Islam

New York: Simon and Schuster 1954, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 400pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Top edge stained dark green, map endpapers, photographs. Price clipped, the dust jacket has minor edgewear and is lightly rubbed and chipped along the hinges. Locale: Mecca. (Religion, Islam, Personal Narratives, Religion, Travel).

Amsterdam, 1677. First Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Olfert Dapper. Depiction of a BAREFOOT WANDERING DERVISH. ORIGINAL ETCHING. Untrimmed. Size of the illustrated area: 17,5 x 28,5 cm ( 7,14 x 11,63 inch) + margins. Slight age-toning and 1 small foxing stain. VERY GOOD. (Airmail shipping incl.) - Minimal gebr?unt und mit 1 winzigen Stockflecken. Sonst sehr gut. (Luftpost ink)

Title: Rubáiyát
Author: Omar Khayyám
Translator: Edward Fitzgerald
Illustrator: Gilbert James
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons Limited
Place: London
Year: No date, cca 1900
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: Unpaginated
Language: English
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Not issued
Size (mm): 94 x 134Description: Brown faux leather binding. Gilt page edges are still very bright. Marbled endpages. 12 black and white illustrations by Gilbert James. Gift inscription with ink from 1917.

London: Henry G. Bohn 1850. (3-in-1 hardcover) 224, 260pp. Very good. 3 / 4 leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Marbled endpapers and edges, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, appendices. The covers are rubbed and edgeworn, a previous owner's name on the title page, light spotting on the first few blank pages. Biography of Mohammed. Bound with The Alhambra. (Biography).

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1925. First American Edition. Hardcover. Spine ends slightly bumped and bump to one corner. Light soil to the head and tail edges of the front cover, two tiny marks at the head. Faint toning at the edges of the pastedowns and endpapers. Dust jacket is intact with considerable wear and soil. Chips to head and tail of spine, all edges, and corners. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown. ; At once mystic and a celebration of life, the rubaiyat (quatrains) form a beautiful, poetic work by Omar Khaiyam [Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami] (1040-1131) the Persian Sufi poet, philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. The rubaiyat are considered by some to exalt earthly pleasure, consider death, and point out the unreliability of religion in addressing human issues. This English translation by Frederick Rolfe ["Baron Corvo"] (1860-1913) was based on the French… Read More

Abdullah, Achmed. The Thief of Bagdad. Readers Library Publishing Co. Ltd., London Film Edition, 1924. USED. TONED. Good Condition/ Good- DJ. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET Front dj panel states "Film Edition" Actor Douglas Fairbanks photo on back panel. DJ Spine is chipped. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Summary: The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from "One Thousand and One Nights", it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad.

Somerset: Archway Books, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oblong Quarto. 144 pages. Hardcover in purple dust jacket. The jacket has light to moderate wear and rubbing. Light toning at edges of pages. Illustrations throughout.