October 2020 Catalogue

62 New Acquisitions October 2020 One Of Only 500 Copies Signed By Chaim Weizmann 68. WEIZMANN, Chaim. Trial and Error. New York, 1949. Two volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. $2500. Click for more info Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies printed on special paper, with Volume I signed and numbered by Weizmann on the publisher’s original tipped-in leaf, a handsome copy in the original dust jackets and slipcase. The 1917 Balfour Declaration, “Weizman’s primary achievement, was a turning point in modern Jewish history” and has been described as “the greatest act of diplomatic statesmanship of the First World War.” Weizmann would become “universally recognized as the most authoritative figure in Jewish life” and was voted Israel’s first president in 1949 ( Encyclopedia Judaica , 430). Books pristine; scant edge-wear to spine head of one dust jacket, toning to spines of bright dust jackets. A nearly fine copy in the original slipcase.