Middle East from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly on half-title p. by author. 433pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover. The author's first book. Mackey (1937-2015) also wrote about Iraq, Lebanon and the Middle East in general.

1970 reprint. 288pp. paperback: Good+ [bit of age darkening here and there; few ink names inside back cover; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A well-received title in its field by the India born Sufi writer and teacher Shah (1924-96).

London: Haus Publishing, 2010 reissue. 195pp. illus. paperback: Fine.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007 1st Am. ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 481pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [a rough top front cover corner bump; else a nice crisp copy] A popular bio of the "female Lawrence of Arabia" Bell (1868-1926), an "inventor" of the country of… Read more about this item

New York: Beechhurst Press, 1950 1st ed. 261pp. navy cloth 8vo: Good/no dj [rubbed @ top corner tips and spine head; brief ink gift inscription; else a nice clean, complete and tight copy. A memoir of the first Arab-Israeli War in 1948 by an American veteran of that conflict and WW2 who died in 2010.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World Harvest Books, c1958 reissue. 283pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A journey retracing the route of Alexander the Great in Turkey by the indefatigable British writer Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993), originally published in 1958.

Denver: Outskirts Press, 2007. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 122pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine. "Memoirs of a nice Irish-American 'girl's' life in occupied territory." A printed notice of the book also inscribed by the author is laid in.

Westport, CT: Institute for Language Study, 1989 reprint. 251pp. illus. paperback 16mo: Fine [rem. line top edge; else F] A Henry Holt Owl Book distribution of a title originally published in 1975.

New York: Knopf, 1972 1st ed. 687pp. + 38 (xxxviii) index pp. russet cloth sm 4to: near Fine in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover.

Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1969. INSCRIBED warmly on title p. by author. 245pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [small ink name on ffep; else F; dj = p-c; some transfer of color of red spine cloth to yellow dust jacket rear fold; else G+] Christian uplift from the writer who went from this sort of… Read more about this item

New York: Barron's, 2001 2nd ed.  298pp.  paperback: Fine.  A handy shirt-pocket sized volume.

published in Turkey, 1998. 48pp. illus. paperback sm 4to: Fine. A colorfully illustrated short study of the subject.

New York: Anchor Books, 2001 1st ed. thus of reissue. 628pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [edges are age browned; top edge is foxed; else a nice clean and crisp copy] A well written scholarly consideration of the subject. A. N. Wilson: "Karen Armstrong is a genius."

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005 1st ed. 280pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [ink surname on front fly leaf; else F] An unlikely candidate for a war correspondent's surprising coverage of the Iraq War.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2007 1st ed. thus. 793pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: near Fine. A well-praised history with cover encomia ranging from Christopher Dickey to Henry Kissinger.

Harmmondsworth, UK: Penguin/Pelican Books, 1955 1st ed. thus. 256pp. paperback: a good reading copy [text is age browned; wear @ spine strip; else a clean & complete copy] A standard work by the English archaeologist Seton H. F. Lloyd (1902-96).

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 1st ed. 282pp. hardback sm 4to: near Very Good in a Fine dj [text is age browned; edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A thoughtful work praised by Natalie Zemon Davis, Chalmers Johnson, John L. Esposito, et al.

New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1991 1st ed. thus. 307pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A popular study of Lebanon’s civil war era that began in 1975.

New York: Atheneum. 1987 1st Am. ed. 390pp. illus. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [ink name & address on half-title p.; couple of small faint coffee splashes on fore edge; text is untroubled; else nrVG] An entertaining historical guidebook selected and introduced by the son of a former British ambassador to Turkey.

Oxford Univ. Press (Clarendon), 2005 1st ed. 307pp. illus. black cloth tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.