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First printing. Long narrative epic poem by this San Francisco writer, telling the story of Barabbas, a tribute to the heroism and the nobility of the Jewish people. Dust jacket praise from Robinson Jeffers who describes it as 'jewelled with lovely imagery and shining words...a majestic poem." Endpaper maps of Mediterranean area with an inset of Plan of Jerusalem. x, 200. Very good+ in a good dust jacket (a rather lovely pale green cloth binding with dark blue lettering and silver stamped decorative panels, prev owner's name in pencil, dated 1933, edges of the covers slightly faded, dj is price-clipped, edgeworn.) .

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