Belloc (Hillaire) The Jews
£125
London, Constable, 1937.
‘New edition’. 8vo. Original cloth.
First published in 1922, Belloc’s controversial study argues that the Jews constitute not a minority religion but a separate nation.
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Spine dulled and slightly marked.
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