Americana from Khalkedon Rare Books, IOBA, ESA

Buenos Aires: Imprenta "Dorrego, 1952. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original pictorial wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Russian. 269, [2] p., photographic b/w plates on [8] unnumbered pages. Slight wear to lower spine, slight folding on extremities, light foxing. Overall, a very good copy. First… Read more about this item

USA: TLS, 1980. No Binding. Very Good. Typescript letter signed on paper with Ismail's personal letterhead, telephone, his address "20426 Country Club Drive Harper Woods, Michigan 48236, U.S.A.", and Basmala in Arabic with English translation. With its envelope with letterhead. 28x22 cm (open size). In Albanian. 16 lines on a single page. Dated July 8, 1980. An… Read more about this item

Elaziz (Elazig) - Harput (Kharput): Manuscript Historical Document., [AH 1339], 1923. No Binding. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original manuscript autographed historical document. 33x21 cm. In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 21 lines on 1 page. A legible Riq'a script. Occasionally foxing on the paper, slightly chipped extremities, folded, a… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Cem Yayinevi / Hüsnütabiat Matbaasi, 1967. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 231, [4] p. Very rare first Turkish edition of "the catcher in the rye" by Salinger, one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, translated… Read more about this item

Ankara, Yeni Meclis, Turkey: Central Treaty Organization Public Relations Division., [After 1960], 1961. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original wrappers. Oblong 4to. (21 x 27 cm). In English. [14] p., b/w photos. Scarce photographic booklet documenting the maritime exercises under the code name "Midlink Three" in the Arabian Sea, of thirty-five warships from… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Vatan Matbaasi., [AH 1341], 1925. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. No bdg. Wear spine, dispersed pages. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 197, 6 p., 5 panoramic folded huge b/w plates (Including the photographic plts.; 1-) Turkish Convention May,… Read more about this item

Athens: Ikaros., [ca. 1950], 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very scarce and attractive first Greek edition of Hemingway's 'The Old Man and The Sea', translated by Dimitris Mperakhas. Copy with no date, according to the OCLC it's printed in the [1950s], and this masterpiece was translated very early… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Resimli Gazete / Sebat Matbaasi, 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 13 p., a b/w picture shows John D. Rockefeller sitting and reading a newspaper on the front cover, and three unnumbered… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Vakit Gazete ve Matbaasi, 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First and only edition of this very rare 20th century Turkish-Americana, and the first book written to introduce the world of Hollywood to the Turkish audience, by the first Turkish society reporter. Turan Aziz Beler was a… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Ak Kitabevi, 1960. 1st Edition . Dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very attractive first Turkish edition of this 19th century American religious epic with its very scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. Two volumes in one. Cover illustration was made by Turkish contemporary artist Nihat Öcal, a famous cover illustrator of… Read more about this item

Constantinople (Istanbul): Impremiere Mahmoud Bey / A[rtin] Assadourian., [1310 AH], 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine half leather bdg. with marbled boards. Two volumes in one. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). The text in Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters) with bilingual titles in Ottoman Turkish… Read more about this item

New York: N. p., Dated 1958-1959, 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. Original 36 b/w photographs taken by anonymous Turkish traveler to the US in 1958-59. 9x12,5 cm. Printed on Kodak Velox Paper. Embossed frames. Dated mostly February 1958 and April 1959. Photographs show the entrance of Rockefeller Plaza, New York with flags of various countries (including the… Read more about this item

[Kostantiniyye - i.e. Constantinople]: N.p., [1273 AH], 1857. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Lithographed Edition. First and Only Edition of this first Turkish book exclusively related to America. This very rare work (both in scarce institutional holdings and market rarity) is the first book in Turkish to describe the… Read more about this item

Peshawar: University Book Agency (Outside Kabuli Gate) / Manzur-e-Am Press, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Extremely rare first and only edition (not in institutional catalogues and market) of this travel book to America in the mid 20th century by Pakistani journalist and intellectual Sharif Farooq, who was invited to… Read more about this item

Istanbul: C. Naydlingen / Singer - Matbaa-yi A. Zellich Mahdumlari [i.e. A. Zellich and Sons Printing House]., [ca. 1882], 1882. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First and Only Edition of this extremely rare first user guide for the Ottoman market for a sewing machine manufactured by the Singer Company.… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Varlik Yayinlari, 1955. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Scarce first Turkish edition of "The Sun Also Rises" by Hemingway, one of the most significant figures of 20th century American literature. The novel was published in 1955 for the first time in Turkish with the translation of Filiz Karabey… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Dogan Kardes Yayinlari A.S., 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First and Only Edition of this scarce travel book of America in the 20th century, by the founder of Turkish "Life" magazine and Tifdruk Publishing House in the Republic of Turkey. Sevket Rado was a Turkish journalist,… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Remzi Kitabevi / Yükselen Matbaasi, 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original illustrated wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 332 p. Uncommon First Turkish Edition of Faulkner's "The Sound And The Fury", with its extremely rare fine-designed and illustrated dust wrapper. … Read more about this item

Istanbul: YKY: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari , 2000. Dust jacket. New/New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (29 x 24 cm9. In English. 2 volumes set: (678 p.), richly ills., photos. A history of Robert College: The American College for Girls and Bogaziçi University (Bosphorus University). This two volume slipcased set is the… Read more about this item

Ankara: Tarik Edip ve Sürekâsi Kütüphanesi, 1934. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 108, [2] p., bibliography and index. First Edition of this rare first study on Mexico peasantry in Turkish literature written by early Republican Turkish peasantry ideologist and early… Read more about this item