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Boston: Little, Brown. NF/NF. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 370 p. .
Cairo by Aldridge, James - 1969: Biography of a City
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Cairo: Biography of a City
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Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Extremely gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, faint soiling to boards, light spotting and soiling to fore-edges, very pale soiling and sunning to DJ, sunned DJ spine, less than quarter-inch tear to DJ spine head, bright pages, tight binding, else Near Fine(-) in Very Good(+) DJ.. Large octavo in white DJ, xii, 370 pages, b&w illustrations, (green ink) maps ; 25 cm.
DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || The political, social, economic, and cultural expression of consciousness during Cairo's existence is thoroughly examined in this popular account as are the dominant personalities, past and present, from the Pharaohs to Napoleon to Nasser. Contents: Foundations -- Dynastic Cairo -- Heliopolis -- Babylon -- Fustat -- Fustat-Askar-Katai -- Fustat-Misr -- Al Kahira -- Saladin's Cairo -- Ottoman Cairo -- Napoleon's Cairo -- Mohammed Ali's Cairo -- Europeanized Cairo -- Cromer's Cairo -- Revolutionary Cairo -- The end of occupation -- Egyptian Cairo: Survival, 1952-1956 -- National consciousness, 1956-1962 -- The European memory -- The medieval city now -- The new city -- The morals and the manners -- The intellectual city -- The destiny of necessity. Cairo (Egypt) -- Description and travel.
DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || The political, social, economic, and cultural expression of consciousness during Cairo's existence is thoroughly examined in this popular account as are the dominant personalities, past and present, from the Pharaohs to Napoleon to Nasser. Contents: Foundations -- Dynastic Cairo -- Heliopolis -- Babylon -- Fustat -- Fustat-Askar-Katai -- Fustat-Misr -- Al Kahira -- Saladin's Cairo -- Ottoman Cairo -- Napoleon's Cairo -- Mohammed Ali's Cairo -- Europeanized Cairo -- Cromer's Cairo -- Revolutionary Cairo -- The end of occupation -- Egyptian Cairo: Survival, 1952-1956 -- National consciousness, 1956-1962 -- The European memory -- The medieval city now -- The new city -- The morals and the manners -- The intellectual city -- The destiny of necessity. Cairo (Egypt) -- Description and travel.
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Cairo: Biography Of A City
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Cairo: Biography of a City
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Little, Brown, Boston, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover, green cloth. Vg+ condition in vg dj. Dust jacket now in a removable archival mylar protector. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 370 pp., illus.
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Little, Brown, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Creasing to jacket. .
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Little, Brown and Company, 1969. hardback in very good minus condition with very good minus dust jacket.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Cairo: Biography of a City
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Boston: Little Brown, nd (1969). Green cloth. Library discard, about 20 pages are stained but quite readable, else VG+/VG dj+ (marked on spine, small edge tears top of spine). 8vo. Heavily illustrated in black and white. First Edition so stated
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Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown, 1969. Book. Near Fine (Book Condition). Hard Cover with Jacket. First Edition. A very nice copy. Several closed tears and wear to edge of jacket. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].
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Boston: Little Brown, 1969. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(-). illus. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. with several small tears. Boston: Little Brown, (1969).<br/> <br/>
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CAIRO
by Aldridge, James
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Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1969. 370pp w/ index. Full green cloth; covers' top edges faintly mildew spotted, else very good. Front fep faint newspaper clipping ghost mark, else contents fine. Half-tone illus. Dj very good. Bookplate of Dr. Harry Williams Hazard, late Middle East historian. . First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Cairo
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Macmillan, London, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. Preface by author, picture credits, list of illustrations, bibliography and index. Map illustrated endpages, showing the south part of Cairo (Al Kahira). The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography and maps throughout. Brown coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. The biography of the city that the author had lived in many years at time of writing the book, from its ancient beginnings up to a modern bustling urban landscape. Softening and a little rubbing of the back strip edges and rubbing of the pocketbook corners and lower book edges. Uniform tanning of the text block edges with scattered light foxing. Foxing to the endpages the occasional foxing spot of the page. Very faint musty smell emanates when the…
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