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AN UNNECESSARY WOMAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (ARC, trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2013). First edition - Seventy-two year old Aaliya Sobhi lives alone in her apartment in Beirut, surrounded by a pile of books. Every year she translates another book in Arabic and stows it away. Godless, childless and divorced, she is her family's unnecessary appendage. "As she tries to overcome her aging body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left." A book filled with musings on literature, art, Lebanon's Civil War and Aaliya's own past, this homage to the power of books. Winner of the California Book Award, finalist for the National Book Award. 291 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90614More details Price: $20.00 -
IN THE HOT ZONE: One Man, One Year, Twenty-one Wars.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: HarperPerennial, (2007.). First edition - "Beginning his journey with the anarchic chaos of Somalia in September 2005 and ending with the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, Sites talks with rebels and government troops, child soldiers and child brides, and features the people on every side, including those caught in the cross fire. His honest reporting helps destroy the myths of war by putting a human face on war's inhumanity." Appendices. 549 pp. Includes a DVD with a documentary film "A World of Conflict.". ISBN: 9780061228759.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 54044More details Price: $15.00 -
BLOOD LIBELS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Darkly comic novel about a Jewish writer who shares his birthday with the State of Israel. Sinclair was one of the original 20 writers chosen in 1983 as 'the best of the British young novelists.' 191 pp. ISBN: 0-374-114498.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53889More details Price: $15.00 -
MEANS OF ESCAPE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - Memoirs of the disasters of war - from Saigon to Afghanistan, and especially in the Middle East. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp.
Condition: Very good- in illustrated wrappers (some creases to the covers, black mark on title page, covered over with a plain white label.)
Book ID: 46735More details Price: $20.00 -
![QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Malcolm H. Kerr. by [Kerr, Malcolm H., 1931 -1984] Seikaly, S.; R. Baalbaki, R. and P. Dodd, editors.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/40929---200.jpg?v=1727124084)
QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Malcolm H. Kerr.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a good dustjacket (marginal notations and underlining, edgewear to the dj, sunning to the spine.)
Book ID: 40929More details Price: $65.00 -
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1953: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ended June 30 1953.
Edition: First edition.
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Hardcover first edition - Publication 4149. In addition to the usual financial reports, and reports on operations, this includes articles on radioisotopes, musical instruments, genetics and an early discussion of factory robotics - the push-button factory by Frank K. Shallenberger, and also the geological history and evolution of insects by F.M. Carpenter, Norsemen in North America before Columbus by Johannes Bronstad, to Colonial Williamsburg; and Charles Bird King, painter of Indian visitors to the nation's capital by John C. Ewers, The mountain village of Dahr Lebanon by Raymond E. Crist, an article on dating the Dead Sea scrolls, on climate and race and more. Illustrated. 481 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations (prev owner's name inside front cover.)
Book ID: 32753More details Price: $25.00 -
WINTER IN JERUSALEM.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Australian writer. Thomas Keneally said 'this brilliant story of a young woman's odyssey in the tormented and self-doubting Isreal of the present is continuously engaging and full of fascinating detail, deftly related.' Winner of the Australian prize in the Commonwealth Literature Award in 1987. ISBN: 0-671-498088.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line, price clipped.)
Book ID: 21630More details Price: $14.00 -
WINTER IN JERUSALEM.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Australian writer. Thomas Keneally said 'this brilliant story of a young woman's odyssey in the tormented and self-doubting Isreal of the present is continuously engaging and full of fascinating detail, deftly related.' Winner of the Australian prize in the Commonwealth Literature Award in 1987. ISBN: 0-671-498088.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 21629More details Price: $16.00
![QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Memory of Malcolm H. Kerr. by [Kerr, Malcolm H., 1931 -1984] Seikaly, S.; R. Baalbaki, R. and P. Dodd, editors.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/40929---800.jpg?v=1727124084)