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AMERICAN DERVISH.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming-of-age novel by this Pulitzer prize winning playwright, set in the American Midwest, which focuses on the forces affecting young Muslims growing up in the US. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0316183314.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64713More details Price: $18.00 -
BRICK LANE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Scribner, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh. . Short-listed for the Booker Prize. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-743243307.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80805More details Price: $17.50 -
BRICK LANE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2003). First edition - First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh. . Short-listed for the Booker Prize. 268 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80806More details Price: $21.50 -
BRICK LANE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Scribner, (2003). First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh.. Short-listed for the Booker Prize. 415 pp. ISBN: 0-38560484X.
Condition: Very good (small address sticker inside front cover)
Book ID: 73624More details Price: $10.00 -
BRICK LANE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh. SIGNED on the title page. Short-listed for the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-38560484X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 70462More details Price: $45.00 -
THE COUNTRY AT MY SHOULDER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition - First collection by this poet who was born in Pakistan, lives in England. At the heart of this collection is a series of poems called "Presents from Pakistan" which explore the importance of the 'country at their shoulder' a homeland left behind, or a birthplace never seen again. .A title in the Oxford Poets Series. 56 pp. ISBN: 0-19-2831259.
Condition: Fine in glossary illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 45665More details Price: $20.00 -
MOGHUL BUFFET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, "set in Peshawar, a border town in Pakistan, a murder mystery about a missing American businessman which offers a glimpse at the situation of women in the Muslim world, from Afghan refugees to maverick women politicians." 264 pp. ISBN: 0-374211795.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74116More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67147More details Price: $20.00 -
THE STORY OF SWAT As Told by the Founder Miangul Abdul Wadud Badshah Sahib to Muhammud Asif Khan.
Edition: Hardcover.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration on front board, in a good only dust jacket with significant rubbing and edgewear.
Book ID: 69930More details Price: $45.00 -
BEYOND BELIEF: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted People.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A follow-up to his book "Among the Believers" - a look at how the conversion to an Arabic religiion has affected the peoples of Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia (the largest Muslim population in the world), and Malyasia. Naipaul's accounts of the Islamic world were specifically cited in the announcement that he had won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. Whether you agree with this or not, it is an important book. 408 pp. ISBN: 0-375501185.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light crease on spine of dj)
Book ID: 74740More details Price: $24.00 -
AN UNRESTORED WOMAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Flatiron Books, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a collection of twelve paired stories, which are rooted in the 1947 partition between India and Pakistan, a time when nearly a million immigrants were killed, and tens of thousands of women were abducted and brutalized. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. Glossary. 242 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated black wrappers.
Book ID: 67316More details Price: $30.00 -
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