Baghdad: Manshurat dar Maktabat al-Hayat, 1960. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and tanning. 315 pp. Translated by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. The popular book examines the intellectual capacities and environment of the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians. Text in Arabic, from the original French edition of 1954.
Excalibur Books, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1978. Small quarto, hardcover in dust jacket, heavily illustrated (in color), 127 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
no place: Long Riders' Guild Press, 2005. Reprint. Paperback. Reprint, 2005, paperback, octavo, 225pp., illustrated in b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Venetiko (Greece): Vank' Mxit'aray i S. G'azar, 1877. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, plain modern wraps, text very good, 19, 263 pp. In Armenian. Appears to be about medieval agriculture.
Jerusalem, etc. Steimatzky's Agency, 1982. Hardcover. Large folio, 19 x 14 inches, cloth in dust jacket, about fine copy, just a touch of wear, printing in browntone 44 vintage large images of Jerusalem and its inhabitants back in the day.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1959. First UK edition. Hardcover. 1959, First UK edition. Hardcover. 336 pp. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Two small bookseller's stamps on the fly leaf; otherwise a sharp, clean copy. The DJ shows light fading and discoloration; minor edgewear. DJ now housed in.....
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. Paperback. 1996, Softcover, 236 pp. Previous owner's signature on half-title; otherwise a Fine, clean copy.
Jerusalem: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1959. First printing. Paperback, 160pp.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Later edition. Paperback. 2007. Later edition. Paperback, 8vo. 367pp, illustrated. Fine. Internally clean and unmarked.
Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1954. Paperback. "1954, Edition not stated. Softcover, in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear. This volume has a ""Review Copy"" stamp to the front cover, and a Review Copy slip loosely laid in."
Paris: Centre d'Etudes de Politique Etrangere, 1938. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1938. Softcover 8vo, 456pp. In VG- condition with rubbing wear to the extremeties, including a slight loss to the foredge of the rear wrapper and corners of the front joint. Wrappers discolored, with tidemark to foredge. Contents remain.....
Beirut: Dar Maktabat al-Hayyah, 1959. First printing. Paperback. First edition in Arabic. 8vo, wraps, very good, light tanning to covers and text. 192 pp. In Arabic. The author died in 1972 and was an Austrian Arabist who started the Near Eastern department at UCLA; its center is named in Grunebaum's.....
Najaf (Iraq): Al-Numan, 1960. First printing. Paperback. 2 volumes, wraps, 804 total pages. Good with some wear and loss to spines and tanning to covers, pages very good and bright. Hasan ibn Ali (625-670) was the eldest son of Ali and Fatima and a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.....
New York: The Palestine Arab Refugee Office, 1957. Paperback. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, octavo, 46pp., illustrated with b&w maps. Book has rubbing and faint toning to wraps, staples holding binding tight but they are rusting, text clean and unmarked.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Olive green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 118pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with small chip to spine head, rubbing...
(Amman?): Royal Scientific Society Press, (1974). Paperback. 8vo, wraps, 365 pp, illustrated. Text in Arabic. Author was Prime Minister of Syria. A study of the fervent nationalist Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar (1879-1940). RARE, we could locate no copies in institutions via OCLC.
New York: Hart Publishing Company, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, 1972, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 527pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, small sticker ghost to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG.....
Cairo: Al-Khanji, 1958. Second edition. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, 339 pp, text in Arabic, good to very good with some wear and dustiness to covers, light wear and loss to rear cover (corner chipping, one small tear) light toning to pages. In Arabic.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Ink markings and creasing to Table of Contents, with remaining pages clean and unmarked. Mild shelfwear to wraps.
Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. 1991. First printing. Hardcover, 4to. in tan boards. 623pp. illustrated. Very good. Scuffing to boards. Original price sticker to front board. Wrinkling to less than five pages. Internally clean and unmarked.
Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1996. First edition. Paperback. 1996. First edition. Paperback, 8vo. in blue wraps. 309pp. Near fine. Wear to foot of spine. Internally bright and unmarked. A bibliography of published drawings and photographs of Palestinian pottery.
London: Ithaca Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 1979, First Edition, 197 pp. Hardcover. Near Fine copy in a Good dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf; else, a tight, clean copy. DJ edgeworn with light soil.
London: Percy Lund Humphries, 1946. Hardcover. Gilt stamped orange cloth boards, large octavo [7.5" x 10"], illustrated in b&w. Book has mild shelfwear to edges of boards and spine, rubbing to joints, binding tight, ink note to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked.
Istanbul, Turkey: D.S. Hoffman, 1958. Paperback. 1958, Edition not stated. Softcover, stapled binding in Very Good+ condition, with light exterior shelf wear.
Istanbul, Turkey: D.S. Hoffman, 1958. Paperback. 1958, Edition not stated. Softcover, stapled binding in Very Good+ condition, with light exterior shelf wear.