Middle East from Cat's Cradle Books

Paris: Librairie De Charles Gosselin, 1835. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. French language. Exlibrary markings. Lightly circulated. Full leather over boards edge worn on all volumes, with shelf wear as well. Volume 3 has a scraped area at lower front. Volume 4 has split at joint between spine and front, although the front board is still attached.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings, mainly on endpapers and spine. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge worn at spine extremities and corner tips, with general shelf wear overall. ; Covers Biblical history from the division of the Hebrew empire to the Babylonian exile… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings, mainly on endpapers and spine. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge worn at spine extremities and corner tips, with general shelf wear overall. Spine slightly sunned. ; Covers early Biblical history from Genesis to Moses. Illustrated with maps.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings, mainly on endpapers and spine. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge worn at spine extremities and corner tips, with general shelf wear overall. ; Covers Biblical history from the crossing of the Jordan and the capture of Jericho… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, 1936. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings throughout, most prevalent on spine and endpapers. Sound binding and hinges, although the book is slightly cocked. Pages age-darkened. Cloth over boards is shelf worn with bumped corners, lettering on spine faded. ; Fictionalized biography of medieval Persian philosopher. ; Ex-Library;… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have only minor edge rubbing. Study of the relationship of gender to politics and culture in the Middle East in the first half of the twentieth century. ; 9.0" tall; 402 pages.

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1957. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding, clean and bright interior. Wraps are yellow and white, lightly dust-soiled overall with wear at top of spine. Contents: Bowie and Wentzel, "Wisconsin, Land of the Good Life"; Jones and Roberts, "Charting Our Sea and Air Lanes"; Gentili and Edwards, "Roman Life in… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1958. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Supplemental map of north central United States is missing from magazine. Sound binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, bright. ; Contents: Bowie, "Known but to God." Cameron and Branke, The emperor's private garden: Kashmir. Price, The… Read more about this item

Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Academic, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have no visible wear. ; Anthology of essays by thirteen contributors. ; 9.0" tall; 257 pages.

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers show no wear. Considers both archaeological and literary evidence about Jewish daily life in Palestine from the mid-first century BCE to 70 CE. 9.0" tall; 375 pages.

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers show no evidence of wear. Places the historic Jesus in cultural context. ; 8.5" tall ; 256 pages.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. Later Printing. Hardcover. Fine with no dust jacket. Later Printing. 1969 printing of book originally published in 1938. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean with only minor wear to corner tips. Author, Edward Chiera (1885-1933), was an archaeologist, Assyriologist, and scholar of cuneiform linguistics. This was published posthumously… Read more about this item

Brooklyn NY: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences/Brooklyn Museum, 1941. Hardcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. OrBoards edge rubbed, originally a softcover, bound under paper over boards with original wrappers present. Pages clean, off-white. Paper over boards has a dent at lower front edge, light shelf wear. ; Contents: Westermann, On the background of Coptism. Nock,… Read more about this item

Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing. ; Architectural look at the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Many if not most of the sites described and shown in photographic plates now lie in… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1958. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Supplemental map of north central United States is present, folded in very good condition. Sound binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, bright. ; Contents: Bowie, "Known but to God." Cameron and Branke, The emperor's private garden:… Read more about this item

Rochester, Minnesota: SIsters of Saint Francis, 2003. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Study of Saint Francis of Assisi's encounters with Islam. ; 8.5" (18.5 cm) tall; 151 pages.

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1938. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Map supplement is missing. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages with light reading wear. Wrappers are soiled with handling wear, edge wear, light scuffing near spine. Top of spine is deeply chipped. ; Contents: Simpich, Change comes to Bible lands. In the land of Moses… Read more about this item

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1958. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and shelf wear; top and bottom of spine area with heavier wear. Pages clean, slightly tanned. ; Contents: Siple, Man's first winter at the South Pole. Abercrombie, Young-old Lebanon lives by trade. Davidson, Freezing the trout's… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1958. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, bright. ; Contents: Shor and Roberts, Iraq - where oil and water mix. Belknap, Nature carves fantasies in Bryce Canyon. Fleay, Flight of the platypuses. Marden, The islands called… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Pages clean, bright. Some writing on front endpaper. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has light overall shelf wear with several shallow tears at lower edge. ; History of the presence of Americans in the Middle East during the early… Read more about this item