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PRACTICAL WATER.
Edition: First printing.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An uncommon collection of poems by this award-winning writer, at times lyrical, other times humorous -but including a selection of poems on the Congressional hearings on the Iraq War and an ecopoetic comment on hydrology in California. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 103 pp. ISBN: 9780819569318.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 90094More details Price: $50.00 -
LAND OF MARVELS.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89034More details Price: $18.50 -
FLASHPOINTS: Air Warfare in the Cold War.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Addison-Wesley, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of eight Cold War conflicts in which air power played a decisive role, from the Suez Crisis of 1956 to Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, the Falklands war of 1982, and the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88. Ilustrated with over 240 photographs and maps, in both full color and black and white. Foreword by Itamar Neuner, a Mirage pilot. Glossary, bibliography, index. Oversized wide format, printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-1472853578.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88403More details Price: $50.00 -
MIDNIGHT IN SAMARRA: The True Story of WMD, Greed, and High Crimes in Iraq.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86237More details Price: $28.50 -
ALTAR OF EDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller involving fractal science and genetic engineering. SIGNED on the title page with a small drawing. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 398 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-1231421.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82868More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LAST ORACLE: A Sigma Force Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The Sigma Force is brought back to battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a bio-engineering project that threatens the survival of humanity. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 434 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-1230943.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81070More details Price: $35.00 -
THE JUDAS STRAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller involving an ancient plague which has re-emerged to threaten the world. SIGNED on the title page with a small drawing. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" 450 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-0763893.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81069More details Price: $30.00 -
CRESCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-39305747X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80920More details Price: $35.00 -
A HUNDRED AND ONE DAYS: A Baghdad Journal.
Edition: First US printing.
Norman, OK: Basic Books, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul. For 101 days, from January to April 2003, Nowegian journalist Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad - this book focuses on the stories of the people of the city, trying to live while under constant attack. Translated by Ingrid Christophersen. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-465076009.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78974More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LAST ORACLE: A Sigma Force Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Sigma Force is brought back to battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a bio-engineering project that threatens the survival of humanity. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" 434 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-1230943.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78512More details Price: $16.50 -
THE JUDAS STRAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller involving an ancient plague which has re-emerged to threaten the world. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" 450 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-0763893.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (corners bumped.)
Book ID: 78511More details Price: $15.00 -
SCORPION STRIKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1992). Hardcover first edition - Thriller based on the author's experiences as a C-41 pilot during the Gulf War. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-517585650.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70101More details Price: $16.50 -
WAR OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS: A Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2015). First edition - The author's first novel, and first collaboration - at once "a coming-of-age story, a war story, and a story of the disaffected millenial generation for whom the war hardly happened at all" (Phil Klay)
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (crease to lower edge of back cover)
Book ID: 66451More details Price: $15.00 -
THE NIGHTINGALE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington, (2009). First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young girl coming of age in war-torn Mosul in Iraq. 343 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66269More details Price: $20.00 -
MIDDLE MAN: A Lieutenant Rollie Waters Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the Lieutenant Rollie Waters series, a story of murder, deceit and stolen fortunes, with settings ranging from Houston in Texas to Erbil in Iraq. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 301 pp. ISBN: 9780525953234.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62112More details Price: $35.00 -
ULTIMATE WEAPON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York Weinstein Books (2008). First edition - "Published for the first time in the U.S., real-life SAS hero Chris Ryan brings nonstop battle action to this military thriller set in Iraq." 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60762More details Price: $16.50 -
AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE, WHAT FORGIVENESS? My Encounters With Kurdistan.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A firsthand report on Kurdistan by an American war journalist. The account deals with the diplomacy and politics - and betrayals - of the Middle East as the Kurds attempt to achieve autonomy. Randal, with information from Kurdish leaders and diplomats, provides the historical and political background to the internecine wars, the mass migrations and the lifestyle of the nomadic Kurds, the world's largest ethnic group without a state of their own, who are deprived of their oil in one country, their national dress banned in another and their language forbidden in a third country. Notes, bibliography, index. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-374-102007.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57537More details Price: $20.00 -
NAKED IN BAGHDAD: The Iraq War as Seen By NPR's Correspondent.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED by the author on a bookplate on the front endpaper. "Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reporting, and for her independent take on what she sees. . . at its heart is her evolving relationship with her Iraqui driver/minder, Amer, who becomes her friend and confidant." 222 pp. ISBN: 0-374-529035.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57057More details Price: $18.00 -
MY FATHER'S PARADISE: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 55152More details Price: $35.00 -
ALTAR OF EDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller involving fractal science and genetic engineering. SIGNED on the title page with a small drawing. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" 398 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-1231421.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on spine and front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 53461More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LAST ORACLE: A Sigma Force Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The Sigma Force is brought back to battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a bio-engineering project that threatens the survival of humanity. SIGNED on the title page with a small drawing. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" 434 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-1230943.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53460More details Price: $30.00 -
THE JUDAS STRAIN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Thriller involving an ancient plague which has re-emerged to threaten the world. SIGNED on the title page with a small drawing. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" 450 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-0763893.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line.).
Book ID: 53459More details Price: $20.00 -
ALTAR OF EDEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller involving fractal science and genetic engineering. SIGNED on the title page with a small drawing. Author's note "Truth or fiction?" 398 pp. ISBN: 9780-06-1231421.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53427More details Price: $30.00 -
CRESCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39305747X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53228More details Price: $15.00 -
MY FATHER'S PARADISE: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 50882More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WAR IN THE CRADLE OF THE WORLD: Mesopotamia.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Just about fine in black cloth with gilt lettering (some pages still unopened, synopsis from dust jacket flap tipped onto front pastedown.)
Book ID: 38718More details Price: $85.00 -
CRESCENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39305747X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36581More details Price: $30.00 -
FOREIGN OIL AND THE FREE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1954.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive study, which looks at all the oil producing areas of the world - Mexico, Venezuala, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and more, policies such as the 50-50 profit sharing, etc. Includes an extensive statistical appendix. Photographs, map endpapers, index. 400 pp
Condition: Fine in red cloth, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 30425More details Price: $25.00