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  • THE EXODUS QUEST. by Adams, Will.
    Adams, Will.
    THE EXODUS QUEST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second suspense thriller featuring archeologist Daniel Knox and linguist Gaille Bonnard. "On a dusty market street in Alexandria, Egyptologist Daniel Knox stumbles across a Dead Sea jar, a unique find that puts him on the trail of an ancient Jewish sect and a possible explanation for one of the greatest mysteries of all time." 326 pp. ISBN: 978-0446563208.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light toning to the pages, remainder line)

    Book ID: 63348
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  • DOGSTAR RISING: A Makana Mystery. by Bilal, Parker (pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub)
    Bilal, Parker (pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub)
    DOGSTAR RISING: A Makana Mystery.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York Bloomsbury (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring private investigator Makana, who had fled his home in the Sudan a decade earlier. "It is the summer of 2001, and in the crowded streets of Cairo, Makana finds himself uncovering a web of intrigue, violence, and secrecy that reaches deep into the heart of Egypt's politics." 384 pp. ISBN: 978-1-608198719.

    Condition: Very near fine in like dust jacket (corner slightly bumped)

    Book ID: 60726
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  • THE GHOST RUNNER: A Makana Mystery. by Bilal, Parker (pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub)
    Bilal, Parker (pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub)
    THE GHOST RUNNER: A Makana Mystery.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York Bloomsbury (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel featuring private investigator Makana, who had fled his home in the Sudan a decade earlier, and is increasingly haunted by memories of his wife and daughter. It is 2002 and tanks are rolling into the West Bank but then the authorities seem eager to cast a blind eye on the death of a young girl, he is determined to investigate it.. 413 pp. ISBN: 978-1-620403402.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83068
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  • THE HOUSE OF POWER. by Bindari, Sami.
    Bindari, Sami.
    THE HOUSE OF POWER.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in Egypt in 1970, this is the first novel by this Egyptian writer to appear in English. "A potent story of love and hate, of violence and ancient faith, it evokes the oppressive quality of village life in Egypt a generation ago." Co-recipient of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Translated from the Arabic by Sami Bindari and Mona St. Leger. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-395285402.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83317
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  • DEATH COMES AT THE END. by Christie, Agatha.
    Christie, Agatha.
    DEATH COMES AT THE END.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1945) dj. Hardcover first edition - Christie's only historical mystery, although as the wife of an archeologist, she had taken part in several expeditions to Egypt. This is set in Thebes, in ancient Egypt, in 2000 B.C. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-553-350137.

    Condition: Good only in red board in a good dustjacket (some edgewear to the boards, and fading to the edges, previous owner's name dated 1945, in a price-clipped dust jacket with some minor edgewear.)

    Book ID: 87924
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  • THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF TUTANKHAMUN. by Doherty, Paul.
    Doherty, Paul.
    THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF TUTANKHAMUN.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Carroll & Graf, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This author who is best known for his historical mysteries, looks at the mystery surrounding the life and death of Tutankhamun . . perhaps the bloody intrigue in the Egyptian court may have led to his early death. Illustrated with full color photographs. Annotated bibliography,map, list of historical characters, index. xii, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-10756.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 51695
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  • THE WORLD AND AFRICA: An Inquiry into the Part which Africa Has Played in World History. by Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt.
    Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt.
    THE WORLD AND AFRICA: An Inquiry into the Part which Africa Has Played in World History.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    New York: Viking, (ca 1950, c. 1947). dj. Hardcover - A well-documented plea, backed by many little known facts, for a recognition of the important part played in history by Africa and for its dignity in a future world order. Map, index. xii, 276 pp.

    Condition: Just about fine in a very good dust jacket (two closed tears to the front cover of the dj - the dust jacket has original price of $3.00, but reference to Du Bois in 1950 and a Liberty Book Club coupon on rear flap.) A very attractive copy of an important work by one of most important African American writers and activists of the early 20th century.

    Book ID: 39238
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  • BLACK FOLK THEN AND NOW: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race. by Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. (DuBois)
    Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. (DuBois)
    BLACK FOLK THEN AND NOW: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1939.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An addition to being a history of the African and African American people, this is a study of the cultures they created. Written essentially to refute the idea that "the Negro has no history." Rather scarce in the first printing. Bibliography, index, ix, 401 pp.

    Condition: Very good+ in blue cloth in a poor dust jacket (previous owner's name and a stamp of the Bureau of Educational Research, Journal of Negro Education) Dust jacket has tide marks along the edges and the folds, several large chips at top edge, etc. Original price of 3.50 still present.

    Book ID: 52772
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  • BLACK FOLK THEN AND NOW: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race. by Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. (DuBois)
    Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. (DuBois)
    BLACK FOLK THEN AND NOW: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race.

    Edition: 4th printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1945.) dj. Hardcover - An addition to being a history of the African and African American people, this is a study of the cultures they created. Written essentially to refute the idea that "the Negro has no history." Despite being issued in multiple printings, this is surprisingly uncommon. Bibliography, index, ix, 401 pp.

    Condition: Very good+ in blue cloth in a fair only dust jacket (minor shelfwear to the boards, but the dj has tape reinforcement along both the top and the bottom and the front fold - still it is basically complete, and it did serve to protect the book itself.)

    Book ID: 52771
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  • A PASSAGE TO EGYPT: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon. by [Gordon, Lucie Duff, 1821-1869] Frank, Katherine.
    [Gordon, Lucie Duff, 1821-1869] Frank, Katherine.
    A PASSAGE TO EGYPT: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt." Gordon - author of "Letters From Egypt," a unique testimony to the country which became her spiritual home - spent seven years there, until her death from tuberculosis. This recounts her dramatic transition as she immersed herself in the Egyptian way of life, shrugging off Victorian era restrictions and avoiding the English community there, Family tree, map, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xi, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-395-546885.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 56880
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  • A PASSAGE TO EGYPT: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon. by [Gordon, Lucie Duff, 1821-1869] Frank, Katherine.
    [Gordon, Lucie Duff, 1821-1869] Frank, Katherine.
    A PASSAGE TO EGYPT: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt." Gordon - author of "Letters From Egypt," a unique testimony to the country which became her spiritual home - spent seven years there, until her death from tuberculosis. This recounts her dramatic transition as she immersed herself in the Egyptian way of life, shrugging off Victorian era restrictions and avoiding the English community there, Family tree, map, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xi, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-395-546885.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 88578
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  • THE COILED SERPENT: A New Age Mystery Thriller. by Haller, Bob.
    Haller, Bob.
    THE COILED SERPENT: A New Age Mystery Thriller.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

    Hamlin, Pennsylvania: Leister Publishing Co, (2000). First edition - Mystery thriller about international terrorism, inspired by the author's experiences in Egypt in 1997, when he was a journalist and terrorists massacred 58 tourists at the Queen Hatshepsut temple. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-9618234-29.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 58113
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  • THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE. by Irwin, Robert.
    Irwin, Robert.
    THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - An English pilgrim is on his way to the shrine of Saint Catherine to medieval Cairo with an additional task of spying on suspicious activities at the Mameluke court, but when he arrives in Cairo in 1486 he contracts a mysterious disease that causes hallucinations powerful enough to threaten his sanity. One review called this a "distinctive blend of the seductive and the disturbing, its atmosphere constantly shifting from sumptuously learned orientalizing to grotesque erotic adventure and dry humor" (City Limits) Originally published in 1984, this 1987 Viking edition has some revisions. Illustrated with 19th century lithographs by David Roberts. Includes a note on the artist. 282 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-670816612.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86663
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  • THE EGYPTIAN COFFIN. by Jakeman, Jane.
    Jakeman, Jane.
    THE EGYPTIAN COFFIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Headline (Hodder), (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery,featuring Lord Ambrose Malfine, set in the 1830s and moving from the English countryside to Egypt and the bustle of Cairo, the splendor of the Nile. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-747218935.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to pages as is often found in UK editions)

    Book ID: 86803
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  • THE BURIED PYRAMID. by Lindskold, Jane.
    Lindskold, Jane.
    THE BURIED PYRAMID.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fun historical fantasy - "Jenny Benet, a recently orphaned American girl who was raised on the Wild West frontier and educated at a Boston finishing school, has come to Egypt in company with her uncle Neville Hawthorne, a prominent British archaeologist" to search for a legendary lost pyramid. SIGNED on the half title page with a drawing of a small flower. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-765302608.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 69658
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  • Lomax, Louis E.
    THE RELUCTANT AFRICAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the front cover of dustjackt: 'One of the decade's most impressive and shocking close-ups of crisis: an American Negro journalist's firsthand report on the storm of racism and revolution raging through Africa from Cairo to Capetown.' Map insert and map endpapers. 117 pp.

    Condition: Very good+ in very good- dust jacket (some creasing and edgewear to the dj.)

    Book ID: 38432
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  • THE BEGINNING AND THE END. by Mahfouz, Naguib (1911-2006)
    Mahfouz, Naguib (1911-2006)
    THE BEGINNING AND THE END.

    Edition: First thus.

    New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - First Doubleday edition of this early novel by the 1988 Nobel laureate, the first Arab to win this award. Originally published in 1949 in Arabic and translated in 1985 by Ramses Awad for the American University Press in Cairo. In telling the story of one proud - and eventually shattered - Egyptian family, Mahfouz exposes the inequities of the country's society. Introduction by the translator; edited by Mason Rossiter Smith. 412 pp. ISBN: 0-385264577.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket. with a large chip on back cover, other edgewear.

    Book ID: 88501
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  • THE JOURNEY OF IBN FATTOUMA. by Mahfouz, Naguib (1911-2006)
    Mahfouz, Naguib (1911-2006)
    THE JOURNEY OF IBN FATTOUMA.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Nobel prize winning author, the first Arab to win this award. A parable set in a mythical timeless Middle East. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-385-423233.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 87198
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  • RESURRECTION. by Malarkey, Tucker.
    Malarkey, Tucker.
    RESURRECTION.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Riverhead Books / Penguin, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Drawing upon the actual discovery of the Lost Gospels of Nag Hammadi in the desert south of Cairo at the end of World War II, this features British nurse Gemma Bastian who travels to Cairo after the death of her father. "While she's there she stumbles across her father's last and most closely guarded archaeological project, one that could change the Christian world forever: the discovery of the legendary Lost Gospels." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Map, timeline, terminology and a note of Gnosticism. 374 pp. ISBN: 1-59448919X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (some toning to the edge of the textblock)

    Book ID: 77897
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  • THE MAMUR ZAPT AND THE RETURN OF THE CARPET. by Pearce, Michael.
    Pearce, Michael.
    THE MAMUR ZAPT AND THE RETURN OF THE CARPET.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first Mamur Zapt mystery, set in 1908, as the "indirect" British rule in Cairo is beginning to wind down. The Mamur Zapt is Cadwallader Owen, the head of the Political Branch of the police. The author grew up in what was then the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Author's note. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-385415206.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86630
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  • THE MAMUR ZAPT AND THE RETURN OF THE CARPET. by Pearce, Michael.
    Pearce, Michael.
    THE MAMUR ZAPT AND THE RETURN OF THE CARPET.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Collins Crime Club, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first Mamur Zapt mystery, set in 1908, as the "indirect" British rule in Cairo is beginning to wind down. The Mamur Zapt is Cadwallader Owen, the head of the Political Branch of the police. The author grew up in what was then the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-00232167x.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (toning to pages).

    Book ID: 74189
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  • THE MAMUR ZAPT AND THE NIGHT OF THE DOG. by Pearce, Michael.
    Pearce, Michael.
    THE MAMUR ZAPT AND THE NIGHT OF THE DOG.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Collins Crime Club, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Mamur Zapt mystery, set in 1908, as the "indirect" British rule in Cairo is beginning to wind down. The Mamur Zapt is Cadwallader Owen, the head of the Political Branch of the police. The author grew up in what was then the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-002322110.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 74585
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  • SEVEN DIALS by Perry, Anne.
    Perry, Anne.
    SEVEN DIALS

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Headline (Hodder), (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition of this Victorian mystery of politics, passion and intrigue, set in London and featuring Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-747268967.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (toning to pages as is common with UK editions).

    Book ID: 85069
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  • THE MUMMY CASE. by Peters, Barbara.
    Peters, Barbara.
    THE MUMMY CASE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Congdon & Weed, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Amelia Peabody mystery. INSCRIBED on the title page "To ---- with respectful affection." 313 pp.

    Condition: Good only in a very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, glue remnants/discoloration on endpapers and under dj flaps).

    Book ID: 59597
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  • GUARDIAN OF THE HORIZON. by Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    GUARDIAN OF THE HORIZON.

    Edition: Signed, limited first edition.

    New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. One of the copies with a page which states that this is a "signed and limited first edition, specially bound by the publisher" and SIGNED by Peters on this additional page. 400 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-6214718.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 51999
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  • THE GOLDEN ONE. by Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    THE GOLDEN ONE.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Morrow, (2002.) dj. Hardcover - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set at Luxor during World War I. 429 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-380-978857.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 45787
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  • THE SERPENT ON THE CROWN. by Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    THE SERPENT ON THE CROWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in 1922. Map endpapers of Thebes. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0591781.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 44119
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  • Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    GUARDIAN OF THE HORIZON.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. ISBN: 0-06-6214718.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 32633
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  • Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    CHILDREN OF THE STORM.

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    New York: Avon, (2004.). A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set in Luxor at the end of the Great War. ISBN: 0-06-1032484.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 36879
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  • THE HIPPOPOTAMUS POOL. by Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    Peters, Elizabeth [Barbara Mertz].
    THE HIPPOPOTAMUS POOL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Warner, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-446-518336.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 62849
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