good condition. Small bookplate and ownership inscription. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137405
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Rare Lloyd Millard Bentsen Autograph Letter Archive
BENTSEN, Lloyd Millard [Jimmy Carter].
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Autograph Letter Archive.
1981-1985.
Rare archive of autograph letters, photographs, and commemorative stamp folios from the collection of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Millard Bentsen. The archive includes a photograph of Bentsen with Jimmy Carter, inscribed by Carter to him, "Thanks & best wishes to my good friend Lloyd Bentsen - Jimmy Carter 2-21-80", two autograph letters and one typed letter signed by Lady Bird Johnson to Bentsen and his wife Beryl Ann thanking them for recent visits to the LBJ ranch, an autograph note signed by Kitty Dukakis regarding Lloyd Sr.'s passing, two commemorative stamp folios with autograph notes laid…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 119532
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"The establishment of peace on earth is a fundamental belief of universal Judaism with its principles of one universal God and one humanity": Rare type-written manuscript signed and hand-corrected by Palestine's first attorney general Norman Bentwich
BENTWICH, Norman.
The Jews and International Relations: The Pursuit of Peace.
c. 1950.
Rare manuscript written by Mandatory Palestine's first attorney general, British Zionist Norman Bentwich. 21 pages, type-written with copious corrections and revisions in Bentwich's hand throughout, signed by Bentwich at the conclusion of the last page. Developed during his term as Chairman of the United Restitution Organization, the manuscript contains content and notes which would later be published as Bentwich's 1959 book: The Religious Foundations of Internationalism; A Study in International Relations Through the Ages. Also included at the conclusion of the text is a list of suggested reading. In very good condition. A rare and desirable signed manuscript.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 81253