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New York: Random House, 2006. xxvii, 447 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Engrossing read, fascinating character. "Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution, became celebrated across fascist Europe. His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino - a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust - is still in print today. But Lev's life grew wilder than his wildest… Leer más

Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. iv, 259 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Exhibition held at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 6 December 1997 to 22 February 1998 and the Auckland Art Gallery, 20 March to 7 June 1998. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly faded. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Curated by Roger Benjamin, with Mounira Khemir, guest curator and contributor; Ursula Prunster, guest curator and contributor; Lynne Thornton, contributor.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Picture research by Sarah Waters. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear. protected in a mylar cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. xiv, 347 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination. Bringing together art history and the social and political history of San Francisco, this vividly detailed study unravels the complex cultural encounter that occurred between the women and men living in Chinatown and the artists who walked its streets, observed its commerce, and visited its nightclubs. Artistic representations of San… Leer más

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum; Getty Museum Studies on Art Ser., 1996. 116 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Roger Fenton's photograph Pasha and Bayadere is a fascinating image in its own right and is an expression of a more general Orientalist craze that grew steadily stronger during the nineteenth century in Europe. In his rich and detailed study, Baldwin explains how this image of a seated man and a dancing woman embodies themes and motifs that can be found in the work of nineteenth-century artists from Eugene Delacroix to John Frederick Lewis to Alfred Lord Tennyson. He has also brought to light significant new information about the life and career of Fenton, the important Victorian photographer best known for his photographs of the Crimean War." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Heritage Press, 1946. 1 volume (unpaged), [8] leaves of plates, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Text and plates printed on folded leaves in Japanese style. Colour plates on glossy paper. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards, age toning. "The illustrations for this edition were drawn in colour and gold by Arthur Szyk, and engraved in London by the Sun Engraving Company. The text set . . . under the direction of Ernest Ingham at Fanfare Press, in London." - Colophon. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Szyk, Arthur. 4to.