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1961128445New York: Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief annotations in holograph pencil and ink on the title page. <br/><br/>Chayefsky's play previewed on Broadway on November 8 1961 opened the following day an for over 200 performances and closed on June 2 1962. He was nominated for a Tony Award as were producers Coe and Cantor. <br/><br/>Gideon Campbell witnesses the Angel of the Lord March who enlists him to perform a miracle in battle and to kill an idolatrous Hebrew. Gideon refuses and suggests that his pity for man is above God's law. God begrudgingly concedes. <br/><br/>Basis for Wilhelm Semmelroth's West German film 1966 and for George Schaefer's Emmy nominated television movie 1971. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with paper title label on the spine. Title page present undated with a credit for playwright Chayefsky. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 2-2-41 Act 2 Scene 2 Page 41. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor unknown books
195118507Cairo 1951. Album with approxmately 280 photographs; mounted with photo-corners only not glued down; many with identifiers on back dating the photograph and naming the participants; many photographs of social activities state and company dinners tennis matches other sporting activities where apparently these people went to be entertained in Cairo and Alexandria Egypt; a mixing of Middle-Eastern and Western-style events with some military and political leaders socially melding with the engineers and workers on this project; with views of the Egyptian countryside as well as of the plant; with a book in Arabic evidently promoting the new facility with black and white photographs; also including about 30-40 photographs of family outings evidently in Europe Italy and other places where family and friends may have had leave from building the project; various formats mostly snapshot size however there are many 3" x 5" and larger even a couple of 7"x 9" size; all contained in a faux leather album with a very worn spine and coming disbound; photographs clear well-taken and very well preserved recording a little-known aspect of Western business and industrial development in the Middle East with the participation of wives and families while a project was being completed and during the Nasser revolutionary era; We note that some of the equipment possibly for power generation bears the Babcock & Wilcox name and also equipment from Kohorn who were textile equipment manufacturers; these names are visible on the apparatus pictured in the accompanying brochure. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover books
193547120n.p. 1935. 1st Printing. White card stock leaf printed in red and blue. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Corners are slight bumped and rubbed some light age toning otherwise a nice bright copy. Broadsheet. 12-5/8" x 9-1/4" <br/><br/>"The now Cosmopolitan Hotel began life as the Grosvenor Hotel back in the early 1920s. In 1929 the building’s lease was purchased by Egypt’s premier hotelier Charles Baehler who did his own refurb and reopened the place in May 1929 renaming the hotel the Metropolitan. Baehler was the chairman of Egyptian Hotels Ltd which already owned almost every grand hotel in Cairo." Grand Hotels of Egypt website This menu is in French and only offering French cuisine. unknown books
1996246968London: Egypt Exploration Society 1996. paperback. near fine. Illustrated. 262 pages numerous black & white photos. London: The Egypt Exploration Society 1996. A near-fine copy.<br/><br/> Egypt Exploration Society unknown books
19373838Cairo: Tourist Development Association of Egypt 1937-38. Wraps with chromolithograph illustration. Very Good/Third issue of the short-lived three years luxury travel magazine sponsored by the Egyptian state. The illustrations intend to promote the idea of Egypt as a modern nation and society. Volume 1 number 3. 34cm; 32 pages illustrated with photo halftones. Ads. Text in French and English. Tourist Development Association of Egypt paperback books
19373837Cairo: Tourist Development Association of Egypt 1937-38. Wraps with chromolithograph illustration. Very Good/Second issue of the short-lived three years luxury travel magazine sponsored by the Egyptian state. The illustrations intend to promote the idea of Egypt as a modern nation and society. Volume 1 number 2. 34cm; 48 pages illustrated with photo halftones. Ads. Text in French and English. Tourist Development Association of Egypt paperback books
19373836Cairo: Tourist Development Association of Egypt 1937. Wraps with chromolithograph illustration. Very Good/Premier issue of the short-lived three years luxury travel magazine sponsored by the Egyptian state. Volume 1 number 1 offered here was published without a title page. The illustrations intend to promote the idea of Egypt as a modern nation and society. Volume 1 #1. 34cm; 32 pages illustrated with photo halftones. Text in French and English. Wraps split and detached at fold. Tourist Development Association of Egypt paperback books
1978013502Bruxelles: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth 1978. First Edition. Quarto. 157p. 6 plates 37 figures 2 folding plates. stamped "review copy American Anthropologist"--. The author discovered in 1967 this region about 80 km south of Luxor locating a series of well-stratified epipaleolithic campsites. Using Radiocarbon-dating they fit the area 6400-5980 BC; consequently filling a gap in the prehistoric cultural sequence of Egypt between the Upper Paleolithic Period circa 10000 BC and the earliest Neolithic phase 5500 B.C. Bound in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt spine lettering gilt corners only slightly bent a few faint scratches. A very nice copy. Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth unknown books
199323789Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. As New in As New dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0918986923 . Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition Volume X. Illustrated. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago hardcover books
