Search Results: Americana from Khalkedon Rare Books, IOBA, ESA

Istanbul: Vakit Gazete ve Matbaasi, 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First and only edition of this very rare 20th century Turkish-Americana, and the first book written to introduce the world of Hollywood to the Turkish audience, by the first Turkish society reporter. Turan Aziz Beler was a modern pioneer of magazine journalism in Turkey. Beler was born in Istanbul in 1912. He started his literary career as a journalist. His first novel "Sevda" [i.e. Love] also stands out but "Türedi Ailesi" [i.e. Türedi Family] brought him fame. According to Beler's foreword in the book, the purpose of his travel is to clarify all things known incorrectly about Hollywood in Turkey. He spent three and a half years in Hollywood with many celebrities and interviewed American stars. He examined the conditions under which American popular cinema was formed. According to his own statement, he expressed the witty language that he… Read More

New York: N. p., Dated 1958-1959, 1958. Soft cover. Very Good. Original 36 b/w photographs taken by anonymous Turkish traveler to the US in 1958-59. 9x12,5 cm. Printed on Kodak Velox Paper. Embossed frames. Dated mostly February 1958 and April 1959. Photographs show the entrance of Rockefeller Plaza, New York with flags of various countries (including the Turkish flag); streets and districts of NY; Botanical Garden; Bronx Zoo of NY; New York Coliseum Long Island; Triboro Hospital of Jamaica (NY); QGH (Queens General Hospital) and parking cars in front of the building; Queens Hospital Center of NY; Animal Hospital (Boarding - Grooming); Road of Jamaica NY; Rockefeller Plaza building; Garden of QGH; building for doctors; Some American houses of NY; Ice rink of Rockefeller Plaza; Lakeshore, etc. A fine vintage photo collection of the 1950s' New York.

Düsseldorf : [Ftz. Rangette & Sons]., [c. 1892], 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original imitation vellum. An OCLC register says "decorated with small shells and seaweed pasted on". Chipped on extremities and spine, slight pouring on paper; several tapes used at the link of the pages to binding. Otherwise a good copy. Small 4to. (27 x 18 cm). In Middle English (15th century). The first leaf attached to front cover. At end, 6 blank leaves. [46] p. with [7] blank pages, many illustrations, 1 letter with its broken seal. Separately, a facsimile of a letter from Isabella (Dona Isabel por Gracia de Dios Reina de Castilla y Leon etc. etc. A Don Cristobal Colon de Genova) to Columbus, dated 'Granada a? trece de Abril de MCCCCXCII,' with a broken seal attached. Script on vellum as well. Two registers in OCLC (1029665801 and 60764823 -This one is New York Edition-). 'Düsseldorf Edition' says "A spurious work purporting to be the… Read More

Istanbul: Dogan Kardes Yayinlari A.S., 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First and Only Edition of this scarce travel book of America in the 20th century, by the founder of Turkish "Life" magazine and Tifdruk Publishing House in the Republic of Turkey. Sevket Rado was a Turkish journalist, author, and the founder of "Hayat" magazine. "Hayat" means "Life", and it was a long-running periodical in Turkey, which was published in the same format of the "Life" magazine, just like its counterpart in America. "Life" was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, "Life" was a weekly magazine known for the high quality of its photography. "Hayat" magazine is the first example in Turkey of "lifestyle" magazines published in Europe… Read More

Elaziz (Elazig) - Harput (Kharput): Manuscript Historical Document., [AH 1339], 1923. No Binding. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original manuscript autographed historical document. 33x21 cm. In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 21 lines on 1 page. A legible Riq'a script. Occasionally foxing on the paper, slightly chipped extremities, folded, a small transparent tape to the lower folded end. Overall a good document. A rare manuscript document prepared by Major Hayreddin, who was on duty at the Harput war scene, upon the request of the Elazig Military Service, and containing the inventory of American missionary schools and buildings in the region in the post-war period, and information with the statistics on the non-Muslim population in 1923. This signed historical document includes the detailed information about the populations of Turkish, Armenian, Assyrian under the classification of Catholic, Protestant and Latin. The document gives the numbers of… Read More

Istanbul: Vatan Matbaasi., [AH 1341], 1925. 1st Edition . Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. No bdg. Wear spine, dispersed pages. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 197, 6 p., 5 panoramic folded huge b/w plates (Including the photographic plts.; 1-) Turkish Convention May, 13, 1923, Detroit, Mich by Photo Craft Byallen -23x39 cm-; 2-) [Among the Young Turks in Detroit, -23x106 cm-; 3-) In the White House with the President, -23x106 cm-; 4-) Islamic Society in the US, -32x40 cm-; 5-) Among the Young Turkish people in Chicago, -23x26 cm-). First and only edition of this exceedingly rare travel account of America by Dr. Mehmed Fuad [Umay], (1885-1963), who was a Turkish doctor and the founder of Himâye-i Etfâl [i.e. Society for the Protection of Orphans], a society that was established in 1921 to provide orphanages to children of the deceased soldiers in the Turkish War of Independence; began… Read More

Athens: Ikaros., [ca. 1950], 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very scarce and attractive first Greek edition of Hemingway's 'The Old Man and The Sea', translated by Dimitris Mperakhas. Copy with no date, according to the OCLC it's printed in the [1950s], and this masterpiece was translated very early into the Greek language soon after the original first edition was printed in America. Original illustrated fine wrappers. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In Greek (Modern). 94, [1] p. Ex-owner's inscription on colophon. Only two institutional copies in OCLC: 1111709467.

Constantinople (Istanbul): Impremiere Mahmoud Bey / A[rtin] Assadourian., [1310 AH], 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine half leather bdg. with marbled boards. Two volumes in one. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). The text in Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters) with bilingual titles in Ottoman Turkish and French on frontispieces and title pages. 2 volumes set: (248 p.; 270, [1] p., the first volume has Columbus' engraved portrait frontispiece, the second has Amerigo Vespucci's portrait). Hegira: 1310 = Gregorian: 1893. First and only edition of this very rare book, which is the first Turkish original work on the history of the discovery of America printed for the Quadricentennial of the Discovery. With this book, Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci quickly became popular among Ottoman readers (soon after Iranian readers with a translation of the first volume only), and immediately among other Middle Eastern readers, and… Read More

Buenos Aires: Imprenta "Dorrego, 1952. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original pictorial wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Russian. 269, [2] p., photographic b/w plates on [8] unnumbered pages. Slight wear to lower spine, slight folding on extremities, light foxing. Overall, a very good copy. First edition of this scarce first book of Shiryaev including memoirs of his time in the Capua Refugee Camp in Northern Italy after World War II, where he died as a Displaced Person. This book was published in Buenos Aires with the assistance of Ivan Lukyanovich Solonevich's associate, a member of the White movement like Shiryaev during the Russian Civil War (1917-1923) and later of the anti-Soviet underground in Ukraine, spent the rest of his life in emigration, first in Finland, then Bulgaria, Germany, Argentine (where he founded the newspaper Nasha Strana, Our Country) and Uruguay. "D.P." in the title comes from the abbreviation of… Read More

Istanbul: Kriter Yayinlari, 2020. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In English. 162 p. Meditating on the works of contemporary American poets and environmental activists Gary Snyder and W. S. Merwin, Baris Agir explores the traces of two central cultures, the American Indian and Buddhism, in Snyder's and Merwin's poetics. The book culminates in a discussion of these poets' new mythic sense derived from non-Western origin which ultimately deconstructs the anthropocentric ethics and values of Western culture.

[Kostantiniyye - i.e. Constantinople]: N.p., [1273 AH], 1857. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Lithographed Edition. First and Only Edition of this first Turkish book exclusively related to America. This very rare work (both in scarce institutional holdings and market rarity) is the first book in Turkish to describe the discovery and conquest of America. Thus, it is an important and early source on America in the Islamic world. "The first treatise [in Turkish] dedicated exclusively to America" (Strauss). It is printed in a format that is specific to the early printing period of the Ottoman Empire and is written in a tâliq script and has the appearance of a manuscript. It has neither a preface nor a proper title. The heading (serlevha) on the first page which is placed in a decorative floral design reads: "First chapter: On the Islands Discovered by the Venetian and Genoese seafarers, and, secondly, on the discovery of America by… Read More

Istanbul: Resimli Gazete / Sebat Matbaasi, 1927. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 13 p., a b/w picture shows John D. Rockefeller sitting and reading a newspaper on the front cover, and three unnumbered b/w ills. Chipped on spine and a small tear on the back cover. Otherwise a good copy. First and only edition of this rare biography of any member of the Rockefeller family in the Middle East. This exceedingly rare booklet (only three institutional paper copies) contains a brief biography of John Davison Rockefeller Sr., (1839-1937), known as an American philanthropist and the richest man in the world of his time. "Büyük Adamlar Serisi" [i.e. The "Big Men" series] consists of about 41 small books. They were all published in the same year (1927) by a delegation under the presidency of Gövsa and some of them were written by… Read More

Istanbul: C. Naydlingen / Singer - Matbaa-yi A. Zellich Mahdumlari [i.e. A. Zellich and Sons Printing House]., [ca. 1882], 1882. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First and Only Edition of this extremely rare first user guide for the Ottoman market for a sewing machine manufactured by the Singer Company. This richly illustrated user guide in Ottoman Turkish, printed for "28 K" model (manufactured in 1882) of Singer sewing machines includes numerous diagrams showing the parts of the machine and threading the needle, sewing techniques, using the belt wheel and foot pedal, measuring techniques, the thickness of needles and threads, and how to detect and avoid counterfeits of the brand. In Ottoman Empire, Singer sewing machines were initially started to be offered for sale in Constantinople and Smyrna (today's Istanbul and Izmir) in the 1880s, soon after Isaac Merritt Singer & Company was incorporated with Edward B. Clark,… Read More

Istanbul: Ak Kitabevi, 1960. 1st Edition . Dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very attractive first Turkish edition of this 19th century American religious epic with its very scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. Two volumes in one. Cover illustration was made by Turkish contemporary artist Nihat Öcal, a famous cover illustrator of both Turkish and translated popular literature of the time. Ben-Hur was originally published in 1880's America and translated into Turkish by a commission, after 80 years, in 1960. This is because one of the most famous movies of the US cinema industry, William Wyler's "Ben-Hur" adaptation that won the Academy Awards in eleven branches was shot in 1959. Soon its reputation spread across the world. From the very beginning of modern Turkish literature, "historical novel", a sub-genre of popular novel was in great demand. Several writers already proved themselves in this genre like Abdullah Ziya… Read More

Peshawar: University Book Agency (Outside Kabuli Gate) / Manzur-e-Am Press, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Extremely rare first and only edition (not in institutional catalogues and market) of this travel book to America in the mid 20th century by Pakistani journalist and intellectual Sharif Farooq, who was invited to visit the USA on the Leader Specialist Programme in 1958. Sharif Farooq visited America in 1958. In his travelogue, he highlights the lifestyle, educational system, and foreign policy of America in detail. He also introduces the economical situation of the country, economical trends, and the condition of different institutions. Reports of press conferences are also a part of this travelogue. (Source: Travelogues of America in the Urdu Language: Trends and Tradition). "Wherever the Americans deserve appreciation for their intense patriotism and enthusiasm for labor, the author has given unstinted praise but where criticism… Read More

Ankara: Tarik Edip ve Sürekâsi Kütüphanesi, 1934. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 108, [2] p., bibliography and index. First Edition of this rare first study on Mexico peasantry in Turkish literature written by early Republican Turkish peasantry ideologist and early pioneer of the Republican illumination. Nusret Kemal, who works on the peasantry ideology of many countries in Europe, America, and the Far East, sees Mexico differently from other examples in this context. Although there is a disconnection between the city and the countryside, having a school in each village was also noted as a reason to reduce concerns about the future in this book. According to him, because the school is described not only as a place where education is given but also as an important place where culture is continued, cultural heritage is shared and the consciousness of the nation is kept alive. In… Read More

Dersaâdet-Constantinople: Hüseyin Ferid (Printed and published by) / Matbaa-yi Âmire., [H.: 1311], 1895. Soft cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Original color map. Folded. Oblong folio. (35 x 52 cm). In Ottoman script. Color lithograph. A very detailed and attractive Ottoman map of America. Scale: 1:12.000.000. Otherwise a very good copy. Slightly chipped extremities. Dated Hegira: 1311 = [Gregorian 1895]. Ali Seref Pasa or Hafiz Ali Esref. He was a soldier, who was schooled in Paris as a cartographer around 1862. Already in Paris he published his first atlas with 22 maps, called 'Yeni atlas'. Upon his return to Istanbul he became a chief cartographer at the Maatbaa-i amire Printing Press in Beyazit, which was the successor of the Muteferrika press from 1727. Among others he translated the large Kiepert map of Anatolia to Ottoman. He died in 1907, leaving his large project of a gigantic map of Anatolia in 100 sheets unfinished. Ali's name is often… Read More

Istanbul: Cem Yayinevi / Hüsnütabiat Matbaasi, 1967. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original wrappers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 231, [4] p. Very rare first Turkish edition of "the catcher in the rye" by Salinger, one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, translated by Adnan Benk (1922-1998) to Turkish, sixteen years after it was first published in America in 1951 in a book form. The Turkish title of the translation is a free translation, means "delilah". Only one institutional copy in Koç University Library in Turkey in OCLC: 1030092602.

Ankara, Yeni Meclis, Turkey: Central Treaty Organization Public Relations Division., [After 1960], 1961. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original wrappers. Oblong 4to. (21 x 27 cm). In English. [14] p., b/w photos. Scarce photographic booklet documenting the maritime exercises under the code name "Midlink Three" in the Arabian Sea, of thirty-five warships from the navies of CENTO (Central Treaty Organization) countries, participated in during two important weeks in October and November of 1960, which was the third in a series of annual CENTO naval exercises. This book was printed in Ankara, where is the organization's headquarters from 1958 to 1979 thereafter in Baghdad, Iraq from 1955 to 1958. The booklet includes 30 b/w photographs with descriptive texts and documents the process of the operation began on October 25 at Pakistan Naval Station Karsaz, near Karachi. Cover photo shows a bugler sounding the opening of Midlink Three as senior staff and ships'… Read More

Istanbul: Varlik Yayinlari, 1955. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Scarce first Turkish edition of "The Sun Also Rises" by Hemingway, one of the most significant figures of 20th century American literature. The novel was published in 1955 for the first time in Turkish with the translation of Filiz Karabey [Ofluoglu], (1930-2010), by Varlik Yayinlari [i.e. Existence Publishing House] which has an important role in the Turkish cultural world. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 with a short novel (The Old Man and the Sea) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Thus, the author of the Lost Generation and his literary work, in particular, the novel "The Sun Also Rises" became widely popular in Turkey soon after the first edition which we present here. Various editions were printed by Varlik Publishing in the following years, and the novel was also published under different titles by other publishing houses afterward. Paperback.… Read More