Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (Bollingen Series #XCIII) by Scholem, Gershom G.(Gershom Gerhard) Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi (trans.) - 1973

UsedAcceptable. 1973 hardcover ed w/ alt yellow/orange cover (1000 pgs). Noticeably worn/torn dj & lower+upper bind wear. Some sun fading. Minor notes, however, text is mostly clean & readable.

Princeton University Press, 1973-10-21. second printing 1975. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x2. The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn & soiled in a mylar cover.

Princeton University Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0691099162 . Mild bumping to boards. Unclipped DJ has light edgewear and rubbing, faded spine, small pen scribble on front flap, and several small tears. Solid binding and clean text. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1000 pages .

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. Second printing. Hardcover. vg to near fine. 8vo. xxvii, 1000 pp. Illustrated black and white dust jacket, white and orange lettering on the front cover, orange lettering on the spine. Original beige cloth with gilt lettering on a black label on the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Sabbatai Sevi. One of the greatest works of Jewish history ever written, Gershom Scholem's masterful biography of the 17th century messianic claimant Sabbatai Sevi turned an embarrassing episode in Jewish history that most Jewish scholars wished to ignore into one of the pivotal moments in the rise of modernity. Scholem advanced the controversial arguments that Sabbatianism was a product of Lurianic Kabbalah and that it influenced both Hasidism and the Reform movement. Dust jacket with minor to light rubbing, creasing and/or closed tears to the extremities. Jacket has been price clipped. Binding with minor rubbing to corners. Dj in very good, binding and interior in near… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. xxvii, 1000p., b/w illus., dj (Bollingen series, 93).

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Princeton 1973 first edition. Princeton University Press. Hardcover. Thick sm4to. 1000pp., illustrations. Ivory cloth. Fine, as NEW in VG DJ , backstrip of dj has faded to yellow from orange on the panels, slight edge wear, price not clipped, no tears and no chips. No owner marks. isbn 0-691-09916-2. Pictures available on request. .

Princeton University Press, 1973-10-21. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

1973. Princeton, Princeton University Press/Bollingen, 1973. Large Octavo. 1000 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Sevi. With 15 plates. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good or better in like dust jacket, spine-sunned. From the library of Isaac Bernard Cohen, with his bookplate to the pastedown, and bearing a gift inscription on the front blank addressed to him. [Bollingen Series XCIII]. Includes for Example: Historical and sociological explanations of the Sabbatian movement and their deficiencies/ Messianism in Jewish history and its two conflicting tendencies: the catastrophic-utopian and the rationalistic forms/ The messianic idea in the kabbalah/ Lurianic kabbalah and its myth of exile and redemption/ The historical role and social significance of Lurianic kabbalah/ Kabbalism in Poland. The messianic expectations for the year 1648. Contemporary reactionms to the great massacres of that year/ Utopian messianism in Christianity: chiliasm and… Read More