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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pennsylvania and New York: Maureen Cummins, 2019. Number 17 of 50 copies signed by the book artist. AlieNation / SepaRation was part of Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project. The project brought five artists into conversation with Syrian and Iraqi individuals resettled in Philadelphia. Cummins interviewed four participating families in 2018. The interviews captured the unspeakable losses experienced by the settlers and bore witness to their struggles to adjust to new countries, cultures, languages, and their separation from loved ones. From the interviews, Cummins selected forty-eight excerpts that she pieced together to create a narrative arc. To house the text, the artist created a structure that is visually startling, experimental, and conceptually driven. Text blocks are severed, then reprinted as quarto-sections on corresponding pages of four separate books. As in the case of the resettlers themselves, these stories must be reunited in order to be read, understood, and made whole again. Since the structure is two-sided, with half the pages printed upside down, the reader is forced to puzzle out where and how to begin and what order in which to read the pages. In this way (s)he is forced to experience some measure of the confusion, alienation, dislocation, and separation that resettlers struggle with every day. The books were created by first deeply saturating flats of color onto Arches Cover White. Blocks of text were then surprinted over the color fields, a process that required masterful registration. Bound by Lisa Hershey in the Coptic style structure that draws on Middle Eastern binding tradition. Each set of four books is housed in a handsome plexiglass slipcase and laser-etched titling by Sarah Pike. Maureen Cummins is a noted creator of artists' books. Her work is held in over one hundred permanent public collections internationally and has been included in exhibitions at the American Craft Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Rotunda Gallery (amongst others). She has received over a dozen grants and awards and has been an artist-in-residence at numerous venues, including the American Antiquarian Society and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In fine condition. The set measures 17 x 17 x 2.5 inches and contains 192 pages. ARTISTSB/092319. More

New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, (1973). Paperback. 8vo. Very good in brown and black illustrate paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and to spine. Spine faded to grey. Bump to foot of spine and rubbing to wraps. Interior is clean and bright. Index, 443 pages. Middle Eastern History. MIDEAST/050312. Very Good in Wraps. More

Philadelphia: The Chilton Book Company, 1970. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./357 pp. Middle East. MID10/2282. Very Good. More

New York: Whittlesey House, 1950. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./illus./maps/269 pp. Middle East. MID6/2282. Very Good. More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper covered boards with orange title to spine. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout including frontis. Orange and yellow illustrated price clipped dust jacket with yellow title to front panel and orange title to spine. One small open tear to top edge of rear panel and one very small puncture hole to dust jacket. Index, 192 pages. Middle East. MID/5202. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. More