The Harem by N M Penzer - 1965

Dorset Press, 1993. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Lippincott, 1936-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Dover Publications, Incorporated, 2005. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dover Publications, 2005-05-13. Paperback. Used: Good.

London: Spring Books. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket. 1966. reprint. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 277 pp., "An Account of the Institution as It Existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans With a History of the Grand Seraglio From Its Foundation to Modern Times." .

Dover Publications, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Dorset Press, 1993. (1993), 277pp, illus., slight shelfwear to cover, contents clean, no dj.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Spring Books, 1966. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). 30 B&W plates. An account of the institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to modern times. The merit of Mr. Penzer's book, which was originally published a bare quarter of a century after the Turkish harem came to an ignominious end, is that without minimising the sensational and unpleasant aspects of the system he presents an authoritative, objective account of its history over a period of 450 years. 277pp.

Bookplan, 1965. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1965. First Edition Thus. 276 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Black and white photographic plates and illustrated throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have moderate tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to top edge of pages throughout, text remains unaffected. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible staining to all surfaces with heavy marks. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.