1st edition. Original Boards, 4to. Xiv, 229 pages. 29 cm. First Edition. Inscribed by author in Hebrew on front endpaper. English interspersed with Hebrew and other exotic alphabets. The Son of a Shinto priest and descendant from a long line of Shinto priests, the author Abram Kotsuji (1899-1973) was a Japanese Hebraist and ardent philo-Semite who founded the Institute of Biblical Research at the University of Tokyo. The present work is his Phd dissertation. During the Holocaust years Kotsuji greatly assisted the hundreds of rabbis and yeshiva students from Eastern Europe (including the entire Mir Yeshiva) who escaped before the German onslaught to Kobe, Japan and later to Japanese-occupied Shanghai. In 1959 Kotsuji formally converted to Judaism in Jerusalem. Internally some age toning but very clean.Very Good Condition. (HOLO-114-17a)