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
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..... More
Kegan Paul, Trench. 1888. 2 volumes. Volume I: Folding map, xiv + 447pp, List of Officers Attached to the Euphrates Expedition; Volume II: vii + 492pp, appendix, index, a number of the final gatherings unopened. Recased, modern endpapers and black cloth spines lettered in gilt, original blue boards lettered in..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
London. Haus Publishing Ltd., 2008. x + 259pp, bibliography, very good hardback copy. 13 x 17cm. "Amongst the extremities of the terrain and threatening political climates of several countries, Daniel Allen finds individual instances of generosity and human kindness that reflect back across the centuries to Thomas Coryate's original journey"..... More
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
Tehran. Institute for International Political and Economic Studies. 1975. vi + 417pp, notes, paperback. 13 papers presented at a conference held at the Institute for International Political and Economic Studies in Tehran in 1974 together with edited versions of the discussions which followed. (When referring to this item please quote..... More
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
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. Professor Arberry continues with the task of putting into clear and rhythmical English the two hundred stories and apologues of the Masnavi of..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
London. Macmillan. 1924. Folding colour map, xvii + 370pp, index, neat name of a prior owner front free endpaper, endpapers browned, a little spotting title page and occasionally in text, somelittle light browning. Original cloth, pictorial upper cover gilt, spine browned, cloth at head and tail of spine chipped, lower..... More
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
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
