THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN by Woolley, C. Leonard and T. E. Lawrence - 1936

London: Cape. Good; some wear, some chipping of DJ Book includes the very scarce Dust . Jacket. 1936. Hardbound. 204 pages .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. new edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. 8 x 10 in. 166 pp. Red cloth boards. Section of plates, maps and fold-out map. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, toned at upper edges. Corners mildly bumped, minor shelf wear. Binding tight. PO's name on ffep, text unmarked. DJ is FAIR ; clipped, vertical stain on front, very chipped, section around spine head gone. Ancient Hist. RGR.

London: Stacey International . This is a Fine Copy of this book in publisher's cream cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer extremities of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped.This copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.The page edges are clean and bright with crisp white page edges.The Dust-wrapper comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve.Lovely copy for the collector and illustrated with 37 plates and with some 59 illustrations set within the text and with 3 maps.8vo 290pp Revised Edition [2003] . Fine. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 2003.

Jonathan Cape, 1936T. hardcover. Very Good. 1st Thus 1936 HB Jonathan Cape; no dust jacket; with bookplate of the noted historian Sir Michael Oppenheimer

London: Stacey International, 2003. The Wilderness of Zin, first published as the Annual of the Palestine Exploration Fund for 1914/15, describes an incredible archeological survey carried out as cover for a British military mapping operation in southern Palestine just before the outbreak of World War One. The most comprehensive account of the region at the time, it is still a most important work ninety years later. "Admirers of T. E. Lawrence will find it a valuable addition to the ana of that strange and impressive personage" (The Montreal Gazette). "A brilliant record of hazardous adventure" (New York Sun).

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1936. First trade edition, first impression, originally published in 1914 by the Palestine Exploration Fund. "During January and February 1914, Lawrence and Woolley, in the company of a British Army surveying detachment led by Capt. Newcombe, under the guise of an archaeological survey, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula, then under Turkish suzerainty. The British sought updated maps for the war they felt was coming. To complete the fiction of the archaeological work, Woolley and Lawrence wrote The Wilderness of Zin, the first of Lawrence's works to appear in book form [when it came out originally in 1914]" (O'Brien). Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge red. With dust jacket. With 40 plates, 2 maps, line drawings in the text. Foxing and toning to endpapers; jacket lightly soiled, spine toned with minor damp staining to foot, nicks and short tears to extremities, not price clipped: a very good copy in like jacket. O'Brien A006.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First US Edition. Translated from the original Italian title Un Uomo by William Weaver, about a Greek revolutionary hero who fights alone and to the death for freedom and truth. Fallaci (1929-2006) was an Italian journalist and author and became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders. A Man is based on Alexandros Panagoulis, with whom Fallaci had a long relationship. She maintained that he was assassinated due to his work with the Greek resistance and his (unsuccessful) assassination attempt of Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos. A Man received the Italian awards Premio Viareggio and Premio Nazionale. 9½ x 6½". 0671252410. Purple over grey boards, gold letters on spine, title blind stamped on front board. 463 pp. Dust jacket has crease to front flap, small chips, discolored edges of DJ and boards. Text edges scattered light foxing not extending onto pages, else a Good… Read More

THE KING OF KINGS, Copyright 1927, Grosset & Dunlap. Written by Jeanie Macpherson and Henry Macmahon. USED. 257 pages plus adverts. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Light brown boards with delft blue titling and ornamentation. VG Condition/Acceptable RARE original H.B. Warner dust jacket. The jacket is in acceptable condition with wear and loss to back panel and spine. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Sorry about the stack of books photos. King of King is the only title available here. Summary: "The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It depicts the lasts weeks of Jesus of Nazareth before his crucifixion, and stars H.B. Warner in the lead role.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1994. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr., 1994. 8vo., 358 pages, illustrated b/w photos. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..

London Richard Bentley 1886. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original blue gilt decorated cloth, bit of spotting, and internal hinge paper is cracked. But a very clean, solid copy. A fine history of Syria and Palestine published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Conder's approach was to ignore Hebrew literature, basing his archaeological history on the evidence only of uncovered monuments and inscriptions, etc. Illustrated by 29 illustrations, 3 folding maps. first edition..

T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. 8vo., xi+227 pages, illustrated with tables, charts. Name on fly leaf, minor sun fade along botoom edge from dust jacket shift, else a very good plus, clean, bright, tight copy - no shelf wear, in a very good spine sunned dust jacket chipped at the crown.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo..

Inscribed by the publisher, In memory of Ada Seeley from F.P Seeley 9 March 1929. 325 pp. 22 x 14.5 cmz. 780 grams. 1.5 cm tear in middle of top spine. photo loose opposite page 48.
The title reads in full: "An intimate account of the family life of the Arabs of Syria, their manner of living in, desert & town, their hospitality, customs, & mental attitude, with a description of the animals, birds, flowers & plants of their country."

Adela Monica Goodrich-Freer Spoer (1870-1931) was an author who initially wrote under her maiden name of A. Goodrich-Freer, and then under her married name of A. M. Spoer.

New York, Ecco, 2007, hardcover, 332 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Signed twice by the Author, once on the half-title page including location and date in the year of publication, and again on the title page, Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight bump to heel of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight bump at heel, in new Brodart sleeve. The award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Children of the Flames: Dr. Joseph Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz returns to tell her own family story of glamour and luxury in post-war Cairo and their hasty escape to America as Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes Egyptian industry and purges the city of foreign influences. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs from the author's personal collection. Selected Bibliography appended. ISBN 9780060822125

New York, Pantheon Books, 1997, hardcover, 226 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Fine in Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean, one red dot to top edge of textblock. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slightest edge bumps, in new Brodart sleeve. This first, full-length work from the well-known journalist, freelance writer, founder of the literary magazines Normal and XXIst Century, and author of Diary of a Djinn, presents stories of some unique characters in her family and their adventures and travails throughout Europe, The Middle East, The United States, and Japan. ISBN 9780679417637

H. RIDER HAGGARD: Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus. Longmans, Green and Co., Copyright 1918. States 1920 on the title page. March 1920 Third Printing Thus. 1920 Used. Good- condition/ no DJ. States 1920 on title page. Blindstamped red cloth boards. Titling still visible on spine. Colour frontispiece of Merapi at a chariot. Gutter separation at back hinge. Bright pages. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana." Rare/Scarce. By H. Rider Haggard, author of "She", King Solomon's Mines, and the Allan Quatermain Professor Challenger series.