Stranger Than Fiction: A Short History of the Jews from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Early printing; June, 1927. Deep red buckram (cloth) boards, crisp gilt cover and spine titles w/bands, moderate shelf wear. Embossed black cover design w/sun rising in sky over Jerusalem upon hill w/silhouetted seeker looking on from distance. Pages very good, clean; no writing, newsclipping of W.S. Quinby at half-title. Dj some edge wear, rub; unclipped 2.50, protected in new clear sleeve. With Fifty Animated Maps by Lewis Browne, Giving a Pictorial History of Centuries of Wandering. Lewis Browne recounts the epic of Jewish survival from pre-historic times to the publishing of this book. The flow and focus of the story is on the basic factors, hereditary and environmental, best explaining the unique experience and psychology of the Jewish people. The Old and New Testaments, The Talmud, and the Rabbinic writings are evaluated critically. The virtues and failings developed by the long struggle to survive are presented neither apologetically nor polemically; pointed out and left to speak for themselves. The maps employing a distinctly original time-line/flow technique constitute a pictorial history of endless Jewish "treks" from land to land to form the first atlas to Jewish history ever published. An engrossing and absorbing narrative written in language so terse and picturesque that it irresistably sweeps along. "One of the most interesting books I have read. Every American should read the history of these strange people." - Thomas Edison. A complete one-volume history. Includes detailed glossary and index. 377 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Browne, Lewis. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.