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Book Condition: Used Near Fine
Jacket condition: VG
Seller: Twin City Antiquarian Books

United States
About Item: Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, endpaper map, xv, 537 pp, notes, index. Bookplate on half-title, else fine. DJ has a 3 cm tear about halfway down rear joint, slight rubbing to extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Translated from the Hebrew by Lotte Levensohn, Hillel Halkin & Shulamith Nardi. From the DJ: "This volume describes the background of the widespread riots of 1391; it gives a more complete story than can be found anywhere else of the dramatic disputation at Tortosa; it details the steps in the establishment of the Inquisition and its frinal triumph through the trumped-up ritual-murder case of the La Guardia child." Based in part upon extensive research in the Spanish archives. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition in English. . Near Fine/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.
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