Middle East from Berthoff Books

Ballantine Books, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 603 pages, with index, selected bibliography, notes and sources list, b&w photos on seven double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), light gray paper over boards with dark gray quarter, scant shelf wear, soil to edges, in unclipped dust jacket with scant wear and outer plastic jacket. Former library… Read more about this item

St. Martin's Press, 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 242 pages, with index, appendices on Sunni Islamic prophecies. The author is a former State Department official and director of the Brookings Institution's Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. Medium 8vo, black paper over boards with red gilt lettering on spine, practically no visible wear,… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 470 pages, with index, bibliography, list of characters, author interviews. 16th printing (2007). Area map of the Middle East. B&w photo illustrations on eight double-sided plates. Pre-history of 9/11 attacks incorporates social and institutional history of Saudi Arabia and other countries, biographies of Osama bin Laden, Ayman… Read more about this item

Bonus Books, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 267 pages, with index, maps, foreword by former CIA director James Woolsey. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/4"), black cloth, unclipped dust jacket, scant wear, outer clear plastic jacket. Former library book with relevant stickers, card pocket, stamps. Pages bright and unmarked.

Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages. English translation by George Miller of book published in French the year before. The journalist author was born in Algeria. High-quality mass-market paperback, scant wear to edges, diagonal creases to a few pages, edges/page margins age-tanned. Yellow highlighting observed on five pages.

E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 326 pages, with index, glossary of Arabic and botanical names of plants mentioned, list of characters. Sixty-eight illustrations (b&w photos), seven maps including one large unfoldable formerly glued-on but now laid-in map of the Empty Quarter. Memoir by British officer Thesiger of his travels by foot… Read more about this item

The Ecco Press, 1988. Soft cover. Good. 224 pages. Collected excerpts from Freya Stark's many accounts of her travels in Arabia and the Near East, written between 1927 and 1958. Foreword by Lawrence Durrell. Trade paperback, glossy wraps curled, creased at corners, light soil to edges, a few spots of foxing to end papers, pencil notation on ffep,… Read more about this item

Bantam Books, 1972. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 515 pages, with index, bibliography, chronological tables. Illustrated with b&w photographs of artifacts and digs on 16 double-sided plates; also a map and drawings of hieroglyphs, site layout, etc. Book originally published in German 1949, English translation by Knopf 1951. This "Second revised and substantially enlarged edition" issued by… Read more about this item

Aldine Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 243 pages, with index, five maps and 14 illustrations (cuts and full-page). "First American edition." 8vo (5-3/4" x 8-5/8"), turquoise blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, slight edge wear, corners sharp, light soiling to edges and end papers, in DJ with 1" tear to bottom of front panel, 1-1/2"… Read more about this item

Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1981. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 332 pages, with index. A New Republic Book. "First American Edition." 8vo, lightly soiled blue boards, spine and its gilt lettering sunned, faint foxing to edges and front end papers, tiny chip to bottom edge, binding tight. Underscoring and margin brackets on approximately 25 pages, rest of inside bright and… Read more about this item

Random House, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 269 pages, with index, illustrated with two maps (Israel, Jerusalem), eight double-sided plates of black and white photos. First American edition. 8vo, turquoise cloth, light blue end papers, boards bowed, back board frayed and gouged at bottom, stains to edges of boards at top and bottom, coffee stain to fore-edge… Read more about this item

Scribner, 1976. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 376 pages, with index, preface to the paperback edition (written after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the first edition having appeared in 1973). Trade paperback, creases to wraps at corners, faint foxing to top edge and end papers; edges, end papers and page margins age-tanned, some soil and discoloration to wraps… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 576 pages, with index - "a concise and authoritative general introduction - social, political and historical - to the modern Arab world" first published 1976. Has Postscript (1980), two-page map, country profiles. A Pelican Book. Trade paperback, wraps creased, wear to corners and edges, edges and page margins tan from age, binding… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1973. Soft cover. Good. 234 pages, with index, two maps, several tables and diagrams. A Rand Corporation Research Study. Trade paperback, creases to wraps, light soil to edges, edges and page margins age-toned, a few pages dog-eared. Price written on ffep, underscoring or margin brackets on approximately 50 pages.

Indiana University Press, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. 560 pages, with two maps, list of Palestinian Leaders and Organizations. "First American Edition." Trade paperback, small chip to top corner of front wrap, remainder mark on bottom edge, a few spots of soil to edges, binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.

Bantam Books, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 143 pages. "The on-the-spot story of Israel's spectacular six-day battle for survival," illustrated with maps (cuts) and large picture section "A Picture History of the Israeli-Arab War" (approximately 60 pages), appendix "The Third Temple" by Leon Uris. Mass-market paperback, creases to front wrap, rubbing along spine, edges lightly soiled, a few pages… Read more about this item

Capricorn Books, 1973. Soft cover. Good. 582 pages, with index, bibliography, chronological table, detailed timeline of events in 1939-47, eight maps. Cover: "The first one-volume history in English giving the story of all the Islamic states and peoples from the beginning to the present day." First German edition 1939, first Capricorn edition 1960, this edition revised 1973. Trade… Read more about this item

Random House, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 340 pages, with index, appendix listing associates of Abu Nidal. "The secret life of the world's most notorious Arab terrorist." 8vo, black boards with black cloth quarter, red gilt lettering on front board and spine, corners sharp, remnants and marks from pieces of tape on boards, library stamps and rust-colored… Read more about this item