Egyptian Art.
Octopus. 1972. Trans. Profuse colour illustrations, 158pp, index, dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 133). More
Middle East
Ten Things I Hate About Me.
Sydney. Pan. 2006. Young adult novel, paperback. By the author of Does my Head Look Big in This? "For the past three years Jamie/Jamilah has hidden her Lebanese background from everyone at school. It's only with her email friend John that she can really be herself. But now things are... More
A Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition.
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
Islam and the West. Reflections from Australia.
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
Change and Persistence of Turkish Culture.
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
The Art of the Hittites.
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
Modernity and Tradition. The Saudi Equation.
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
Saudi Arabia. A Case Study in Development.
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
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
Old Kuwait. Memories in Photographs.
Almansouria. Center for Reaerch and Studies on Kuwait. 1997. Black and white illustrations, 255pp, text in Arabic and English, a very good paperback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 161581). More
The Monument. Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq.
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
The Oil Economy of Kuwait.
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
The Invention of Hebrew Prose.
Seattle. Uni. of Washington Press. 1988. xi + 122pp, index, very good in dustjacket. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 42169). More
The Invention of Hebrew Prose. Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism.
Seattle. Uni. of Washington Press. 1988. xi + 122pp, index, dustjacket spine and upper edge sunned, otherwise a very good hardback copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 160873). More
Criterion Miscellany. No. 25. Persian Painting.
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
More Tales from the Masnavi.
London. George Allen & Unwin. 1963. 252pp, notes, sticker stains endpapers, dustjacket little foxed with single closed tear upper edge lower cover, a good hardback copy otherwise. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 160923). More
Under Five Shahs.
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
The Jews in Business.
London. Penguin. 1973. Reprint. Paperback, 229pp, index, minor wear otherwise sound and clean. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 38910). More
Kingfisher Out of Egypt. A Dialogue in an English Garden.
London. OUP. Number 75 of 750 copies.1934. Full page black and white plates, 51pp, decorative paper covered boards in two places along lower edge and corner, front free endpaper little creased. Poetry. A dialogue involving Akhenaton, Aspasia, Josephus, Saint Louis, Saadi, Beatrice d'Este and Pierpoint Morgan. (When referring to this... More
Miracle of the Desert Kingdom.
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
Crusade. The Untold Story of the Gulf War.
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
Underdevelopment and Rural Structures in Southeastern Turkey: The Household Economy in Gisgis and Kalhana.
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
Early Persian Lexicography. Farhangs of the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Centuries.
Folkestone. Global Oriental. 2007. xiii + 242pp, bibliography, dustjacket. A study in a Western European language of an important part of the intellectual and cultural history of the Persianate world in its formative phase. Persian dictionaries (farhangs) of the Islamic era, compiled principally in India, represent a unique linguistic undertaking... More
Torn Country. An Oral History of the Israeli War of Independence.
New York. Franklin Watts. 1982. Maps, xvi + 400pp, index, dustjacket, good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 998). More
Dialogues in Arab Politics. Negotiations in Regional Order.
New York. Columbia Uni Press. 1998. xiii + 376pp, bibliography, index, very good copy without dustjacket apparently as issued. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 62972). More