Layer William Ali Wahab (3 results)
More imagesPublished by Dar Alrafidain 2018, 2018
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- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: WHITE EAGLE BOOKS, PBFA,IOBA,West London, london, United KingdomWHITE EAGLE BOOKS, PBFA,IOBA,West London
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Add to basket1st Edition. 13(2) 17 pages. 4to. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 13, [2], 15, 117 plates; near-fine. Very rare first edition, bilingual in Arabic and English, signed by Ali Wahab on title-page in both English & Arabic. A magnificent publication showing the Royal splendour of the Iraqi Royal Family and one of… the finest cars of the 1930s, the Mercedes given to King Ghazi, by Adolf Hitler. Ghazi crashed the car and killed himself in the process. Most of the Royal family pictured were later murdered in an Iraqi nationalist coup d'état in 1958. COPAC locates a single copy, at the British Library.
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United KingdomHenry Sotheran Ltd
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Add to basket[Beirut: Dar Alrafidain. 2018]. 4to. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 13, [2], 15, 117 plates; near-fine.Very rare first edition, bilingual in Arabic and English, signed by Ali Wahab on title-page. A beautiful publication showing the Royal splendour and one of the finest cars of the 1930s, the Mercedes given t…o King Ghazi, unfortunaley by Adolf Hitler.COPAC locates a single copy, at the British Library.
More imagesPublished by Beirut: Dar Alrafidain, 2018, 2018
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- Signed
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketFirst edition, first printing, signed on both the English and Arabic title pages by one of the authors, "With best wishes, Ali Wahab". This is "a pictorial history of Iraq from the Ottoman period though the three generations of the Iraqi monarchy to its extinction by Karem Quassim's 1958 coup" (p. ii). Half a century after the f…all of the Hashemite kings, and during the first years of the Iraq War, Lieutenant Colonel William Layer was shown to a trove of photographs of the old monarchy in the ruins of the Zuhur Palace. After cataloguing, digitizing, and translating any notes on the photographs, he left the collection with the Baghdad Museum. Ali Wahab writes in his introduction (in Arabic) that he was alerted to the existence of these photographs by Layer's 2013 article "Photos of the Hashemites", published in Asian Affairs, volume 44, number 1. After reaching out to Layer, Ali performed extensive archival research that formed the foundation of this present volume. It reproduces over 117 of the photographs, showing life for the royal family in Baghdad. There are aerial shots of the city, pictures of all three kings and their families with a variety of state visitors, and a large number of King Faisal II during his childhood in England. Quarto. With over 117 monochrome photographs; text in Arabic and English. Original black boards, spine and boards lettered in silver, purple endpapers stamped with central vignette in blind. With pictorial dust jacket. Boards fresh, a little offsetting, contents bright; jacket without price as issued, panels lightly scratched, one small stain to verso: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
