Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. 195 pp. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards mildly rubbed along edges and binding is sound. Two private library stamps -- one to front free endpaper and one to title page -- though these are the only..... More
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
Berlin: VeneKlasen/Werner, 2013. First Edition. Small Quarto (18x14cm); 49pp. Full-page reproductions on every page. Saddle-stapled self-cover booklet. Very slight twist to the staple-binding edge, a result of storage pressures. All pages otherwise pristine. This is the catalog of the Alsoudani show at the (then) VeneKlasen/Werner gallery in..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pale grey price-clipped dust jacket printed in dark teal; 382pp.; facsimiles printed on pp. 277-352. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few small chips and closed tears, spine panel quite toned with small damp stains, light dust-soil..... More
Haifa, Israel: Or-Ron Publishing House Ltd., 1984. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [6],vi,280pp.; photo-illustrated endpapers. Light shelf wear, brief shallow biopredation along bottom margin of jacket spine not approaching text, corners bumped, some occasional pencil marginalia and highlighting to early leaves; overall Good to Very..... 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..... More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2003. First Edition. Octavo. 309 pages. Signed by Gold on half title page to William Safire with inscription, "Bill, / Here it is. Thank / you for standing up all / these years for our / Freedom. Hopefully this / will help. / Best wishes, /..... More
![Item #6600 Israel With Love [Inscribed to William Safire]. Dorothy Rice](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6600.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1597263852)
Beverly Hills, CA: Glen House Communications, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Rice to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription, "To William Safire with love Dorothy Rice." Tall quarto. 144 pages. Full color illustrations and photographs. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt... More
First Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991. First Edition. Inscribed by author to William Safire on front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "To Bill - / A friend, mentor + role model - / Your down-to-earth approach to life + work is an / inspiration. / Thanks for..... More
![Item #26216 The Holy Cities of Arabia [Two volume set]. Eldon Rutter](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26216.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681764318)
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, Ltd., 1928. First Edition, first impression. Two octavo volumes. 303; 288 pp. Frontispiece with lettered tissue guard to each volume; eight maps, complete. Green cloth boards decorated in gilt; top edges gilt. No dust jackets. Very slightly ex-library with paper label call numbers..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; xvi + 693pp, including 27 appendices (on Intelligence structure; U-boats; bombing; air offensive; the Nuremberg raid; etc.) and index. Ten tipped-in fold-out maps or site plans, several in six colors. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
[Cairo]: Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers, n.d., ca. 1880s. Large oblong folio (25x34cm.); original brown cloth album with binder's ticket of the Parisian establishment Anc. Mon. Martinet to front pastedown; [50]ll. thick blue card stock filled nearly to completion with eighty-six (86) albumen photographs (mostly 20.5x27cm or the inverse) captioned..... More
London: Johnson, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, maroon topstain; vii,[1],184pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Ex-library (Rotnerham Public Library, UK) with rather extensive and yellowing interior markings, jacket extremities rubbed, especially at spine crown, with a couple closed tears, spine panel faded, light fingersoil to..... 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
Worcester, MA: Bennate Publishing, [1998]. First Edition. Quarto (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xvi,[2],222p.; illus. throughout. Light wear and dust soil to jacket extremities, corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better. 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..... More
Lahore, Pakistan] Directorate of Media Affairs / Pakistan Air Force, 2007. Revised Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; viii,120pp.; color illus. throughout. Tear to upper jacket panel affecting "PAF" without loss, light shelf wear, early leaves a bit soiled; overall Very Good and sound. Pictorial..... More
First English Language Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's green printed card wrappers; [4],xv,[3],233pp.; two folding plates, text illus. throughout, including photographs. Wrapper extremities extremely toned and rather foxed, small chip at top spine edge of upper cover, previous owner has written the title at bottom edge of textblock as well as..... More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. 210 pages. Signed by authors on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "March 9, 1989 / For William Safire, / Hoping this will make a / small contribution to greater / understanding. / With our love, / Janet and..... More
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[Haarlem, Netherlands: SOTA, 1998.] Octavo; publisher's yellow printed card wrappers; 221pp. Minor bumping at corners, ownership signature to title page, faint, brief pencil marginalia to a few leaves, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed in year of publication on title page: "With regards / Hoping..... More
Tel Aviv: The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1985. First Edition. Signed by co-author Rabinovich on half title to journalist William Safire with inscription "Sep 25, 93 - For Bill, Despatches or dispatches? A book that has a lot to do with language and politics. Cordially, Itamar..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1989. First UK Edition. Octavo; 125pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with £12.95 price intact; book in red cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges, with a bit of sunning to spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, [2005]. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,431pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Moderate shelf wear and dust-soil to textblock edges, else a Very Good copy. More
Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1966. Quarto. 268 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Text in German, Arabic, and Hebrew. Spine lightly toned and a few minor scuffs to boards. Binding sound, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. More
London: T.N. Foulis, 1919. First Thus. Quarto; publisher's cream pictorial cloth stamped in brown; [114]pp.; fifteen leaves of color plates tipped to stiff grey stock (tissue guards), text printed within grey decorative border throughout. Cloth a bit soiled, corners gently bumped, hinges reinforced and brief paper repair to front free..... More