Cambridge: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1994. Paperback. 167p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Business card of Reza Alavi, Managing Editor, laid in on which is written "With my compliments." More
[Montreal?]: 1972. Paperback. photos, (12)p. Softcover program. 27 cm. Performance presented by Canadian Concerts & Artists Inc. Mel Howard & Nion Tallon Karlweis in Cooperation with the Turkish Ministry of Tourism & Information. More
n.p. n.d. [probably early 1900s]. Small four-page leaflet. 15 cm. No author or publisher listed but probably published by some Protstant missionary board or entity to rally support and donations. The leaflet disparages Islam: "Islam lifts the primitive African socially and commercially, but intellectually and morally it does little for..... More
Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, (c. 1945). Hardcover. ix, 224p. plus (2)p. errata. Original orange cloth. Moderate cover soil and wear. No Jacket. Neat ink corrections in an unknown hand of textual errors on about a dozen pages. More
Alger: Typographie Adolphe Jourdan, 1915. Paperback. index, xiii, 584p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Cover chipping and wear. Front cover dettached. Text moderately browned. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana (and Islam) with his bookplate on first blank page. French text. More
Alger: La Maison des Livres, (1956). Paperback. 368p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Backstrip and strip along top edge of front cover faded. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on first blank page. French text. More
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1924. Paperback. folding table, 129p. Wrapper. 19cm. Foxing on cover. Contents lightly browned. Last portion of book is partially unopened. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on first blank leaf. French text. More
[Kota Bharu]: Pustaka Aman, 1970. Chet. 1. Paperback. 296p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. Malay text. More
1935. Hardcover. index, pp. 103-359. Later red buckram. 24cm. Front cover (chipped, worn and repaired) of the original wrapper bound in at the end. Bookplate. No Jacket. This is an offprint from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Letters. Vol. I, 1935, Article No. 4. More
Wien: 1973. Paperback. folded errata list laid in, color illustration, 13 black and white plates, index, 247p. Softcover in original wrapper. dj. 24 cm. Minor wear. Croatian text. More
Moskva: Nauka Glav. red. Vostochnoi literatury, 1965. Hardcover. 3 maps (2 folding), index, 278p. dj. 21cm. Jacket has edge-wear and a few words inked on rear panel. Russian text. More
Cairo: June 1935. Paperback. 9p. Softcover item. No separate wrapper. 28 cm. Curled and a bit ragged along bottom edge. An issue of The S. O. S. Bulletin issued occasionally for those interested in the School of Oriental Studies of the American University at Cairo. More
Paperback. v, 28p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Report Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. More
Paris: Hachette, 1906. Paperback. vi, 299p. Softcover. Later plain wrapper with "Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin" label at bottom of front cover. 19 cm. Some cover soil. A couple of short tears. From the John R. Willis Library of Africana with his bookplate on the first blank page. French text. More
Lahore: Insitute of Islamic Culture, (c. 1964). Hardcover. frontis, photos, maps, index, xxxvi, 657p. Original black cloth. 24 cm. Two small rubber stamps (publishers or booksellers) on front free endpaper. No jacket. More
Budapest: 1937. Paperback. pp. 263-299. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Recent label mounted on front cover identifying this as coming from the library of H. A. R. Gibb. INSCRIBED to Gibb by Somogyi. Reprinted from the 1937 "Jubilee Volume in Honour of Edward Mahler." More
Alger: Adolphe Jourdan, 1897. Hardcover. photos, 4 chromos, folding map (in cover pocket), xxvii, 576p. Old 1/2 leather (blue cloth with large black leather backstrip and corners). Original wrapper bound in. 28 cm. Covers scuffed. Front joint splitting. Back cover detached. Gift inscription on half-title. Contents sound (some age-toning and..... More
London: Darf Publishers, 1988. Hardcover. frontis, double-page map, index, xxxii, 769p. Original red boards. dj. 23 cm. Minor fading. Reprint of the 1913 edition. More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1976). Hardcover. index, xiv, 313p. Original blue cloth. dj. 22 cm. Edited and translated by Alford T. Welch. More
New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1970. Hardcover. xxxiii, 170p. Original red cloth. 23 cm. No jacket (did it have one). Reprint of the 1898 edition with a Prologomenon by Moshe Pearlman added [at pages vii-xxvi]. More
Heidelberg: Carl Sinter's Universitatsbuchhandlung, 1925. Zweite, Umgearbeitete auflage. Hardcover. index, xii, 406p. Original blue cloth. 20cm. Text moderately browned throughout (probably acidic paper). Former owner's name stamp on back of title-page. No jacket. German text. This edition was revised by Franz Babinger. Series: Religionswissenschaftliche Bibliothek, Band 1. More
Paris: Benjamin Duprat, 1845. Hardcover. v, 342p. Later 19th century quartercloth binding (marbled boards backed in purple cloth). 23cm. Edges rubbed. Mostly light foxing. French text. A book about Muslim saints. More
Paris: Dujarric et Cie, 1904. Hardcover. viii, 288p. Contemporary quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in brown leather). 18cm. Cover rather scuffed. Text browned around edges. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on endpaper. French text. More
Lahore: Muhammad Ashraf, 1966. 5th edition. Hardcover. index, xv, 306p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 22cm. Jacket flaps unevenly browned. More
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1936-1939. 2 vols. index, 8, 99, 349p. plus (4)p. errata at end of 2nd volume. Softcover. 29cm. Back cover detached on first volume; all covers are edge-worn. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate in both volumes. The first volume (1936) reproduces the..... More
