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ARCHITECTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD: Its History and Social Meaning
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New York: Morrow, 1978. . First printing. . Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Errata slip laid in. . A panoramic survey of the entire field of Islamic architecture, from mosques to markets, from citadels to cemeteries, with the emphasis upon function and meaning rather than upon chronology and style. . . The book concludes with a comprehensive inventory of the key buildings of the Islamic world - 250 examples divided geographically." Texts by Ernst J Grube, James Dickie, Oleg Grabar, Eleanor Si... more information
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$60.00
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BANKING ON BAGHDAD: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict
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New Jersey: John Wiley, 2004. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) . Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy) . This book 'chronicles the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce and conflict. Tracing the involvement of Western governments and militaries, as well as oil, banking, and other corporate interests in Iraq, Black reveals that today, just as throughout modern history, the world needs Iraq's resources-and remains committed to acquiring an... more information
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$20.00
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CASPIAN RAIN
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San Francisco: McAdam/Cage, (2007.) . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) . The author's fourth novel, a moving and lyrical account of the struggles of a young Jewish girl coming of age in an upper class family in Tehran, Iran in the decade before the Revolution. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ... more information
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THE CRY OF THE PEACOCK
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New York: Crown, (1991.) . First printing. . Very near fine in a like dustjacket. . The author's first novel, covering 200 years of the history of Jews in Iran. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ... more information
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$40.00
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DOCUMENTS ON IRANIAN SECRET POLICE - SAVAK
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Confederation of Iranian Students (National Union.) 1976. . First printing. . Very good in printed white wrappers (some toning and soiling to the covers.) Uncommon. . A compliation of letters, manuscripts and newspaper clippings published by the Confederation of Iranian Students, December 1976 (that is, the year before serious demonstrations against the Shah's regime began.) Much of this is in FARSI, including letters and some charts, but it also includes about 50 or more pages of reproductions of ... more information
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GAZA: YEAR IN THE INTIFADA: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land
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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1991.) . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . 'In 1989 Gloria Emerson, an ...American journalist lived in the Gaza Strip in order to witness and understand Palestinian resistance to Israeli military occuption, which began in 1967... In her acutely observant and moving book, Emerson describes how the daily lives of Gazans are deformed by the occupation in all its harsh, injurious forms.' The Palestinian problem was then - and still is almost 20 years lat... more information
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$12.00
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MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. . First printing. . Fine in near fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy but with crinkling and a short tear to the bottom of the spine of the dj.) . Iranian-born author's second novel, an epic tale which follows Roxanna, born as a bad-luck child in the Jewish ghetto in Tehran, through the worlds of Iran's aristocracy to the whorehouses of Turkey and then to modern day Los Angeles. INSCRIBED on the title page ("To --- with best wishes") and ... more information
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MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.) . Iranian-born author's second novel, an epic tale which follows Roxanna, born as a bad-luck child in the Jewish ghetto in Tehran, through the worlds of Iran's aristocracy to the whorehouses of Turkey and then to modern day Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page and dated April 1999, in the year of publication. ... more information
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MY FATHER'S PAST: A� �S�o�n�'�s� �s�e�a�r�c�h� �f�o�r� �H�i�s� �J�e�w�i�s�h� �P�a�s�t� �i�n� �K�u�r�d�i�s�h� �I�r�a�q�
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Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) . W�i�n�n�e�r�� �o�f� �t�h�e� �N�a�t�i�o�n�a�l� �B�o�o�k� �C�r�i�t�i�c�s� �A�w�a�r�d for Autobiography: � "When Ariel Sabar was growing up in California during the 1980s, the generational divide between he and his immigrant father was strained to the breaking point. . . . his t... more information
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PERSIAN NIGHTS
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. . First printing. . Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.) . A novel of romance and intrigue, set in pre-revolutionary Iran - but most of all the story of a woman 'the most unliberated she knows' left alone in Iran when her husband, a visiting doctor, is called back to the US for an emergency, and discovering her ability to cope with it all and then discovering that things are not as they seem. Nominated for the Pulitzer. SIGNED on the title page. ... more information
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PERSIAN NIGHTS
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. . First printing. . Very good in a very good- dustjacket (remainder line, closed tear and edgewear at top of dj spine.) . A novel of romance and intrigue, set in pre-revolutionary Iran - but most of all the story of a woman 'the most unliberated she knows' left alone in Iran when her husband, a visiting doctor, is called back to the US for an emergency, and discovering her ability to cope with it all and then discovering that things are not as they seem. Nominate... more information
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$22.00
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QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Malcolm H. Kerr
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Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut, (1991.) . First printing. . Very good in a good dustjacket (marginal notations and underlining, edgewear to the dj, sunning to the spine.) . Includes "a rich collection of Arabic and Islamic studies contributed by an international body of scholars. In memory of the late Malcolm H. Kerr [who was President of the American University at the time of his death] The essays reflect his abiding interests and contain studies of contemporary Middle Eastern poli... more information
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READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A Memoir in Books
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New York: Random House, (2007.) . Later printing. . Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some pencilled notations on rear endpaper, erasable.) . For two years, before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered together 7 young women, former students of hers at the university, and together they read and discussed forbidden works of Western literature. 347 pp. ... more information
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THE ROYAL GREEEN JACKETS (Osprey Men-at-Arms series)
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London: Osprey Publishing, (1977.) . First printing. . Very near fine in stiff glossy pictorial wrappers (covers creamy rather than white.) . A study of this British regiment from its service in the French and Indian war in North America through the Napoleonic Wars, the Great War and World War II. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and reproductions of old engravings and drawings, plus a section of eight full color plates by MIchael Roffe. First edition of this early title in t... more information
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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
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New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . Second novel by the author of "The Kite Runner." Set in Afghanistan, this spans 30 years from the Soviet invasion through Taliban rule to post Taliban reconstruction. Afterword. 372 pp. Went quickly into later printings. ... more information
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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
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New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. . First printing. . Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . Second novel by the author of "The Kite Runner." Set in Afghanistan, this spans 30 years from the Soviet invasion through Taliban rule to post Taliban reconstruction. Afterword. 372 pp. Went quickly into later printings. ... more information
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TORN BETWEEN TWO CULTURES: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out
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Sterling, VA: Capitol Books, Inc. 2003. . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) . An interesting look at Afghanistan and the Muslim culture by a woman born in the United States to first generation Afghan immigrants, and who, because of the closeness of her family and the size of the refugee community, continues to feel close to her Afghan heritage, even while growing up in America. Photographs. Index. 191 pp. ... more information
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TRAVELLER'S PRELUDE
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London: John Murray, (1951.) . 2nd printing. . Fine in near fine dust jacket (some pages still unopened, dust jacket is price-clipped.) Uncommon in this condition. . The first of three volumes of autobiography which Stark wrote: this was originally written as a personal record at the request of Sir Sydney Cockerell (to whom it is dedicated), mostly in Cyprus during intervals of war work - in her dedication refers to this as depicting 'in a small way, a war of its own. the clash of conflict of human s... more information
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WEST OF KABUL, EAST OF NEW YORK
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2002.) . First printing. . Fine in fine dust jacket. . The day after Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends, duscussing the attack from his perspective as an Afgan American. That message, spreading via the Internet, reached and touched millions of people around the world." An always interesting,sometimes moving, account of growing up in two worlds, the Afghan of his father,... more information
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