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A Mirror Garden: A Memoir


Farmanfarmaian, Monir

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 2007-06-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463768


Price: $13.00 

 

Atat

Hardcover. London, England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 542 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has a touch of age wear at top of back cover (see image), unclipped, very good. Top edge dyed. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape. This important and absorbing biography will fill many gaps in our knowledge of the man who created modern Turkey and changed the course of European history.

Record # 32185


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

Boy From the Tower of the Moon, The


Accawi, Anwar

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages, small remainder dot on bottom edge.

Record # 403349


Price: $18.00 

 

Caught in the Crossfire


Goodwin, Jan

Hardcover. US, Dutton Adult, 2nd printing, 1987-03-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460711


Price: $13.00 

 

Children of the Roojme - A Family's Journey


Abinader, Elmaz

NY, Norton, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A chronicle of 3 generations of a family's immigration from Lebanon to America. Black & white illust. 303 pages.

Record # 66875


Price: $19.00 

 

Heroine of the Desert


Al-Nahi, Donya

Hardcover. 1st UK, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456724


Price: $20.00 

 

Istanbul: Memories and the City (With New Introduction by the Author)


Pamuk, Ophan

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Deluxe Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Light remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Looks nearly new. Beautiful copy. Ophan Pamuk's portrait of his city is a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy that all Istabullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.

Record # 31715


Price: $31.00 

 

Kahlil Gibran - His Life and World


Gibran, Jean/Kahlil Gibran

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 442 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with wear along edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613176


Price: $25.00 

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian CenturyHoffman, Adina

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century


Hoffman, Adina

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED by Translator on title page. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468086


Price: $15.00 

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels (SIGNED COPY)Garrels, Anne

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels (SIGNED COPY)


Garrels, Anne

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

Record # 470513


Price: $19.00 

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne GarrelsGarrels, Anne

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels


Garrels, Anne

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on rear dust jacket.

Record # 470316


Price: $15.00 

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's WarShadid, Anthony

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War


Shadid, Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470277


Price: $10.00 

 

Nine Lives: My Times as The West's Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda


Dean, Aimen

Hardcover. London, Oneworld Book, rep, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 467 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light pencil markings throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 2233448


Price: $15.00 

 

Origins: A Memoir


Maalouf, Amin

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 404 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457307


Price: $8.00 

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.

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 

SadatHirst, David

Sadat


Hirst, David

Hardcover. US, Faber & Faber, reprint , 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 384 pages. Edge wear to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466962


Price: $10.00 

T. E. Lawrence: A New BiographyStewart, Desmond

T. E. Lawrence: A New Biography


Stewart, Desmond

Hardcover. US, Harper & Row, 1st, 1977-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461874


Price: $11.00 

Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-89Bowles, Paul

Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987-89


Bowles, Paul

Softcover. US, Peter Owen Publishers, 1st us, 1990-05-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Soft Cover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 466759


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

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