A collection of 50+ books on the Middle East, Arabia, Turkey...

Hammer

£200

A collection of 50+ books on the Middle East, Arabia, Turkey, The Holy-Land, Persia etc, From the library of Penny Young, freelance writer and journalist who worked and travelled extensively in the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa, and set up Twopenny Press in South Lopham, Norfolk in 2009, titles include Lane: 'The Arabian Nights', 1865, 3 volumes; Freya Stark: 'A Winter in Arabia'; Wilfrid Thesiger: 'The Marsh Arabs' & 'Arabian Sands'; Porter 'The Giant Cities of Bashan and Syria's Holy Places', 1886; Costas Stamatopoulos: 'Constantinople through the lens of Achilles Samandji and Eugene Dalleggio', Umberto Allemandi & C, 2009, profusely photographically illustrated throughout, folio, original cloth, dust wrapper, original slipcase; Thomson: 'The Land and the Book. Lebanon, Damascus and beyond Jordan', 1886; Doughty: 'Wanderings in Arabia'; Edwin Munsell Bliss: 'Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities', Edgewood, 1896, original pictorial cloth; Lilo Linke: 'Allah Dethroned. A Journey through Modern Turkey', 1937, 1st edition; Bilal N. Simsir: 'British Documents on Ataturk 1919-1938', Ankara, 1973-75, 2 volumes, in Turkish and English, ex library, laminated cloth bindings; Volney's Ruins, 1807, 5th edition, engraved plates, old half calf; plus others Freya Stark, Syria, Lebanon, arhaeological excavations, etc etc, and several copies of books written by Penny Young and published at her Twopenny Press in South Lopham, including: 'Ups and Downs along the Black Sea in the reverse footsteps of Xenophon', 2010, 1st edition, a remarkable account of the author's solo bicycle tour along Turkey's Black Sea coast in the summer of 1997, from Polonezkoy near Istanbul, to Trabzon, then inland over the Pontic Mountains to Bayburt and Caykara; 'Dura Europos: A City for Everyman', 2014, 1st edition, "the controversial story of this little lost city on the edge of Mesopotamia"; Peter Clark: 'Coffeehouse Footnotes', Twopenny Press, 2010, 1st edition, a series of essays and reviews offering a wide ranging perspective on the Middle East, including literary and historical figures, fascinating and eccentric individuals, great people, travellers and explorers (50+ titles)