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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.91 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Pumpkin and black stapled wraps with black lettering. 104 pp. with occasional bw images in the the text. The catalogue is divided into two sections, Islam and the Balkans, and Persian Art and Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Section one includes papers titled: Berat and Gjirocaster: two museum towns of Albania (byh Dr. Richard I. Lawless); Some reflections on the origins of provincial tendencies in the Ottoman architecture of the Balkans (Machiel Kiel); Oriental carpets from Eastern Europe (Dr. Veronika Gervers); Islamisation in Macedonia as a social process (John Thirkell); Islamisation of the Balkans (Dr. Alexander Lopasic); and La signification historique des expressions "raia" et "beraia" (Dr. Aleksandar Matkovski). Section two includes papers titled: The Tehran Nizami of 1848 and other Qajar lithographed books (B.W. Robinson); Function and Decoration in Qajar tilework (Jenniver M. Scarce); Traditionialism or archaism? Reflections on a 19th century bronze bucket (Dr. Eva Baer); Zill al-Sultan: political leadership (Dr. A. Reza Shaikholeslami); The 17th century Safavid sources for Qajar oil painting (Dr. Eleanor G. Sims); and Persian wedding contracts of the late 18th to early 20th centuries (Layla Soudavar Diba). All papers in English but for the one by Matkovski (in French). Each with numerous references listed. Clean, unmarked text but art museum ex-lib. copy with expected marks, etc. Corners bumped.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. scarce poetry collection, John Guare, signed (illustratore). First Thus. 242 pp. Posthumous collection indebted to O'Hara's estate. Black & white photograph of the poet on the front, holding a cat, by Richard Moore. Minor rubbing to the extremities. Corners and binding are sound; page edges are white. Original price on the back: $5.00. Interior is clean and unmarked, save for inscription and signature from award-winning playwright, John Guare: "Dearest Arlene.Happiest of Christmases '89. Love, JOHN GUARE." Guare is the award-winning author of several dramas, including "Six Degrees of Separation," which was adapted for film in 1993 (starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith & Donald Sutherland) after its smash Broadway run. Index of titles and first lines included. O'Hara was a writer, poet, art critic and curator who died in 1966 at age 40. This is a one-of-a-kind copy in great shape. Size: Octavo. Signed and Inscripbed by John Guare. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 596 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Square large 8vo. xii + 402 + (2)pp. Numerous diagrams in text. Publisher's green cloth covers, gilt lettering + blind bands,blind cameo cartouche on front. White eps. Pencil initials on fep.Covers : very slight 0.2cm shelf knock bottom of spine, slight rubs top of spine & corners. Contents : slight browning to pages. VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. 203 + (1) + (4)pp. Tinted portrait frontis. Untrimmed edges. Publisher's blue cloth covers, gilt lettering on front& spine, blind band around edges on front. Light grey plain dw, blue lettering + publisher's cartouche on front & spine, not clipped. Original white eps. Neat first name + date " 13.v.22 " on fep. Covers : faint rubs top/bottom spine & corners else bright. Dw : 1cm chip top of spine, crease along top edge where dw overlapped covers, 3cm split front bottom corner but very clean. Contents : slight browning to eps, fox marks to outside edges of pages else very clean & tight. Bright attractive copy. F-/VG.