Isbn: 9780292707481 - Before the Flames: Quest for 100 Year History of Arab Americans (19 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Slight wear DJ top edge; DJ is in a mylar protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Univ of Texas Pr, 1988. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.

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Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author on half title page and signed on title page.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 6.5 X 1.25 X 9.75 inches; 354 pages; B&W photographs. Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. DJ flaps were cut and taped onto the endpapers. Some very minor surface speckles on the exterior edges of textblock. Light curl on the fore-edge of the textblock. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. Stated First Edition; No Printing Stated. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Univ of Texas Pr, 1988. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by University of Texas Press, 1988. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with light edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 354pp. 'A Quest for the History of Arab Americans'. Pioneer, well written study. Great illus. of first wave immigrants. (loc 136, 506).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. xiii, [3]m 354 pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Some wear and small tears to DJ edges. Some edge soiling. Gregory Orfalea is an American writer, the author or editor of nine books, including his most recent works, the biography Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California (Scribner, 2014) and a short story collection, The Man Who Guarded the Bomb (Syracuse UP, 2010). Orfalea has taught graduate and undergraduate school at the Claremont Colleges, Georgetown University, and Westmont College, where he is currently director of the Center for California Studies. He teaches creative nonfiction, the short story, the literature of California, and Middle Eastern émigré literature. A powerful, personal account of some one hundred years of Arab American history in the United States. Orfalea's search for insight into his past started him on a ten-year odyssey from Los Angeles to his family's ancestral village in Syria to some twenty American cities to Lebanon and once again back to the United States to seven important Arab American communities. Orfalea's search came full circle when he visited the most recent Arab immigrants to the United States--the Yemeni farmers of California's San Joaquin Valley. Along the way, he interviewed more than 125 Arab Americans--taxi drivers, shopkeepers, potato farmers, actor Danny Thomas and White House correspondent Helen Thomas--all of whom shed new light on their ethnicity and collective roots. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Katrina Thomas (front cover photograph) (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Scuffs and tiny tears to edges of jacket. Faint dustmarks to page edges. Contents clear and legible.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. 354 pages. Illus., appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, some edge soiling, some DJ wear/soil. Signed by the author. Gregory Orfalea is an American writer, the author or editor of nine books, including his most recent works, the biography Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California (Scribner, 2014) and a short story collection, The Man Who Guarded the Bomb (Syracuse UP, 2010). Orfalea has taught graduate and undergraduate school at the Claremont Colleges, Georgetown University, and Westmont College, where he is currently director of the Center for California Studies. He teaches creative nonfiction, the short story, the literature of California, and Middle Eastern émigré literature. A powerful, personal account of some one hundred years of Arab American history in the United States. Orfalea's search for insight into his past started him on a ten-year odyssey from Los Angeles to his family's ancestral village in Syria to some twenty American cities to Lebanon and once again back to the United States to seven important Arab American communities. Orfalea's search came full circle when he visited the most recent Arab immigrants to the United States--the Yemeni farmers of California's San Joaquin Valley. Along the way, he interviewed more than 125 Arab Americans--taxi drivers, shopkeepers, potato farmers, actor Danny Thomas and White House correspondent Helen Thomas--all of whom shed new light on their ethnicity and collective roots. …