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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: 40943More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
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: 8788More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
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: 44801More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
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: 54224More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
HARD TRUTHS FOR CANADA ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Le Tonnelier Media, 2015. Card covers. Fine copy.; Octavo
Book ID: 53840More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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: 50991More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
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: 54239More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
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: 50988More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
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: 41533More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
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: 51011More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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: 31990More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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: 54251More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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: 32222More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00