Ben Gurion David Editor (4 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. The exterior and pages are lightly tanned. The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition.

Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 539p., first American edition, hardbound in gray cloth boards titled in blue and gilt. Lacks the jacket, casing is just a little edgeworn and the spine panel a trifle dim (remains quite legible), good hinges and all the rest: sound, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. "The dramatic, firsthand story of this remarkable army is re-created here by a man who was an active member from 1934 to 1948, who draws his facts from personal experience as well as from secret documents kept hidden during the British Mandate. Mardor reveals how he posed as a dock worker to spirit a mine aboard the Patria." - dust jacket. "The Patria disaster was the sinking on 25 November 1940 of the 11,885-ton SS Patria in the port of Haifa. She was about to depart with about 1,800 Jewish refugees whom the British authorities were deporting. The bomb Mardor planted, purportedly to simply disable the ship, sunk it in sixteen minutes, killing 267 and injuring 172." - Wikipedia. In later years Mardor played an important role in Israel's nuclear weapons program. Translated from the 1957 Hebrew first edition. 295 pages. Glossary. Index. Book clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this important history. ; 8vo.…