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Gruber, Ruth. Israel on the Seventh Day. Hill and Wang, New York, 1968.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ix, [1],214 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Chronology. Index. Small dent in fore-edge. DJ soiled with some edge wear and small tear. Presentation copy signed by author. Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 - November 17, 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and a United States government official. Born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants, she was encouraged to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. At age 20 she became the youngest person ever to receive a doctorate, which was awarded for her dissertation on Virginia Woolf. She authored nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award-winning biography Raquela (1978). She also wrote several memoirs documenting her astonishing experiences, among them Ahead of Time (1991), Inside of Time (2002), and Haven (1983), which documents her role in the rescue of one thousand refugees from Europe and their safe transport to America. In the 1930s she established herself as a journalist writing about women under fascism and communism, traveling as far as the Soviet Arctic. As World War II raged in Europe, she turned her attention to the crisis of Jewish refugees: acting on behalf of the Roosevelt administration, she escorted 1,000 refugees from Italy to the United States and recorded their stories. She witnessed the scene at the Port of Haifa when Holocaust survivors on the ship Exodus 1947 were refused entry to British-controlled Palestine, and she documented their deportation back to Germany. She was a recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize. Report on the Six Day War, and an assessment of conditions in Israel and all the Middle East one year after the war. The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, was fought between 5 and 10 June 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria. Relations between Israel and its neighbors were not normalized after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1956 Israel invaded the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, with one of its objectives being the reopening of the Straits of Tiran that Egypt had blocked to Israeli shipping since 1950. Israel was eventually forced to withdraw, but was guaranteed that the Straits of Tiran would remain open. A United Nations Emergency Force was deployed along the border, but there was no demilitarization agreement. In the months prior to June 1967, tensions became dangerously heightened. Israel reiterated its post-1956 position that the closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping would be a cause for war. In May Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that the straits would be closed to Israeli vessels and then mobilized its Egyptian forces along its border with Israel, in addition to kicking out UNEF. On 5 June, Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields, asserting imminent attack from the Egyptians. The Egyptians were caught by surprise, and nearly the entire Egyptian air force was destroyed with few Israeli losses, giving the Israelis air supremacy. Simultaneously, the Israelis launched a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip and the Sinai, which again caught the Egyptians by surprise. After some initial resistance, Nasser ordered the evacuation of the Sinai. Israeli forces rushed westward in pursuit of the Egyptians, inflicted heavy losses, and conquered the Sinai. Jordan had entered into a defence pact with Egypt a week before the war began; the agreement envisaged that in the event of war Jordan would not take an offensive role but would attempt to tie down Israeli forces to prevent them making territorial gains. About an hour after the Israeli air attack, the Egyptian commander of the Jordanian army was ordered by Cairo to begin attacks on Israel; in the initially confused situation, the Jordanians were told that Egypt had repelled the Israeli air strikes. Egypt and Jordan agreed to a ceasefire on 8 June, and Syria agreed on 9 June; a ceasefire was signed with Israel on 11 June. In the aftermath of the war, Israel had crippled the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian militaries, having killed over 20,000 troops while losing fewer than 1,000 of its own. The Israeli success was the result of a well-prepared and enacted strategy, the poor leadership of the Arab states, and their poor military leadership and strategy. Israel seized the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria. Israel's international standing greatly improved in the following years. Its victory humiliated Egypt, Jordan and Syria, leading Nasser to resign in shame; he was later reinstated after protests in Egypt against his resignation. The speed and ease of Israel's victory would later lead to a dangerous overconfidence within the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), contributing to initial Arab successes in the subsequent 1973 Yom Kippur War, although ultimately Israeli forces were successful and defeated the Arab militaries. The displacement of civilian populations resulting from the war would have long-term consequences, as 300,000 Palestinians fled the West Bank and about 100,000 Syrians left the Golan Heights. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.
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MAILER, Norman. The Armies Of The Night. The New American Library, New York, 1968.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first printing. 8vo; original cloth in lightly soiled DJ. SIGNED by Mailer. Previous owner's signature on another leaf.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed First Edition, First Printing of this winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in which Norman Mailer famously applies novelistic techniques to his account of an actual event in which he participated -- the 1967 March on the Pentagon, a massive multi-day anti-Vietnam War demonstration. The already prominent novelist turned practitioner of the then-new New Journalism is seen on the back cover of the dust jacket locking arms in march with a distinguished group that includes Noam Chomsky and Robert Lowell, but he also portrays himself within the narrative as making an ass of himself at times. Signed by Norman Mailer on the title page. Cloth, 288 pages. Has name of a previous owner (a minor Hollywood producer) on a front endpaper. Has some tanning and foxing of the page edges. The dust jacket has a chip at the top edge of the front cover and edge wear.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. The Armies Of The Night. New York: The New American Library, 1968.
Price: US$365.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing stated; slight wear to book and price-clipped dust jacket; signed card by Norman Mailer laid in
Seller: Evergreen Books LLC, Lakewood, CO, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. The Armies of The Night. New American Library, New York, 1968.
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Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1st printing. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Author's first Pulitzer Prize winning work. Stated First printing. 289 pages. Great, collectible copy!
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Mailer, Norman [Noam Chomsky]. The Armies of the Night.. The New American Library, New York, 1968.
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Description: First edition of this nonfiction novel, which went on to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Chris Lawford remembering our good conversation last summer Norman Mailer March 1983." Additionally signed by one of the subjects, Noam Chomsky. The recipient, Christopher Lawford is an author, activist and member of the Kennedy family and friends with the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. One of the first examples of "new journalism" The Armies of the Night daringly combined reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Norman Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. It centers on the March on the Pentagon, the most famous anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington DC, and the characters that occupy this oppositionâ"â"the intellectuals, students, African Americans, liberals, and marching women. Mailer, a novelist-as-character, sculpts this impressionably fragile world of the Left versus Authority and Peace versus War, prodding at the Vietnam generationâs deepest anxieties.
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