The Scrolls from the Dead Sea.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1955 Stock Code: 42863
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To Cousin Dorothy with love from Edmund Wellfleet Mass. October 19, 1955" on the front free endpaper. With a correction to the text in Wilson's hand. Dorothy Mendenhall was Wilson's cousin, a respected researcher, obstetrician, and pioneer in methods of childbirth.
Description
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to front board and spine in red. With the dust jacket.
Condition
Some browning to the endpapers but an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and faded dust jacket.
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