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New York:: Pantheon,, (1974). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A collection of essays by this noted linguist and political activist, published a year after the Yom Kippur War; now, almost 50 years later peace seems farther away than ever. Includes a substantial foreword by Irene L. Gendzier. Notes… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.,, 1937.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in orange cloth with gilt and black on the spine, no dust jacket. . First US printing. Thomas, the author of this influential history. was the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) He "absorbed much of… Read more about this item

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (1986). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. "A memoir of war and peace, passion and politics" - "Hazleton first went to Jerusalem at the age of 20, remained 13 years, then moved to New York City. Five years later, in 1984, she returned for what she intended… Read more about this item

Pasadena, CA: : Hope Publishing House,, (2002). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. "In 1948 Secretary of State George Marshall told President Truman he'd not vote for the president's re-election should he recognize Israel - and warned that the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine would lead to… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1981.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (closed tear to upper edge of front cover of dj, original price of 15.00 on dj flap). First trade edition. An account of a visit to 4 countries in the throes of 'Islamization' - Pakistan, Iran, Malaysia and Indonesia - a subject… Read more about this item

London:: William Heinemann,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages).. First printing. A book on the newly-emergent countries of central Asia which contain the magical cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, the Kazakh Steppes, the deserts of Karakum and the Pamir Mountains. The five Central Asian republics… Read more about this item

New York:: Picador / Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2003.). Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (light toning).. 1st trade paperback printing. "The day after Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends, duscussing the attack from his perspective as an Afgan American. That message, spreading via the… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT:: Yale University Press,, (2002). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) A study of the five Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan - which were part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. Although rich in both cultural heritage and natural resources… Read more about this item

New York:: HarperPerennial,, (2011). First edition -. Near fine.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) When reporter Fariba Nawa returned home to Afghanistan, after 20 years in the US, she discovers a country transformed by a multibillion-dollar drug trade. After decades of unbroken war, this is a country of poppy farmers, corrupt officials, expats, drug… Read more about this item

London:: Century, , (1985.). Good overall - some spine slant, contents clean.. Trade paperback. The fourth volume in her autobiography - this covers the years during World War II when, despite her personal sufferings (the man she loved killed by the Germans, her mother imprisoned by Mussolini) she used her knowledge of the middle East to act as… Read more about this item

Naperville, IL:: Sourcebooks,, (2008). First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) When she was denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, accepted a position in Saudi Arabia. She saw this as more than a new job, but also… Read more about this item

Norman, OK:: Basic Books,, (2005). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. The second book by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul. For 101 days, from January to April 2003, Nowegian journalist Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad - this book focuses on the stories of the people… Read more about this item

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press,, (2009). First edition -. Fine in glossy black wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A book which approaches the issue in two sections: The first "examines seven historical cases of how and how not to withdraw: Britain's departure from the American colonies and from India, the French withdrawal… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2018.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in decorative red boards, no dust jacket as issued.. First printing. The true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco's Tenderloin, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sanaa, Yemen by the civil war… Read more about this item

New York:: Free Press (SImon and Schuster), 2008.. First edition -. Fine in printed pale green wrappers.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) Memoir by the Lebanese-American ex-wife of a former advisor to Yasser Arafat in which she recounts her involuntary relinquishment of American freedoms during her marriage and her post-divorce struggles to reclaim her children from… Read more about this item

Emmaus, PA:: Rodale Press,, (2003). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Foreword by Christopher Dickey who states "As Barbara Victor makes clear in this extraordinary chronicle of passion and politics, terror and liberation, Palestinian women have always known that when it comes to suffering and dying, they are the equals… Read more about this item

New York:: Riverhead Books,, 2013.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Third novel by the author of "The Kite Runner." Beginning in Afghanistan, this novel has been described as "sweeping, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting. A day after he tells the tale of the div, the father gives away his own… Read more about this item

Duarte, CA: : Westminster Gardens,, (1957). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Some minor notations to the title page and copyright page by the author, and updates to the author's biography on the dj flap.. 2nd printing. "This is the story of Esmat, a woman of modern Iran, her struggle for the right… Read more about this item

New York:: Bloomsbury,, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. After 9/11, the author's father sold his clothing store in Oakland and returned to Afghanistan to become President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman and later the governor of Kunar. Said visited Afghanistan during three consecutive summers, recording his travels on… Read more about this item

Ajans Turk Press,, n.d.. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. . Paperback. An account of Mehmed Zilli (1611 1682), known as Evliya elebi, an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years. Illustrated with a color plate in the front and 14 plates at… Read more about this item