Mid East: World-Center, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. 1st Edition.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. Hardcover. Vg/Vg- Dj with light edge and surface wear/8vo./textblock lightly browned/386 pp. Middle East. MID/5212. Very Good. More
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Kamal (1st Edition).
New York: Harper and Row, 1982. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./contents bright & clean/351 pp. Middle East. MID/5152. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./contents bright and clean/448 pp./Review copy with slip laid-in. Middle East. MID/5212. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
Sisters in War. A Story of love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
New York: Random House, 2009. Hardcover. Fine in grey paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine. Illustrated dust jacket with beige spine panel and black title to spine. 335 pages. MID/100509. Fine in fine jacket. More
Wüste und Gelobtes Land: Geschichte Israels von den Anfängen bis zum Tode Salomos; und Zweiter Band: Geschichte Israels vom tode salomos bis ezra und nehemia. 2 volumes. [History of Israel]
Berlin: Kurt Wolff / Im Schocken Verlag, 1932 / 1936. Hardcover. First volume has 18 full page plates and 8 illustations in text. In black cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. Light rubbing to boards. Clean, bright interior. In white dust jacket with red spine panel and white title to spine. In original cardboard slipcase with title to spine panel. Minor wear to edges of case. 307 pages. Second volume is also bound in black cloth boards with gilt title to spine, but it's dust jacket is off-white with black title to spine and front panel. The second volume is not in a slipcase. 287 pages plus 15 plates. In German. GER709281 This set may require an extra shipping fee. Near Fine / Fine. More
A New Israel: Democracy in Crisis, 1973-1988, Essays (1st Edition).
New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1990. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./contents bright and clean/420 pp. Middle East. MID/5152. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
Israel Without Zionists: A Plea for Peace in the Middle East
New York: Macmillan, 1970. Hardcover. Vg/Vg- Dj with tiny peace of tape at top of spine/8vo. Middle East. MID/5152. Very Good. More
Orchid Species Culture
Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1991. Paperback. Bound in white paper covers with red title to spine and front cover. Dampstain to rear cover and to top margin of last few pages of text. Some pages are cockled as a result of dampness. Minor rubbing to covers. Otherwise, clean and bright. Size: quarto. 250 pages. GARD/122816. Very Good. More
Unique Traditions Chiefly of the West and South of Scotland
London; Glasgow: Hamilton, Adams, & Co.; Thomas D. Morison, 1886. Hardcover. First Edition. Includes chapters on The Fairy Flag, Tower of Clatto, Red Comyn's Castle, Thirteen Thorns of Trailflatt, Witch's Well, Cumstone Castle, Grave of the Wandering Shepherdess, Arran Assassin, Origin of Loch Katrine, Otters of Tarshish, and many more. Very good in black speckled paper covered boards with tan paper title label to spine. Part of the paper covering the spine and part of the title label have chipped away. Chipping and wear to edges of boards, corners, and spine ends. A few splits to the binding, but all pages remain securely bound. Occasional spots of foxing throughout and offsetting to endpapers. 255 pages. SCOT/081817. Very Good. More
The Wonder of the Gay Life: A Novel of the Life and Loves of Robert Burns
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Novel about the life of Robert Burns Very good in very good illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor chipping and creasing to edges of dust jacket as well as minor soiling to rear panel and minor browning and creasing to spine panel. Crack to rear interior hinge though binding remains tight. Else is clean and bright. 671 pages. POET/010418. Very Good / Very Good. More
Saudi Arabia through the Eyes of an Artist
Falcon Press. 1977. Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY. Vg/Vg Dj in mylar/illus./4to./84 pp./with presentation on front free endpaper. Middle East. MID/5202. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape
New York: Rizzoli, 1995. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author Charles E. Beveridge. "Olmsted defined and named the profession of landscape architecture and designed America's most beloved parks and landscapes of the past century - New York's Central Park, Brooklyn's Porspect Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Biltmore Estate, and many others" (jacket). Very good in green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Minor browning to top edges of pages. In photographically illustrated dust jacket with white spine panel titled in black. Several closed tears to edges of jacket. Jacket is protected from further damage with a removeable plastic cover. Filled with color photographic illustrations. 276 pages. GARD/030217. Very Good / Very Good. More
Egypt and Sinai: Eternal Battleground
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good light blue dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor wear to jacket includes rubbing to two closed tears to the edges, and light fading to spine. Index, 327 pages. Middle East. MID/6272. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. More
The Survival Factor: Israeli Intelligence from World War I to the Present
New York: Putnam, 1981. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./contents clean and bright/307 pp. Middle East. MID/5152. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi's Long Journey to Triumph in Iraq
New York: Doubleday, (2011). Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in fine yellow and grey dust jacket with yellow title to front panel and orange title to grey spine. Index, 304 pages. Middle Eastern History. MIDEAST/121511. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More
Tobermory and the Isle of Mull
Glasgow: John Mensies & Co. for the Tobermory Town Council, No date. Paperback. SCARCE. 16mo. No date, circa 1930s. Illustrated side stapled paper wrappers with blue title to front wrapper. Interior is clean and bright with beautiful black and white illustrations. Rear wrapper is a fold out map. Ads at front and rear. 40 pages. SCOT/033018. Very Good+. More
The Last Crusade: A Negotiator's Middle East Handbook (1st Edition).
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./contents bright, crisp and clean/399 pp. Middle East. MID/5202. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More
Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland 2 Volumes
London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. Hardcover. Ex-library from W. Wilson Moffat's English, French, and Italian Circulating Library, Edinburgh. According to his bookplate, Mr. Moffat was a bookseller, printer, and binder. His bookplate in the front of both volumes and the number 77 in ink on the front pastedown are the only evidence that this was part of a circulating library. Very good in original maroon cloth boards with gilt titles to spines and embossed decoration to spines and boards. Minor wear to edges of boards. Both bindings are slightly rolled. Clean interiors with only a few light smudge marks and notes in pencil on the rear free endpage of volume one. 310 pages in volume 1; 319 pages in volume 2. SCOT/061311 This set may require an extra shipping fee. Very Good. More
Dubai: An Arabian Album
Motivate Publishing, 1992. Hardcover. "This Arabian Album is a personal record of the region as it was at mid-century, a brief glimpse at a small segment of history which I was privileged to witness" (photographer). Near fine in black cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. Gift inscription in pen to half-title page from previous owner. In black dust jacket with orange title to spine and front panels. 224 pages. MID/011817. Near Fine / Fine. More
Invitation to the Garden. A Celebration in Literature and Photography
New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, (1992). Paperback. 4to. White paper wrappers with black title to spine and front panel. Interior is very clean with many full color illustrations. 239 pp. GARD/082505. Near Fine in Wraps. More
Irish voices, 1880-1960, from the collections at Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Special Collections, Morris Library, 1992. Paperback. First edition. Illustrated. White side-stapled wrappers with green title to front cover. 32 pages. IRE/111616. Fine. More
The Genus Cypripendium. A Botanical Magazine Monograph.
Portland, OR: Timber Press; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1997. Hardcover. A book about slipper orchids or moccasin flowers including the history, biology, evolution, conservation, cultivation, and classification of these flowers. Near fine in brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Bumping to corners, else fine. Clean and bright with diagrams and full color photographic illustrations. In white dust jacket with black title to spine and front panel. Minor wear to edges of jacket including a small chip to the rear panel. 301 pages. GARD/122916. Near Fine / Very Good. More
The Liberty Incident. The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship. (1st Edition)
Washington D.C. Brassey's, Inc., 2002. Hardcover. Mint in mint red and blue dust jacket with white title to front panel and to black spine panel. Like new. 295 pages. Includes section of notes for each chapter. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photos. Middle Eastern History. MID/8132. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More
Behind the Silken Curtain: A Personal Account of Anglo-American diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good+ hardcover with Good dustjacket. Open tear to top edge of real panel of dustjacket as well as chipping and creasing. Price clipped. 297 pages. Middle East. MID/6202. Very Good + in Good DJ. More
Scottish Art. To the close of the Nineteenth Century
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. This book has been rebound into brown leatherette boards with gilt title to spine. Interior is very clean with tight binding. Many illustrations. Bookplate to front pastedown. 135 pages. SCOT/030118. Very Good. More