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New York: Arab Information Center, 1961. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 8 Vo. The original light green wraps with dark green cloth spine. Very little edgewear but some fading to the edges of the covers. Pages 32 with a two page map of the area in question. Algerian - French failed negotiations over the Sahara. An old military struggle that evolved into a long standing Morocco - Algeria dispute..
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Algerian Sahara, Information Paper Number 19
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A Bibliography of Works on Algeria Published in English Since 1954
by Richard I. Lawless (compiler)
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Durham, England: Univ of Durham, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Articles and books, broken down by general, geography, history, politicis, economic conditions, and social conditions - 39 pages..
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Cook's Handbook to Algeria and Tunisia
by Budge, E.A. Wallis
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London: Thos. Cook, 1926. Book. Illus. by 3 folding maps, 2 plans (one folding). Fine. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original red limp cloth with bright gilt titles on the front and the spine. A splendid guide book in such fine condition that it has never gone anywhere. Only a hint of edge wear. As new inside with no stains or prior owner marks. Maps and plans are fine. SCARCE with a fine dust jacket UNCLIPPED. .
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The Hill of the Graces: a Record of Investigation Among the Trilithons and Megalithic sites of Tripoli (Libya)
by Cowper, H.S.
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London: Methuen & Co , 1897. Book. Illus. by maps, photos and illustrations. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original dark green cloth with a bright gilt title on the spine, and very slight edgewear. Pages xxii, 327 with index. Inside, clean and tight with no foxing or browning or prior owner marks. Folding map of Tripoli. Large folding map in rear of Tripolitania in colour. Illustrated by 98 photos and sketches. Protected in a clear, mylar dustjacket. This is a really nice record of what Tripoli was before Qadhafi, as well as a scholarly record on ancient ruins..
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Men Against the Desert
by Calder, Ritchie
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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1952. Book. Illus. by 15 Pages of Photos. Near Fine. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original yellow cloth with a hint of edgewear.Title in black on the unfaded spine. A red dust jacket that is NOT price clipped and has only one small closed tear along the bottom edge. With endpaper maps. The photos taken circa 1950 illustrate life in the deserts of North Africa, Sinai and Iran. A fine travel book of its time and a bench mark, as these deserts have changed. Pages 186, index..
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Money, Land and Trade - an Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean
by Hanna, Nelly (editor)
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London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. Book. Illus. by Map and Six Tables. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An historical "view from the inside into the economic realities of the region" (from the dustjacket). Five essays on land, four on crafts and trades, and four on money, most by Arab scholars. The editor has taught at American University in Cairo for many years. Pages (viii), 295 with index and notes on each article. A paragraph about each author and his/her credentials would have been nice. An as new copy with no prior owner marks. Scarce, only 2 on the internet as of this writing..
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Sebag, Paul
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New York : MacMillan, 1965. Book. Illus. by fine photos, a few in color, by Amdre <artom. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. Oblong 4 to. Original near fine terra cotta cloth with a bright gilt title on the spine. Dustjacket has one tiny tearat a bottom coerner, otherwise near fine and NOT price clipped. Wonderful photos of an important mosque in the desert of Tunisia. Text translated from the French by Richard Howard. .
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The Shifting Sands of Algeria
by Kearton, Cherry
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London: Arrowsmith ., 1924. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The binding is very good with spine faded. Gilt mosque on front. However, very tight & clean inside, with no foxing or browning . Pages 307 with index. The author was a noted nature photographer and he illustrated the book with 60 pp pages of old photos. first edition..
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the Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, 2 volumes
by Wright, G.N.
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London and Paris: Fisher, Son & Co., 1839. Book. Illus. by map at end of volume 2, 64 full page plates and an engraved title. Fine. 3/4 Leather. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New binding of brown morocco spines and corners, with hand marbled boards, matching endpapers AND matching page edges. Raised bands and bright gilt titles on the spines. A beautiful gift set that looks like it was just puolished. Each plate has its tissue guard. Surprisingly, no foxing, no browning, no stains, no prior owner marks. Each plate, from Gibralter to Sicily and Italy and Greece and Tunisia to Rhodes , has a 3 or 4 page essay by the impressive Rev. Wright. No date, but known to have been published in 1829 -`840. Most copies seem to have a plate or two missing. .
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State and Society in Independent North Africa
by Brown, Leon Carl (editor)
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Washington DC: Middle East Institute, 1966. Book. Illus. by Endpaper Map,12 Pages Photos. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near fine brown cloth with bright gilt title on unfaded spine and no edgewear. Dustjacket very good, NOT price clipped, but some fading. No prior owner signature, internally very clean. Includes chapters on political parties, foreign policy, language and identity, the role of Islam in modern North Africa, rapid urbanization , trade unionism, the rural system of the Maghrib, economic planning, oil in the North African economy and the colonial imprint..
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The Sword and the Cross - Two Men and An Empire of Sand
by Fleming, Fergus
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New York : Grove Press, 2003. Book. Illus. by Sahara map and endpaper portraits of Laperrine and Foucauld. Fine. Hardcover. First U.S.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in the original cloth with a perfect dust jacket. No stains, as new inside, no prior owner marks. The adventures of two French imperialists, friends but very different. One turned to religion. The other was a career military officer who led a famed camel corps at the end of the 19th Century and the early years of the 20th. The Sahara was a dangerous, mostly unexplored wasteland in those years, and these Frenchmen set out to tame it in French interests. A rousing tale, beautifully told. .
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