Search Results: the wisdom of israel an anthology by browne lewis editor

New York: Modern Library, (1956). Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Modern Library Giant G-79.1. Reprint ca. 1967. Blue boards, white titles on spine. Price on dust jacket flap $4.95. Spine of jacket has a few rubs and edgewear.

Light wear, and slight soiling to boards. Text is toned but clean and unmarked.

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxxii, 748pp, (6pp ads). Very good. Quite mild edgewear; nonauthorial 1962 gift inscription on front flyleaf. A tight, most attractive later printing of Modern Library Giant #G79, first published in 1956 but here undated (binding suggests late 1950s/early 1960s) Hefty selections from the Old and New Testaments, from between the Testaments, the Talmudic Period, Medieval Noon, Medieval Night and the Modern Period.

New York: The Modern Library, 1945. Modern Library Giant G-79. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Thick 8vo, red cloth with black labels with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) withthree medallions with representations of a Torah scroll & shofar, Hanukkah candelabra, and Ten Commandments, publisher's black topstain to pages for protection, 748 pages + [6] Ads. Weight: 1 lb. 11 oz. An EXCELLENT anthology in remarkable condition for such a plump volume. Contents range from the Bible/Tanakh to "the wit and wisdom of living writers." Tight and clean copy with a remarkably complete dust jacket (not price-clipped) with slight rubbing and a few rather clean nicks. According to Toledano's guide, the dust jacket dates from 1954-60 (p.170); publication of this edition ran from 1956-70 (p.120). We conservatively date this nice copy to about 1960.