No publication details. Maps, black and white illustrations, xi + 226pp, appendices, bibliography, index, upper edge and front free endpaper stained, minor wear paperback covers, small quarto. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 63622). More about The Modern History of Kuwait 1750-1965
Elibron Classics. 2005. Reprint. 2 volumes in paperback. Vol I: xiv + 447pp; Vol II: vii + 492pp, appendix, index. Modern paperback reprint. Though a facsimile style reprint it does not include the map which was published in the 1888 edition. Useful for the text. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 151621). More about A Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition
Sydney. UNSW Press. 2005. xvii + 186pp, glossary, bibliography, index, light wear paperback extremities, a good copy. "Islam and the West presents a multi-layered approach to the relationship between Muslims and Western states. At the global level, it investigates the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, along with the implications... More about Islam and the West. Reflections from Australia
Melbourne. Australian-Turkish Friendship Society. 1984. 61pp, ex library, catalogue sticker upper cover, cancelled library stamp on dedication page and lower paste-down endpaper, library slip and cancelled barcode lower free endpaper, wrappers very slightly worn. Seminar Papers, 14 April 1984, Monash University, Melbourne. "Turkish Culture through the Ages", "Influences on Turkish... More about Change and Persistence of Turkish Culture
New York. Abrams. n.d. Tipped in colour plates, black and white photographic illustrations, plans, endpapers little browned along edges, a very good copy in a little worn and browned now protected dustjacket. A beautifully illustrated book which traces the history and art of the Hittite people who lived in the..... More about The Art of the Hittites
London. Kegan Paul. 1991. Reprint. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, diagrams, tables, xiii + 337pp, bibliography, index, quarto, dustjacket, very nice copy. Looks at the judicial and political systems, the petroleum industry, the economy, industrial and agricultural development, infrastructure, education, health, foreign policy and aid to the developing world... More about Modernity and Tradition. The Saudi Equation
London. KPI. 1988. Reprint of the revised edition. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, tables and figures, 264pp, glossary, bibliography, index, dustjacket, compliments stamp contents leaf. A good copy. Study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 316). More about Saudi Arabia. A Case Study in Development
London. Stacey. 1978. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, tables and figures, 220pp, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, compliments stamp title page, covers patchily faded, edges lightly foxed, minor wear and foxing dustjacket. A good copy. Study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia. (When referring to this item... More about Saudi Arabia. A Case Study in Development
Berkeley. University of California Press. (c.1991). Numerous black and white photographic and line illustrations, xv +153pp, index, notes, dustjacket, large octavo. Samir al-Khalil uses artefacts such as 'The Victory Arch' in Baghdad "to illuminate the nature of dictatorship, the relation between developed and developing countries, and the uses and true... More about The Monument. Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq
London. Kegan Paul. 1980. ix + 166pp, notes, index, ex library, front paste down little damaged from removal of label, lower endpapers laid down, library markings neatly removed from tail of spine, good copy. An analysis of Kuwait's oil economy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 34379). More about The Oil Economy of Kuwait
London. Faber and Faber, 1930. 46pp, bibliography, endpapers little browned, light foxing on edges, name prior owner front free endpaper, small bookseller's label upper cover, a good copy in little worn paperback with soiled and worn wrappers. A summary of the history of Persian painting from the time of the... More about Criterion Miscellany. No. 25. Persian Painting
London. Murray. 1964. Maps, illustrations, ix + 457pp, appendix, index, cloth binding little worn at extremities, gilt lettered spine, corners of few internal leaves little creased, edges very lightly foxed, a good copy. Reminiscences and comment on Iran from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century by General... More about Under Five Shahs
London. Johnson. 1969. 4 colour maps, 3 folding, coloured charts, 330pp, index, dustjacket worn, now protected, a good copy. 'This is the story of the Saudi Arabian State from its emergence as a nation down to the present day . . . Full particulars are given of negotiations with the... More about Miracle of the Desert Kingdom
London. HarperCollins. 1994. Maps, black and white illustrations, xii + 575pp, chronology, notes, bibliography, index, edges lightly soiled, otherwise good copy in protected dustjacket. Definitive chroncile of the Persian Gulf War. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 63625). More about Crusade. The Untold Story of the Gulf War
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 about Anwar Sadat
London. Ithaca Press. 1986. 301pp, bibliography, appendix, index, type script, covers trifle worn extremities. Chapters cover: The Turkish agrarian debate; regional underdevelopment; the structure of southeastern Anatolia; physical environment, population and agriculture; land and stock ownership; relation of production outside and within the household; credit mechanisms; marketing structures and patterns... More about Underdevelopment and Rural Structures in Southeastern Turkey: The Household Economy in Gisgis and...
Iraq. Ministry of Information. 1976. Black and white illustrations, 426pp, bibliography, edges of last 25 pages and fore-edge stained, hardback cover extremities light wear with some sunning to spine, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 158586). More about Treasures of the Iraq Museum
London. Longmans, Green. 1947. Maps, black and white plates, viii + 242pp, index, small bookseller label front pastedown, worn and browned dustjacket, now protected, corners bumped, a sound copy. "This is a study by an Egyptian historian of the development of his country from the time of Napoleon up to... More about The Awakening of Modern Egypt
Princeton. Princeton Uni Press. 1987. Maps, xix + 488pp, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket. "The authors challenge traditional scholarship by demonstrating the importance of the working class and of class struggle in the history of modern Egypt. Dissenting from the conventional view that Egyptian workers were simply passive followers... More about Workers on the Nile. Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882 - 1954
London. Ernest Benn Limited. 1930. Selected and edited by Lady Bell. Folding map with small tear at margin, 634pp, index, margins browned throughout, endpapers foxed, cloth spine little sunned with some rubbing extremities, a sound hardback copy. Includes a newspaper clipping from The Argus with a hand written date of... More about The Letters of Gertrude Bell
New York. Boni & Liveright. 1928. 2 Volumes. Selected and edited by Lady Bell. Volume I: Map, illustrations, xiii + 402pp. Volume II: Folding map, illustrations, vii + 405-791pp, index. Bound in slightly faded blue cloth, lettering on spine very dull, otherwise a good set. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 158960). More about The Letters of Gertrude Bell
New York. Viking. 1979. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 268pp, index, good copy in dustjacket. Staff writer for The New Yorker recounts his travels in the Sinai and his encounters with the Bedouins who live there, the Israelis who governed it between the Six Day War and... More about Sinai. The Great and Terrible Wilderness
London. John Murray. 1940. With a preface by Wickham Steed. Portrait frontis, black and white photographic illustrations, line drawings, 272pp, index, edges uncut, cloth binding trifle discoloured, a sound copy. Chapters include, 'The psychology of the Egyptian people before the last war'; 'The psychology of the Egyptian people after the... More about Independent Egypt
Paris. Librairie d'amerique et d'orient. 1952-1966. Three volumes. Voll 1: black and white photographic plates, xviii857 + 186pp, some pages unopened, original wrappers spine browned and a trifle chipped. Vol 2: folding map,, 197-453pp several unopened, spine faded. Vol 3: 454-857pp several unopened, references, index, spine faded, some wear upper... More about Histoire de la Litterature Arabe des origines a la fin du xv siecle de J.-C
New York. Putnam. 1974. Illustrated endpapers, black and white and colour illustrations, 192pp, index, inscription front free endpaper, good in price-clipped, water-stained dustjacket. By the author of "The Wilder Shores of Love" this volume includes tales from Europe and the Middle East. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 1726). More about Pavilions of the Heart. The Four Walls of Love
