H i s t o r y , P h i l o s o p h y & R e l i g i o n 86 “The Great Threat To Freedom Is The Concentration Of Power” 111. FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago and London, 1962. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $7000. First edition of this economics classic, laid-in card printed “With the Compliments of the Author,” in scarce original dust jacket. Friedman “is regarded [as] a giant within the economics profession, and is one of the two or three most referenced and revered economics figures in the 20th century” (Pressman, 161). This book was selected as one of the Times Literary Supplement’s “hundred most influential books since the war.” This copy contains a laidin card (2-3/4 by 3-1/4 inches) printed, “With the Compliments of the Author”; trace of paper clip removal to card recto. Book fine; trace of paper clip removal to verso of front flap, scant edge-wear to bright about-fine dust jacket. Israel: A Personal History, Signed By David Ben-Gurion 112. BEN-GURION, David. Israel: A Personal History. New York, 1971. Thick quarto, original full dark blue morocco gilt, slipcase. $3500. Signed limited first edition, one of 2000 copies signed beneath the photographic frontispiece in blue ink by BenGurion, the modern state of Israel’s founding father and first Prime Minister, a splendid copy. “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 blackand-white photographic illustrations and six maps. Encyclopedia Judaica IV:506-514. A fine signed copy.
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