Great is Peace...Hard is locating information.

I recently acquired a rather interesting book called, "Great is Peace," by Daniel Sperber. I have had a ridiculously difficult time locating information on the volume and would greatly appreciate any bit of info anyone knows. My tentative catalogue entry is below. If you know anything of this volume, I would love to hear about it. I have had a very nice exchange with the librarian at the Carter Library (a copy of this volume was given to Carter, Sedat and Begin), but I have been very unsuccessful in locating other background about it. It is, if nothing else, a beautifully crafted piece.
Sperber, Daniel (ed); Greenfield, David (photo). Great is Peace: Perek Ha-Shalom From the Talmudic Tractate Derekh Eretz Zuta. Jerusalem, Israel: Massada Press and Golden Pages, 1979. First Edition/Limited Edition. Tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase bright and clean. Brown full leather boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, brown endpages with gilt decorative elements, glossy descriptive piece bound in at front, top edge gilt, silk ribbon bound in. Slipcase is solid olive wood, brown velour lining, brass plaque on front. fo. np. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Text in English and Hebrew (unlike left to right, Hebrew right to left). Limited Edition, number 710 of not more than 1800. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase.
A copy of this book was presented to President Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, by Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, at El Arish, May 27, 1979. The text is Perek ha-Shalom, a rabbinic treatise extolling the virtues of peace. A pristine copy of this exceptional and scarce volume.
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You can find some current market value info at http://www.bookgallery.co.il/content/static/bookcat2_16.asp
Perek Ha-Shalom from the Talmudic Minor tractates (see Wikipedia)Tractate Derekh Eretz Zuta: Final chapter is Perek Ha-Sha
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