Exodus: A Novel of Israel.

URIS, Leon.

Item Number: 4417

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958.

First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to his friend and physician, “For Dr. Pobirs with warmest regards Leon Uris.” Also laid are two postcards to the recipient from the author to Dr. Fred Pobirs, written in Uris’ hand, one from Moscow and the other from Berlin. Small paper clip mark to the half title page, near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. A very nice example of this novel with notable provenance.

Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. "Passionate summary of the inhuman treatment of the Jewish people in Europe, of the exodus in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Palestine, and of the triumphant founding of the new Israel" (The New York Times).