Genre & Subject / Religious / Islamic from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: George Braziller, 1977. Cloth, 158 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Translated from the French. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates from Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Manuscrit supplement Turc… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2009. vii, 553 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: From Cairo to Istanbul; The Arab challenge to Ottoman rule; The Egyptian empire of Muhammad 'Ali; The perils of reform; The first… Read more about this item

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2011. xxiv, 657 pages; 25 cm. Words Without Borders Series. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine rolled at the crown, lower right corners bumped. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Spans a century of poems, short stories, novels, memoirs, and essays… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. xiv, 189 pages, illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. A history of nine centuries of Islamic rule in Spain, beginning in the year 711. CONTENTS: 1. Romance and reality; 2. The secret of the tower; 3. The curve of conversion; 4. The caliphate of Cordoba;… Read more about this item

Honolulu, Hawai'i: Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2002. 62 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Blemish/front cover.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1965. Cloth, 125 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 24 x 26 cm. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Photographs by Andre Martin. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket, chipped/back cover, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated with photos of the Kairwan. Mosque… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press; A Studio Book, 1973. Cloth, 280 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with toned flaps, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Prologue: Samarkand; 1. Alexander the Great: an invader from the West; 2. Hsuan-tsang: a pilgrim from the East; 3. Mahomet and Kutayba, the Sword of Islam;… Read more about this item

Istanbul: NET Turistik Yayinlar, 2011. 120 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

Salt Lake City, UT: Simpkins Souvenirs, 1982. 24 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, map; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Includes views of Gayer Anderson Museum.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973. 232 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Good+. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Wraps lightly soiled, age toning. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Kenneth Donahue; Introduction, by Pratapaditya Pal; The art of ceramics, by Katharina Otto-Dorn: Introduction; Catalog; The art of… Read more about this item

New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1998. 288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Reprint 2016. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. "Covering one thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, Robert Hillenbrand incorporates all the latest discoveries and interpretations… Read more about this item

Munich: Prestel, 2008. 143 pages. illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. English Edition. Tight, clean copy. "This is the first book to present the architecture and treasures of the world's premier museum of Islamic art. With architecture designed by I. M. Pei, an interior by J.-M. Wilmotte, and one of the world's finest collections, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha,… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975. 151 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Los Angeles and New Haven, CT: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2011. Cloth, 335 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 5 to September 5, 2011 and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 23, 2011 to January 15, 2012.… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. 278 pages, map; 22 cm. SIGNED by the author on a literary society bookplate pasted onto the flyleaf. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven. In 2012, thousands of Al… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. Cloth, 176 pages, illustrations, colour map (on lining papers), plans, colour plates, portraits (some colour); 29 cm. Topstained blue. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates (art, architecture). The author is Curator of the… Read more about this item

New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, 1979. 126 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket toned.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Washington D.C. and New York: National Gallery of Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987. 356 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 January to 17 May, 1987; the Art Institute of Chicago, 14 June to 7 September, 1987; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 4 October, 1987 to… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973. 232 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Kenneth Donahue; Introduction, by Pratapaditya Pal; The art of ceramics, by Katharina Otto-Dorn: Introduction; Catalog; The art of the book, by Edwin Binney, III: Introduction; Catalog;… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster; A Touchstone Book, 1979. 344 pages; 24 cm. Map on lining papers. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket toned, with a faint dampstain/back flap. Jonathan Raban describes his travels through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt, and Jordan, where he met both rich and poor, and visited homes, hotels, and… Read more about this item