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COME BACK TO AFGHANISTAN: A California Teenager's Story.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After 9/11, the author's father sold his clothing store in Oakland and returned to Afghanistan to become President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman and later the governor of Kunar. Said visited Afghanistan during three consecutive summers, recording his travels on a minidisc recorder which aired on NPR's 'This American Life.' This book "interweaves his personal journeya teenager struggling with his identity in his parents' homeland with a dramatic behind-the-scenes account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan." SIGNED on the title page by Akbar.Maps, list of characters. xi, 339 pp. ISBN: 1-582345201.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 71765More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LION'S GRAVE: Dispatches from Afghanistan.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - "Two weeks after September 11, Jon Lee Anderson became one of the first Western journalists to get into Afghanistan" Photographs. 201 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63471More details Price: $15.00 -
ONE SOLDIER'S WAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped).
Book ID: 66335More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WEIGHT OF ALL THINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel. Set in El Salvador, this is about war and the lunacy of war as seen through the eyes of a nine year old boy. It begins at the funeral of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero, where gunfire erupts, and his mother is killed as she is protecting him, A powerful and moving story. SIGNED on the title page with the word :Paz." 235 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61576.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81958More details Price: $30.00 -
THE WEIGHT OF ALL THINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel. Set in El Salvador, this is about war and the lunacy of war as seen through the eyes of a nine year old boy. It begins at the funeral of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero, where gunfire erupts, and his mother is killed as she is protecting him, A powerful and moving story. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61576.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (dust jacket is folded slightly off-center.)
Book ID: 58749More details Price: $18.00 -
BANKING ON BAGHDAD: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 32146More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BOOK OF JONAS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Blue Rider Press / Penguin, (2012). First edition - The author's first novel, about a young Muslim boy whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong and his struggles to adapt to life in the US. 256 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (some soiling to the edge of the textblock).
Book ID: 59614More details Price: $17.50 -
FOR ALL LIVING THINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, the story of the Cambodian holocaust and the violence of the Khmer Rouge as seen through the eyes of a Cambodian family ripped apart by the ten years of war. 790 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-553-057421.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (a massive book, so binding is slightly loosened)
Book ID: 53723More details Price: $20.00 -
ZLATA'S DIARY: A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Viking Penguin, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - The diary was written from September 1991 just before Zlata's 11th birthday to October 1993, when she and her parents were allowed to leave Sarajevo. Introduction by Janine Di Giovanni. Notes and translation by Christina Pribichevich-Zoric. Illustrated with photographs in color. 200 pp Endpapers illustrated with colored entries from her journal. ISBN: 0-670-857246.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56764More details Price: $15.00 -
SENEGAL TAXI.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2013.). SIGNED first edition - "Known for his activism and writings that bring attention to oppression and injustice, Herrera turns to stories of genocide and hope in Sudan. 'Senegal Taxi' offers the voices of three children escaping the horrors of war in Africa. Unflinching in its honesty, brutality, and beauty, the collection fiercely addresses conflict and childhood." SIGNED and dated on the half title page by this US Poet Laureate, who in 2024 also received the MacArthur "genius award." Illustrated by Herrera. 95 pp. ISBN: 978-0816530151.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69459More details Price: $45.00 -
THE HEMINGWAY BOOK CLUB OF KOSOVO.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, a few lines underlined.)
Book ID: 45229More details Price: $12.50 -
NO FRIENDS BUT THE MOUNTAINS: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Basic Books, 2017. First edition - A veteran war correspondent, Matloff journeyed to eight "remote mountain communities across the globe - from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia - to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights. Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. . . . Traveling to conflict zones across the world, she introduces us to Albanian teenagers involved in ancient blood feuds; Mexican peasants hunting down violent poppy growers; and Jihadists who have resisted the Russian military for decades. At every stop, Matloff reminds us that the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading down the mountainside affect us all." Bibliographic essay, 238 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncoomon advance issue
Book ID: 84577More details Price: $21.50 -
OPIUM NATION: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperPerennial, (2011). First edition - When reporter Fariba Nawa returned home to Afghanistan, after 20 years in the US, she discovers a country transformed by a multibillion-dollar drug trade. After decades of unbroken war, this is a country of poppy farmers, corrupt officials, expats, drug lords, and addicts. Among the stories she tells is that of a twelve-year-old child bride who was bartered to pay off her fathers opium debts. Notes, bibliography. Issued as a trade paperback original. 343 pp.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 82168More details Price: $16.50 -
PAX.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket with some wear to the top edge.
Book ID: 89801More details Price: $16.50 -
AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE, WHAT FORGIVENESS? My Encounters With Kurdistan.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57537More details Price: $20.00 -
THE VALLEY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, 2015. First edition - The author's first novel - "A former Army Captain's gripping portrait of a ragged fighting division holding the most remote and dangerous outpost in Afghanistan." 433 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of back cover, toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 79449More details Price: $16.50 -
THE WATCH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hogarth, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this Indian-born author, a powerful story of one woman in Afghanistan who refuses to leave her spot outside an isolated American garrison in Kandahar until her brother's body is returned to her - a book which is "unequivocal about the fact that there is no glory or beauty in war." (Fatima Bhutto). Notes and references. 290 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0307402233.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66565More details Price: $20.00 -
ULTIMATE WEAPON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York Weinstein Books (2008). First edition - "Published for the first time in the U.S., real-life SAS hero Chris Ryan brings nonstop battle action to this military thriller set in Iraq." 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60762More details Price: $16.50 -
A HUNDRED AND ONE DAYS: A Baghdad Journal.
Edition: First US printing.
Norman, OK: Basic Books, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul. For 101 days, from January to April 2003, Nowegian journalist Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad - this book focuses on the stories of the people of the city, trying to live while under constant attack. Translated by Ingrid Christophersen. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-465076009.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78974More details Price: $17.50 -
GETTING OUT: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (2009). First edition - A book which approaches the issue in two sections: The first "examines seven historical cases of how and how not to withdraw: Britain's departure from the American colonies and from India, the French withdrawal from Algeria, Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, and the U.S. decision to leave (or not leave) the Philippines, Korea, and Vietnam." The second section focuses on how the United States got into Iraq and it might leave. Many years later, this has still not been resolved. Includes contributions by Shlomo Avineri, Rajeev Bhargava, David Bromwich, Frances FitzGerald, Stanley Karnow, Brendan O'Leary, George Packer, Todd Shepard, Fred Smoler, and Stanley Weintraub. 148 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy black wrappers.
Book ID: 78761More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LAST STAND OF FATHER FELIX.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Africa in the 1950s by this prolific author, probably best known for "The Mouse That Roared" (basis of the film of the same name) "Father Felix, whose tiny mission serves inhabitants of a remote East African village, becomes a cause in the war between Bantu Royalists and Great Britain-backed pan-tribal Republican blacks. Father Felix elects to stay in his jungle in the face of Bantu invasions in order to call world attention to the need to make a stand for a 'place of peace.' The narrator-newsman goes with the Republican rescue corps; brave men die; and Father Felix disappears for all the right reasons." (Kirkus) 159 pp. ISBN: 0-688002854.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87907More details Price: $20.00 -
LITTLE BROWN BROTHER: America's Forgotten Bid for Empire Which Cost 250,000 Lives.
Edition: First UK edition..
London: Longmans, (1961). Hardcover first edition - The story of the United States's annexation of the Philippines - in 1898, the US, with the help of Filipino patriots under Emilio Aguinaldo, had driven out the Spanish - only to find themselves betrayed and once again under domination. The result was a bloody three year war in which a quarter of a million Filipinos and Americans were killed. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index 383 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Good overall in orange boards, no dust-jacket (synopsis from dj flap taped to verso of front endpaper and half title page, tape over final lines of copyright info)
Book ID: 78480More details Price: $15.00