Six Books Inscribed by the Author: Radobees, Beginning and End, Notorious House, Palace of Desire, Autumn Quail, The Begger
Published by Maktabit Miser, Cairo, Egypt, 1965
- First Edition
- Signed
- Used
Seller: Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscripts IOBA, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.Montgomery Rare Books & Manuscripts IOBA
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[1] Radobees, second edition, 1943, Maktabit Misr, Cairo, Egypt, Inscribed to Ghorab, "To the friend who is talented and liked, /S/". Chip at top / bottom of spine and front/ rear cover, spots on rear cover. [2] Bedaya wa Nehaya (Beginning and End), Naguib Mahfouz, first edition, 1949, Published by :Maktabit Misr, Cairo, Egypt. Inscribed to Ghorab: "To my dear friend Ameen Yousif Ghorab with my true admiration. /S/". Toned cover, several small spots on rear, edge wear at bottom of Spine [3] El Seman wa al Khareef (Autumn Quail), First edition, 1962, published by Maktabit Misr Cairo, inscribed: "Ameen Yousif Ghorab with love and appreciation" Chip at top / bottom of spine, edge wear to spine. [4] Kasr El Shouk (Palace of Desire). First edition, 1957, Maktabit Misr, Cairo, Egypt. Inscribed to Ameen Yousif Ghorab, which reads: "To my innovative brother Ameen Yousif Ghorab with my kisses" [5] Bait Sayi El Somah (Notorious House), First Edition, 1965, Maktabit Misr, Cairo, Egypt. Inscribed to Ameen Yousif Ghorab, which is read: "To Mr, Ameen Yousif Ghorab With love and admiration /S/". Edge wear to spine, crease on front, 6 cm. tear on rear reinforced with tape. [6] El Shahaz (The Begger), First edition, 1965, Maktabit Misr, Cairo, Egypt. Inscribed to Ameen Yousif Ghorab, which is read: "To Ameen Yousif Ghorab, the talent which created itself by itself /S/" Light wear to spine edges, pull through at two binding staple on front and back page. Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 - 2006) has been the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988). He spent most all of his life in Cairo, where he published his first novel in 1939 and ten more were written before the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, when he stopped writing for several years. The appearance of the Cairo Triology, Bayn al Qasrayn, Qasr al Shawq, Sukkariya (Between-the-Palaces, Palace of Longing, Sugarhouse) in 1957 made him famous throughout the Arab world as a depictor of traditional urban life. Until 1972, Mahfouz was employed as a civil servant, first in the Ministry of Mortmain Endowments, then as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Art, as Director of the Foundation for the Support of the Cinema, and, finally, as consultant on Cultural Affairs to the Ministry of Culture. The years following his retirement from the Egyptian bureaucracy saw an outburst of further creativity, much of it experimental. He was the author of no fewer than thirty novels, more than a hundred short stories, and more than two hundred articles. Half of his novels have been made into films which have circulated throughout the Arabic-speaking world. (Les Prix Nobel) Ameen Yousif Ghorab (1912 - 1970) was an Egyptian novelist. He was born in a small village along the south of Alexandria. Amin did not have a proper education in his life, and he did not read a single letter until he reached the age of seventeen, despite his upbringing in a wealthy family. He read Arabic literature and translated Western literature, after which he began to discover in himself the seed of a writer, so he wrote the short story first. He did not move to Cairo until 1949, when he was thirty-seven years old, after he was strongly influenced by the traditions of the countryside, which explains that most of the characters in his stories come from the depths of the countryside. He's known for A Woman's Youth (1956), Lady Aziza (1961), They Taught Me Love (1957) and A Love Crime (1955). (elcinema). "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz. Mostly in VG condition with usual wear exhibited in card cover books which have been read. Card covers with color illustrations, mostly two staple binding or glued backing.…
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- Title
- Six Books Inscribed by the Author: Radobees, Beginning and End, Notorious House, Palace of Desire, Autumn Quail, The Begger
- Author
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Publisher
- Maktabit Miser, Cairo, Egypt
- Publication year
- 1965
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Edition
- 5 of 6 are First Editions.
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