Beirut: Dar al-Nafa'is, 1989. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil. Text in Arabic. 344 pp. A historical account of Syria under the British mandate, followed by the French, and with an analysis of Turkish-Syria relations. Rare in the trade, but well represented in libraries: OCLC.....
Dimashq / Damascus: Wiz rat al-Thaq fah wa-al-Irsh d al-Qawm . Mud r yat al-Ta l f wa-al-Tarjamah, (1964). First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good to very good, light wear, yellowing and soil. 240 pp. Text in Arabic. A study of Arab shadow puppet plays.
Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1962. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 296 pp., map endpapers, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, soil and discoloration to the dust jacket, also light creasing and wear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket.....
Beirut: Dar Al-Tali'a, 1978. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear, probably inscribed by author. 239 pp. In Arabic.
Cairo: al-Maktabah al-Tij r yah al-Kubrá, 1950s. Wraps. Stated Third Edition. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear, toning and soil to covers, pages quite tanned. 272 pp, illustrated. Anecdotes of the folk hero Juha, claimed by both Arabs and Turks, the wise old fool with his donkey, a sort of.....
Dimashq / Damascus: Wiz rat al-Thaq fah wa-al-Irsh d al-Qawm, 1984. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, about very good with some wear, rubbing and soil to covers, text very good. 450 pp, text in Arabic.
New York: The Century, 1912. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, very good, owner's name scrawled in thick red pencil on flyleaf, light wear and tanning. 423 pp, illustrated with plates.
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1992. Hardcover. 1992. Hardcover, 564 pp. Previous owner's signature on the fly leaf. Otherwise a Fine, like New copy.
Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2009. Paperback. 2009, Edition not stated. Softcover, in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear, and with notes to the free end papers, and also there is underlining and some margin notes present to pages 2-5, 8-14, 21, 25, 37-40, 48, 58.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1978. Hardcover. Brown stamped beige cloth boards, octavo, 283pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, text clean and unmarked with foxing to top edge of textblock. No DJ.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Paperback. 2004, Softcover, 235 pp. Fine copy. Like New.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. Second edition. Hardcover. 2009, Second Edition. 128 pp. Hardcover. Fine copy, like New.
Le Caire (Cairo): L'Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 1926. Paperback. 1926, Softcover, French text, 456 pp. One of 200 copies on Lafuma. Tissue-covered frontis, plates in sepia, and 4 large fold-out maps. Very Good copy in original wax paper dust jacket. Wraps show minor soil and wear at the tips. Faint.....
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1975. Third printing. Hardcover. Third printing, 1975, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 190pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild edgewear, binding tight, previous owner's signature and stamp to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with mild edgewear that.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Second printing. Hardcover. Second printing, 1946, hardcover with black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 235pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with rubbing and soil to boards, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, endpapers lightly foxed, text clean and unmarked. DJ.....
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1956. Paperback. 1956, Softcover, German text. Offprint from the journal Die Welt des Islams (The World of Islam) 242-341 pp. Wraps faded and worn; front wrap loose but present.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986. Hardcover. 1986 Black cloth 8vo, 223pp. Near fine in a like dustjacket with mild shelfwear. Previous owner's signature to the front flyleaf; else clean and unmarked.
London: Macmillan, 1921. Second Edition. Hardcover. Vol. 1 only. 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth gilt, very good, bumping to corners, wear, rubbing, offsetting/tanning to endpapers, owner's name on flyleaf. Large folding map of parts of Turkey, Syria and Western Persia in pocket at rear. Light restoration evident to rear inner.....
(Syria): Ministry of Culture, 1961. First printing. Paperback. Large 8vo, color decorated wraps, very good, light wear and tanning. 183 pp, illustrated. Text in Arabic. Study of folk traditions, costumery, customs, etc, in Syria concerning marriage and weddings.
Dimashq / Damascus: Mu assasat Tishr n lil-S ih fah wa-al-Nashr, 1983. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good to very good with some wear and light creasing to covers, contents very good. 463 pp, 14 unnumbered leaves of maps and plates loosely inserted. OCLC locates only two copies, LOC and.....
Cairo: Maktabat al-Nahdah al-Misriyah, 1960. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear, tanning, soil. 16, 375, illustrations, etc. Text in Arabic.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1982. Paperback. 1982, Softcover, 159 pp. Very Good copy: light shelfwear to wraps; previous owner's signature on half-title; clean text.
Cairo: [Mat ba at al-I timad, 1922. First printing. Hardcover. Part Two only of three volume set. 8vo, half red pebbled faux leather, very good, some rubbing and wear, pages tanning. 465 pp. Text in Arabic. An Egyptian poet and writer and one of the founders of fictional and theatrical.....
Boston: American Research Center in Egypt, 1962. Wraps. Vol. I only. 11 x 8.5 inches, wraps, very good. 97 pp, 20 plates, 4 pages of figures. "The Cult and Nome of the Goddess Bat," Henry George Fischer. "The Low Cost of land in Ancient Egypt," Klaus Baer, "The Nern at.....
New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1957. First printing. Pamphlet, 50pp.