B60.4 THE MISSION OF ISRAEL [1963]

The Mission Of Israel | Edited by | JACOB BAAL-TESHUVA | [publisher’s emblem] | ROBERT SPELLER & SONS | Publishers | New York 36, New York

Collation: 192 leaves.

p. [i] THE MISSION OF ISRAEL; p. [ii] list of other books by the author; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] copyright, LC card, edition, rights reservation and printer’s notices; p. [v] author’s dedication; p.[vi] blank; pp. vii-viii Table of Contents; p. ix List of Illustrations; p. [x] blank; p. [xi] THE MISSION OF ISRAEL; p. [xii] blank; pp. 1-6 The Editor’s Introduction; pp. 7-362 text; pp. 363-364 Who is Who in the Book; p.363 Jacob Baal-Teshuva; pp. 366-370 Index; pp. [371]-[372] blank. There are 12 pages of illustrations inserted between pp. 148-149].

22.7 × 15.1 cm. Bulk: 2.0/2.6 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in navy cloth; back blank; spine stamped in gold [top to bottom, facing back:] The MISSION of ISRAEL • BAAL-TESHUVA | [remainder upright:] [publisher’s emblem] | Robert | Speller | & Sons; front [in gold:] [image of arched-top window through which a menorah and foliage, at base the inscription ‘Israel’ [in Hebrew].

Price: $5.95. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1963 in a white dust-jacket printed in blue, yellow, grey and black.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘I Discover Israel’ (pp. 183-202).

Reprinted from C636. Also reprinted in Adler, Bill. ‘Israel A Reader’. Philadelphia, New York, London: Chilton Book Company, [1968], pp. [44]-45-65.