Hourani Cecil (9 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First American Edition. Original price of $6.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket has small spine end rubs and close tear and red mark to front panel. Book has spine end curl with no writing or marking.

hardcover. Condition: Good. DUST JACKET. First American Edition. First American Edition. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Cecil Hourani "The Moment of Truth Towards a Middle East Dialogue" / Nathan Glazer "The Ghetto Crisis" / Ralph Robin "When Everything Falls Apart" (short story) / D W Brogan "Remembering Huey Long" / Melvin J Lasky "The Idea Of An Intellectual Public".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 143, a special issue highlighting different aspects of Arab culture and arts, calligraphy, design, etc. some colour illustrations. A4.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper very faintly frayed at foot of spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of an article first published in the Middle East Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1947. Original staple-bound printed wraps 16x23cm. 20pp. Ex-library with marks to the front wrap and p1. Otherwise very good with tear along the spine fold. Sponsored by member states of the newly formed Arab League, The Arab Office was established in October 1945 at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC. Cecil A. Hourani, formerly lecturer in Philosophy and Political Science at the American University of Beirut, was at this time its Secretary. Here he presents the historical 19th and 20th Century context for the League's founding, before going into detail on the steps leading up to its foundation and the role played by Nuri Said, its objectives, and where it stands on Arab Nationalism. Appendices contain the texts of the Alexandria Protocol (1944) which led to the formation of the League, and the Pact itself (1945).…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Illus. With Photos (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 8vo. Book I: 209 pp., 1 map, b/w photographs, index, a reprint of 1984 published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson / Book II: 132 pp., numerous illustrations, appendix, first edition, published by A. Antoine, 2012.

Original printed wrappers, 23cm, 20pp. Cover title. Pen annotation on front cover, open tear on page 9 no loss, overall very good condition.