Boston: Little Brown, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this author who was born in Tehran, Iran but grew up in the United States. An opulent historical novel set in the 1620's in Isfahan, Persia during the last years of the reign of Shah Abbas the Great. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. 377 pp. ISBN: 0-316-065765.

New York: Doubleday, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-385-262027.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.

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.

Costa Mesa, CA: QWIP / Quality Words in Print, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of a young English teacher in France who becomes involved in the lives of one of her students and his sister, children of a Muslim father killed in the Iraqui bombing of Tehran and a Jewish mother, nicknamed Ester, imprisoned in Iran for her provocative journalism. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-971316015.

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

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2007,) dj. Hardcover first edition - A political thriller, which begins in the heart of Iran, where a nuclear bomb is being developed. 403 pp. ISBN: 9780743270410.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard who says "Abandon . . . is everything that I love: a scholarly Englishman whose subject is Sufism, a vagabond California woman. . . and Pico Iyer's knockout prose." SIGNED on the title page. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-375-41505X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard who says "Abandon . . . is everything that I love: a scholarly Englishman whose subject is Sufism, a vagabond California woman. . . and Pico Iyer's knockout prose." SIGNED on the title page. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-375-41505X.

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on the author's own memories of being a little girl in Iran, this is a story of friendship and family. Kirkus Review stated "This sweet story is intermingled naturally with details about Iranian and Islamic traditions and values and supported by such visuals as an easy mix of traditional and Western attire and thoughtful inclusion of Persian design elements. It peaks in a moment of solidarity between the two grandmothers, each praying for the other to go to heaven, but via their different Muslim and Christian religions." SIGNED on the title page by the author and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated by Lindsey Yankey. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0763694944.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2013.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Iranian born author's second novel (her first novel won the Whiting Writers 'Award), the story of two brothers who are forced to flee Iran when the 1979 revolution leads to a killing in their small mountain village. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 9781596916999.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1975: a plane on its way to Iran - full of liberals and art collectors - is highjacked and the passengers are held hostage. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1153876.

New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in post-Revolutionary Iran. "Withdrawing into his books and studies, Hadi Besharat constructs a fragile world, impervious ever to the reality under his own roof. . . Still, Hadi Besharat's ivory tower is undisturbed until his prize student is killed in the Iran-Iraq War. Then the alien new order intrudes with a violent force that shatters his fondest illusions and threatens his marriage, his family, even the intellectual life he cherishes. Poignant and arresting, a provocative story of crisis and faith, change and continuity." The author is the late husband of Anne Tyler, and in addition to being a writer he was also a child psychiatrist. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-385238797.

New York: Random House, (2007.) dj. Hardcover - For two years, before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered together 7 young women, former students of hers at the university, and together they read and discussed forbidden works of Western literature. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-375-504907.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Iranian-born author's second novel, an epic tale which follows Roxanna, born as a bad-luck child in the Jewish ghetto in Tehran, through the worlds of Iran's aristocracy to the whorehouses of Turkey and then to modern day Los Angeles. SIGNED on the title page and dated April 1999, in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-15-1003882.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Iranian-born author's second novel, an epic tale which follows Roxanna, born as a bad-luck child in the Jewish ghetto in Tehran, through the worlds of Iran's aristocracy to the whorehouses of Turkey and then to modern day Los Angeles. INSCRIBED on the title page ("To --- with best wishes") and dated March 1999, in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-15-1003882.

San Francisco: McAdam/Cage, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a moving and lyrical account of the struggles of a young Jewish girl coming of age in an upper class family in Tehran, Iran in the decade before the Revolution. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 9781596922518.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Iranian-born author's third novel, the story of a conflict between two cultures, set in Appalachia. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-15-100627x.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Iranian-born author's third novel, the story of a conflict between two cultures, set in Appalachia. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-15-100627x.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Iranian-born author's third novel, the story of a conflict between two cultures, set in Appalachia. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-15-100627x.

New York: Crown, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, covering 200 years of the history of Jews in Iran. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-517-574799.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a visit to 4 countries in the throes of 'Islamization' - Pakistan, Iran, Malaysia and Indonesia - a subject more important now than ever. Naipaul's accounts of the Islamic world were specifically cited in the announcement that he had won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. 430 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-394-509692.

New York: Warner, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - told in multiple voices, this is the story of an Iranian-American woman, raised in the United States, who returns to her father's homeland in 1981, 3 years after the Revolution, to marry the man she loves. 436 pp. ISBN: 0-446520713.

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.

New York: Norton, (1978). A novel of an Iranian woman caught between two cultures. Praise from Anne Tyler, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (who commented that "Nahid Rachlin has an intimate insider's knowledge of present-day everyday Iran - of people and places, houses, streets, and families and she writes of them with a clarity of perception and style that makes them instantly recognizable to the reader.") and others. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-393319083.

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.