The Armenians of Penang.
Penang. Entrepot Publishing. 2018. Map, colour and black and white illustrations, 78pp, paperback. 21 x 15cm. Very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 162197). More
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The Punishments of China, Illustrated......With Explanations in English and French.
Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer. 1801. First edition. 22 hand coloured stipple engravings, title-pages and text in English and French, half calf rebacked, marbled paper covered boards, sections of original backstrip laid down on new spine, modern sympathetic acid free endpapers and tissue guards, bookplate of George A.... More
Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911
United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Group, 2013. Black and white illustrations, xii + 203 pages, index, bibliography, appendix, dustjacket, very good copy. In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children's literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and... More
The Scholars.
Peking. Foreign Languages Press. Peking. Reprint. 1983. Illustrations by Cheng Shih-Fa, Translated by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang. Portrait frontis, monotone illustrations throughout, 8pp prelims + 607pp, appendix on examination system, gold-blocked pictorial spine, very good copy in dustjacket and card slip case. Classic eighteenth century Chinese novel. (When referring... More
Family Catastrophe. A Modernist Novel.
Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 1995. 259pp, paperback. Translated by Susan Wan Dolling. "Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with the publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, calling it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its... More
The Chinese Vernacular Story.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1981. viii + 276pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, dustjacket, a very good copy. The history and place in Chinese society of the huaben, or vernacular story, a rich and varied form of Chinese literature. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 7139). More
The Nuer. A Description of The Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People.
London. Oxford University Press, 1965. Reprint. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 271 pp, neat name front free endpaper, spine faded, a good copy in little worn paperback. The Nuer is in the swampy country where the Nile is joined by the Ghazal and Sobat rivers. They are... More
A Modern History of the Sudan. From the Funj Sultanate to the Present Day.
London. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1967. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 247pp, index, bibliography, notes, upper cover coming away at hinge, paperback covers lightly creased, a good copy. Includes, The Background to Modern Sudanese History; The Turco - Egyptian Period 1820-81; The Mahdist State 1881-98; The Anglo -... More
Anwar Sadat.
London. Burke Publishing, 1990. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout, 112pp, chronology, index, upper cover slightly lifting, paperback. Biography of Anwar Sadat, aimed at the younger reader. World Leaders, Past and Present series. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 67896). More
A Bibliography of the Sudan 1938-1958.
London. Oxford University Press. 1962. x+ 171pp, indices, good ex-library copy with three cancelled stamps, label laid down front free endpaper, good in dustjacket with minor wear, now protected. This is a bibliography of the Sudan which covers the period 1938-58. It follows the Bibliography of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by... More
The Nuer. A Description of The Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People.
London. Oxford University Press, 1965. Reprint. Maps, black and white photographic plates, viii + 271pp, index, plate XXI loosely inserted, some pencilling throughout, neat name front free endpaper, occasional light wear and soiling dustjacket, torn at upper edge now protected. The Nuer is in the swampy country where the Nile... More
Area Handbook for Algeria.
Washington, D.C. The American University. 1972. Maps, xiii + 401pp, biblio, glossary, index, ex-library, label remainder on spine, two edges marked, otherwise a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 35522). More
Slaves of the Sun.
London. Allen & Unwin. 1928. Trans. Maps, illustrations, 378pp, index, foxing throughout, spine trifle faded otherwise good. Travels in Algeria, Morocco and West Africa. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 20043). More
Land of the Blue Veil.
Cornish. Birmingham. 2nd ed. 1940. illustrations, xii - 257pp, appendix, author's signature front free endpaper, edges slightly marked, covers a trifle worn at extremities, nice copy. Tales and sketches, some imaginary, based on the experiences of a British doctor in the Sudan. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 18693). More
Savage Sahara.
Wingate. 1956. Endpaper maps, illustrations, neat name half title, a little light wear dustjacket. Account of journey from Algiers to Kano in Nigeria. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 15734). More
The Suez Canal.
Penguin Special. n.d. [Oct. 1939]. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 179pp + adverts, paperback, signature front free endpaper, wrappers worn at extremities with minor tears at upper joint, foxed and browned throughout. A technical account of the creation of the Suez Canal. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 15028). More
The Chronicles of the Sid. Or the Life and Travels of Adelia Gates.
Books for Libraries. New York. 1897original ed. 1972. [Reprint]. Black and white illustrations, 413pp, covers little marked, good copy. Story of Adelia Gates and her travels through the Sahara. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 13017). More
The Fearful Void.
Lippincott. Philadelphia. n.d. (c. 1974). Maps, colour & black and white illustrations, 288pp, appendix, dustjacket, very nice copy of the US 1st ed. Account of Moorhouse's attempt to cross the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 12034). More
The Wild Tribes of the Soudan. An Account of Personal Experiences and Adventures During Three Winters Spent in that Country Chiefly Among the Base Tribe.
Murray. 2nd ed (with an account of the routes from Wady Halfah to Berber by the author, and a chapter on Khartoum and the Soudan by Sir Samuel Baker). 1884. Map, illustrations, xvi + 265pp + 32ads, index, covers very stained and worn, hinges split, prelims and last leaves foxed... More
Children of Arabia.
Edinburgh. Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier. n.d. 8 full page colour illustrations, 94pp + 16pp ads, inscription front free endpaper, lightly browned endpapers, half title considerably browned, colour plate cut out from upper cover, spine faded, fragmented dustjacket now protected. In the style of the A & C Black "Peeps at... More
Modern Algeria. The Origins and Development of a Nation.
Bloomington. Indiana University Press. 1992. x + 290pp, index, appendix, bibliography, paperback. One of the largest countries in Africa and in the Arab world, Algeria in the last half of the twentieth century has stood as a compelling model of national liberation and development. Yet, as the century nears a.... More
Gender and Culture: Kibbutz Women Revisited.
Durham, North Carolina. Duke Uni. 1979. xix + 116pp, index, dustjacket now protected, a good copy. A volume in a series based on the Howard Eikenberry Jensen Lectures on Sociology and Social Action. Discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work. (When referring to... More
My Life with Ishmael.
Vallentine, Mitchell. 1st English ed. 1970. Map, 222pp, dustjacket a little rubbed, ex library with discard stamp title page, label removed from spine, a little staining edges and some margins. The novelist approaches the Middle East conflict through his own life and experiences, weaving strands of autobiography into a tapestry... More
The Raft of Mohammed. Social and Human Consequences of the Return to Traditional Religion in the Arab World.
Paragon. N.Y., 1988. Trans. Frontis, xiii + 194pp, glossary, index, protected dustjacket, very nice copy. A study of the burgeoning of traditional Muslim faith, especially the fundamentalist branch with Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini as its most visible exponent. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 13434). More
The Gulf States and Oman.
Croom Helm. n.d. (c. 1977). Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, 208pp, appendix, biblio, index, dustjacket a trifle worn, a very good copy. An examination of the impact of oil and oil wealth on the Gulf states. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 13030). More