Search Results: Iraq from Rose's Books, IOBA

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006. Book. Very Good. Quarter Cloth. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black quart cloth over red boards with red lettering embossed on spine and front board, 656 pp. Former owner name on endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

Mallard Press, 1991. Book. Fine. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First edition. 4to. Pictorial boards. Unpaged. Color photographs. Maps. Fine in fine dustjacket in mylar cover..

Cologne, Germany: Orient-Mercur, 1958. Cologne: Orient-Mercur, 1958. First Edition. 8vo. Trade paperback. In French and Dutch. 114 pp. Slightly soiled. Illustrated throughout with black and white and color pictures. Near fine.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Harper Collins, 1985. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. New. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. London: Harper Collins, 1985. Reprint. Cloth binding, 233 pp. Wilfred Thesiger's classic account of the eight years he spent living with the tribespeople of the Marshes of Iraq. First published in 1964 to great acclaim, this book by one of the century's greatest explorers describes a way of life which lasted for thousands of years, but has now all but vanished. Travelling with his medicine boxes and his teams of canoemen around the junction between the Tigris and the Euphrates, Thesiger visited nearly every village in the Central Marshes and came to know intimately the people who inhabit this landscape of islands, lakes and waterways, living with them in their reed houses and sharing their unique way of life. He beautifully evokes the landscape and its teeming wildlife and vividly brings to life the many friends he made among the Marsh Arabs. His extraordinary… Read More

London: Harper Collins, 1985. London: Harper Collins, 1985. Reprint. Cloth binding, 233 pp. Wilfred Thesiger's classic account of the eight years he spent living with the tribespeople of the Marshes of Iraq. First published in 1964 to great acclaim, this book by one of the century's greatest explorers describes a way of life which lasted for thousands of years, but has now all but vanished. Travelling with his medicine boxes and his teams of canoemen around the junction between the Tigris and the Euphrates, Thesiger visited nearly every village in the Central Marshes and came to know intimately the people who inhabit this landscape of islands, lakes and waterways, living with them in their reed houses and sharing their unique way of life. He beautifully evokes the landscape and its teeming wildlife and vividly brings to life the many friends he made among the Marsh Arabs. His extraordinary photographs provide a stunning record of the last remnants of a people and their culture. New.. Reprint.… Read More

New York: Random House, 2002. New York: Random House, 2002. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 494 pp. Slight, inadvertent fold inside flap. Fine in near fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.