Arabia
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The Southern Gates Of Arabia
by Freya Stark
Freya Stark, described by The Times of London as "the last of the Romantic Travellers" upon her death in 1993, published during her lifetime more than thirty books about her travels in the Middle East, including The Southern Gates of Arabia.Jane Fletcher Geniesse is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of the biography Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, a finalist for the 1999 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Her writing has been featured in The...
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Peace To End All Peace
by David Fromkin
Featuring a new afterword offering an updated assessment of the region, a twentieth anniversary edition of the acclaimed study of the Middle East traces the influence of the Allies on Middle East politics during and after World War I and the legacy of the era on the shifting political unities and divisions of today.
The Great and Secret Show
by Clive Barker
"First published in Great Britain in 1989 by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd."--T.p. verso
Arabia Books & Ephemera
A WINTER IN ARABIA
by STARK, Freya (1893-1993)
London: John Murray, 1948. 5 Edição . Editorial / Hard Cover. Bom / Good / Bon/No Jacket. In-8º(205x137). 1 Vol. de 265-[1] pp. Illustrated with a map and several photos. Freya Madeline Stark, "english writer, who has travelled extensively to the Middle East, especially in the Arab countries. She has visited (and written about) the Valley of the Assassins, Arabia, the Hadhramaut and Syria. From 1939 to 1945 she was engaged on government service in the Middle East and elsewhere....
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Oriental Assembly
by T. E. Lawrence
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Oriental Assembly.
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Catalogue 525/1982: Mesopotamia.
by E.J. BRILL - LEIDEN
Book. Good. Binding see description. 1375 nos. 102pp. Wrs. 0.
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NZ$27.33
Oriental Assembly.
by LAWRENCE, T. E
London, Williams And Norgate, (1945).. Fifth Impression of the First English Edition; 8vo; pp. xiv, 225; frontispiece, numerous b/w plates, maps; original brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, chipped dustjacket, spine and corners bumped, previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper, flecking to page edges, a good copy. See O'Brien A221 for reference to the First English Edition and a list of impressions, "The Dustjacket of this Fifth Impression is printed on the verso of that for the...
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Looking for Dilmun - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Bibby, Geoffrey
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. An edition in Very Good condition that is aged and mildly shelfworn with a cocked spine in a price-clipped alike dust-jacket that has a series of little tears around the edges. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown; Dilmun is an enigmatic and much-sought-after place in ancient Near Eastern mythology. The story of Dilmun is one of migration and the search for a place to call home. Set in a time...
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Arabian Jubilee
by Philby, H. St J
London; (1952): Robert Hale. First Edition. Octavo. xiv, 280 pages, index. First Edition. In 1915, Philby was called by the Foreign and Political Department in Mesopotamia to worked with Sir Percy Cox in the building of what was to become modern Iraq. This was the first full-length biography of Ibn Sa'ud who united Arabia and once the vast limitless reserves of oil were discovered made it a leading power in Middle Eastern politics. Also here are intimate details of court life, fasting, political...
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NZ$297.40
Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
by Hansen, Eric
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light wear. Light soiling to page edges.
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Oriental Assembly
by Lawrence, T. E
1st edition, 1939 (with page 16 numbered '6'); hardback in jacket, 289 pages, illus. b&w plates | a clean, sound copy free of name, notes etc; very faint foxing to preliminaries, and to text block edges, but not such as might detract from reading enjoyment | jacket is darkened and creased at spine; 1.5 inch (approx) tear where head of spine adjoins front panel; some wear to edges and folds; a few tiny light paint splashes can be seen on front panel beneath author's name; jacket has not been price clipped...
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The Kasidah (Couplets) of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi: A Lay of the Higher Law
by Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (Sir Richard Burton, translator and editor)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1919. Limited Edition. Vellum. Very Good. 4to. Pp. vii, 52. Introduction by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Copy #421 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Corners a tad worn, with some wear along fore-edge of covers. Printed by John Henry Nash. Burton's distillation of Sufi thought, presented as a response to the Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam, is a slight literary hoax inasmuch as Burton...
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L'Architettura Arabo-Normanna E Il Rinascimento In Sicilia. Prefazione di Corrado Ricci
by [ARCHITECTURE - Arab-Norman] ARATA, Giulio V
Milano (Milan): Casa Editrice d., 1914. First Edition. Plates within Cloth Portfolio. Very Good+/Very Good. Folio. Pp. xii, 30, [2]. Gravure title page and preface leaf. With 120 gravure plates, many with multiple images. Text illustrations. In the publisher's decorative cloth portfolio, lettered and stamped in gilt. Slight chipping at fore-margin of the first few text leaves. Old library label at spine tail and bookplate verso front cover. Else, a fine set of plates housed in a presentable, very...
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Winter In Arabia
by Stark, Freya
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1940. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1940. Stated First Edition. Beige buckram cloth boards with brown lettering on cover and spine. Hint of very minimal soiling. Small spots of wear to two corner tips. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean endpapers - no writing or names. Three color photo illustrations of scenes from Arabia have been neatly pasted on preliminary pages by previous owner. Book contains nice...
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NZ$42.48
Arabian Travellers
by Trench, Richard
London: Macmillan. 1986. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good+ condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Black & white maps. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$24.42
The Southern Gates of Arabia
by Freya Stark
Penguin Publishing Group, 1983. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$11.69
Arabia felix: the Danish expedition of 1761-1767.
by Hansen, Thorkild
1964 . New York: Harper & Row 1964. 381 S., Illustrationen, Leinen (private Widmung auf Titelblatt verso; Einbandecken leicht bestossen; sonst gut erhalten)
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NZ$78.33
Black Tents of Arabia: My Life Among the Bedouins
by Carl R. Raswan
Little Brown, 1935. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 160 pages + photos. Ex-library with typical marks, heavy wear to the edges; tape on the spine and corners. The pages are yellowed; blind stamp through many of the photos; a reading/reference copy. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Countries & Travel; Inventory No: 171824. .
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NZ$16.99
Arabia Felix
by Thorkild Hansen
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning
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NZ$38.04
La Peinture Égyptienne du Nouvel Empire (XVIIIe, XIXe, XXe Dynastie).
by ANNEQUIN, GUY
Book. Good. Binding see description. Geneve, 1989. 126pp. Richly illus. in colour. Goldstamped blue imitation peau-de-suede binding. (Merveilles de l'Enluminure).*Deals mainly with paintings that can be found in the various tombs in Egypt. 0.
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NZ$109.30
AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN ARABIC POETRY
by Khouri, Mounahj A.; Hamid Algar (eds.)
Berkeley: University of California, 1974. First edition. X-Library hardbound in near very good condition in very good dust jacket; Scarring to end papers from removal of library past-ins and stamp to top of page edges.. 252 pages.
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NZ$128.98
THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT: Volume IV
by Mathers, Powys
New York: St Martin's Press, 1972. First US edition. Very good condition in near very good dust jacket.. Rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr. J.C. Mardrus; Volume IV only; 537 pages.
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NZ$26.17
ARABIA THE GULF & THE WEST
by J. B. Kelly
New York: Basic Books. 1980. 1st U.S. Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. .
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NZ$101.88
Notre Voyage Aux Pays Bibliques (3 Volume Set)
by Le Camus, Father E. [Emile], 1839-106
Paris: Letouzey et Ane, 1890. Small Octavo. In three volumes; 400, 324 and 328pp., illustrated with several single and double paged illustrations along with 12 maps and plans, some folding, some in color. Le Camus was the biblical scholar who traveled extensively to both the Holy Land as all of Asia Minor. The third volume which is scarce details his time visiting the sites of the seven churches of Revelation 2-3. In 1896 his volume on the seven churches of the Apocalypse became the classic used in the...
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NZ$509.82
Catalogue 518/1981: South East Asia.
by E.J. BRILL - LEIDEN
Book. Good. Binding see description. 3867 nos. 238pp. Illus. Wrs. 0.
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NZ$21.86
