Heritage: Civilization and the Jews [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]

Eban, Abba. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]. New York: Summit Books, 1984. First edition. Square quarto. 354pp. (2). Illustrated glossy white dust jacket with blue lettering on the front cover and the spine. Dark blue cloth over blue paper boards, with gilt-stamped lettering on the front cover and spine. Signed and inscribed in blue pen by Abba Eban on the front endpaper, under the publisher’s device. This a first edition of Abba Eban’s fascinating study on the history of Jewish civilization from biblical times until the modern area. Illustrated throughout with b/w and color photographic reproductions. Jacket with minor creasing and sunning along the top edge. Binding with some minor bumping along the top edge. Jacket in in very good+, binding and interior in near fine condition overall. vg+ to near fine. Hardcover.

Abba Eban, born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; later adopted Abba Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. (42767) $50