Israel - Palestine - Middle East from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Nyack, NY: CONAME, [ca 1972]. 5 manila envelopes (12"x9") with printed labels, containing a total of 29 reprinted articles and 6 introductory sheets. All housed within large manila envelope (13"x9.5"), labeled in manuscript. External envelope rubbed and worn, with some dustsoil: Good only. Internal manila envelopes slightly rubbed, with minor rust to metal closures; enclosed articles with mild foxing… Read more about this item

College Park, Maryland: Iranian Students Association, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publihser's cream coloured card wraps, staple bound, titled and decorated in black and red to front and rear wraps. 31pp. Clearly a rather home-made production, some soiling to the off-white wraps, fore-edge untrimmed, a little isolated creasing and dog-earing here and there. A very good clean copy. Internally… Read more about this item

London: Fisher, Son, & Co, [1837-1838]. First Editions. Three volumes; first or early printings, with half-titles dated 1837,1837, and 1838. Small quartos (27cm). Contemporary gilt-panelled calf, elaborately tooled borders, spines extra-gilt, gilt turn-ins; pale yellow coated endpapers; 80;76;100,[4]pp; engraved half-titles, 120 steel-engraved plates after W.H. Bartlett, William Purser, and Thomas Allom. Some professional restoration to bindings, including discreet tissue… Read more about this item

New York: M. Evans & Company, [1969]. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Deep gray cloth hardcover; dustjacket; red top-stain; 240pp. Tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap); noticeably toned on spine, lightly rubbed and worn, Very Good. An admiring portrait of the Israeli armed forces, with whom… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1937. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 373pp. Mild bumps to board corners, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap), lightly rubbed with some shallow losses to extremities, Very Good. The Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel, considered one of the first classics… Read more about this item

London / New York: Soncino Press, 1982. Third edition. Two volumes. Cloth hardcovers in dustjackets and publisher's slipcase; 246+286pp. Fine and unmarked, in fine dustwrappers and unworn slipcase. A new-appearing set.

New York: Scribner's, 1932. First American Edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's burgundy cloth. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, minor marginal sunning to cloth and some light bumping to extremities, strong and vibrant, in a clean, sharp example of the pictorial dustjacket with some light marginal wear and chipping, most notably to spine ends, and… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, (2001). First Edition. First printing. Octavo Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; x,326pp, illus. Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. Account of members of the Jewish Brigade Group in the British Army during WW2, and their subsequent careers as Nazi hunters and members of the Haganah Underground. A new-appearing, apparently unread copy.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1968. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [13],14-319,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by Dan Bawley on the front endpaper to J. Wayne Fredericks, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1961-67): "To Mr. Fredericks / with best regards / Dan Bawley… Read more about this item

London: Printed for A. Millar and W. Sandby, 1757. Second Edition. Quarto (26.5cm). Full sprinkled calf, spine divided into six compartments, each stamped in gilt, titled on brown spine label, floral gilt roll to board edges, textblock edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; [xx],513,[1]pp; 37 plates, including 15 maps (9 folding) and 22 other plates (4 folding), 6 intaglio headpieces,… Read more about this item

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. Second American printing (lacking the Doran "lozenge" on copyright page, with letter "B" beneath title). Octavo (23.5cm). Pictorial brown cloth over boards; xx,1-336; deep red topstain; fore- and bottom edges uncut; frontispiece and 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones); folding map at end of text; pictorial endpapers. Neat printed bookplate affixed… Read more about this item

London: Longman Group UK, 1986. First Edition. First impression. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 208pp; illus. Tight, clean and unmarked; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, mildly toned at extremities and with a short, closed tear at upper panel; Near Fine. Photo-illustrated survey of historically important mosques, with scholarly background essays on each. The author was a professor of Art… Read more about this item

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1934. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Cloth hardcover; viii,81pp; illus; frontispiece and three inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) not reckoned in pagination. Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper; slight toning to prelims; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A seminal work in its field, regarded as "...the first book dedicated to… Read more about this item

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,184, plus 8pp of illustrations. Tight, Near Fine copy in VG+ dustjacket. "Compliments of the Canada Council" ink-stamp to front endpaper. The Canadian politician and historian's second book, examining Canadian military involvement in Egypt between 1882-1898.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. Fourth printing. Octavo (22cm). Cream cloth stamped in green and gilt, green topstain, purple dust jacket; vi,287,[3]pp. Small ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Pushed at head and tail, else clean: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, unclipped (priced $6.95), gently toned along flap edges, foxed along spine on verso, but nevertheless… Read more about this item

[N.p.; photographer unknown, ca 1990]. Three large-format black-and-white photographic prints, 11" x 14"; very mild creasing at edges, still Near Fine. Three anonymous but excellent images of a Gulf War-era demonstration, probably in Manhattan, ca. 1990. The photographer is unidentified, but the prints are of professional quality, and capture close-up scenes of crowds carrying banners and placards… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,523pp; frontispiece, seven inserted leaves of plates; six maps in text; folding genealogical table. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else a tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper. Second volume (only) of Runciman's oft-reprinted critical history of the Crusades, increasingly hard-to-find in the… Read more about this item

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1949. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound wrappers; 143pp. Near Fine. Left perspective on the role of post-war imperialist foreign policy in the development of the international oil industry; includes chapters on the formation of Iraq, the rise of Azerbaijan as an economic power, Arab relations with the west, etc.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First Edition. First impression. Quarto; tan buckram hardcover in dustjacket; 244pp; illus. Tight, fine, unmarked copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper; Near Fine. Scholarly study of the history of maritime trade in the Near and Middle East, with particular attention to the history and culture of the dhow, the ubiquitous trading vessel of the… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2008. First Edition. Small quarto (26cm). Pictorial laminated boards; 542pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy, apparently unread. Issued without dustwrapper.