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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 -
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 -
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 -
ON THE RACES OF THE OPIUM POPPY GROWING IN SEMIRECH'E AND THE ORIGIN OF THEIR CULTURE.
Edition: First English language edition.
New Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta & New York: Amerind Publishing, (1976). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon monograph, translated from the Russian. Illustrated with photographs, maps (including one folding map). References. 68 pp.
Condition: Very good in salmon cloth (sunning to the edges of the board and the spine)
Book ID: 66520More details Price: $100.00 -
GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. "On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days" - a crisis which changed the world. Illustrated with photographs and maps. SIGNED on the title page. Appendix, source notes, index. 680 pp. ISBN: 978-0871139252.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83482More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
THE UNVEILING.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Duarte, CA: Westminster Gardens, (1957) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "This is the story of Esmat, a woman of modern Iran, her struggle for the right to individuality in a land where for centuries women have held an inferior position." INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated 1973, but not personalized. Underneath her signature the author has commented "Written to show the problems which women living in a Moslem land who sincerely revere the Koran must overcome to fulfill the dictates of Islam." The author spent most of her married life in Iran as the wife of a missionary and as a teacher. 313 pp. Dust jacket art by Vera Bock.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. Some minor notations to the title page and copyright page by the author, and updates to the author's biography on the dj flap.
Book ID: 71882More details Price: $20.00 -
THIS IS NOT CIVILIZATION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2004). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel featuring several people from different countries and backgrounds who find themselves together in Istanbul on the eve of the 1999 earthquake. Among them are Jeff Hartig, an American Peace Corps volunteer to Krygyzstan (as Rosenberg was himself) and Anarbek Tashtanaliev, the owner of a Soviet cheese factory. 312 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79612More 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: 50882More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
AN AFGHANISTAN PICTURE SHOW, or How I Saved the World.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first non-fiction book, an account not only of events in Afghanistan in 1982, but also of his coming to terms with himself and his limitations. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Illustrated with drawings and maps by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-374-101051.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread)
Book ID: 58591More details Price: $45.00 -
AN AFGHANISTAN PICTURE SHOW, or How I Saved the World.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first non-fiction book, an account not only of events in Afghanistan in 1982, but also of his coming to terms with himself and his limitations. INSCRIBED on the title page ("to..."). Illustrated with drawings and maps by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-374-101051.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread)
Book ID: 58592More details Price: $50.00