Contemporary Arabic Literature in Syria, 1850-1950 / al-Adab al-'Arabi al-Mu'asir fi Suriyah -- in Arabic
Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1959. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil. 223 pp. In Arabic.
Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1959. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil. 223 pp. In Arabic.
Paris: Herbert Clarke, 1909. First edition. Paperback. 1909. First edition. Paperback, 8vo. in tan paper wraps. 38pp, frontis, illustrated. Very good. Soil and light age toning to wraps. Two inch margin perforation on page 20, else internally unmarked.
Beirut: 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, blue rexine gilt in dust jacket, very good, inscribed to Dan Simpson by the author in 1988, small flyer laid in about how to reach the author, who was Primate at the Armenian Prelacy in Lebanon. Now called Aram I, he has been the.....
NP: 1982 (?). Paperback. 8.25 x 6.75 inches, wraps, 27 pp, very good. The author was an early adviser of Yasser Arafat, PLO leader and a founder of the Palestinian political and militant organization Fatah. This is a lecture on the US-Israel alliance and its negative implications for Palestinians. RARE.....
Kuwait: 1981. Paperback. 12mo, wraps, very good. In Arabic. 61 pp.
Kuwait (?): Ca. 1982. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good. In Arabic. The author was a member of the Central Committee of the PLO. This seems to be a transcription of a portion of a symposium organized in May 1981 in Paris by the Arab League to promote Palestinian objectives; the.....
Kuwait: (1981). Paperback. 12mo, wraps, very good. 50 pp. In Arabic. The author was a member of the Central Committee of the PLO and gave this lecture, here reprinted, at the University of Qatar on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the start of the Palestinian Revolution.
Kuwait: (1981). Paperback. 12mo, wraps, very good. 47 pp. In Arabic. The author was a member of the Central Committee of the PLO.
Cairo: Maktabat al-Anjil al-Mis r yah, 1955. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good with some wear and tanning. 202 pp, text in Arabic. Articles on political philosophy and social conditions in Egypt. Progressive author: he argued for the separation of religion from state, as well as for a democratic socialism.....
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Pr, 1984. Hardcover. 1984. Hardcover. Slate buckram, 8vo. 652 pp. + bibliography. Near Fine copy: previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Clean contents.
New York: Robert Sears, 1849. Hardcover. Hardcover. c.1849. Dark green cloth, gilt titles and cover illustration. 12mo. 223pp. Fold-out map in front. Good. Moderate wear/rubbing to boards, corners bumped with loss to cloth, light wear to spine-ends, inscription on flyleaf, light foxing to map, heavy foxing to endpapers, light soiling.....
Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Pr, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 1991, First Edition. 167 pp. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Otherwise, a Like New copy. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
London: Croom Helm, Ltd., 1985. Hardcover. 1985. Hardcover. 135 pp. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf. Otherwise, a sharp, clean copy.
London: Frank Cass, 1973. Hardcover. Inscribed by Landau! Red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 309pp., not illustrated. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with toning, mild shelfwear.
New York: Praeger, 1954. First American edition. Hardcover. 1954, First American edition. 212 pp. Hardcover, blue cloth, 8vo. Previous owner's signature on the fly leaf; otherwise a sharp, clean copy.
Cairo: Dar Al-Ma'arif, (1946). First printing. Paperback. 12mo, 6.75 x 4.5 inches, wraps, good with some wear and tanning. 128 pp. Text in Arabic. Study of the 11th century Arab leader.
New York: American Friends of the Middle East, 1955. Hardcover. Hardcover with gilt stamped green cloth boards in dust jacket, 1955, octavo, 111pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with two small dampstains to bottom edge of rear board, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with same small dampstaining to.....
NP: NP, Ca. 1955. Paperback. 9.5 x 6.75 inches, wraps, very good, covers somewhat tanned, light wear along spine. 94 pp. Reprints agreements, etc., from the mid-1940s (the Arab League was founded in 1945) to 1954. In English. OCLC/Worldcat locates 11 holdings.
Beirut: al-Lajnah al-Lubnaniyah li'Idad Shahr al-Unisku / UNESCO, 1948. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good with some tanning and darkening to covers, evidence of old waterstains to spine and top margin of text - faint tide-mark and darkening throughout. 226 pp. Apparently put out by UNESCO but different from the.....
Israel: Sifriat Hapoalim, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 1959, First Edition. Text in English, Spanish and Hebrew. Hardcover, 4to. Illustrated. Comes with 2 laid-in pamphlets. Very Good copy in a Good dust jacket. Light bumping to the foot of the spine; ownership signature on one pastedown; clean text. DJ shows heavy.....
London: W. Jeffs, 1861. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, early half green morocco gilt, marbled boards, very good, light wear and rubbing to binding, contents very good and bright, with tipped in letter from Jeffs on his letterhead, from 1861, about this book, which was printed for private circulation: "Dear sir.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Black stamped red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 160pp., illustrated in b&w. Book shows hint of wear to spine ends, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ with mild edgewear, rubbing and toning, front flap price-clipped, looking fine in protective mylar.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Paperback. 1992. Softcover. 549 pp. Near Fine copy: previous owner's signature on the half-title page; price-sticker on the rear wrap. Otherwise a sharp, unmarked copy.
London: H. M. Stationers Office, 1940. The first piece is an article reprinted from The Listener of Feb. 29 1940 on the fate of Britain's "empire." The speech is a follow-up to his infamous White Paper of 1938, which advocated for a consolidated Palestinian state and against the establishment of.....
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993. Paperback. 1993, Softcover, 253 pp. Previous owner's signature on the half-title, otherwise a Fine, clean copy.