Trial and Error. The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel

AUCTION 19 | Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art

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WEIZMANN, CHAIM

Trial and Error. The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel

FIRST EDITION. Two Volumes. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author. Number 37 of 500 Limited Copies printed on special paper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR BELOW LIMITATION I: pp. (4), viii; 264. II: pp. vi; 265-493. Lightly browned. Original printed dust-jackets, lightly worn at spine. Lg. 8vo

New York: Harper & Brothers 1949

Est: $600 - $800

PRICE REALIZED $600

“This is the story of a Jew from Motol in the province of Minsk, one of the darkest corners in Russia’s Pale of Settlement, who became the trusted friend of the world’s great statesmen, a gifted scientist of international reputation, the leader of his people and one of the great democratic leaders of all time.”