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Al-Yousi; Problemes de la culture marocaine au XVIIeme siecle
by Berque, Jacques
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- 1958
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Paris: Mouton & Co, 1958. Paperback. 144p., illustrated with a large fold-out map in b&w facsimile, two other facsimiles (old Arab texts) and a couple of original photographs. Text is exclusively in the French language. Softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch plain printed wraps, find a tiny snag at the head of the spine panel, a small scar near title, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Ait Ndhir of Morocco: A Study of the Social Transformation of a Berber Tribe
by Vinogradov, Amal Rassam
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- 1974
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, 1974. Paperback. 121p., illustrated with numerous line maps and twelve b&w photos obviously taken by author Vinogradov, a female westerner accepted by this rather macho group. Softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed brown wraps. Faintest touch of edgewear to cover, this is a near-new copy: entirely sound, clean and unmarked.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Antique Rugs from the Near East. Third revised edition with contributions by Ernst Kuhnel. Translated by R.M. Riefstahl
by Bode, Wilhelm
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- 1922
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New York: E. Weyhe, 1922. Hardcover. 65p. followed by 95 "figures", i.e. plates, usually one fullpage figure each, one color image set as the frontispiece, the b&w reproduced clearly (at best) accompanied by a few diagrammatic images. The color frontis is quite vivid. Hardbound in grey papered boards with a grey cloth backstrip (spine-titled in legible white) and a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Headhunters of Borneo
by Ivanoff, Pierre
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- 1958
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London :: Melbourne :: Sydney :: Johannesberg :: New York: Jarrolds, 1958. Hardcover. 100p., maps, b&w photos., original black cloth boards, some mild sunning on boards, corners lightly bumped, hint of foxing on top-edge, else in very good condition. Young Frenchmen go on an expedition winning the trust of the Dyaks by integrating into their way of life. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Headhunters of Borneo
by Ivanoff, Pierre
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- 1958
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$30.00
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London :: Melbourne :: Sydney :: Johannesberg :: New York: Jarrolds, 1958. Hardcover. 100p., maps, b&w photos., original black cloth boards. Very good. Price clipped dust jacket has mild shelfwear, tape-repair on head and tail of verso, else in very good condition. Young Frenchmen go on an expedition winning the trust of the Dyaks by integrating into their way… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle East; Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750
by Masters, Bruce
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- 1988
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- 9780814754351
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New York: New York University Press, 1988. xvii, 240p., illustrated with tables; hardcover in light grey cloth boards titled black (series design). A good reading copy that is faintly dished, spine panel and top edge slightly foxed, in all other respects quite unmarred. FYI, item wasn't issued with a dust jacket, NY University studies in Near Eastern civilization number… Read more about this item Item Price
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Caravans and Trade in Afghanistan; the changing life of the nomadic Hazarbuz
by Frederiksen, Birthe
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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- 9780500016879
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New York: Thames and Hudson / Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, 1996. Hardcover. 292p., coated paper with profuse color and b&w photos, line maps, diagrams; hardbound, the American first edition in 11x8.5 inch white boards titled in lavender, and colorphoto dust jacket. The dj shows mildest signs of handling (light pressuremarks, touch of edgewear) while book itself is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments, A Contribution to Global Debates
by Sporton, Deborah and David S.G. Thomas, editors
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- 2002
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- 9780198234197
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xix, 231p., illustrated with figures, "boxes" and tables, hardbound in black boards gilt (the classic Oxford production) and dust jacket. The book itself is immaculate; the dj should have been equally lovely but careless storage has caused a 3-inch accordioned tear in back panel, which we have tacked with clear tape to verso, so..… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rural Change in Tropical Africa From Colonies to Nation-States
by Siddle, David, and Kenneth Swindell
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- 1990
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- Hardcover
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- 9780631158554
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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Hardcover. 223p., hardbound in 10x6.5 inch black boards titled silverfoil and glossy photographic dust jacket; pretty book, with a great dj photoportrait. First half of text is pencilled with brackets, shaky underlines and even marginal notes, and the same portion of textblock has a top-corner-tip bump affecting all leaves. Front pastedown bears a funny little… Read more about this item Item Price
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Migrants and Malaria
by Prothero, R. Mansell
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- 1965
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London: Longmans, 1965. x, 142p., illustrated with tables, charts and a great many line maps, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated green wraps. Ex library, having a spine label and a rubberstamp on the front free endpaper. A sound copy still, clean and otherwise unmarked. Item Price
$12.00
A History of Turks
by He, Xingliang [and] Guo Hongzhen
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- 2008
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- 9787508512730
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[Beijing]: China Intercontinental Press, 2008. Paperback. 156p., nicely laid-out softbound in 9x6.5 inch frenchfold wraps; a clean, sound, unmarked copy, describable as "fine". An account by Chinese scholars of 'the Turkic peoples. Item Price
$15.00
South Persian Tribal Weaving; A Hali Publication. Reprinted from HALI, The International Journal of Oriental Carpets and Textiles, Volume 5 Number 4 1983
by Dodds, Dennis R., James OPie, D. W. Martin, Parviz Tanavoli, et alia, contributors
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- 1983
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London / Philadelphia: Hali Publications Ltd, 1983. Paperback. Unpaginated, perhaps 75p with a dozen pages of "advertisements" nearly indistinguishable from the main articles, line map in colors, plenty of clear color exhibit photographs and supplementary b&w photos on glazed alkaline paperstock, softbound in 11.5x8.5 inch color wraps. A little edgewear, faint signs of handling, a nice copy structurally sound… Read more about this item Item Price
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Von Bagdad nach Stambul; Nomadenteppiche --Tribal Rugs
by Helmut Reinisch
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- 1983
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Graz: Teppich Raritaten Reinisch, 1983. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries (about a dozen pages), 47p. (also the number of plates), all in color on high-gloss paperstock, each plate extensively captioned in German and English, hardbound in 12x8.5 inch pictorial boards. Case has general mild edgewear with small nicks at head and tail of spine panel, entirely sound, clean and unmarked within,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kilims, Flat-woven Tapestry Rugs
by Petsopoulos, Yanni
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- 1979
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- 9780847802456
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$50.00
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New York: Rizzoli, 1979. 394p., color plates, b&w plates, a plethora of b&w vignettes and details, numerous line maps plus doublespread endsheet maps; first edition openweave cloth boards in glossy dust jacket. There is mildest edgewear to dj, we neither see nor detect any other flaw. Clean, sound and unmarked, a fine book in near-fine condition. Item Price
$50.00
Vid Sidenvägen / On the Silk Road
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- 1986
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- 9789178105199
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$14.00
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Göteborg: Göteborgs Historiska Museum, 1986. Paperback. 99p., paperback, light shelfwear. Illustrated catalog for an exhibition, with text in Swedish and English. Item Price
$14.00
Sindhi Tombs and Textiles; The Persistence of Pattern. Foreword by George F. Dales
by Bunting, Ethel-Jane W.
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Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology / University of New Mexico Press. Paperback. xvii, 76p., a particularly absorbing catalog (per one who has catalogued too many catalogs), b&w and color photography throughout, period, contemporary, exhibit and field. The reader will be glad of the double-spread line map, the documentation is of a peculiarly obscure people. Softbound in 9x9 inch decorated… Read more about this item Item Price
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110°. Tucson's youth tell Tucson's stories. Issue 3 (Summer 2003)
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- 2003
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Tucson, AZ: Tucson Voices Press, 2003. 80p., single issue of the magazine, some edgewear. Articles on such topics as life in a trailer park, teen parents, skateboarders seeking more respect, etc. Item Price
$12.00
The wanderers, a novel
by Mphahlele, Ezekiel
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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New York & London: The Macmillan Company, Collier-Macmillan Limited, 1971. Hardcover. 349p., first edition, first printing, very good condition in dust jacket (not price clipped); dust jacket has an inch-long tear at the head, which has been tape-reinforced on verso. Generally sound, clean and unmarked. South African author, later based in the USA. Item Price
$20.00
Traditional textiles of central Asia with 262 illustrations, 212 in color, and 2 maps
by Harvey, Janet
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- 1997
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- Oversized Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Oversized Paperback. 160p., b&w period photography, contemporary site and exhibit photos with diagrams, line maps, first paperback edition; 11.5x8.2 inch glossy wraps, very good condition. Item Price
$15.00
The rise and rule of Tamerlane
by Manz, Beatrice Forbes
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- 1991
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- 9780521406147
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xi, 227p., line maps, trade-size glossy wraps; a very good copy. Item Price
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