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THE DESERT AND THE STARTS A Biography of Lawrence of Arabia

By: Armitage, Flora

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1955

Seller ID: 17890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Boards worn and dampstained. Light fraying to spine ends. ; From the collection of Gloria Vanderbilt, with her name on front endpaper ; 8vo; 318 pages
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SUNSHINE AND STORM IN THE EAST

By: Brassey, Mrs.

Price: $255.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1880

Seller ID: 1309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Some fraying to top and bottom spine. Front hinge weakening. Some fraying to rear map margin, not effecting printed area. Previous owner's name to front pastedown; Rare. Numerous b&w illustrations and two maps; 8vo; 448 pages
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THE STORY OF THE PERSIAN WAR From Herodotus

By: Church, Alfred J.

Price: $318.65

Publisher: New York, Scribner and Welford: 1882

Seller ID: 12490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Wear to extremities. Tissue protector to frontispiece torn. Front hinge started; Conflict from two millenia ago ; Color Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 292 pages
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TAMRART 13 Days in the Sahara

By: Clark, Eleanor

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Stuart Wright: 1984

Seller ID: 15103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

An adventure with a group, in the Sahara; 8vo; 106 pages
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IN THE SUN WITH A PASSPORT

By: Crowbridge, W. R. H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett, Ltd.: N.D.

Seller ID: 2064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Endpapers browned. Foxing to edges; Two young widowed ladies travel to and fro in Arabia; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages
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JOURNEY THROUGH ARABIA PETRAEA, TO MOUNT SINAI, AND THE EXCAVATED CITY OF PETRA, THE EDOM OF THE PROPHECIES

By: De Laborde, M. Leon

Price: $700.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1836

Seller ID: 94

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Boards faded and professionally repaired. Very light occasional foxing. Front free endpaper dog eared ; Scarce. SIGNED on front endpaper by the Earl of Ellenborough with his bookplate. Frontispiece of "Interior View of the Khasne". One fold-out map and Numerous tissue guarded b&w illustrations; 8vo; xxviii, map, 331, 4 pages
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THE TREASURES OF TIME

By: Deuel, Leo [editor]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cleveland, The World Publishing Co.: 1961

Seller ID: 14462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Chipping with small tears to DJ. Minor occasional foxing; Various authors weigh in on Middle Eastern archaeology ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 318 pages
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THE ARAB OF THE DESERT A Glimpse Into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia

By: Dickson, H. R. P.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1949

Seller ID: 17162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Light rubbing to spine ends. Hinges professionally repaired. ; Profusely illustrated, partly in color: maps, charts, photographs ; 8vo; 648 pages
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TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA [TWO VOLUMES SET]

By: Doughty, Charles M.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1937

Seller ID: 18134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Boards darkened, especially spine. Moderate fraying to corners and spine ends ; Fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. ; Drawings; 4to; 674, 696 pages
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WANDERINGS IN ARABIA [TWO VOLUME SET] Being an Abridgement of "Travels in Arabia Deserta"

By: Doughty, Charles M.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Duckworth and Co.: 1923

Seller ID: 19182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light chipping to top spine. Former owner's initials on front free endpapers ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 309, 297 pages
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TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA

By: Doughty, Charles M.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Heritage Press: 1953

Seller ID: 19298

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Spine a bit browned; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 453 pages
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STRANGE LANDS AND FRIENDLY PEOPLE

By: Douglas, William O.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1951

Seller ID: 10347

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Price clipped DJ shows open tears ; Sitting Supreme Court justice Douglas journeys to the Middle East ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 336 pages
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STRANGE LANDS AND FRIENDLY PEOPLE

By: Douglas, William O.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1951

Seller ID: 19705

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ with light chipping and with small loss to front bottom and spine. ; In the summers of 1949-50, Supreme Court Justice Douglas travelled south of the Soviet border to: Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, India. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages
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T.E. LAWRENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY

By: Duval, Elizabeth W.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Arrow Editions: 1938

Seller ID: 10322

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

In worn slipcase which is missing part of the top. Bookplate; Limited to 500 copies printed for Arrow editions November 1938 ; Narrow 4to--10" tall; 95 pages
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KUWAIT: TRADE AND INVESTMENT

By: El Mallakh, Ragaei

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boulder, Westview Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2016

ISBN: 0891583750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Front endpaper a bit browning and with small stamp. Light soiling to DJ rear; ; 8vo; 262 pages
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FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSASEM

By: Friedman, Thomas L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux: 1989

Seller ID: 17894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Stated first edition; 8vo; 525 pages
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PERSIAN ART 249 B. C. -A. D. 651 the Parthian and Sassanian Dynasties

By: Ghirshman, Roman

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, Golden Press: 1962

Seller ID: 15736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Light wear to DJ extremities with laminate peeling; Lavishly illustrated with numerous fold-outs. Photogravures; The Arts of Mankind; B&W and Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 401 pages
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LORDS OF THE HORIZONS A History of the Ottoman Empire

By: Goodwin, Jason

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt: 1999

Seller ID: 15760

ISBN: 0805040811

Binding: Hardcover; Seventh Printing

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

For three hundred years, the Ottoman empire in the Middle East teetered on the brink of collapse. Then it collapsed. The definitive history of this misunderstood time; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 352 pages
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LORDS OF THE HORIZONS A History of the Ottoman Empire

By: Goodwin, Jason

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt: 1999

Seller ID: 15943

ISBN: 0805040811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

LABRADOR LOOKS AT THE ORIENT Notes of Travel in the Near and the Far East

By: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1928

Seller ID: 1156

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Some rubbing to covers especially top spine. Apparent marginal light dampstaining to last couple of pages; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 298 pages
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LABRADOR LOOKS AT THE ORIENT

By: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Jarrolds Publishers: N.D.

Seller ID: 6449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Boards darkened, rubbed and with some closed tears to spine ends. Front endpaper with mark from removed bookplate. Front hinge weak; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages
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MOTORING WITH MOHAMMED Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea

By: Hansen, Eric

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1991

Seller ID: 15728

ISBN: 0395483476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Slight wear, one small tear, and sticker residue to DJ; Author Hansen was shipwrecked off the coast of Yemen and buried his journals there upon resuce, thinking to pick them up in a few days. It was years before he took up the search and the shipwreck and the subsequent return journey is the subject of this book ; 8vo; 240 pages
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MOTORING WITH MOHAMMED Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea

By: Hansen, Eric

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1991

Seller ID: 16551

ISBN: 0395483476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Author Hansen was shipwrecked off the coast of Yemen and buried his journals there upon resuce, thinking to pick them up in a few days. It was years before he took up the search and the shipwreck and the subsequent return journey is the subject of this book ; 8vo; 240 pages
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MOTORING WITH MOHAMMED Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea

By: Hanson, Ed

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1991

Seller ID: 2023

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo; 240 pages
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FROM AN ANTIQUE LAND Ancient and Modern in the Middle East

By: Huxley, Julian

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, Max Parrish: 1954

Seller ID: 15964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Small tear to spine covering. Spine faded. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Slight wear to extremities; A detailed account of a trip through the Middle East under the auspices of Unesco. With 66 photographs taken by the author; B&W & Color Photographs; 8vo; 310 pages
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ARAB COMMAND The Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Peake Pasha

By: Jarvis, C. S.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1946

Seller ID: 18829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Small stamp on front free endpaper. ; Chapters include "England, India and Egypt" - "Sudan and Salonica - and torpedoed!" - "With Lawrence's Arab Army" - "The Turkish Rout" - "Early Days of Arab Government" - "Formation of the Arab Legion" - "Mutinies and Revolts" - "Friction with the French" - "King Hussein's Arrival" - "The Coming of the Wahabis" - "Major Glubb and the Beduin Peace" - "Revolt in Palestine"; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 158 pages
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SHAW-EDE T. E. Lawrence's Letters to H. S. Ede 1927-1935

By: Lawrence, T. E.

Price: $426.53

Publisher: Waltham, Golden Cockerel Press: 1942

Seller ID: 8793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown ; Limited edition of 470, of which this is number 238. Original quarter dark morocco, slipcase; 8vo; 62 pages
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CORRESPONDENCE WITH BERNARD AND CHARLOTTE SHAW [VOLUME ONE] 1922-1926

By: Lawrence, T. E.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Woodgreen Common, Castle Hill Press: 2000

Seller ID: 8832

ISBN: 1873141270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Volume one of a projected three volume set, volume two having been published in 2003. One of 45 copies bound in quarter brown goatskin. Top edge gilt. Slipcase; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 227 pages
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