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Hardcover, full mustard yellow cloth lettered in gold on spine, in non clipped publisher’s dust-jacket. 213 pages. Includes Endnotes, Glossary, Gazetteer, Select Bibliography and an Index. Edited, with an introduction, by Samuel H. Dresner. First edition, first printing with full number line. Four essays by the great Judaic scholar Abraham Joshua Heschel which present portraits of four figures in the inner circle of the Baal Shem Tov. The historical material contained in these ‘biographies’ “constitute an invaluable contribution to the understanding of early Hasidism.” No previous ownership marks. No remainder marks. Not ex-library. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.