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FOREST DARK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 4th novel by the author of the National Book Award finalist, 'The Great House,' an account of the "personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals - an older lawyer and a young novelist - whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert." Front cover features a comment from Philip Roth: "A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." A New York Times Notable Book and ond on many Best Book of the Year lists - Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, Guardian, and more. This is a book which grips you from the first page as it opens with the mystery of Jules Epstein's disappearance. 190 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0062430991.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 92198More details Price: $20.00 -
THE AFRICAN COMMUNIST: No. 54 Third Quarter 1973.
Edition: Digest magazine, 1st printing.
London: Inkululeko Publications, 1973. First edition - Cover article is on the Ten Years of the OAU, Organization of African Unity. Also includes articles on 600 years of Anglo-Portuguese alliance, the Egyptian revolution and more. Illustrated with photographs, includes book reviews. 126 pp. We have many other issues of this journal available.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 90925More details Price: $18.50 -
BETHLEHEM ROAD MURDER: A Michael Ohayon Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90460More details Price: $19.50 -
THE ZIGZAG KID.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. First edition - The fourth novel by this highly praised Israeli writer,, the story of a hijacked locomotive and the fantasy world of an imaginative young boy. Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg. 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88432More details Price: $25.00 -
PROMISES TO KEEP: One Man's Journey Against Incredible Odds.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Barricade Books, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover - At 15, Michel was taken to Auschwitz, where his parents and grandmother died and where he witnessed unbearable atrocities, including the conducting of medical experiments on girls and women by Joseph Mengele. Late in the afternoon of April 15, 1945, the author and two friends escaped and he went on to became a successful speaker and fund-raiser for the United Jewish Appeal in America, leading a group to Auschwitz, and participating in the World Gathering of Survivors in Israel and more. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper with the exhortation to "Remember! Never forget." xvii, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-962303240.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (bottom edge of front board bumped)
Book ID: 88405More details Price: $24.50 -
FLASHPOINTS: Air Warfare in the Cold War.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Addison-Wesley, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of eight Cold War conflicts in which air power played a decisive role, from the Suez Crisis of 1956 to Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, the Falklands war of 1982, and the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88. Ilustrated with over 240 photographs and maps, in both full color and black and white. Foreword by Itamar Neuner, a Mirage pilot. Glossary, bibliography, index. Oversized wide format, printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-1472853578.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88403More details Price: $50.00 -
JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A memoir of war and peace, passion and politics" - "Hazleton first went to Jerusalem at the age of 20, remained 13 years, then moved to New York City. Five years later, in 1984, she returned for what she intended would be a final breaking away, only to find herself drawn yet again to the much-changed city. Recalling the innocence of the past - her own and the city's - she writes vividly of the passions and wars that have wracked Jerusalem and all of Israel (the "'blood and racism and hatred'); the religious-secular clash for 'the soul of the city'; and the friendships and excitement that continue to attract her to this 'city of paradox'." (Publishers Weekly) 243 pp. ISBN: 0-871130645.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87304More details Price: $20.00 -
FINDING PALESTINE: One American's Trek from the Midwest to the Middle East.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87058More details Price: $25.00 -
FEAR NO EVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1988). In the mid-seventies, Sharansky became a spokesman for Moscow's dissidents - the Jews amd the human rights advocates. This begins with his arrest in 1977, tells of the 16 months of interrogation, and his conviction as "American Spy." He was threatened with execution, put in solitary, but this ends as he wins his freedom after nine years as a prisoner, and rejoins his wife, who worked tirelessly on his behalf, as they fly to Israel. Translated by Stefani Hoffman. Photographs, index. xxi, 437 pp. ISBN: 0-394558782.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86783More details Price: $20.00 -
MY LAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biographical account of his return to Europe and beyond, in search of roots and community and an answer to the question - what am I? It was only in the middle of his life that he became what he was born - a Jew. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-394470982.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, price-clipped)
Book ID: 84711More details Price: $17.50 -
STRANGE FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel written with Bukiet's trademark black humor - "Blind, fatherless, homosexual, Russian emigre speechwriter Nathan Kazakov has enough problems even before his left ear is obliterated by a bullet presumably meant for his employer, the hawkish prime minister of Israel. Consumed by the desire to discover exactly what happened, Nathan begins an investigation that leads him into a web of conspiracies involving messianic Orthodox settlers, Arab terrorists, and the Israeli secret service." SIGNED on the half title page. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-393049388.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82380More details Price: $30.00 -
APEIROGON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, (2020). First edition - An epic novel by this award-winning writer rooted in "the real-life friendship between two men united by loss.. . Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. . Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn of each others stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace." Photographs. 453 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79478More details Price: $20.00 -
ICE COLD KILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First international thriller featuring Daria Gibron, a former Shin-Bet agent now in exile in the U.S. and under the protection of the F.B.I., who is working primarily as an interpreter - until, on her way to a meeting, she gets unexpected and anonymous tipoff that she's about to walk into an ambush. SIGNED on the title page. 343 pp. ISBN: 978-1250009630.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78227More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DOVEKEEPERS.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Scribner, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 70 C.E. in ancient Israel at Masada where a small band of Jews held out for months against the Roman armies. . 504 pp. Orange illustrated endpapers, brown boards. ISBN: 978-1451617474.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72757More details Price: $16.50 -
CROSS BONES.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
London: Heinemann, (2005). Temperance Brennan becomes involved in an archeological mystery in Israel. Author's note. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-434-010413.
Condition: Very good (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 69748More details Price: $12.00 -
ZENIA'S WAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Lippincott & Crowell, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edtion - A novel which spans more than 50 years - it opens in Brooklyn in the 1920s with Zenia, a pre-revolutionary Russian immigrant and an idealistic doctor returning to her struggling country - and ends 50 years later as Zenia, after repression and disillusionment, making her way to Israel. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-690018967.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 67762More details Price: $15.00 -
ANY OLD IRON.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A portrait of the first half of the 20th century from the sinking of the Titanic through two world wars and the creation of the state of Israel in the years after World War II - and the stories of two families, one Welsh, one Jewish, bound together by marriage and friendship. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-394-574842.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line, rubbing to the dj - an unread copy with some minor shelfwear)
Book ID: 65029More details Price: $15.00 -
BRIDGE OF SAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - Unusual suspense novel, one which shifts between Israel and San Francisco, the story of a man who changed his identity, became a scholar in Biblical languages, joins an archeological expedition, all because he is obsessed with the desire to kill one man. 251 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 61470More details Price: $25.00 -
AUGURIES CHARMS AMULETS.
Edition: First printing.
Middle Village, New York: Jonathan David Publishers, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fifth volume of poetry, containing 42 poems rooted in the author's life in Israel and in America. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 93 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 58850More details Price: $24.00 -
EYES, STONES: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2011). First edition - "In this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The poems invoke characters inexorably linked to the land of Israel and Palestine. There is Zosha, a sharp-witted survivor whose burning hope for a Jewish homeland helps her endure the atrocities of the Holocaust. And there is Amal, a Palestinian whose family has worked their land for over one hundred years--through Turkish, British, Jordanian, and now Israeli rule." Recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Notes, 62 pp. ISBN: 9780807144640.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58801More details Price: $15.00 -
THE TENTH SONG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When life is at its best, the unimaginable can shatter everything you know." Novel set in Boston and Israel. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780312570170.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 58348More details Price: $15.00 -
THREE MUSKETEERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Milford, CT & London: The Toby Press, (2008.). First edition - "From Argentine Birmajer presents a complicated tale of political intrigue revolving around Javier Mossen . . . Mossen is reluctantly writing a Sunday feature on Elias Traum, a Jew and former Argentine revolutionary now residing in Israel and recently returned for a visit. When he goes to meet Traum at the airport, Mossen is assaulted and Traum kidnapped. Originally published in Spanish in 2001, translated by Sharon Wood.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new).
Book ID: 57168More details Price: $15.00 -
ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN NARRATIVES OF CONFLICT: History's Double Helix.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (2006.). First edition - "An exciting and wide-ranging exploration of the myths and narratives that lie behind the unresolved Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.. . This book creates a dialogue among Palestinian and Israeli authors, who examine opposing versions of the historical narratives in the context of contemporary Israeli-Palestinian relations" Contributors include Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Mordechai Bar-On, Daniel Bar-Tal, Nathan J. Brown, Saleh Abdel Jawad, Eyal Naveh, Ilan Pappe, Dina Porat, Robert I. Rotberg, Nadim N. Rouhana, Gavriel Salomon, and Mark Tessler." Notes at the end of each essay. 273 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55375More details Price: $18.00 -
IN THE HOT ZONE: One Man, One Year, Twenty-one Wars.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: HarperPerennial, (2007.). First edition - "Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and features the people on every side, including those caught in the cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war's inhumanity." Appendices. 549 pp. Includes a DVD with a documentary film "A World of Conflict.". ISBN: 9780061228759.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 54044More details Price: $15.00 -
BLOOD LIBELS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Darkly comic novel about a Jewish writer who shares his birthday with the State of Israel. Sinclair was one of the original 20 writers chosen in 1983 as 'the best of the British young novelists.' 191 pp. ISBN: 0-374-114498.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53889More details Price: $15.00 -
DRAWING IN THE DUST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of an archeological discovery in Israel that brings to light a long-buried Biblical romance. Author's note. 360 pp. ISBN: 9781416599128.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51179More details Price: $15.00 -
WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Dutton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of a 20 year old woman who emigrates from London to Palestine in 1946. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the author's first novel to be published in the US. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-525-945946.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50775More details Price: $15.00 -
EXILE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )






