Countries & Travel Books | Used, Rare & Antiquarian - pg. 5 including Munich 1923: The Story of Hitler's First Grab for Power by: John Dornberg

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 385 pages, b&w photos. A fast-moving re-enactment of the thirty hours of Hitler's 1923 Munich beerhall putsch, based on newspaper reports, police documents, trial records, and the personal recollections of participants and eye-witnesses.

Hardcover. NY, Paragon House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 274 pages. Black cloth spine over brown boards. First published in 1925.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black and gilt lettering. 506 pages with index. Illustrated by Henry C. Barrow. This book covers the (what was then) hundred years of history the AP Press had witnessed. A "fast-moving, action-filled narrative of the rise of The Associated Press--the inside story of the only world-wide non-profit news gathering association as it grew from pigeon post and pony express to telegraph and wireless, with a daily news report of over 1,000,000 words and its spot-news picture system which shoots newspaper photographs by electricity across the globe." Short tear to top of spine cloth, bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 281 pages. A journalist reminisces about his freelancing days. A veteran of newspaper beats from Broadway to Hiroshima, from Costello's Bar to Toots Shor's, his assignments brought him in touch with notable politicians and celebrities. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Wellington NZ, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages, b&w photographs. The author writes of her experiences when she accompanied her husband, a zoologist, to the Antarctic to study the Adelie penguin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with sun fading to spine, 220 pages, b&w illustrations. Jack Lindsay uses Defoe's detailed journalism & other contemporary writings to create a striking picture of London in a tumultuous age. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages with index. William Crockford, born in squalor in 1775, had an amazing ability to calculate odds accurately and shrewdly. In 1828 he opened Crockford's Club in Mayfair, where he accumulated a huge fortune, much of it at the expense of the English aristocracy. He was the father of modern bookmaking. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with tape repair to rear panel. The opening volume (but second published) volume of James Morris's trilogy about the Victorian Empire, Heaven's Command tells the story of the British Empire from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. 554 pages with index, color title page and frontis,. b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages. The original settlement of London, the City, has Roman, Saxon, Norman roots. This book traces the 2000 year history of the old city. A comprehensive history, impressively and abundantly illustrated. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Alan Sutton, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. A colorful portrait of London's urban underworld where crime and vice of every kind flourished during the years 1800-1830. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 335 pages. The author was the chief foreign correspondent for Paris-Soir. He kept a diary from October 9, 1939 until he evacuated in the war to the United States. Translated from the French by Anne Green. He observed," ...Mr. John Frenchman paid the price of unpreparedness for Total War. He had plenty of butter-that was what he wanted. He lacked airplanes, tanks, canon..."

Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket. 214 pages, 52 maps & diagrams. A guide to Turkey that lays out the geography, as well as the historical, political and cultural history of the country. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Owl Books/Henry Holt, 1st US, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 576 pages, index, b&w illustrations. An account of the rise of Coketown, the English industrial areas of Manchester and Birmingham in the 1800s; how the Victorians transformed their blight into an early example of urban renewal - only to have it collapse into decay again in the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. In 1483 Friar Felix Fabri, a Dominican brother from Ulm, Germany, left his priory on two occasions to visit the Holy Land. this account chronicles the homeward journey of the Friar's second trip. Miss Prescott draws from a detailed daily log the Friar kept and supplements his description of the pilgrimage with her own vivid and colorful observations. B&w illustrations, index. Small name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 360 pages with index. The author deals in detail with two periods when he feels there was a chance for peace -the six years following the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the aftermath of the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War of 1967.

Softcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 460 pages. Draws from classified documents, confidential sources, and closed-door interviews with Mossad agents, informants, and spymasters to reveal the organization's deepest secrets. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son Limited, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon leather stamped with an ornate gilt design. Two titles from the publisher's "Beautiful England" series, here rebound in a single volume. Each 64 pages with 12 color plates by E.W. Haslehurst. Decorative endpapers. ribbon marker. Bookplate on a blank prelim page, spine leather faded to brown, but gilt decorations and lettering are bright. Two related photographic cards laid in.

Hardcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages. In The Modern Balkans, historian Richard C. Hall gives a complete account of the historical events that have shaped the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe. Originally separated from the rest of Europe by culture, politics, and economics, the Balkans have slowly been integrating into Western Europe since the nineteenth century. But this process of economic and political development, following the Western European model, has been far from smooth in the Balkans. As Hall explains, it has often been marked by violence and destruction, the result of many wars and rebellions. Though Soviet power imposed a nearly fifty-year peace in the region, the collapse of the Soviet Union renewed conflict that continued through the end of the twentieth century. Hall concentrates here on the significant political and economic events that have had the greatest impact on the role of the Balkans in Europe; in particular, he examines the development of national states in the nineteenth century, the influence of the two world wars, and the collapse of Yugoslavia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas , 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering. 331 pages. Portraits, maps, drawings, index. Covers the years 1877-1936. Bookplate on inside front cover. Mild wear to cover edges, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Scarce.

Softcover. Imprenta Nacional, Panama,, Interamerican Women's Club, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red and black pictorial wraps, 165 pages. A light-hearted guide to Panama in the mid-1950s, b&w maps, cartoons, other drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover set, 2 volumes complete, 1064 total pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. A reprint of the 1930 edition that covered the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Illustrated with annotated b/w photographs, some in-text drawings and tables. Clean, bright set. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright jacket, 137 pages, b&w illustrations. (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, 1988) This engaging book challenges the traditional notion that Japan was an isolated nation cut off from the outside world in the modern era. This familiar story of seclusion, argues master historian Marius B. Jansen, results from viewing the period soley in terms of Japan's ties with the West, at the expense of its relationship with closer Asian neighbors. Taking as his focus the port of Nagasaki and its thriving trade with China in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, Jansen not only corrects this misperception but offers an important analysis of the impact of the China trade on Japan's cultural, economic, and political life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "It's the stuff of dreams: a Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Majorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and "experiences," and it isn't long before they realize that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners." Illustrated with drawings at the beginning of each chapter. 226 pp.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. From one of Chinas most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the countrys meteoric economic and social transformation.Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular-people, leader, reading, writing, Lu Xun (one of the most influential Chinese writers of the twentieth century), disparity, revolution, grassroots, copycat, and bamboozle-China in Ten Words reveals as never before the worlds most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 340 pages. Few thinkers have stood as squarely at both the center and the periphery of an intellectual movement as has Shao Yung (1011-1077). Ethical model and eccentric, socialite and eremite, Shao Yung is perhaps not only the greatest enigma of early Neo-Confucianism, but also one of its undisputed giants. In this impressive life-and-thought study, Don J. Wyatt painstakingly sifts through all available evidence relating to Shao Yung and his scholarship to provide a portrait that fully exposes the moral center of the man and his work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 542 pages with index. In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. In vivid and compelling detail he tells the story of the cruelties heaped by the twin monsters of the twentieth century on a city of exquisite beauty and fine minds, and of its no less remarkable survival. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Kensington, NSW, Bay Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages, frontispiece, text with numerous b/w. and color illustrations, list of illustrations, bibliography, index, bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in white on spine, very good copy. The history of Australian exploration and discovery has already been told in many ways. This book gives modern day Australians and 'eye witness' account of those early days when the country was unknown and the possibilities seemed unlimited. The story is revealed through the diaries and log-books of the explorers. Their own plans, experiences and observations are all recorded here. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson , reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. An abridged version of the two volume, 1892 book of Curzon's travels on the following route: Ashkabad, Kuchan, Kelat-I-Nadiri, Meshed, Teheran, The Northern Provinces, Teheran, Ishfahan, Shiraz to Bushire. Clean copy, minor corner wear.

Hardcover. Malden MA, Blackwell , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages, b&w illustrations. A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 558 BC to the present day. The book traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the establishment of the current Islamic Republic. For each period, the author utilizes the most recent scholarship in order to examine Iran's political, social, and cultural history. He presents this history within an analytical framework which focuses on rulership as the central theme of identity for Iranians. He also considers the part played in Iranian identity by land, political culture, religion, and the arts. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, IB Tauris, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 418 pages. Ali Shariati is, for many, the ideological father of the Iranian revolution. A charismatic leader and teacher, his radical blend of Islam and Marxism mobilized a whole generation of young Iranians. This full-length political biography looks at Ali Shariati's life and thought in the context of the complex and contradictory cultural, social and political conditions of the Iranian society that shaped him. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, IB Tauris, 1st pbk, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages, color and b&w illustrations. In this first biography of Alexander Griboyedov in English, Laurence Kelly paints a vivid picture of a man of remarkable literary talent and diplomatic gifts that were nevertheless overshadowed by ill-fortune. Involved in the 1825 Decembrist plot to overthrow the Tsarist state and the mission to further Russia's expansionist agenda in the Caucasus, the famous writer was eventually murdered by zealous mobs in Tehran. This book makes an invaluable contribution to the diplomatic history of Russia, the Caucasus and Iran at the same time illuminating the life and works of a writer who was among nineteenth-century Russia's most respected and prominent writers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Octagon Press, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in dust jacket with fading to spine, 203 pages. Subtitled: "An Account of Travels in Asia and Africa, and Four Years Studying the Dervishes, Sufis and Fakirs, by Living Among Them." The author documents the largely ignored and forgotten ancient mystic organizations and their practices. Pages tanning otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Beirut Lebanon, American University of Beirut, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to edges, 315 pages. Daniel Bliss was the first President of the Syrian Protestant College (now The American University of Beirut) which opened it's doors in 1866. In the early 1870s land was purchased to construct new buildings under his supervision. These letters were written by Bliss to his wife who returned to Amherst, Massachusetts for health reasons. Written in 1873-74, his descriptions of mid-nineteenth century Beirut are illuminating, filled with interesting everyday details. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Costa Mesa CA, Mazda, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 335 pages. Translated by Nayer Mostofi Glenn. Clean, bright copy. Volume I ONLY of a three volume set.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Mizan Press, 1st pbk., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 460 pages. This unprecedented collection in English of notable works by Imam Khomeini, ranging in date from 1941 to 1980, makes it possible for non-Iranians to become directly acquainted with hsi ideas and to examine the convictions that underlay his indomitable mien. He was undeniably one of the most important figures of the age, not only for his roles as principle strategist of a successful revolutionary movement and supervisor of the Islamic order it ushered in, but also for his unhesitating promotion of what he saw as a global Islamic mission -- the union of all Muslim peoples. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Taplinger Publishing, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1961 and revised twice to reflect changes in Iranian society. Endpapers map. Page edges tanning, a clean copy.

Softcover. Costa Mesa CA, Mazda Publishers, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 134 pages. The history of Iran is a subject attracting increasing interest, and in it the history of the Qajar period, here dated 1796-1925, occupies a pivotal transitional place. The Qajar rulers reunited Iran after a century of weakness and division, and helped create modern Iran and its response to western power. Although the Qajars were not great reformers, their period saw the development of many new trends of thought, ranging from new religious ideas and groups to the adapting of modern ideas to Iranian circumstances. This book covers intellectual trends and equally it covers the political and socioeconomic history of Iran, including the growth of western incursions and control, which led to social, economic, and political disruptions and helped lead to a major revolution that gave Iran a modern constitution. Later developments culminated in a modernizing central government under the Pahlavi shahs. The period 1796-1925 saw a flowering of Iran's visual arts, politically oriented literature, popular culture, and crafts and carpets, and the beginnings of photography and film. The book interprets all these developments as part of a readable and comprehensible history of a period that helped bring Iran into the modern world while continuing its cultural greatness. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine, 494 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Oneworld, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Renowned expert William Chittick covers the life and works of this legendary Sufi writer. The importance of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) for Islamic mysticism lies in the fact that he was a speculative thinker of the highest order, albeit diffuse and difficult to understand. His central doctrine is the unity of all existence. In this text, William Chittick explores how, through the work of Ibn Al-Arabi, Sufism moves away from anguished and ascetic searchings of the heart also conscience and becomes a matter of speculative philosophy and theosophy. Ex-lib with stamping and stickers on front endpapers, cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Elibron Classics, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 472 pages plus 35 page Notes to the Mission. A facsimile reprint of a title first publishe in 1834 in London. VOLUME 1 ONLY.

Softcover. Wiltshire UK, Gibb Memorial, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 109 pages with a modern double spread line map, a glossary and a biographical index. The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: 100.00, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Gilt still bright. The book shows little if any use. Two maps in excellent condition in pocket on rear paste down. 784 page, b&w frontispiece, fully illustrated with 138 photographs, 34 plates, 9 maps and 2 maps in a rear pocket, 4 fold out maps. Copyright page states: "Published in November 1921", title page states 1922. Preface by Stefansson, commander of expedition, who explains that he is an anthropologist by profession & he started his work. To learn whatever he could about the Eskimos. During 5-6 years of continuous residence he learned that the Eskimos resemble an uninstructed peasantry with a large measure of native intelligence lying fallow, lacking opportunities of instruction and development, "the Eskimos are honest and intelligent but have a higher percentage of unfounded beliefs than any white people with whom I have associated." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Maps as endpapers. 333 pages, b&w illustrations. This book covers the first contacts between the United States and the Middle East from the earliest times (1800s) to the mid-nineteenth century. The author describes exotic people and places in the Middle East and how American interests there were far from marginal although centered around the American Protestant missionary activity during that period. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR HENG on front fly leaf. The authors (husband and wife) return to China after the Cultural Revolution, interviewing hundreds of Chinese and observing the signs of a surprising new China in the making. Among those interviewed are Peng Ming, now a composer and television executive; Chen Yizhi, head of the planners; and Wu Tianming, one of China's best-known filmmakers. 1986. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative blue cloth with gilt lettering and red and black stamped designs. 444 pages plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. Over 100 b&w illustrations by the Harper stable of artists: mostly Thure de Thulstrup along with a number of maps. Front cover with small area of discoloration, front hinge partially cracked, otherwise clean, binding solid.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Contains some black & white photos of the Sebei people. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling. No markings.