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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
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
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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