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| This selection contains 15 title(s) on 1 page. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 15 |
| ANSARY, TAMIM. WEST OF KABUL, EAST OF NEW YORK. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2002.) First printing. 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, and the America of his mother. 292 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-374-287570 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1548] Book number: 44739 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| ASEEL, MARYAM QUDRAT. TORN BETWEEN TWO CULTURES: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out. Sterling, VA: Capitol Books, Inc. 2003. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) ISBN: 1-931865-360 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1548] Book number: 25895 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| BLACK, EDWIN. BANKING ON BAGHDAD: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict. New Jersey: John Wiley, 2004. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) 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 and protecting them. .. Black does not shy away from the uncomfortable truth that foreign governments, including our own, have playe a role in the Iraq we know today. He documents a long record of war profiteering...' As he comments at the end of the book 'the policymakers knew that what was at stake was more the freedom of a few million people in Iraq; it was the prize beneath their feet.' An important and very timely book, well-documented with very extensive notes and references (almost 75 pages). 449 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy) USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1720] Book number: 32146 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| EMERSON, GLORIA. GAZA: YEAR IN THE INTIFADA: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1991.) First printing. '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 later - the 'deepest wound in the Middle East.' Maps. 244 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-871134454 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1032] Book number: 38170 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| HOSSEINI, KHALED. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 9781594489501 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 42297 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| JOHNSON, DIANE. PERSIAN NIGHTS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First printing. 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. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.) ISBN: 0-394-558049 USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2580] Book number: 24789 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| JOHNSON, DIANE. PERSIAN NIGHTS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First printing. 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. Very good in a very good- dustjacket (remainder line, closed tear and edgewear at top of dj spine.) ISBN: 0-394-558049 USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 1892] Book number: 30084 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| NAHAI, GINA B. CASPIAN RAIN. San Francisco: McAdam/Cage, (2007.) First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) ISBN: 9781596922518 USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3010] Book number: 40293 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| NAHAI, GINA B. CASPIAN RAIN. San Francisco: McAdam/Cage, (2007.) First printing. 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. 208 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. ISBN: 9781596922518 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 44179 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| NAHAI, GINA B. MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. First printing. 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. Fine in near fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy but with a tear to the bottom of the spine of the dj.) ISBN: 0-15-1003882 USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2580] Book number: 28566 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| NAHAI, GINA B. MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. First printing. 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. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.) ISBN: 0-15-1003882 USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3010] Book number: 28567 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| RAHIMI, ATIQ. EARTH AND ASHES. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) Brief and moving novel by this Afghan novelist about a grandfather and his grandson during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Translated from the Persian by Erdag M. Goknur. Fine (a new copy in printed red wrappers.) USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1204] Book number: 22768 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| [KERR, MALCOLM H., 1931 -1984] SEIKALY, S.; R. BAALBAKI, R. AND P. DODD, EDITORS. QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Malcolm H. Kerr. Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut, (1991.) First printing. 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 politics, the history of Lebanon, and the Muslim legacy in art, philosophy, and science. Perhaps even more timely now than was it was first published. Includes a foreword by Peter Dodd, an essay on Kerr by Samir M. Seikaly and a Malcolm Kerr bibliography. Among the contributors and topics are Kamil Salibi on Mount Lebanon under the Malmuks, Rashid Khalidi on External Intervention in Lebanon, William B. Quandt on the Camp David negotiations, Lawrence I. Conrad on the archeology of early Islam, Henry J. MacAdam on 19th century Orientalist and diplomat William Henry Waddington and much more. This copy is an interesting association copy SIGNED with the words towards understanding Moslem' by author S. A. Maududi (who has written several books on the Holy Qur'an and on Islam) and also SIGNED in purple ink by Gary Zukav under the words Dancing Wooly Masters and above glorious Quran (Zukav is the author of 'The Dancing Wu Li Masters' among other books). Presumably Zukav's personal copy with some underlining and marginal notations in several essays in the same purple ink (also in green and blue ink). Photographs, notes, index. xli, 326 pp Very good in a good dustjacket (marginal notations and underlining, edgewear to the dj, sunning to the spine.) USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.25 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 5590] Book number: 40929 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| SINCLAIR, GORDON (1900-1984) KHYBER CARAVAN : Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1936.) First US printing. Travelogue of Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair paid for according to the preface by the Toronto Star, but not edited by them. The British empire might have been in its declining days, but you would never know it from this book. Illustrated with maps and many photographs. 316 pp, plus 1 p advertising Sinclair's previous books. Near fine in red-orange cloth with black lettering, lacking the dj (spine slightly sunned.) USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3010] Book number: 43470 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). | ||
| WILKINSON-LATHAM, ROBERT (ILLUSTRATED BY MICHAEL ROFFE.) THE ROYAL GREEEN JACKETS (Osprey Men-at-Arms series) London: Osprey Publishing, (1977.) First printing. 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 the Men-at-Arms Series a very high quality, accurate and attractively produced and well-illustrated series of slightly oversized, but slim, trade paperbacks, measuring 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 3/4 inches tall, bound in glossy illustrated white covers (heavy cardstock) and printed on good quality paper. Select bibliography, Notes. 40 pp. Uncommon in the first printing. Very near fine in stiff glossy pictorial wrappers (covers creamy rather than white.) ISBN: 0-85045249X USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2580] Book number: 37730 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams). |
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