Ha-Adam ha-Had-Memade (One-Dimensional Man. Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society) [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]
Merhavia: Sifriat Poalim/ Ha-Shomer Hatzair, 1970. First Hebrew edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 301pp. [2]. Original white, orange and black dust jacket, with black lettering on the covers and spine. Black cloth over tan paper boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. Red ribbon marker. Frontispiece b/w photographic portrait of the author. First Hebrew-language edition of Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man", inscribed in English with a dated signature by the author in pen on the front free endpaper. The inscription is to Zev Levy head of the philosophy department at the University of Haifa at the time, who hosted Marcuse on his trip to Israel. Published at Kibbutz Merhavia, in Israel, the headquarters of the leftist Zionist movement Ha-Shomer Hatzair, and released by their publishing house Sifriat Poalim. This edition includes a new introduction from Marcuse titled "A Word to the Reader in Israel", and the shorter written pieces, "An Essay on Liberation" (1969) and "A Political Preface" (1966, here as an appendix). Table of contents at the rear. Text in Hebrew.
Dust jacket with some light rubbing and chip[ping to extremities, a few minor closed tears, smudges, and some sunning to the spine. Corners lightly reinforced with some scotch tape. Binding with some light bumping to upper corners. Light water spots to the edges of the book block. Interior clean. Dj in very good-, binding in very good, interior in near fine condition overall. Scarce. vg- to near fine. Item #50717
Hebrew title: האדם החד-ממדי
Author: מרקוזה, הרברט ;דליה טסלר; עדנה שריר; שושנה שוורץ
Publication: ספרית פועלים, דעת זמננו, הוצאת הקיבוץ הארצי, השומר הצעיר, תש"ל, מרחביה.
Price: $600.00