Cairo: al-Maktab al-Misri al-Hadith, 1981. Second Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear. 648 pp, plates. Osman was an Egyptian engineer, contractor, entrepreneur, and politician. Known commonly as el-mo'alim ("the boss"), Osman founded the Arab Contractors (the largest Arab contracting firm between the 1960s and 1980s)[1] and led the.....
Cairo: Lajnat Nashr al-Mu allaf t al-Taym r yah, 1957. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, 80 pp, illustrated, very good, light wear and soil. Text in Arabic. Author was an Egyptian historian who became interested in the bawdy shadow play traditions of the Ottoman empire.
Dimashq / Damascus: al-Matba'ah al-Hashimiyah, 1967. First printing. Paperback. Large 8vo, stiff wraps, very good. Text in Arabic. 709 pp. Rare both in the trade and in libraries.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1871. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1871. Two green cloth 8vo's, 280pp + 576pp + 12pp catalog at rear. Broadly illustrated, including maps, including many folding, colored or tinted. Includes large folding map at the beginning of volume II, carefully reinforced on the verso with.....
Beyrouth (Beirut): Imprimerie Catholique, 1964. Hardcover. 1964. French text. Hardcover, 4to., cream cloth over flexible boards. 1148 pp. Good copy, no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf; light staining on fly leaf too. Light soil to covers. Clean and unmarked text. A section of about 40 pages toward.....
New York: The Herzl Press, 1961. Second edition. Pamphlet, 79pp.
Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press Reprint, 1984. Hardcover. 1984 Hardcover in NEW condition. This book is still in the publisher's shrink wrap, so we are unable to confirm edition information, but we would be happy to unseal this item if you would like us to confirm any particulars. No jacket present.....
Cleveland (?): Privately Printed, 1880. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark brick cloth gilt, very good, light wear to corners and spine ends, contents very good, frontispiece portrait of Patton. 277 pp.
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1926. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 12.5 x 9.25 inches, cloth backed boards in dust jacket, book very good with light wear and rubbing to edges, corners and tips, jacket fair only with quite a bit of soil, chipping and loss to front panel, some light.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 1987, First Edition. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Fine condition, in a Very Good+ Dust Jacket that shows light shelf wear. That jacket has been freshly enclosed in a new, archival, gloss Mylar jacket protector.
Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber, 1845. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo, original cloth, gilt spine, very good, light wear, soil and darkening to covers, contents very good. 247 pp. First published in two volumes in the UK the year before. Poole was the estranged wife of Edward Poole and sister of.....
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Damascus: al-Fannal-Hadith al-Alami, 1962. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good with some wear, soil, tanning, light abrasions. 92 pp, illustrated. Uncommon. In Arabic.
Beirut: Dar al-Shuruq, 1983. Third edition. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, 336 pp. In Arabic. Qutb was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic scholar, theorist, revolutionary, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President.....
Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 2005. Paperback. 2005, edition not stated. Edition not stated. Softcover, in Near Fine condition, showing the very lightest shelf wear.
Dimashq / Damascus: Matba'at al-Majd, 1977. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, pages tanning. 317 pp. Text in Arabic. Al-Zabadani is a city in SW Syria.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 274pp., not illustrated. Book has hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout. DJ gently rubbed.
London: John Murray, 1873. third edition. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. 8vo. in full tan leather, with gilt and morocco spines, edges and endpapers marbled. 590, 580, 567pp. illustrated, with maps. Very good. Spine leather dried and cracking, with wear to spine ends and loss to title of volume i......
Cairo: Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale du Caire, 1979. First Printing. Wraps. Small quarto, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, 358 pp, index, 6 folding maps at rear.
Hamburg: Evangelische Akademie Nordelbien, 1987. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good. 143 pp, illustrated. Archaeological interest.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 1963, First Edition, 108 pp. Hardcover, green cloth, 8vo. Near Fine copy: spine sunned; previous owner's initials, in pencil, on the fly leaf. Uncommon.
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1897. Hardcover. Hardcover with elegant gilt stamped red cloth boards in cloth dust jacket, 1897, octavo, 335pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with small closed tear to top rear board, otherwise boards handsome with bright gilt decorations and titles, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with.....
London: John Murray, 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, publisher's pale yellow boards in dust jacket, very good, light wear and soil. Part of their Wisdom of the East Series. 110 pp.
Toronto: McClelland, 1964. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author at title page. 1964, First printing. 349 pp. Hardcover, 8vo., tan cloth. Near Fine copy in a Good+ dust jacket. Book shows minimal shelfwear; unmarked text. DJ soiled; light edgewear. Signed.
Oxford: BAR International, 2000. First edition. Paperback. 2000. First edition. Paperback, 4to. in red wraps. 236pp. Illustrated. Very good. Light soil and wear to wraps. A couple pen marks to margins, else internally unmarked.
London: Royal Academy Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 2005, First Edition. Hardcover, Large exhibition catalog, 494 pp. Profusely illustrated. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Sharp, square, clean copy with minor signs of handling. This is a large and heavy book and may require additional postage for international.....