1945. Exceedingly rare black-and-white portrait on a 10.5 x 8.25-inch heavy-stock board, taken by "Starvis & Ewing," official photographers of the British Royal Family. The photo shows Abdullah as King Regent and Field Marshall, war-dated January 1, 1945, boldly signed "Abdullah" in English and Arabic, not personalized as it would be considered demeaning. Authentic signatures of Starvis and Ewing on the lower border attest to the fact that this is an official portrait. Abdullah is extremely rare due to the... More about Signed Vintage Photograph

maps. 633pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Praeger, (1971). vg. More about The Middle East; A Handbook

338pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Vantage Press, (1982). More about Nationalism or Islam

Boulder: Lynn Rienner, 2013. Illus. 545pp. 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner, (2013). Near Fine. More about My Memoirs; Half a Century of the History of Iraq and the Arab Cause

New York: Viking, 1973. 175 b/w illustrations. 231pp. Short square 4to, brown cloth, d.w. (binding has a pale dampstain at bottom edge of rear cover; dust wrapper is also stained - visible only from inside wrapper - and has several small closed tears). New York: Viking Press/Brooklyn Museum, (1973). First edition. A very good copy. More about Akhenaten and Nefertiti

Illus. 180pp. 8vo. printed boards, d.w. N.Y.: David McKay Company, Inc., (1960). More about Offbeat in Asia: an Excursion

Lahore: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam. 408pp. 8vo, red cloth, cloth with small amounts of very light soiling, pages 393 to 408 have a dampstain to the top margins, otherwise very good. Lahore: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam, n.d., circa 1951. Second Edition Text in Arabic and English. More about A Manual of Hadith

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 275pp. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Very good The true story of a California girl's years in an Arabian harem. More about At the Drop of a Veil

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Illus. 8vo, two-toned boards, d.w. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Very good. More about The Crescent Obscured; The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815

8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, (1992). vg Presentaion copy. More about Lines in the Sand; Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World

New York: A. S. Barnes, 1964. 408pp. 8vo, yellow cloth, d.w. slightly chipped and lightly soiled, a few pages lightly creased in upper right corner margins. New York: A. S. Barnes, (1964). More about Aspects of Islamic Civilization; As Depicted in the Original Texts

New York: Modern Library, 2000. Maps. 12mo, pictorial boards. New York: Modern Library, (2000). Fine. More about Islam; A Short History

New York: Knopf, 1996. Illus., some in color. 471pp. 8vo, pr. wrs. New York: Knopf, 1996. Very good. More about Jerusalem; One City, Three Faiths