Resultados de búsqueda: Middle Eastern History from Catron Grant Books

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009 304 pp. Allawi explores how Islamic civilization began to unravel under colonial rule, as its institutions , laws and economics were replaced by inadequate modern equivalents. He also examines the backlash expressed through the increasing religiousity of Muslim societies and the spectacular rise of political Islam and its terrorist offshoots.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged, not price-clipped.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Doubleday & Co., 1970 347 pp with 6 maps and 36 B&W plates A Scottish gentlewoman, Isabella Bird's travels in the Rockies, Hawaii, tJapan and the Far East Central Asia and Moroccoin the late 19th century. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Hinge split but holding at title page. Library stamps on title page and book appears to have been relined. Nevertheless a good reading copy.. First American Edition.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

1974 A brochure designed to provide information for new arrivals at the Sinop Common Defence Installation a joint American-Turkish military station in Sinop, Turkey..The base was essentially a Cold War listening post. Sinop's intelligence base monitored Soviet activities in the Black Sea area and Soviet missile tests, providing tactical and strategic intelligence on Soviet operations,. Large Format Softcover. Good. Issued to Military.

Farrar, Sraus and Giroux, 1965 12, 650 pps. with numerous b/w plates. Gold endpapers. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked, Black coth-bound boards with metallic gold printing Near Fine. Gold DJ with b/w cover illustration and balck and white type has closed tear near spine and some scuffing on reverse but is tight and bright. A rare study of the Nabataeans, whose kingdom included that archaeological wonder of the world:,Petra. In protective mylar.. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8" x 10.25".

Michigan: Grand Rapids International Publishing, 1958 189 pp.with 9 B&W plates and one map. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Green cloth boards are clean and bright. Dust jacket has several tears and chips, now in mylar protective cover.. Second Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Lebanon: American University of Beirut, 1971 23, 143 pp. with b/w line idiagrams and illustrations scattered throughout. Text is clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Blue cloth boards with gold stamping on spine clean and without flaw. DJ with beige ghosted image of heiroglyphics on front cover and large red title is tight and bright with some small closed tears on upper edge and minor surface wear.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8.5" X 11.25".

Little Brown & Co., 1951 Little Brown & Co., 1951 419 pp. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks on back of first free page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Maps of Egypt and Yugoslavia on endpapers. Tan cloth boards are intact, faded. 6th Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. 6th Printing.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Ankara, Turkey: Maden Tetkik Ve Arama Yayinlarindon, 1963 82 pp with 8 B&W plates. Text in Turkish and English. Large color fold-out map in rear pocket and fod-out chart of tectonic activity in the Kayseri region at end of text. Map is "as new." text is clean and unmarked. Covers are lightly soiled, frayed along edges.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Ankara, Turkey: Maden Tetkik Ve Arama Yayinlarindon, 1973 115 pp with 6 B&W plates Text in Turkish and English. Large fold-out map in rear pocket. Map is "as new." text is clean and unmarked. Covers are clean, undamaged.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1978 308 pp. with 20 B&W illustrations, ten of which are maps of the individual explorers' routes. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright and undamaged. Picture is of the book you will receive.. 1st Ed.. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Century, 1990 210 pp with one double-page map. Text is clean, tight unmarked. Previous owner's name stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged, now in mylar wrapper.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Thunder's Mouth Pr, 1994 l, 325 pp with 16 B&W plates. In 'Fire this Time,' U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark reveals the horrors he witnessed traveling through war-torn Iraq during and after 'Desert Storm.' Illustrations are very disturbing. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

Barnes & Noble, 1995 179 pp. A thorough history of the French Foreign Legion from its founding in 1831 to the present day. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright, undamaged with very slight shelfwear.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book Club Edition.

Bobbs-Merrill, 1927 Bobbs-Merrill, 1927 354 pp with portrait of the author frontis, 52 B&W plates plus two double-page maps. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks on front pastedown. A dedication from the author to Anna Beth Scully Fairbanks reads,"Long Life to Beth Fairbanks a good girl from Dick Halliburton a good boy on Feb 4th 1928.' Front hinge cracked but holding. Red cloth boards dulled along spine. By Author. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.SKU 700762. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Casablanca,: The Moroccan Courier "The Only American Newspaper in the Sherifian Empire", 1956 Casablanca, : The Moroccan Courier "The Only American Newspaper in the Sherifian Empire", 1956 190 pp with maps, B&W illustrations and tipped-in color photos plus a folder for international customs, currency and passport information in a pocket inside the back cover. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Pictorial covers are rubbed, first free page has some cut marks. With advertisements by the usual suspects. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Good.. 1st Edition.. Paperback. Good.

Capricorn, 1966 256 pp. The Gullistan, or Rose Garden, is the foremost work of Persian literature, more widely quoted in all Islam than any other book except the Koran itself. That its fame is not equal in the Western world is due largely to the nature of its treatment of homosexual love. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Dorset Press, 1993 277 pp with B&W illustrations in text. A reprint of the original 1936 book. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, Red boards with cloth spine are undamaged. Dust jacket is bright and intact. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Printing of This Edition.. Quarter-bound Paper. Fine/Fine.

Algeria: The Ministry of Agricultre and Agrarian Reform, 1975 158 pp with color illustrations throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers have considerable rubbing. # 001880. Large Format Soft Cover. Very Good Minus.

Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1931 Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1931 64 pp . Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue cloth boards have a spash mark on front board. Covers the period of 751 A.D. to 813 A. D. and the diplomatic relations between the Frankish kings, Pippin and Charles the Great, with the Muslim world. Size: 6.75 " x 10.25". First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Camebridge, MA: Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press, 1991 551 pp with 32 B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is clean, bright, undamaged.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.