New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First American edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. c.1907. Hardcover. Brown cloth, cover illustration, gilt titles on maroon leather labels. 8vo. 410pp. Light general shelfwear, occasional bubbling to cloth on rear board, spine darkened, bookplate on front pastedown, former owner's signature on flyleaf and half-title.....
Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. First edition. Cloth hardbound in dust jacket, 624 pp., illustrated, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, light soil/discoloration to the top edge, minor rubbing/wear to the dust jacket at the tips and edges. Uncommon in hardcover.
London: Saqi Books, 1989. First edition. Hard Cover. First edition, 1989, hardcover with pink cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, 207pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild edgewear that includes a few small closed tears, rubbing and mild.....
London: Saqi Books, 1989. First edition. Hard Cover. Pink cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, 207pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild edgewear and rubbing, now in archival mylar wrap.
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1905. Paperback. 1905 Softcover 8vo, 451pp. In good only condition, lacking the rear wrapper with spine cover cracked and flaking, a chip to the lower front joint. Despite exterior condition, binding remains intact. Contents are bright, clean and unmarked; an excellent working copy, or perfect for rebinding...
Austin, TX: Menil Collection/ University of Texas, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 1991. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in black cloth, with dust jacket. 157pp. illustrated. Near fine in good+ dust jacket. One inch by one inch chip to head of dj. Edgewear to dj, now housed in mylar. Internally clean and.....
Cairo and Misr: D r al-Mustaqbal al- Arab, 1988. First printing. Paperback. Small quarto, 10.5 x 8 inches, wraps, very good. 283 pp. Satirical cartoons throughout. Text in Arabic. A posthumously issued collection of works by the well known Egyptian lyricist, poet, playwright, cartoonist, etc.
London: Macmillan, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 1920, First Edition, 331 pp. Hardcover, maroon cloth, 8vo. Very Good copy: Previous owner's signature on fly leaf; light soil to endpapers, including a paper-clip indentation to the fly leaf and half-title. Light soil and edgewear to cloth.
Kuwait: Kuwait Oil Company, no date (ca. 1983). Hardcover. Hardcover with gilt stamped brown boards in dust jacket, ca. 1983, quarto, 351pp., illustrated in color. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG+ with rubbing, mild edgewear.....
Meadville, PA: World's Bible Conference, ND. First printing. Hardcover. Ca. 1914. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book very good with small stain to top of front pastedown, jacket good with general light soil, some stains to top of front panel of jacket; rare in jacket. 126 pp, illustrated.
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Pr. 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 1982, First Edition. Hardcover. Slight cocking to the spine; clean, bright text. In a Very Good dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. DJ now housed in a mylar wrap.
New York: D. Appleton, 1842. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 9.5 x 6 inches, publisher's blocked brown cloth, gilt spine. Very good, light wear to binding, foxing to text, musty odor from farmhouse storage, old bookplate on pastedown, small private library label toward bottom of spine. 610 pp, numerous engraved.....
Beirut: Khayats, 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. 1961. Reprint. Hardcover without dust jacket. 560pp. Very good. Shelf wear to cover. Finger smudging to text block.
London: Verso, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by the author to film historian, professor, and former curator of film for the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh Bill Judson. 2001. First edition. Paperback, square 8vo. in pictorial wraps. 302pp. illustrated. Near fine. Minor edge wear to wraps. Contents clean and unmarked.....
Dimashq / Damascus: Al-Kitab, 1974. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil. 188 pp. Text in Arabic. Proverbs collected in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, octavo, 463pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has rubbing and soil to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 2009, First Edition. 118 pp. Hardcover. Fine copy, like New.
Lebanon: Butros Dau, 1984. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, glossy boards, very good, spine color faded from yellow to eggshell. Inscribed by a Peter Daou in 1988 in Beirut; we have a feeling that's probably the author. 809 pp, illustrated. The inscription is to Dan Simpson. Simpson was the United States.....
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 2003. Hardcover 8vo, 202pp. Fine. This copy is SIGNED/INSCRIBED by the author to a fellow Middle East scholar on the front flyleaf. Contents are bright, clean and unmarked.
Princeton: Princeton Univ Pr, 1983. Hardcover. 1983 Brown cloth 8vo, 232pp. VG+ with minor scuffing to the corners and mild spotting to the edges. In a VG+ dustjacket, lightly sunned at the spine. Previous owner's signature appears on the front flyleaf; else clean and unmarked.
Seattle: Cune Press, 2002. Paperback. 2002. This is the Advance Proof edition of this book. Softcover, in Near Fine condition, with light shelf wear to the exterior, the interior is in Fine, unmarked, condition.
New York: McGraw-Hill (World), 1960, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 3 books by Yael Dayan, all First Editions. Death Had Two Sons and Israel Journal are both inscribed by Dayan on the fly leaf. Hardcovers. Near Fine to Fine copies in Very Good dust jackets. 3 books: Death Had Two Sons.....
Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1957. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good with some wear, soil and darkening to covers, contents very good. Text in Arabic. 271 pp. Daif was a very important historian of Arabic Literature, with a magnum opus on the history of the literature over 100 volumes, 30 plus.....
New York: Roy Publishers. Hardcover. Publication date and edition not stated. This appears to be the 1950 edition. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition, with light edge wear. The neatly price clipped Dust Jacket is also in Good+ condition, with light edge wear and light tanning.
London: Rivingtons, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 1902, First Edition, 539 pp. Hardcover, orange cloth, gilt title and design, 8vo. Heavy foxing to endpapers and text-blocks, and occasionally throughout the text (all as usual). Previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Light wear to corners and spine ends; light soil to rear.....