FORSTER, E.M.

Alexandria : A History and a Guide. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell.

New York, Anchor Books / Doubleday. 1961, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Vintage reprint of classic travel book originally published in Alexandria in 1922 which included the first appearance in English of C.P.Cavafy's poem "The God Abandons Anthony" [p. 104 ] translated George Valassopoulos. 243p. maps. index. Neat, tight unmarked text, paper covers age toned, else fine. Near Fine.

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Book number: 043026

Catalogue: Egypt

Keywords: Alexandria . Cavafy Lawrence Durrell Alexandria Cavafy, C.P.

GAUNT,WILLIAM

Touring the Ancient World with a Camera

London, The Studio. 1932, 1st UK Edition. Cloth. Ill.: Holme, C. Geoffrey (Photographs). Book, Issued simultaneously in US by William Edwin Rudge. Vintage B & W photographs of Italy, Greece Istambul (sic) Rhodes, Damascus, Palestine and Egypt. A very interesting visual journey around the eastern Mediterranean - places and people as seen c.1930. viii, 120p. Maps.Yellow cloth binding slightly soiled and splitting along the spine. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 041628

Catalogue: Egypt

Keywords: Holme, C. Geoffrey (Photographs)Greece Middle East Italy Istambul (Sic) Rhodes, Damascus, Palestine and Egypt Photographs. Italy Greece - Photographs

GEDGE, PAULINE

House of Dreams

Toronto, Viking. 1994, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0670855987) French Wraps. Book, [US Title Lady of the Reeds] ] A story, set in ancient Egypt, of an intelligent, ambitious woman named Thu, who leaves her native village aboard the boat of a prophet and eventually becomes a powerful concubine of Ramses III. As New.

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Book number: 042702

Catalogue: Egypt - Fiction

Keywords: 0670855987 Ancient Egypt Historical Fiction Pharaoh Canadian Writers Egypt - Ancient

GEDGE, PAULINE

House of Illusions

Toronto, Penguin Canada. 1997. (ISBN: 014025871X) Pbk. Book, Sequel to the House of Dreams continuing the story of Thu, former concubine of Ramses III and her survival in exile.466p. Neat tight copy, name of owner on ffep. Very Good.

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Book number: 043428

Catalogue: Egypt - Fiction

Keywords: 014025871x Ancient Egypt Fiction Canadan Wrters Egypt - Ancient

GEDGE, PAULINE

Piramitlerin Kizi = Child of the Morning

Istanbul, Altin Kitaplar Yayinevi. 1999, First Thus. (ISBN: 9754059810) French Wraps. Book, Translation into Turkish of the novel "Child of the Morning" based on the life of Hatshepsut, Queen and Pharaoh of ancient Egypt. [5 copies found in Worldcat]. As New.

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Book number: 043652

Catalogue: Egypt - Fiction

Keywords: 9754059810 Ancient Egypt Historical Fiction Hatsheptsut Pharaoh Books in Turkish Canadian Writers in Turkish Xtu 005 Books in Turkish Canadian Writers in Turkish

HAAG, MICHAEL

Alexandria Illustrated

Cairo, Egypt, American University in Cairo Press. 2004. (ISBN: 9774248341) Soft cover. Book, Written and photographed by Michael Haag.Alexandria has had a checkered history since its foundation by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. From its glorious days as the intellectual center of the Hellenistic and early Christian world, it declined into a near-forgotten backwater with a population of only a few thousand at the time of the French invasion of 1798. Renewed prosperity and commercial growth came in the nineteenth century under Muhammad'All. Today it is Egypt's second city and the favorite summer resort of millions of Egyptians. In this guide to one of the world's great cities, Michael Haag explores Alexandria's past and present in word and picture, from the ancient Pharos to the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina, from Anfushi to Montazah. He directs our curiosity not only toward the ancient monuments of the city and its fine Greco-Roman Museum and new National Museum, but also to the ambience of a more modern era, that cosmopolitan Alexandria alive with the literary echoes of Cavafy, Forster, and Durrell. Beautifully illustrated with 125 color photographs, this is a fascinating armchair tour of the pageant that is Alexandria.80p. illus Name of owner, else finen. Near Fine.

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Book number: 042798

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Keywords: 9774248341 Alexandria Egypt Hellenistic Period Alexander the Great Alexandria

KEELEY,EDMUND

Cavafy's Alexandria

Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 1996, First Pbk.Ed.. (ISBN: 0691044988) Soft cover. Book, C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy"s literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 224p. bibliography.index. As New.

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Book number: 31404

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Keywords: 0691044988 Alexandria Egypt Poetry Greek Cavafy Alexandria Cavafy, C.P.

KEELEY,EDMUND

Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress

Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press. 1976, 1st.US Edition. (ISBN: 0674104307) Hardcover. Book, C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy' literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 196p. bibliography.index. Fine/Near Fine - Slight Chip.

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Book number: 31405

Catalogue: Egypt

Keywords: 0674104307 Alexandria Egypt Poetry Modern Greek Cavafy Alexandria Cavafy, C.P.

TALBOT, GODFREY

Speaking From the Desert : A Record of the Eighth Army in Africa.

London, Hutchinson. 1944, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, Eyewitness account from BBC radio reporter of the campaign in North Africa, and particularly of the Battle of El Alamein."But this book is more than a war correspondent's log of a campaign. It is a distinguished observer's account of his and the soldiers' personal experiences in the desert, written in that intimate style which Godfrey Talbot gives to his BBC broadcasts." (no date 1943-44?) 153p. Plates (B & W) (Spine slightly scuffed and faded). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 37554

Catalogue: Egypt

Keywords: El Alamein Egypt Bbc World War Ii Libya Rommel Montgomery World War Ii Z$As

ZALOSCER, HILDE

Tissus Coptes

Lausanne, Payot. 1963, First Thus. French Wraps. Book, [ Orbis Pictus series Vol.37.].Small illustrated introduction to Coptic textiles in French 48p. illus (col). Near Fine.

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Book number: 044395

Catalogue: Egypt

Keywords: Coptic Textiles Fabrics Weaving Egypt Copts Xcop 000 Textiles Embroidery & Needlework