Exodus: A Novel Of Israel Uris, Leon

Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, USA, 1958. Early Printing (not stated) of the First (1st) Edition. Near Fine+ in a Good+ Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white (with age-yellowing to page ends), tight, straight and square, with blue topstain, deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is blue quarter cloth to gray boards (colors uniform throughout) with the title in black on the front board, bright silver title, etc., to spine, unmarked map endpapers, and all corners square, though the top front corner is lightly bumped. The Dust Jacket (second issue with mention of the Negev next to the photo of the author on the rear panel, per McBride, Points of Issue) is bright but price-clipped and chipped at the spine and folds, with two tears (bottom front and bottom rear at spine) that have been discreetly closed from behind with archival (pH neutral) materials. See photos. 626 pages. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". An historical novel taking its title from the SS Exodus affair of 1947, the book tells the story of the founding of the State of Israel with backward looks to the Zionist movement in the late 19th century, the pogroms, the holocaust and the refugee camps. The book has been criticized for its depiction of Palestinians and Arabs.