Middle East from Lansdowne Books

Near Fine First Edition (May 1, 2003) First Edition First Printing 237 uncut pages with B&W illustrations in text. Maps on endpapers. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition. Veteran US journalist Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia (1999), seeks to educate Americans… Read more about this item

Blue cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here, the princess turns the spotlight on her two daughters, Maha and Amani, both… Read more about this item

Original brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and designs on cover and along spine; very light rubbing along spine and tips. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for previous owners inscription dated 1892.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. With illustrations in colour, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. This absorbing new publication provides a concise but complete description of the Arabian countries benefiting most from the affluence sweeping the Middle East in the 21st century. The New Gulf ? How Modern Arabia is Changing the World for Good focuses… Read more about this item

A Fine copy. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine in protective mylar. No markings or rubbings. Printed on acid free paper with purple end-pages. This culinary milestone has been hailed as a masterpiece, a classic, and the first and last word on eastern Mediterranean cooking. A welcome blend of scholarship and entertaining reading, this revelatory work features a wide range of authentic,… Read more about this item

First Edition. With 28 fine plates, including 16 in colour and 12 in monochrome, and with 34 line drawings within the text, many of which are quite large, decorated title-page printed in black and red. Publisher's original olive cloth-covered boards backed in buckram and ruled and lettered on the spine in dark green titling to spine. Top edge of pages… Read more about this item

As New Hardback in unclipped As New Dust jacket, 631 pages 32 Photographs 23.5cm x 15.5cm Equator Crossings: Travelogue Extraordinary is set against a backdrop of nineteenth-century Africa, Zanzibar, Europe and Oman. An upstage American press magnate's single three-letter-word telegram to his British competitor leads Henry Morton Stanley to 999 gruelling days of exploration in a quest to discover and define… Read more about this item

Near Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Hardcover first edition - First printing. A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. Originally… Read more about this item

Revised edition with Maps, Index, Contents and Preface. A comprehensive edition with extensive references.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original grey boards with gilt letter in dust jacket with mylar protective cover; pp. xxiv, 520 (last blank), with illustrations. Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty. The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Gertrude turned her back on house parties and debutante balls,… Read more about this item

Good condition. Good dust jacket in protective mylar.

Red Cloth with gilt lettering and in illustrated dust jacket protected in mylar. An examination of the stereotypes of the Arabs as they are seen in the West.

1st Edition. 216 illustrations, 84 in colour. No marks or inscriptions.

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper in protective mylar. 23.5 × 15.5cm, 263pp Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles to front gilt and to spine black, top edge blue, others untrimmed. Pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net, sketch map drawn by E.G. Morton, photographic plates throughout and in-text drawings by the author. Title-page wood-cut vignette by Reynolds Stone,… Read more about this item

L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1909. Original Hardcover V. Good First Edition. Decorative endpapers, Rough cut pages on fore-edge and lower edge sound and tight. ; 330pp + 47pls. ; In protective jacket.

George G. Harrap, London, 1946. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket in protective mylar covering. First Edition. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Original binding in orange cloth with gilt title. With a forward by Freya Stark and sixty-four plates in Half-tone. 169 pages, includes index. Colour map printed end papers. A very nice tight, clean, straight. An account of… Read more about this item