Search Results: Middle East from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World Harvest Books, c1958 reissue. 283pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A journey retracing the route of Alexander the Great in Turkey by the indefatigable British writer Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993), originally published in 1958.

New York: Dorset Press, 1989 reissue. 362pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj [top & fore edges are age foxed; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] An important work, originally published in 1957, that turns the telescope the other way round.

New York: Doubleday/Anchor Books, 1987 reprint. 366pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: Good+ [text is age browned; edges are foxed; tiny rem. mark bottom edge; else a clean, complete & tight copy] An award winning portrait of daily life in Arab countries based on decades of personal experience by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (1927-2008).

Cambridge: Harvard, 1980 1st ed. 300pp. black sm 4to: Very Good+ in a Very Good dj in poly cover [edges are age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Barron's, 2001 2nd ed.  298pp.  paperback: Fine.  A handy shirt-pocket sized volume.

New York: Harper Colophon Books, c1966 reprint. 200pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [ink name; text is age browned and edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A brief history originally published in 1950.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press. 1961 1st ed. 98pp. paperback 8vo: Good reading copy [covers are age faded; emboss from the Harvard Press Library; old coffee splash in bottom blank margins of a few pp; ink mark or two in text which is otherwise untroubled; a complete & tight copy]

Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988 1st ed. 504pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: ex lib. copy; dj = tipped down in mylar cover public lib. style w/usual markings from a deletion; else a clean, complete & tight copy.

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002 1st ed. thus. 464pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice clean and uncreased copy] Cover praise for this examination of the way Arab societies work from David Shipler, Elie Kedourie, Daniel Pipes, Amos Elon, et al.

London: Haus Publishing, 2010 reissue. 195pp. illus. paperback: Fine.

London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1970 1st ed. 518pp. + 29 (xxix) index pp. brown cloth sm 4to: Very Good+ in a near Fine dj in poly cover [top & fore edges are age foxed; else VG+; dj = p-c; else nrF]

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 1st ed. 282pp. hardback sm 4to: near Very Good in a Fine dj [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A thoughtful work praised by Natalie Zemon Davis, Chalmers Johnson, John L. Esposito, et al.

New York: Knopf, 1972 1st ed. 687pp. + 38 (xxxviii) index pp. russet cloth sm 4to: near Fine in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover.

New York: HBJ/Harvest Original, 1996 1st Am. ed. 337pp. paperback: near Fine [light age foxing of edges; else a nice crisp copy] A much praised travelogue and history of the fez by a Turkish speaking English traveler.

Oxford Univ. Press (Clarendon), 2005 1st ed. 307pp. illus. black cloth tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

Harmmondsworth, UK: Penguin/Pelican Books, 1955 1st ed. thus. 256pp. paperback: a good reading copy [text is age browned; wear @ spine strip; else a clean & complete copy] A standard work by the English archaeologist Seton H. F. Lloyd (1902-96).

New York: Macmillan. 1971 1st Am. ed. 249pp. illus. green cloth 4to: Very Good in a Fine dj in poly cover [prev. owner has tipped in various photos, postcards, clippings, etc. related to Turkey, on endpp & sometimes in blank text margins; illustrations are in very good or better condition; text pages are on acid paper and are age browned; an unusual copy] An enormous volume containing 168 photo plates, 25 in full color, by the Italian photographer Roiter (1926-2016). Text is by the famous traveler Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993).

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007 1st Am. ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 481pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [a rough top front cover corner bump; else a nice crisp copy] A popular bio of the "female Lawrence of Arabia" Bell (1868-1926), an "inventor" of the country of Iraq after the First World War, by the British journalist Howell (1942-2016).

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/Harvard, 1991. 551pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj.

New York: Anchor Books, 2001 1st ed. thus of reissue. 628pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [edges are age browned; top edge is foxed; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A well written scholarly consideration of the subject. A. N. Wilson: "Karen Armstrong is a genius."