May 2020 Catalogue

5 M a y 2 0 2 0 Signed By David Ben-Gurion 2. BEN-GURION, David. Israel: A Personal History. New York, 1971. Thick quarto, original full dark blue morocco gilt, slipcase. $3500. Click for More Info Signed limited first edition, one of 2000 copies signed by Ben- Gurion, the modern state of Israel’s founding father and first Prime Minister. “Considered one of the most scholarly heads of state in human history,” Ben-Gurion was also a prolific author; few were better qualified to write a “personal history” of Israel ( New Jewish Encyclopedia , 48). With over 140 black-and-white photographic illustrations and sixmaps. Interior generally fresh with light foxing mainly to endpapers and fore- edges, mild rubbing to spine ends. An about-fine signed copy. “We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.”