Verlag: The Goodhart Press, London, 1978
Anbieter: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Zustand: Toned inside and out, near vg. First edition. 8vo, [34]pp pamphlet in wrappers, stapled.
Verlag: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, New Zealand, 1961
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. First Edition. This copy has the dustwrapper covered in an untidy, messy fashion with laminated silver plastic and masking tape. The plastic laminate is also adhering to the endpapers and boards. Also with a large 6" cut to the front panel of the dust wrapper. ; xvi, 774, [1] pages + frontispiece + plates + 7 folding colour maps + 42 in-text maps. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 212 x 136mm. This copy with a presentation slip loosely included: "Presented to 447982 Sapper R. W. Gibb by The Government of New Zealand in recognition of his service with New Zealand Engineers, Middle East in the Second World War, 1939-45". Also with several rubber name stamps of R. W. Gibb. Contents: Foreword; Preface; 'With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper'; The First Offensive; In the Lee of the Storm; The Campaign in Greece; The Campaign in Crete; Non-Divisional Engineer Units in Middle East and England, June-December 1941; The Crusader Campaign; A Miscellany of Work; The Western Desert Railway, January - June 1942; Neap Tide in Egypt; Behind the Retreat, June - October 1942; The Turn of the Tide; High Tide in Tripolitania, December 1942 - January 1943; Behind the Advance, October 1942 - February 1943; Flood Tide in Tunisia, March - May 1943; Reorganisation; The Italian Winter Line; Cassino; 14 Forestry Company in Italy; Advance to Florence; The Advance to the Savio River; To the Senio; To Ronchi; 'Battled Fields No More'; Appendices; Roll of Honour; Summary of Casualties; Honours and Awards; Commanders, New Zealand Engineers, 2 NZEF; Index. ; 8vo.
Verlag: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, New Zealand, 1961
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some rubbing to joints and edges of boards. Small 4mm chip to cloth in front joint. Horizontal crease at tail of spine. Light stain to front board. Front endpaper with some marks from staples. Lacking the dust-jacket.; xvi, 774, [1] pages + frontispiece + plates + 7 folding colour maps + 42 in-text maps. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 212 x 136mm. Military history, World War II. Contents: Foreword; Preface; 'With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper'; The First Offensive; In the Lee of the Storm; The Campaign in Greece; The Campaign in Crete; Non-Divisional Engineer Units in Middle East and England, June-December 1941; The Crusader Campaign; A Miscellany of Work; The Western Desert Railway, January - June 1942; Neap Tide in Egypt; Behind the Retreat, June - October 1942; The Turn of the Tide; High Tide in Tripolitania, December 1942 - January 1943; Behind the Advance, October 1942 - February 1943; Flood Tide in Tunisia, March - May 1943; Reorganisation; The Italian Winter Line; Cassino; 14 Forestry Company in Italy; Advance to Florence; The Advance to the Savio River; To the Senio; To Ronchi; 'Battled Fields No More'; Appendices; Roll of Honour; Summary of Casualties; Honours and Awards; Commanders, New Zealand Engineers, 2 NZEF; Index.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Niederlande
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XXII, 218 pp.The present work is a copy of the first edition of East is West by traveller and writer Freya Stark, detailing her experiences in the Middle East during the Second World War. Stark (1893-1993) spent the duration of the Second World War travelling from Egypt to Iraq and from Syria to Southern Arabia. She had offered her services to the British Ministry of Information and was sent to the Middle East to persuade government officials, among others, to join, or keep on supporting, the allied cause. In order to spread allied propaganda The present work is recommended to readers for being multifaceted and having been written "with the freedom of the independent and adventurous traveller but also with the authority of an official of the Diplomatic Corps" (inside of the dustjacket). Stark's writings are accompanied by many images of her own photographs, taken during her travels of the landscapes and peoples she encountered.Dust jacket is slightly soiled, binding shows some minor signs of wear, slight browning throughout. Overall in good condition.l Howgego IV, S61; Macro 2111; Shapero, The Islamic World (2003), 460; Smith, The Yemens, 95. cf. "Freya Stark". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Niederlande
V-XXX, 115, XXXA-XLVI pp.Extract from the periodical The Petroleum Times, containing an extensive article on oil in the Middle East. It opens with a list of Middle East oil companies and their concessions, accompanied by a map showing their oil fields, followed by a section on the future of Middle East oil. Individual chapters are devoted to the oil industry in Iran, Iraq, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, Haifa (Israel) and Kuwait, describing the area's geology, oil fields, reservoirs, and more, illustrated with photographs and cross-sections of the soil. The first 25 and last 16 pages consist of advertisements. Lacking the first 4 leaves of the preliminaries (probably advertisements), but the article itself complete, some leaves slightly creased, otherwise in very good condition.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Niederlande
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XII, 296, [2] pp.First edition of Freya Stark's (1893-1993) fourth and last part of her autobiography, detailing her work, travels and life during the years 1939-1946. During the Second World War she travelled through the Middle East in service of the British Ministry of Information, in order to spread propaganda for the allied cause. According to the short recommendation of the book on the inside of the dustjacket "Freya Stark's new book is an autobiography with a theme - the art of Persuasion .". She strictly promoted connections between the allies and the peoples and governments in the Middle East, expressly speaking out against the Germans and also against Zionism. In Egypt she founded the Brotherhood of Freedom, which she used to further her cause as they were instructed to fight for freedom and secular democracy. Untrimmed. With an ownership inscription on front pastedown in blue ink: "Marjorie Wood. December 1961.", overall in very good condition.l Blackmer 1470; Howgego IV, S61; Shapero, The Islamic World (2004), 459 (with the wrong date "1962" for the first ed.). cf. "Freya Stark". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Niederlande
Unique collection of predominantly Marxist-Leninist works of the 1970s and 1980s, mainly in Arabic and Persian. It provides an exceptional view into the efforts made to persuade the people of the Arabian Peninsula of leftist viewpoints. The works do not represent one common political viewpoint, rather, they showcase the conflicting strains of leftist realpolitik of the 1970s. The collection includes classical works by Lenin, such as an Arabic translation of his Letter to American workers. These books contrast well with, for example, decidedly anti-Soviet works such as Down with the new tsars! Soviet revisionists' anti-China atrocities on the Heilung and Wusuli Rivers. This pamphlet deals with the conflict between Soviet and Chinese border guards on Zhenbao Island that emerged around 1969 as part of the Sino-Soviet border conflict. Photos in this work show troops arguing, Chinese fishermen fighting with Soviet guards, and piles of Soviet military gear left abandoned in the snow after their retreat. Some of the works in this collection are probably published by Arabic immigrant groups in the US. The Arabic edition of the Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement was published by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) that emerged in France and consisted of 17 diverse Maoist groups from around the globe. Its objective was to work towards establishing a new kind of "Communist International" organisation, rooted in the Marxism-Leninism-Maoism political philosophy. The Revolutionary Communist Party USA was the American affiliate of this group. Marxist-Leninist bookstores in the Detroit area often stocked Arabic editions of classic communist texts like Lenin's Two tactics of social democracy in the Democratic Revolution due to the large local population of Middle Eastern immigrants. This collection contains a rare Arabic edition of the text in published in Moscow by Progress Publishers in 1978. This book, as well as others in this collection, are rubberstamped May Day Books & Periodicals, Detroit on their rear cover. Among the collection are other classics of communist (and socialist) literature such as Friedrich Engels' Anti-Dühring, in which he laid out his vision of socialism.A slight outlier in this collection is Stanley Lane-Poole's Coins of the Amawi Khalifehs, with the text in English and Arabic and illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates. This reprint of the 1874 edition is still very useful for collectors learning to read the Kufic inscriptions on the coins of the Umayyad period as it contains transcriptions of coin legends in Arabic.With some blind- and/or ink-stamped information on the wrappers and/or flyleaves of several volumes. Some volumes are slightly browned and foxed and show some occasional minor tears (not affecting the text). Overall, the collection is in good condition.