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First Edition (Bloch Publishing=NAP). 1955 on the copyright and title page. This book is signed and inscribed by the author, Israel Goldstein, 'To Theodore Bikel and his family in friendship and with high regard, Israel Goldstein.' The signed inscription is on a label that is affixed to the first front end paper (see photo). Israel Goldstein was an American Rabbi, author and Zionist leader. He was also one of the founders of Brandeis University. He was the Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Jeshuron in New York from 1918 into his immigration to Israel in 1960. B'nai Jeshuron is the second oldest synagogue in the city. He was the head of the New York Board of Rabbis, The Jewish National Fund, and the Zionist Organization of America, and He Helped Found the National Conference of Christians and Jews. On His 80th Birthday, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other government and sinus movement officials gathered at his home to pay him tribute.' Theodore Bikel was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, the son of Miriam (née Riegler) and Josef Bikel, from Bukovina. As an active Zionist, his father named him after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. Following the German union with Austria in 1938, Bikel's family fled to Mandatory Palestine, where his father's contacts helped the family obtain British passports. Bikel studied at the Mikve Yisrael agricultural school and joined Kibbutz Kfar HaMaccabi. Here's a little something from Bikel's long Wikipedia profile: 'In 1959 he co-founded the Newport Folk Festival and created the role of Captain von Trapp opposite Mary Martin as Maria in the original Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. In 1969 Bikel began acting and singing on stage as Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, a role he performed more often than any other actor to date. The production won nine Tony Awards and was one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history.' This book and some others that I have listed came from the library of Mr. Bikel's first wife who lives near by me. As you can see from the photos, the covers are in excellent condition. They are very clean, with just a few light spots. The gilt lettering on the front and spine is very bright. The corners and edges are in very solid shape. There is some darkening of the blue on the spine and front just adjacent to the spine. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover, with nicely tight pages, no binding issues. The pages are also exceptionally clean. I'm not seeing any soiling at all on any of the pages in the text. Both inside covers and end papers, including the signed front one are in perfect condition. The only page flaw is the presence of some foxing on a few of the early pages. Specifically, there are few light spots just off the top edge of the blank verso of the first front end paper, also of the facing blank verso of the frontispiece. Both of these pages also have several spots of foxing next to their juncture. The frontispiece has a few spots just off its top edge, confined to the margin and not affecting the photograph of Dr. Goldstein delivering the prayer at the Tercentenary banquet in New York at which President Eisenhower was the guest of honor. The facing page, the title page also has a few spots off the top edge and also just to the right of the juncture between it and the frontispiece. So the foxing is very much reactive to the frontispiece and is fairly minor. There's nothing on the following copyright page and nothing at all going forward till you reach the only other page of photographs where you can see just a little bit of it off the top edge of the two sides, and a wee bit of it just off the top edge of the facing text pages. With the exception of one minor crease on one page, the other pages are flawless. And there are no markings. And other than the author's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002601
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