A Gentle Cynic: Being a Translation of the Book of Koheleth Known As Ecclesiastes

by Morris Jastrow Jr. by Morris Jastrow, Jr.

$250 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

San Fransciso: Grabhorn Press, 1927. Hardcover. Limited edition, this hand-numbered 106 of 250 copies, printed and bound at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Full vellum, somewhat tanned, two bands of ribbon ties, unpaginated. Illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Bookplate of an etching of a clipper ship from the library of William Searby, below which is a gift inscription dated 1928. With its original brown cardboard slipcase which is stained and missing its

• Binding: Leather

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