BAR-KOKHBA. The rediscovery of the legendary hero of the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome.
Pp. 272(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or double page), pictorial endpapers, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index; cr. 4to; brown boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split; outer leaves and edges faintly foxed; Steimatzky's Agency/Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1971. First U.K. edition. *The story of the discovery of letters from Bar-Kokhba, 'famous in Jewish legend as the guerilla leader of the Second Revolt against Hadrian's Rome, during which, for an intoxicating moment, the Holy City of Jerusalem was recaptured before the Romans fought their way back' [wrapper blurb]. Item #184164
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