Search Results: History - Middle East from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full yellow cloth, black titles on spine, xv, 399 pp, 20 maps, 17 tables, footnotes, bibliography, index. Multiple creases in rfep, else near fine. Contents: historical background; Jewish interests in Palestine, by Stamler; the Arabs & Palestine, by Polk; economic framework of the Palestine problem, by Asfour. Shipping weight 2 lbs (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 21½ X 15 cm.

London & New York: Verso, 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red boards, white cloth spine with red foil titles, x, 342 pp, footnotes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. History of Islam and American relations with the Islamic world from a leftist Pakistani author. From the prologue: "To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21 X 15½ cm.

Washington, D. C: National Geographic Society, 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards with black cloth spine, gilt titles on front board & spine, black endpapers, 255, [1] pp, many color maps & illustrations. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Brief history of the middle east with chapters by Zahi Hawass, Andrew Wheatcroft, David Fromkin, & Sandra Mackey, with chapters on the three great religions born there by Yossi Klein Halevi, Charles M. Sennott, & Milton Viorst, and an introduction by Daniel Schorr. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Printing. . Fine/Fine. 25 X 19½ cm.

New York: Paragon House, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. This American edition contains a new preface and an appendix not in the original British edition. Brown boards, black cloth spine with copper foil titles, xiii, 406 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart cover. From the DJ: "T. E. Lawrence was a true scholar, a man of irresistible charm who genuinely cared for the Arabs. He was also a shocking fabricator who invented, embellished, and used his own legend. ... Using previously unavailable sources as well as published material, Lawrence James reconstructs T. E. Lawrence's wartime career, examining how it was translated into legend during the 1920s and '30s." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Princeton, NJ & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated from the original French by Anthony Roberts. Beige boards, black cloth spine with blue foil titles, xxi, 168 pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First English Language Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xxi, 551 pp, 16 ff b & w photo plates, 12 maps, notes, bibliography, index. Light soil to edges. DJ has crease on top corner of rear flap, minimal edge wear; in a Brodart cover. A comprehensive single-volume history from the seventh century to the twentieth century. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). 4th ptg. . VG+/VG+. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: The Viking Press, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated into English by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. Full blue cloth with gilt and white titles on spine, endpaper maps, 315 pp, 10 ff b & w photo plates, bibliography, index. Pencil underlining on about half of pages. DJ has a two small tears (about 1 cm) to top edge of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. "For three thousand years, ever since the Hittite Empire vanished, only the Bible kept alive the memory of these people who once ruled over much of Asia Minor and rivaled the Egyptians and Assyrians in power. The account of how they were rediscovered, and the chronicle of how they lived, conquered, worshiped, and perished are the equally fascinating themes of this extraordinary book." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . 22 X 15 cm.

San Francisco: Mercury House, Inc., 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pictorial covers, white spine with black, gold & reversed red titles, xiii, 271, [1] pp, 4 ff b & w photos, 9 maps, 6 other figures, 3 tables, notes, bibliography, index. Light shelf wear, very faint oil stain on a few pages of preface. Henderson, a journalist specializing in the Middle East, completed this book just before the first gulf war in 1991. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

New York: Herzl Press, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Although identified as the American edition, this was printed and bound in Israel by the original publisher (Keter). Red boards, gilt titles on spine, xvi, 254 pp, maps & photos in text, bibliography. DJ rubbed at extremities, two tears under 2 cm to top edge of (blank) rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Views the many outbursts of violence since the founding of "the homeland for the Jews in Palestine" as one long war. Contents: pre-state period; war of independence; armistice years; [1956] Sinai campaign and after; years of "understanding"; six-day war; years of 242; Yom Kippur war; comparisons & conclusions. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/VG. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow boards, black spine with gilt titles, ix, 331, [1] pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "Randal gives us a clearer explanation than any we have had of the whys and wherefores of the world's most prominent and feared terrorist." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Apparently published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. Perfect-bound in mostly orange pictorial covers, xiii, 178 pp, glossary, bibliography, notes, index. Spine slightly sunned. Sourcebook of ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian texts translated into English to introduce students to the literature and culture of these lands. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Printing. Trade Paperback. VG+/No dj. 20½ X 14 cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, gilt titles on spine, grey endpapers, 671 pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, index. Top corner of front board lightly bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Memoir written by Israeli politician Abba Eban in his retirement. During his long career, Eban was a military officer, special representative to the United Nations, ambassador to the United States, member of the Knesset, and held various ministries, most notably Foreign Minister. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Paul Bessemer. Sage boards, black spine with red titles, xii, 483, [1] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Akçam carefully documents "the chain of events leading up to the killing [of one million Turkish Armenians during WW1] and then reconstructs its systematic orchestration by the coordinated departments of the Ottoman state, the ruling Union and Progress Party, and various military forces." Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). 2nd ptg. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black vaguely leather-textured boards, pale blue-grey cloth spine with red titles, xxvi, 199 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, 4 maps. Owner's name and gift inscription on ffep. DJ spine faded, 1½ cm chip to tail of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Publisher's survey postcard laid in. Author was a U. S. Naval officer assigned as a military observer. Three of his fellow military observers, Vagn Bennike, W. T. McAninch, and John R. DeBarr, have provided forewards to Commander Hutchinson's book. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). 4th ptg. . Near Fine/VG. 20½ X 14 cm.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue (nearly black) cloth, gilt titles on spine, xi, 274 pp, notes, index. Small blue stain (size from cover bleeding onto fore-edge), corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's name stamped on fpd. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG-/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York, Chicago, & San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow cloth, black titles on spine & decoration on front board, 316 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 3 maps, index. Spine ends rubbed, 1 X 3 cm dampstain to bottom corner of ffep. Price-clipped DJ has slight wear to corners & spine ends, small chips to head of spine; in Brodart archival cover. History of the war for Yemen between royalists and pro-Nassar insurgents that began with a coup in 1962 and continued at the time of publication. The author was a Middle Eastern correspondent for the New York Times. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.