Description
Signed copy of My Life by Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Octavo, x, [2], 396pp. Light blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Copyright page notes that this edition was printed in Great Britain, no additional printings noted. Text block sound. Light bumped to edge. Complete with eight black and white photographs, and a map of Israel. In the publisher’s dust jacket, £6.75 on the front flap, small chip at head of the spine, a few closed tears, a very good example.
Gift inscription opposite the half-title, noting this copy was signed by Mrs. Meir at a dinner honoring Mrs. Walter C. Lowdermilk on March 19, 1976, in Tel Aviv. Housed in custom blue cloth slipcase. This copy is signed on the half-title by Golda Meir.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) served as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. She remains the only woman elected as Prime Minister of Israel. She served from 1969-1974, resigning after the Yom Kippur War. She was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin.
