Holiday Gifts 2020

11 Holiday Gifts December 2020 “A Stirring Work Of Fiction And Fact” 22. WOUK, Herman. War and Remembrance. Boston, 1978. Thick octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. $550. Click for more info First trade edition, “one of a reserve selection drawn from the first edition for the friends of the author,” signed by Wouk on the publisher’s tipped-in leaf, a fine copy in the original slipcase. Fine. “The Beat Of Jewish Hearts Had Everywhere Been Quickened By The Prospect Of Return” 21. EBAN, Abba. An Autobiography. New York, 1977. Large octavo, original ivory cloth, slipcase. $450. Click for more info Signed limited first edition of the memoir of the distinguished statesman and “voice of Israel,” one of only 500 copies signed by the author, with 16 pages of photographic illustrations. Fine. “A Photograph Is A Secret About A Secret” 20. ARBUS, Diane. Diane Arbus. Millerton, New York, 1972. Tall quarto, original photographic cream boards, dust jacket. $3800. Click for more info First edition, first printing, of Arbus’ highly influential photobook, with 80 finely screened black-and-white photogravure plates, images “at once pitiless and engaged, tough and surprisingly tender… with the power to provoke and disturb” (Roth), in original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. H a n u k k a h