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  • BLISS, Frederick Jones
    A MOUND OF MANY CITIES; or, Tell El Hesy Excavated. Second edition, revised

    London: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1898. Octavo, mustard cloth stamped in black & gilt, black endpapers. pp xii, 204, [1], (2, ads), [2] + 4 folding plates; many illustrations in text. Spine lightly darkened, with the gilt lettering dull, else a VG+ clean, tight & unworn copy, no owner names. First ed. was in 1894. "Tell el-Hesi is a 25 acre archaeological site in Israel. It was the first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie in 1890 and later by Frederick Jones Bliss in 1891 and 1892." - Wiki.

    Book ID: 40943
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  • GILLON, Adam
    CUP OF FURY

    Edition: First Edition

    New York: Astra Books, 1962. Inscribed by Author; Reddish-brown cloth. Fine copy. Jacket has a few short edge tears; VG otherwise. "This dramatic tale captures the mood of Palestine during the days of 1947 and 1948." Author was a survivor of the holocaust, underground fighter, university professor in America. Laid in is a short 1963 note in the author's hand to a purchaser of the novel.; Signed by Author

    Book ID: 8788
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  • POPE, J. Keith
    DECADE OF ADVENTURE: archaeology and exploration

    Edition: First Edition

    Singer Island, FL: Singer Island Press, 1979. Maroon boards. pp xvi, 295. Photos, bibliography, index. Library of Congress duplicate, so rubber stamped on front free endpaper and copyright page, else fine, no other library marks. Adventures with the Club de Exploraciones y Deportes Acuaticos de Mexico (CEDAM) and others. Intrepid adventurer and no doubt very readable accounts of some flaky expeditions. The raft Lehi sailing from Arabia to prove that Lehi (Mormon) could have sailed to America; finding Noah's Ark (sigh); diving near Akumal in Yucatan; finding the grave of Jean Lafitte; more diving off Cancun and into the Sacred Well; expedition to Baja California; Masada; Gambia. ; Octavo

    Condition: Very Good

    Book ID: 44801
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  • CHOMSKY, Noam
    FATEFUL TRIANGLE: the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Foreword by Edward W. Said. Updated edition

    Edition: Second Canadian

    Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1999. Laminated green cloth. Uncommon hardcover issue.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxii, 578 pages

    Condition: Fine

    Book ID: 54224
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  • KEEFER, Michael
    HARD TRUTHS FOR CANADA ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

    Edition: First printing

    Toronto: Le Tonnelier Media, 2015. Card covers. Fine copy.; Octavo

    Book ID: 53840
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  • Lipschits, Oded ; Blenkinsopp, Joseph . editors
    Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period

    Edition: First Edition

    Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003. Glossy pictorial boards without jacket, as issued. pp xii, 612. Illustrated. Fine copy. Papers from a conference held at Tel-Aviv University in 2001. (1) The Myth of the Empty Land Revisited; (2) Cult, Priesthood, and Temple; (3) Military and Governmental Aspects; (4) Archaeological Perspectives on the 6th Century B.C.E.; and (5) Exiles and Foreigners in Egypt and Babylonia. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo 1575060736

    Book ID: 50991
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  • CHOMSKY, Noam
    MIDDLE EAST ILLUSIONS: including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood

    Edition: First US

    New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (301) pages

    Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

    Book ID: 54239
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  • MA'OZ, Moshe
    STUDIES ON PALESTINE DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD

    Edition: First Edition

    Jerusalem: The Magnes Press / The Hebrew University Institute of Asian and African Studies, 1975. Orange boards. pp (xx), 582. Small ink name at front, else fine. Dust jacket has some sunning to spine and inner margins of panels, else fine. 1.5 kg parcel. ; Tall octavo

    Book ID: 50988
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  • OZ, Amos
    THE HILL OF EVIL COUNSEL: three stories. Translated from the Hebrew...

    Edition: First edition in English

    New York: Harcourrt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Fine copy. Dust jacket has light spine sunning, else fine.

    Book ID: 41533
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  • KATZ, Doris
    THE LADY WAS A TERRORIST during Israel's war of liberation

    Edition: First US Edition

    New York: Shiloni Publishers, 1953. Blue cloth. pp xii, 192. VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 51011
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  • MANNIN, Ethel
    THE ROAD TO BEERSHEBA

    Edition: First printing

    London: Hutchinson, 1963. Octavo, orange boards. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has minute rubbing to spine tips, light yellowing to rear panel, else fine, flap price intact. A novel of "the exodus from the small Palestinian town of Lydda, which was occupied by Israeli troops in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, when, with the refugees from Ramleh and the surrounding villages, some hundred thousand people, mainly women, children, and old men - the young having been rounded up - trekked through the burning wilderness to Ramallah, which was in Arab hands. Thousands died of sunstroke, exhaustion, and thirst." - jacket.

    Book ID: 31990
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  • THE WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. Translated by William Whiston by JOSEPHUS, Flavius
    JOSEPHUS, Flavius
    THE WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. Translated by William Whiston

    Grand Rapids, MI: Associated Publishers and Author. Red cloth. Yellowing to page edges. Text in double columns. Contains Antiquities of the Jews, Wars of the Jews, Flavius Josephus Against Apion. Index. Photo reprint from some old, perhaps 19th century, edition. Small type. 1.32 kg parcel; Tall octavo; 684 pages

    Condition: Fine

    Book ID: 54251
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  • JOHNSTON, Hugh
    TOWARD THE SUNRISE; Being Sketches of Travel in Europe & the East. To which is added a memorial sketch of the Rev. William Morley Punshon, L.L.D.

    Edition: First Edition

    Toronto: William Briggs, c1881. Octavo, red bevel edge pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, black, and blind, brown endpapers. pp xiv. (460, (4, ads), (2) + frontispiece and an engraved portrait with tissue guard at back. Illustrations in text. Light wear at head of lightly sunned spine neatly repaired; 1882 Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Canada prize label on front pastedown, dime-size red sticker on front free endpaper; VG clean and tight copy otherwise, hinges not cracked. Travel book by a Montreal pastor - Europe, Egypt, Holy Land, Rome. An enlarged text of the articles which previously appeared in the Christian Guardian.

    Book ID: 32222
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