Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People (Modern Library Giant #G85.1) by SCHWARZ, Leo W. (editor) - [c.1966]

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. [c.1966]. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant edition offering the writings of six Jewish historians who describe the almost four-thousand-year history of the Jewish people. With entries by Yhezkel Kaufmann, Ralph Marcus, Salo W. Baron, Gerson D. Cohen, Abraham S. Halkan and Cecil Roth. Edited, with an introduction, by Leo W. Schwarz. --- In Toledano G6 spine / red cloth / gilt-stamped ML cover hex device / spine titling & decorations in gilt and black / blank GA style endpapers / dust jacket style Gh, verso is blank. Interior bears 1956 date but likely published c.1966. ML #G85.1. --- A loosened front hinge has been carefully repaired prior to this listing, else a tightly-bound, clean and unmarked copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with sizeable tear at head of spine, and with other small chips and tears but remaining mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xxvii, 515 pages .