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- Arab Book Design / Literature: بنت الشيطان وقصص أخرى
- 160.00€
- [Devil’s Daughter and Other Stories] Short stories in Arabic language written in Cairo during WWII by an Egyptian writer Mahmud Taymur and ornated with a stunning cover design 8°. 150 pp., [2], original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers rubbed on the corners and stained on the back cover, small old annotation on the title page, in a read…
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- Arab Book Design / Oedipus: أوديب [Oedipus]
- 320.00€
- Arabic translation of three texts on Oedipus by a prolific Egyptian translator Taha Hussein, accompanied with an overdramatic cover and charming mid-century clip art Small 8°. 194 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with short tears, folds and rubbed corners, small loss of paper around the spine, inside in a good condition).
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- ARAB FEMALE AUTHORS: مخدرات اسلام [Muhadderat-i Islam / The Virtous Women of Islam]
- 820.00€
- 8°, 443 pp., [4 pp.], contemporary pink boards and brown spine, endpapers made of old stationary paper with printed grids (binding with light staining and recent hand-written title on the spine, old manuscript annotation in pencil on the title page and in black ink on p. 85, endpaper with small loss of material and pieces of mounted paper, minor…
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- Arab Patriotism / Cairo Imprint / Arabic Names: كتاب الدر الثمين في اسماء البنات والبنين
- 1,800.00€
- [Kitab üd-Dürr üs-Semin fi Esma ül-Benat ve’l-Benin / The Book of Precious Pearls of Boys’ and Girls’ Names] A rare book listing Arabic male and female names was printed by an early all-Arab patriotic press in Cairo 8°, 242 pp., modern brown cloth binding with debossed and gilt decoration and lettering (age-toned, small worm-holes in the lower part of…
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- Arab Revolutionary Poetry: قصائد من المعتقل بلدي و حبيبتي
- 220.00€
- [Poems from the Prison about my Country and the Things I Love] A collection of poems by an Egyptian revolutionary writer Ahmed Fouad Negm 8°. 118 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, tiny wear on the corners, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Arab–Israeli conflict / Sinai: اتفاق فصل القوات الثاني في سيناء ١٩٧٥ (دراسة تحليلية)
- 320.00€
- [The Second Separation of Forces Agreement in Sinai 1975 (An Analytical Study)] 8°. 415 pp. with maps in text, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers lightly rubbed and stained with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Arab–Israeli Conflict: واشنطن في تل ابيب او هنا كانت إسرائيل
- 420.00€
- [Washington in Tel Aviv or There Used to be Israel Here] An Arab nationalistic book against Israel with an antisemitic cover design 8°. 184 pp., [8 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers slightly stained, corners with tiny chips and folds, spine with a small loss of material, imprint on the back cover…
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- ARABIC ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOK: الدر النثير في النصيحة والتحذير
- 1,800.00€
- A charming illustrated book with 25 fables in Arabic languages, published by the Bulaq press in 1874. 8°, 34 pp. letterpress with lithographed illustrations, original rear wrapper, later marbled paper wrappers.
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- ARTISAN WARFARE / ARABIC BOOK DESIGN: حرب العصابات السوفييتية [Communist Guerilla Warfare lit. Soviet Guerilla Warfare. Second Edition]
- 180.00€
- The second edition of an Arabic translation of the book Communist Guerilla Warfare, describing the warfare tactics of the Soviets and also Yugoslav partisans during WWII. Large 8°. [2 pp.], 245 pp. with illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (minimal age-toning to the paper and hardly noticeable wear to the wrappers, but overall in a good and clean…
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- EARLY ISLAMIC WORLD: تاريخ العرب العسكرى [Arab Military History]
- 380.00€
- A detailed book on the early military history of the Arab World, centered on Mecca 8°, 254 pp., [2 pp.], 3 interleaved folding maps, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor foxing and wear to the edges, one map split in the fold, but overall in a good condition).
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- EGYPTIAN BOOK DESIGN / EGYPTIAN LITERATURE: جزيرة الجيب و مشاهد أخرى
- 220.00€
- [The Pocket Island and Other Stories] Signed by the author 8°, 194 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with a tiny chip and repairs on the spine, inside a good, uncut examples, author’s dedication and signature on the title page).
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- FIRST MODERN EGYPTIAN ATLAS OF THE WOLRD: اطلس ابتدائي للدنيا : لاستعماله في المدارس المصرية
- 2,200.00€
- [Primary Atlas of the World. For use in Egyptian Schools. First Edition] First Egyptian modern school atlas of the world, published in the year of the country’s independence, in 1922. Square 4°. Title page, 35 pp. with full page colour lithographed maps, bound in original blue card covers with title printed on front cover (title page little…
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