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19773135Washington D.C.: Bread & Roses Communitty Music Center 1977. Folio newsprint 12-1/2 x 15 inches in photo-illustrated self-wraps 1 15 1 pp. Good condition full horizontal crease to mid-section toned newsprint edges lightly chipped and worn with occasional closed tears. <br> Bread & Roses Community Music Center and Cooperative was self-described as "An anti-capitalist collectively run record shop†that was community-owned and -controlled at 1724 20th St NW in Washington D.C. formed by members of The Folklore Society of Greater Washington in 1973 as announced in the introductory editorial to this first issue of their cooperative's newsletter asking for aid from readers and community members to help with back taxes to the tune of $10000. <br /> Articles in this issue on newly-elected city council member Hilda Mason the Washington Free Clinic removal of tenants and subsequent development of Seaton Street in the Adams Morgan neighborhood Bonnie Raitt Margie Adam Pharaoh Sanders more.<br /> Scarce document of D.C.'s history of radical spaces.<br /> <br /> The Folklore Society of Greater Washington Newsletter Washington D.C. December 1971. Bread & Roses Communitty Music Center unknown
19982644200225021Kari Me Away 1998-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Nice looking book has minor edge wear. Kari Me Away paperback
19982034170105019Kari Me Away 1998-01-01. Paperback. Like New. Nice looking book has minor edge wear. Kari Me Away paperback
19312121923Paris.: Les Presses Univer. 1931. Paperback. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 25 cm. 253 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Idioma francés . Cubierta deslucida. Sociología. Política Les Presses Univer. paperback
1989x-0520067096Univ of California Pr on Demand 1989. Paperback. New. second printing edition. 372 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Univ of California Pr on Demand paperback
1973024563Tulsa Ok: Dept.of Army Corps of Engineers/Midcontinent Environmental Center Assoc. 1973. 1st . Paper Back. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. chapt.pag.2&1/4"thick; SC green w/blk.; slight rub w/spine sunned; cleantight pgs. "The immediate purpose of this Inventory and Assessment is to serve as a guide and a baseline to determine the possible effects of any proposed water development projects on all aspects of the environment of the area." Contract No. DACW56-72-C0062 <br/> <br/> Dept.of Army, Corps of Engineers/Midcontinent Environmental Center Assoc. unknown
1989Q-0520067096University of California Press 1989-08-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of California Press paperback
1999Q-0965058409SouthSide Press MA 1999-02-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! SouthSide Press (MA) paperback
1980ZB1220767California Health Research Foundation 1980. 196 pp. Hardcover like new. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. California Health Research Foundation hardcover
1994SKU0568131Cambridge Center for Behavioral 1994. paperback. Good. 6x0x9. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Cambridge Center for Behavioral paperback
1994SKU0615638Cambridge Center for Behavioral 1994. paperback. New. 6x0x9. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Cambridge Center for Behavioral paperback
1926144221926. Copperplate Photogravure Book Illustration of a Bird's-Eye View of Mecca Saudi Arabia. This is is an original 1926 photogravure. Photogravure was made after a photograph by Karl Gröber. It was included in the first edition of a book with text and photogravures by Grober published in 1926. Sheet size is about 8.25" x 10.25" / Printed area about 8.5" x 6.25". Mecca is Islam's holiest city and home to the Kaaba shrine and the Masjid al-Haram The Sacred or Grand Mosque. unknown
1926144231926. Two Copperplate Photogravure Book Illustrations depicting a Mosque in Mecca Saudi Arabia. Both are original 1926 photogravures. Photogravure were made after photographs by Karl Gröber and were included in the first edition of a book with text and photogravures by Grober published in 1926. Mecca is Islam's holiest city and home to the Kaaba shrine and the Masjid al-Haram The Sacred or Grand Mosque. The first photogravure presents a ground-level view of the Mosque. The second photogravure shows a birds-eye view of the Mosque. Sheet size for each is about 8.25" x 10.25" / Printed area about 6.25" x 8.25". Exellent condition. unknown
1921148161921. Unpublished sepia-toned photograph of pilgrims journeying to Mecca circa 1921 documents the material and spatial realities of the Hajj in the early twentieth century during a period of geopolitical transition in the Arabian Peninsula following the First World War. The image captures a vast encampment of white tents set against a rugged and mountainous landscape outside Mecca visually conveying the scale of pilgrimage infrastructure prior to modern urban expansion. Created during the years immediately preceding the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 the photograph supports research in Islamic religious practice the history of pilgrimage logistics and British imperial observation of the Hejaz during the inter war period.<br /> <br /> Photograph. Circa 1921. Approximately 3.5 x 5 inches. Sepia-toned silver gelatin print. The composition presents thousands of white tents clustered across uneven terrain forming a temporary city of pilgrims undertaking the religious journey to Mecca. The mountainous backdrop situates the encampment geographically within the arid environment surrounding the holy city. The photograph originates from the album of a British naval officer who traveled in the region between 1920 and 1923 providing contemporaneous visual documentation from a foreign observer during a time of shifting political authority in the Hejaz following the collapse of Ottoman control. The image appears unpublished and retains the intimate scale characteristic of personal travel albums.<br /> <br /> As a visual record predating large-scale modernization of pilgrimage facilities the photograph preserves evidence of early twentieth-century Hajj organization material culture and environmental conditions. The presence of an extensive tent city underscores both the enduring continuity of Islamic ritual practice and the logistical complexity of pilgrimage prior to the oil-era transformation of the region. Light age-related curling; minor chipping at lower edge not affecting the image area; surface otherwise clean with strong tonal range. Overall good condition. A historically significant early twentieth-century photograph documenting the lived landscape of pilgrimage to Mecca during a pivotal moment in Arabian political history. unknown
1917F14GSQ01U79OLondon: Hayman Christy and Lilly Ltd. 1917. Original stapled wrappers with red lettering on front wrapper. 8vo. With a photographic portrait of Hussein bin Ali for frontispiece and a folding facsimile proclamation 38 x 28 cm. British pamphlet advertising the independence of Hedjaz from Ottoman rule. The pamphlet includes a facsimile of the proclamation in Arabic pronouncing the Arab peoples free from Turkish domination an introduction about allied involvement the Monroe Doctrine and its role in the region and more basic history behind the eventual writing of the proclamation.Some minor traces of use. In very good condition. Hayman, Christy and Lilly Ltd., unknown
1914000555<p>Bagdad: Dar us Salam press 1914 Book. Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Printed on weak paper. The first and only part printed in Bagdad of 3 parts by the author later printed together in Cairo. Very rare printed book in Bagdad during the world war about the political and military history of Bahrain and al-Khalifa. 144 p. Arabic text with one photographic plate of the author. Scarce.</p> Dar us Salam press
