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The Son of a Star

By: Borchsenius, Poul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: 1960

Seller ID: ID196131

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 224 pages A history of the Jews from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 to Hadrian's suppression of Simeon's insurrection in 135.
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Saddam's War The origins of the Kuwait conflict and the international response

By: Bulloch, John and Morris, Harvey

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1991

Seller ID: ID173242

ISBN: 0571163874

Binding: Hardback

The Gifts Of The Jews. How A Tribe Of Desert Nomads Changed The Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

By: Cahill, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 1998

Seller ID: ID307578

ISBN: 0385482485

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected inour purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's neat stamps to each edge. 291 pages Explores the origins of monotheism and its ongoing effect on our world.
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The Struggle for Egypt. From Nasser to Tahrir Square

By: Cook, Steven A.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 2012

Seller ID: ID309325

ISBN: 0199795266

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 408 pages Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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My Country: The Story of Modern Israel

By: Eban, Abba

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1972

Seller ID: ID239527

ISBN: 0394463145

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition in Good+ Dustjacket. DJ has some edge wear and is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 304pages.
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Holy War, Holy Peace How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East

By: Gopin, Marc

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 2002

Seller ID: ID297795

ISBN: 0195146506

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 269 pages Presents a bold new strategy for building an enduring peace through greater integration of cultural and religious factors.
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Revolt of the Scribes: Resistance and Apocalyptic Origins

By: Horsley, Richard

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Fortress Press: 2010

Seller ID: ID312015

ISBN: 0800662962

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good + condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 229 pages. Lets the language of the apocalypses themselves reveal their chief concern - the expanding domination of foreign empires and the form that popular defiance should take.
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To Build the Promised Land

By: Kaufman, Gerald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1973

Seller ID: ID224786

ISBN: 0297765094

Binding: Hardcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ chipped at edges with several closed tears. Top corner of half-title page clipped. Neat initials to upper edge of front free endpaper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps to endpapers. 259 pages Surveys the aspects which were most characteristic and influential in modern Israel's development.
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The Integration of Modern Iraq

By: Kelidar, Abbas [Edited by]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Croom Helm: 1979

Seller ID: ID311271

ISBN: 0856645109

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. DJ spine lightly discoloured. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 200 pages. A collection of essays by a number of Iraqi and British scholars that examines some of the crucial issues affecting the political and economic development of modern Iraq.
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Secret Despatches from Arabia

By: Lawrence, T. E.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, The Golden Cockerel Press: No Date [1939]

Seller ID: ID304156

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Leather Spine with raised bands. Gilt to top edge. Boards are a little grubby with small patches of tanning to the front and rear hinges. The edges of the deckled pages are a little tanned but no impact on the text block. Black and white frontispiece (photo of T. E. Lawrence). Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press in Perpeptua type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Limited edition of 1000 (of which 1-30 were fully leather bound) of which this is number 902. Previous owner's name to front f...
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Crisis in Egypt

By: Lockwood, Rupert

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Sydney, Current Book Distributors: 1952

Seller ID: ID267220

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Uncommon. Staple-bound - pamphlet style. 16 pages A series of short articles on issues relating to Egypt.
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Egypt Old and New A Popular Account of the Land of the Pharaohs from the Traveller's and Economist's Point of View

By: Martin, Percy F.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: 1923

Seller ID: ID310612

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Good Condition. Very faint stain to front cover (almost invisible) Some mild foxing to endpapers. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Mild yellowing to page edges. Illustrated with nearly 50 tipped-in colour plates (all present) and many black & white photographs. Fold-out map to rear. Still includes the Publisher's Note tipped in between the contents pages indicating who took the photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. A very well illustrated and informative look at 1920s Egypt.
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The Slave Trade

By: O'Callaghan, Sean

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Anthony Blond: 1961

Seller ID: ID300135

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. A few pages have some minor marks. 191 pages Slave trade in the middle east.
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The Babylonians A Survey of the Ancient Civilisation of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley

By: Saggs, H.W.F.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2001

Seller ID: ID296738

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near fine condition in a very good slipcase. A very nice copy. Introduction by T. G. H. James. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 444 pages.
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Between Past and Present. Archaeology, Ideology and Nationalism in the Modern Middle East

By: Silberman, Neil Asher

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Company: 1989

Seller ID: ID204453

ISBN: 08050906x

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black and white maps. 285 pages Shows how the politics of this turbulent region often influence and, at times are influenced by, the discoveries of archaeology. A fascinating look at the realities of contemporary archaeology.
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The New Silk Road How a Rising Arab World Is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China

By: Simpfendorfer, Ben

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave MacMillan: 2009

Seller ID: ID270158

ISBN: 0230580262

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 202 pages A ground-breaking study of the changes taking place in the Arab world and in China. Based on both first-hand accounts and analysis this book offers an unrivalled view of how the Arab world is turning away from the West and toward China.
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A History of Iraq

By: Tripp, Charles

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2007

Seller ID: ID311901

ISBN: 052170247X

Binding: Softcover

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 357 pages.
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Lords of the Land: The War for Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007

By: Zertal, Idith & Eldar, Akiva

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Nation Books: 2007

Seller ID: ID313223

ISBN: 1568583702

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. 531 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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Category: History-Middle East