London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1944. 2nd Printing. Small Hard Cover.
Second printing. No jacket. Spine toned, front hinge broken, some pencil marks.
296 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Alphabet; Noun and Articles; Gender; Case; Number; Broken Plurals; Personal Pronouns; Verb--Perfect; Imperfect Indicative; Demonstrative Pronouns; Adjectives; Irregular Nouns; Imperative--Participles--Infinitive; Moods; Negatives; More.....
New York: Berkley Caliber, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bottom edge of front jacket panel bumped and creased.
viii, 259 pp. "In Operation Iraqi Freedom, there is a special breed of hunter for whom the prey is the enemy--and every day is hunting season. This soldier is a......
New York: Harper, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very minor general wear to jacket. Ink name and address on front paste-down endpaper.
x, 271 pp. "Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and.....
Palestine: American Red Cross, 1950. Soft Cover.
General light wear, no tears and no chips.
A guide produced by the American Red Cross, intended for distribution to U.S. soldiers on leave, and probably produced at Camp Tel Litwinsky in Palestine. Color fold-out map of Jerusalem with another map and descriptions.....
New York: Doubleday, 2013. Hard Cover.
1cm tear to upper jacket, ink name on endpaper.
A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East.
Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xv, 234 pp. From the Introduction:"Look around," the drill sergeant said. "In a few years, or even a few months, several of you will be dead. Some of you will.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 9th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Ninth printing. Front cover corners curl slightly.
xi, 389 pp. Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence.....
New York: Blandford Press, 1984. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Top page ridge foxed.
189 pp. "Tells of Britain's continual military involvement in Egypt and the Sudan to protect British "interests" and the Suez Canal. A compelling story of gruelling desert campaigns led by Victorian generals such as Wolseley, Gordon, and.....
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1850. Second Edition. Full-Leather.
Second edition. Edges rubbed, owner bookplate and ink name and date on front endpapers, ink gift note on front flyleaf dated Easter 1857 at Eton.
vi, [2], 218 pp. Full leather, all edges gilt, gilt titles and decorations. Illustrated with.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Minor scuff on front board.
ix, [7], 383, [1], vii, [7] pp. 8vo. Dilmun was a land which stretched beyond the confines of Bahrain, as far north as Kuwait, and as far south as Saudi Arabia.....
New York: Harper, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xix, 442 pp. "In this authoritative look at the roots of modern terrorism, Yossef Bodansky, one of the most respected—and best-informed—experts on radical Islamism in the world today, pinpoints the troubled.....
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor ink mark on rear jacket panel.
xii, 328 pp. The Sikh Wars; The Third China war, 1860; The Expedition to Abyssinia, 1867-8; The Ashanti Campaign, 1873-4; The South African War, 1880-1; The Egyptian Campaign, 1882; The Reconquest.....
Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2013. Trade Paperback.
Smudge on base.
With all of the heat surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even the most basic facts can be hard to grasp. How do we make sense of what we read in the Bible―and what we read in the news? In this Skeptic?s.....
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. Cloth on rear board wrinkled, some pages wrinkled.
117 pp. Next to Ferdowsi's Shah-nameh, the Khamseh or "Quintet" of Nizami offered the best opportunity for a wide-ranging series of illustrations to the Iranian miniaturist. Although these paintings lacked.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light general wear.
49 pp. Maroon cloth boards. Top edge gilt. The Ingersoll Lectures is a series of lectures presented annually at Harvard University on the subject of immortality. The Ingersoll Lectureship was established by a bequest by Caroline.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Hard Cover.
An exceptional copy.
Until now, there has been no detailed account of Israel's nuclear history. Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors, leaks, and journalistic speculations. But with Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen has forged an interpretive political history.....
New York: A Galaxy Book/Oxford University Press, 1972. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Spine lightly creased, wrappers and pages faintly toned.
xv, 376 pp. 'From dawn to after sunset the clock in the mosque punctuates the life of Islam with the consciousness of God.' First published in 1956, The Call of the.....
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light edge wear.
Ever since the first scrolls were found in the Judaean desert in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the subject of passionate speculation and controversy. The possibility that they might challenge assumptions about ancient.....
New York: Random House, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine jacket. Remainder mark.
xiii, 286 pp. "The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children.....
New York: Putnam, 1992. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Edge wear to jacket.
A companion volume to a new PBS series traces the history of Israel through its four decades of fluctuating fortunes, political turmoil, various leaders, and continuing culture.
New York: The Modern Library, 1966. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1966 first thus, Toledano 364.1, binding/jacket style 11l with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket corners lightly rubbed.
xv, 363 pp. Edited by Ainslie T. Embree. CONTENTS: Preface; Explanatory Note;.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing. Edges and front and end matter foxed, spine faded, small owner bookplate on front flyleaf.
xxii, 356 pp. "Uses the accounts of three Europeans to describe life in Omdurman under the rule of the Mahdi, who.....
London: Osprey Military, 1993. Soft Cover.
Sticker on rear wrapper.
96 pp. "In 1881, the Egyptian army mutinied against the Khedive of Egypt and forced him to appoint Said Ahmed Arabi as Minister of War. In March 1882, Arabi was made a Pasha and from this time on acted as.....
New York: Knopf, 2005. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
3rd printing. Jacket faintly rubbed.
Passionate in his concerns about the region and relentless in his pursuit of the truth, Fisk has been able to enter the world of the Middle East and the lives of its people as few other journalists.....
New York: Anchor Books / Random House, Inc., 1995. Trade Paperback.
Spine creased, pencil note on last page.
xv, 588 pp. "Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice.....