Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1971. Octavo; xlix, 196pp. Blue-gray boards with gilt lettering and emblem. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their bookplate to front pastedown and usual markings. Boards are sturdy and square with some light smudging to cloth and nudging at spine ends. Surface abrasion from removed card pocket on rear..... More
Baghdad: Times Press, n.d., [ca. 1950]. Oblong octavo (16x21cm); publisher's white staple bound wrappers printed in red and black; [1]ll. text followed by twelve (12) plates printed on rectos only. Margins a bit toned and rubbed from handling, brief splitting at spine ends; Very Good, internally fresh and sound. Rare..... More
![Item #27724 Israel: Poems on a Hebrew Theme [Limited Edition signed by Sillitoe and Steadman]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27724.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697838199)
London: Published by Ralph Steadman at the Steam Press, 1981. Limited Edition of 98 copies signed by Sillitoe and Steadman at colophon, this being #31. Two volumes in one, quarto, and both volumes bound in black cloth case with spine lettered in gilt; Steadman's 18 b&w illustrations to one side..... More
London: Constable & Company, 1917. First UK Edition. Octavo (19cm); 125pp. Lacks dust jacket. Boards bound in brown cloth with black stamping to front panel and spine. Boards / spine condition. Binding heavily bumped and scuffed. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned. Good or better. Contemporary Cairo bookseller ticket to..... More
Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery / Freer Gallery of Art / Smithsonian Institution, [1992]. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 271pp.; halftone and color illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins, faint surface scratches to both panels, gift inscription to front flyleaf; Very Good and..... More
Tehran, Iran: Soroush Press / Published under the Auspices of the Shahbanu Farah Foundation and the National Iranian Radio and Television, 1977. Third Edition, Second Impression. Sixteen Quarto volumes; blue-gray cloth stamped in silver. Plates and illustrations, some color. No dust jackets. Mild rubbing; spotting to spines; spotting to edges of..... More
![Item #49001 The Fihrist of al-Nadim: A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture [Two Volumes]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/49001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789061491)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Second Printing. Two Volume set. Octavo (23cm); publisher's green cloth with original glassine dust jackets; Vol 1: xxxiv, 570pp.; Vol. 2: 1169pp. Dust jackets toned on spines and top edges with some rubbing and small chips. Boards clean and bright; corners square; pages unmarked..... More
London: K. Rustem & Brother, 1988. First Edition. Octavo; xvii + 329pp, including bibliography and index. Appended section of 16 documentary and photographic illustrations. Teal dustjacket over black boards; gilt spine lettering. Jacket slightly faded along top edge and spine, but with no chips or tears. Boards and textblock as..... More
![Item #47496 The Good Soldiers [Inscribed and Signed]. David Finkel](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47496.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774799592)
New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2009]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [8],287pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, textblock edges rather dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title..... More
![Item #47684 E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1919-1936 [Nine volume set] [Original...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47684.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776021680)
Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1987. First Thus. Nine small quarto volumes (25.5x18cm), complete; illustrated boards. Photographic inserts to rear pocket of supplement. Light rubbing and bumping to edges of boards; bindings sound; pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good or better set of an impressive and wide-ranging work, beginning with Aaron..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Second Edition. Two octavo volumes. 336 pp. 326 pp. + 10 pp. publisher's advertisements. Two hand-colored frontispieces, plate of Tauk Kisra, eight in-text woodcuts, and folding map of the author's route from Bussorah to Kizliar on the Borders of the Desert of Astrakhan with route in..... More
London: Ro. Allot, 1627. Third Edition. Small folio (29cm); full modern blind-embossed calf to style, spine in six compartments with brown gilt spine label, all edges marbled, retaining original endpapers; [4],309pp.; engraved folding map titled "Part of Africa," one additional folding view, engraved architectural title page adorned with seven allegorical..... More
Fribourg, Switzerland: Arabesque, 1985. Second Edition. Two folio volumes; publisher's leatherette in glossy photo-illustrated dust jackets and matching gilt-lettered slipcase; 188; 132pp.; full color and halftone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, faint damp spot to slipcase, else a Very Good or better set. Both volumes inscribed and..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments with red and black gilt-lettered onlays, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],368pp.; chromolithographed frontispiece. Leather rather dried and rubbed along margins, smallish loss to bottom fore-edge corner of rear..... More
Peshawar, Pakistan: PAF Book Club, 2002. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; viii,112pp.; color illus. throughout. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities, light soil to textblock extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.Pictorial history of the Pakistan Air Force, replete with paintings by Hussaini..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1929. Fourth (1957) Impression. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; vii,[1],398pp.; frontispiece, seven leaves of halftone plates and maps. Dust jacket rather worn with chipping and closed tears at spine edge, rather long strip of biopredation along top half of rear..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967. Reprint. Octavo (22cm); publisher's beige dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; [xvi],[357]pp. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with rubbing at spine ends and surface abrasion with loss of text from removed sticker at bottom of rear panel. Boards are clean and square. Small..... More
Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, Jun., 1802. First American Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine; viii,[13]-154,[2]pp. (collated complete despite error in pagination, with final leaf of publisher's ads bound in rear). Leather scuffed at margins, front joint starting to crack, spine gilt dulled, endpapers rather ragged and significantly filled with..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1995]. First Edition. Large quarto (28.5cm); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [2],xxx,672pp.; sixteen leaves of color photographic plates, halftone text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to cloth and jacket margins, corners bumped, ownership inscription to front free endpaper; Very Good and sound overall. More
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo; printed dust jacket; blue-gray cloth boards stamped in black; 324pp. Maps; charts and graphs. Mild rubbing and sunning to dust jacket. Dust soiling to top edge of boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good or better copy. More
![Item #28188 Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David [Signed]. Lawrence...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28188.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701268381)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Signed by Lawrence Wright without inscription at title page. Octavo. 345 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black and blue boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with mild surface scratching. Boards with light shelfwear and..... More
Jerusalem: Moslem Orphanage Press, 1931. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm); staple bound self-wrappers; 7pp. Old folds lines, brief oxidation at staples, else Very Good and sound. Unrecorded brochure advertising the motor-car tours organized by M. Wahbey to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Samaria, Damascus, Petra, Jerash, and Amman. Each location includes a short description..... More
![Item #32296 Arab Contemporaries: The Role of Personalities in Politics [Signed]. Majid Khadduri](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32296.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741964906)
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. First Edition. Inscribed by Khadduri at front free endpaper with inscription, "To my friend David Calleo with warmest regards and good wishes, Majid Khadduri." Octavo. 255pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Olive boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket scuffed and rubbed with a few..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xi,[1],249pp.; illus. Small closed tear at top edge of upper jacket panel, spine panel a bit sunned, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. More
Tel Aviv, Israel [?]: [s.i,], 2017. First Edition. Quarto; illustrated boards; 104pp. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Wear to extremities with some surface scratching; binding sound; pages unmarked. Catalog of the works of the Tel Aviv-based artist which leads with a short introduction on Maylor at the Echt Gallery..... More