Paris and Washington, D.C.: Somogy Art Publishers/Musée du Louvre/Freer-Sackler Museums, 2010 [2012]. First Thus from Freer-Sackler. Quarto (28.5x25.5x4.5cm); 607pp, including maps, index, and bibliography. Richly illustrated throughout with color and B&W photographs. English edition with presentational introductions doubled in Arabic. Issued in photographic boards without dust jacket. Note that..... 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
![Israel With Love [Inscribed to William Safire]. Dorothy Rice](/pictures/thumb/6600.jpeg?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." Quarto. 144 pages. Full color illustrations and photographs. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust..... More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, [1912]. Presumed second edition with no edition statement. Octavo. 409 pages. Red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to boards with a bit of fraying at bottom of spine. Spine is sunned. A few stray dark markings. Cracked..... 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
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
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972-1973. Stated First American Edition. Octavo (each volume 23.5x15x4cm); Vol I 643pp with 24 images and 55 figures in B&W; Vol II continuous pagination, pp. 649-1375, with 16 images and 14 figures in B&W; bibliography of sources and index. Coated pictorial dust jackets..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition. Octavo; x + 346pp + bound-in appendix of 32pp of publisher's prospectuses. Eight B&W full-page illustrations by Charles M. Sheldon; one fold-out map of Afghanistan. Three-color pictorial stamping and gilt lettering on front panel and spine. All textblock edges stained shiny green..... 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
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901. First Edition. Octavo. 298 pages. Black and white illustrations. Publishers blue cloth stamped in red and gilt. Light wear to extremities with brief exposure. Spine is toned. Some intermittent scuffing. Binding is sound with front hinge starting. Pages unmarked... More
London: Constable & Company, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 22 cm. 433 pages. 32 black and white plates; 3 color fold-out maps. No dust jacket. Publisher's green olive cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Ownership stamp of George Camp Keiser, founder of the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, to front..... 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
![The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames [Signed]. Kai Bird](/pictures/thumb/6328.jpg?v=1591732396)
New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. Fourth Printing. Signed by Bird on title page without inscription and dated May 28, 2015. Octavo. 430 pages. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket over black boards white lettering to spine. Jacket is rubbed and worn along edges, but with no chips or tears. Boards..... More
Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2009. First Edition, paperback issue Quarto. 346 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Wraps lightly worn along edges. Significant bowing to wraps from horizontal center of rear, but binding remains sound and volume largely lays flat. Pages clean and unmarked. More
![Caucasus, War and Peace: The New World Disorder and Caucasia [Inscribed and Signed]. Mehmet...](/pictures/thumb/7389.jpeg?v=1601577992)
[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
![The Red-Haired Woman [Signed and Dated by the Author]. Orhan Pamuk, Ekin Oklap, Chip Kidd,...](/pictures/thumb/7724.jpg?v=1604470160)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd; [10],253pp. Long closed slash (from exacto knife?) to front jacket panel not quite touching text, slightly affecting front board, else a Near Fine copy. Signed and..... More
Washington, D.C. and Boulder: Mage/Westview Press, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Octavo (28x20x3cm); xviii + 391pp, including Persian-Arabic-English concordance of names. Illustrated with 250 images, 13 in color, the remainder in B&W. Illustrated dust jacket; deep forest-green boards with silver stamping on spine and panels. Volume I in a projected "Bibliotheca..... More
Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2010. Quarto. 341 pages. Illustrations. Red cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, as issued. Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Unread. Some wear to plastic shrinkwrap with a few small punctures. A touch of shelfwear to corners of boards. Volume 16 in the..... More
London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1824. Early reprint. 12mo; full contemporary brown straight-grained morocco, black gilt-lettered spine label; iv,[4],xii,[1]-385,362*-384*,[385]-716,12(ads)pp.; woodcut frontispiece, 47 leaves of plates (collated and complete). Boards a bit scuffed and expertly reattached at a later date with archival repair at spine foot to match, tiny..... More
Paris: Félix Alcan, 1911. Sixième Édition. 12mo (18cm.); recent calf over the original cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[1],352pp.; map in text. Stock a bit brittle and toned, else a Very Good or better copy in sturdy and handsome new binding. Treatise on the "Macedonian question" of the late..... More
Philadelphia: William Poyntell and Associates, 1806. First American Edition of Xenophon. Octavo; 547pp including indexes. Contemporary tree calf with gilt spine rules; gilt title in red compartment. Blind-tooled panel edges. Textblock trimmed with all edges speckled red. Entirely in Greek and Latin. Shaw-Shoemaker American Bibliography 11903. Spine slightly darkened..... More
![Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of The Militant Islamic Movement [Signed]. Zaki Chehab](/pictures/thumb/001387.jpg?v=1600366153)
New York: Nation Books, 2007. First Edition. Signed "Best Wishes," by Chehab on front free endpaper. Octavo. 244 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Light edgewear to dust jacket with some creasing. Some scuffing to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More