Genre & Subject / Orientalism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Vintage Books, 1979. xi, 368 pages; 21 cm. An acceptable reading copy, unmarked. Browning. Classic book by Edward W. Said. . Paperback. Fair. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 2006. xxvii, 447 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Engrossing read, fascinating character. "Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince… Read more about this item

New York: Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2010. xvii, 762 pages [24] pages of plates, illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Michael Korda's Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale: a revealing, in-depth, and… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. xiv, 347 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images… Read more about this item

Washington D.C. and New York: National Gallery of Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. Cloth, 293 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Exhibition dates: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 March to 3 June 1990; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20 June to 4 September 1990; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 28 September to 20 November… Read more about this item

New York: Heritage Press, 1946. 1 volume (unpaged), [8] leaves of plates, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Text and plates printed on folded leaves in Japanese style. Colour plates on glossy paper. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards, age toning. "The illustrations for this edition were drawn in colour and gold by Arthur Szyk, and engraved in London… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959. Cloth, 141 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2d. Book by Oscar Hammerstein 2d and Joseph Fields, based on the novel by C. Y. Lee. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning, edges lightly soiled. Publisher's prospectus (4 pages) inserted. Dust jacket… Read more about this item

Paris: Institut du monde Arabe; Flammarion, 1994. Cloth, 239 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. English Edition. Exhibition organized by the Institut du Monde Arabe, 27 September 1994 to 15 January 1995. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with… Read more about this item

New York: Sotheby's, 2007. 56 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Published by Sotheby's on the occasion of the exhibition 19th Century Orientalist Paintings from the collection of Terence Garnett at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Washington, D.C., November 8 to 30, 2007. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates..… Read more about this item

New York: Public Affairs, 2005. xvii, 437 pages, illustrations, map; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. A near-fine copy of the first printing, age toning. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite--and because of--centuries… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Cloth, xii, 314 pages, [48] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Fascinating and mysterious, the idea of the harem long captured the imagination of the West. The Muslim practice of concealing… Read more about this item

New York: Asia Society Galleries; New Press, 1994. 127 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Exhibition held at the Asia Society Galleries, New York, February 16 to June 26, 1994, and others. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Believing is Seeing: Transforming Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze, by John Kuo Wei Tchen; Whither Home?: The Predicament… Read more about this item

Salem, MA, and New York: Peabody Essex Museum; George Braziller, 2004. 159 pages, illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, (February 14 to May 9, 2004) and presented at the Asian Art Museum--Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco (June… Read more about this item

New York: Abbeville Press, 1991. 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Orientalism in Western culture. "'I was born in an old house.that was once the harem of a pasha. During my childhood slaves and odalisques lived there with us.' So begins the history of one of the strangest institutions any culture has… Read more about this item

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 2004. 95 pages, colour illustrations, map; 22 x 28 cm. Commentary on drawings by Rita Bianucci. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Famous mid-19th-century Orientalist views of the Holy Land by the Scotsman David Roberts (1796-1864). Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Fine. Oblong.

New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries; Leger Galleries, 1988. 172 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, April 16 to June 3, 1988. Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, with a ding on the foreedge. Light foxing/endpapers. CONTENTS: "The American academy": Americans in London; Grand… Read more about this item

San Diego, CA: Putnam Foundation, 1998. 45 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii, 242 pages, illustrations (some colour), music; 32 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 6 to September 4, 2000, the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., October 1 to December 10, 2000, and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C., February… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum; Getty Museum Studies on Art Ser., 1996. 116 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Roger Fenton's photograph Pasha and Bayadere is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In… Read more about this item

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986. 231 pages, 12 leaves of plates, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Published in connection with an exhibition organized by the Pierpont Morgan Library as part of the Festival of India; presented at the Morgan Library, New York, 1 May to 31 July 1986, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 9 September 1986 to… Read more about this item