GATES TO THE OLD CITY; A Book of Jewish Legends / Selected & Translated by Raphael Patai
New York: Jason Aronson Inc., 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering and mystical hand on spine with gilded lettering on cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with mystical hand in black & gold, translations from several languages by Raphael Patai, li + 807 pages. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #1605
ISBN: 0876689586
SCARCE, Very Useful and Textually Exact Collection of Aggada by the brilliant anthropologist and scholar.
Raphael Patai (1910 1996) was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.
An excellent companion volume to Louis Ginzberg's, Legends of the Jews.
Superior Condition! Very slight age-toning to pages. Rare in a dj so Fine.
Price: $45.00