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The Arabs in History (Hutchinson's University Library, General History Series; No. 40)
by Bernard Lewis
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hutchinson & Co., 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 196 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to front hinge with exposed binding. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Synopsis
"This is not so much a history of the Arabs as an essay in interpretation. Rather than compress so vast a subject into a bare outline of dates and events, I have sought to isolate and examine certain basic issues -- the place of the Arabs in human history, their identity, their achievement, and the salient characteristics of the several ages of their development. ... My special thanks are due to Professor H. A. R. Gibb, Dr. U. Heyd, and Dr. D. S. Rice for reading and critcising my manuscript ... and to Professor A. T. Hatto for many useful suggestions for the second edition." [ Extract from PREFACE by the author: **Bernard Lewis**, Professor of the History of the Near & Middle East, University of London.]
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- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Arabs in History (Hutchinson's University Library, General History Series; No. 40)
- Author
- Bernard Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Date Published
- 1950
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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