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Auction 19 · Lot 181

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

Estimate
$600–$800
Hammer price
$600

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author

WEIZMANN, CHAIM

printer

Harper & Brothers

Place

New York

Publication

1949

Description

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

summary

“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.”
I: pp. (4), viii; 264. II: pp. vi; 265-493. Lightly browned. Original printed dust-jackets, lightly worn at spine. Lg. 8vo
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