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
Middle Eastern History
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
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
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
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
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
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
AlieNation / SepaRation
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
Israel: Social Structure and Change
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
The War with Two Voices: Testimonies by Women from Egypt and Israel
Washington DC: Three Continents Press, 1989. Paperback. White illustrated paper wrappers with red title to front wrapper and to spine. Title on spine faded to pink. Pristine interior. 258 pages. WOM/032217. Near Fine. More
Bonn and Jerusalem: The Strange Coalition (1st Edition).
Philadelphia: The Chilton Book Company, 1970. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./357 pp. Middle East. MID10/2282. Very Good. More
Burton: Arabian Nights Adventurer
New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1931. Paperback. Very Good+ paperback in mylar with minimal wear to spine. Includes photograph. Middle East. MID/6202. Very Good +. More
The Republic of Israel: Its History and its Promise
New York: Whittlesey House, 1950. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./illus./maps/269 pp. Middle East. MID6/2282. Very Good. More
David: The Story of Ben-Gurion (1st American Edition).
New York: Putnam, 1965. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./illus./214 pp. Middle East. MID/5152. Very Good. More
The Shah of Iran: The Man and His Land (1st Edition).
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
The Israelis: Founders and Sons
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj with light edgewear/8vo./359 pp. Middle East. MID/5152. Very Good. More
Iran at War 1500 - 1988
Osprey Publishing, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine with color illustrations and index. In fine white illustrated dust jacket with green title on spine panel. 480 pages. MID/060211. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More