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Vanished Imam, The - Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon


Ajami, Fouad

Hardcover. London, I. B. Tauris & Co., Ltd., First Edition, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Frontis illustration, Musa al Sadr, in black & white. Stamped top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751225


Price: $31.00 

 

Cairo


Raymond, Andre/Willard Wood (Translation)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Crisp, clean dust jacket. Clean text, unmarked copy.

Record # 751540


Price: $15.00 

 

Tradition und Tradenten in den Schulen Palastinas und Babyloniens


Bacher, Wilhelm

Hardcover. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co./, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 704 pages. German text. Reprinted from the 1914 edition. Cloth covers without a dust jacket. Light fading to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856384


Price: $38.00 

 

Iran and the Bomb: The Abdication of International Responsibility (The CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies)


Delpech, Therese

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean and unmarked copy.

Record # 2230372


Price: $15.00 

 

On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - And Future


House, Karen Elliot

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 2233348


Price: $19.00 

Jericho: dreams, Ruins, Phantoms Ruby, Robert
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Jericho: dreams, Ruins, Phantoms


Ruby, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Very clean inside and out. The story of Jericho, then and now.

Record # 30169


Price: $13.00 

 

Gordion Excavations Final Reports, The: Volume 1, Three Great Early Tumuli


Young, Rodney S., Kohler, E.L. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Volume 1. "University Museum Monograph 43". Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Has several fold out maps and diagrams attached at spine. Decorated endpapers. Cover boards bound in dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean. In beautiful condition. Reports from Rodney S. Young directed excavations for the University Museum at the site of Gordion on the central plateau in Anatolia (modern Turkey).

Record # 31922


Price: $75.00 

 

Gordion Excavations (1950-1973) Final Reports, The: Volume II: The Lesser Phrygian Timuli, Part 1, The Inhumations


Kohler, Ellen L. , G.K. Sams (Ed.)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages plus diagrams and plates. Hardcover. Part 1 of Volume II. "University Museum Monograph 88." Color frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in navy blue cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover with design. Pages and edges clean. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. A continuation of the reports from Rodney S. Young directed excavations for the University Museum at the site of Gordion on the central plateau in Anatolia (modern Turkey).

Record # 31923


Price: $88.00 

 

Gordion Excavations Final Reports III: The Bronze Age


Gunter, Ann C., E.L. Kohler (Ed.)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, University Museum, University of Pennsylvaia, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 113 pages plus diagrams and plates. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in navy blue cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover with design. Pages and edges clean. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Excavations on the City Mound of Gordion in 1961 and 1962 reached to levels containing remnants of Bronze Age structures. The author provides a detailed stratigraphical presentation of the pottery and small finds from these strata.

Record # 31924


Price: $75.00 

 

Gordion Special Studies II: The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels


Romano, Irene Bald, G. Kenneth Sams (Ed.)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, University Museum, University of Pennsylvaia, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages plus diagrams and plates. Hardcover. "University Museum Monograph 86." B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in navy blue cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover with design. Pages and edges clean. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Detailed analytical catalogue of 171 terracotta figurines and figural vessels. These are represented in every period at Gordion from the Early Bronze Age.

Record # 31925


Price: $50.00 

 

Gordion Special Studies Volume 1: Nonverbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps


Roller, Lynn E.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, University Museum, University of Pennsylvaia, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages plus diagrams and plates. Hardcover. "University Museum Monograph 63." B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in navy blue cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover with design. Pages and edges clean. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight.

Record # 31926


Price: $25.00 

 

Bin Ladens, The: An Arabian Family in the American Century


Coll, Steve

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 671 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, has small tear (3/4") at top of spine, otherwise excellent shape (see image). Binding tight, spine straight. Page and edges clean and bright. Meticulously researched, colorful, shocking, entertaining, and disturbing narrative of global integration and its limitations.

Record # 32335


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle for Peace, The


Weizman, Ezer

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 395 pages. B&W photos. Small sticker residue to dust jacket cover, chip to top of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Record # 301844


Price: $12.00 

 

Oil and State in the Middle East


Lenczowski, George

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 379 pages, blue-green cloth covers with gilt lettering. Ex-library from American Center in Tripoli, dust jacket with light wear, tape marks where it was attached to covers. Book has mothball odor.

Record # 403342


Price: $12.00 

 

Typological Process and Design Theory


Petruccioli (Ed.), Attilio

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and MIT, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages, illustrated in b&w. Clean, bright copy in illustrated wrappers.

Record # 405101


Price: $63.00 

Ramesses the Great Freed, Rita E.
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Ramesses the Great


Freed, Rita E.

Softcover. Boston, Boston Museum of Science, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages illustrated in color, illustrated wrappers.

Record # 406287


Price: $13.00 

 

Nile Boat, The: Or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt


Bartlett, W.H.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages including index, illustrated with engravings and woodcuts (2 fold-out), including frontispiece and decorated title page. Red cloth covers with embossed design with gilt design on front panel and spine, all edges gilt. No date but title page states fifth edition. Spine a little darkened, internally clean.

Record # 407063


Price: $100.00 

Exodus 1947 Holly, David C.
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Exodus 1947


Holly, David C.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of the ship President Warfield which transported 4,500 European refugees to Palestine in 1947. Very good in an edgeworn dust jacket.

Record # 408192


Price: $19.00 

Empire and Nationhood Heiss, Mary Ann
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Empire and Nationhood


Heiss, Mary Ann

Softcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460206


Price: $15.00 

 

Renoir and Algeria


Benjamin, Roger

Hardcover. US, Clark Art Institute, 1st, 2003-02-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 163 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464627


Price: $38.00 

Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940: A Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia (SIGNED) Barger, Thomas C.
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Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia, 1937 to 1940: A Young American Geologist Explores the Deserts of Early Saudi Arabia (SIGNED)


Barger, Thomas C.

Hardcover. Vista, CA, Selwa Press, 2nd, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Tight copy. Black & white images throughout. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF.

Record # 470828


Price: $38.00 

Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War Ledwidge, Frank
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Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War


Ledwidge, Frank

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470897


Price: $19.00 

Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus Kaplan, Robert D.
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus


Kaplan, Robert D.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd printing, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471808


Price: $15.00 

 

Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic


Takeyh, Ray

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 259 pages. White cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy, like new.

Record # 606631


Price: $20.00