Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 039512090x . Inked inscription to previous owner and signed by author. Firm binding and clean text. Pages have foxing. Covers have almost no wear. Dust jacket is sunfaded at spine, priceclipped, has light creasing, edge wear, and is now protected in mylar. ; 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.7 Inches; 275 pages; Signed by Author .
Houghton Mifflin Co, 1971. Reprint. hardcover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. Signed and Inscribed by Author. Signed and inscribed by the author in ink on the half title page. The jacket is shelf rubbed with creasing and a sticker on the spine. The boards are slightly shelf rubbed. The binding is secure. No other inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. JHK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
At the Drop of a Veil : True Story of a California Girl's Years in an Arabian Haren
Alireza, Marianne
At the Drop of a Veil : True Story of a California Girl's Years in an Arabian Haren
Alireza, Marianne
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date published: 1971
Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Very Good - Near fine w/ VG jacket..Red cloth over boards w/ black & gold title on spine. No edge r corner wears or bumps. Title page carries author signed inscription...No dog ears, marks, names, etc. Extra clean and tight. Jacket is price clipped and spine ends are scuffed w/ bottom of spine torn. Front panel has small corlor removed. Likely from a price sticker.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 039512090X . Book is clean and tight. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Spine and corners are bumped. Price clipped dust jacket has shelf wear on corners and spine with several small tears. Sticker residue on top front corner. Sounds a lot like "Not Without My Daughter"; Signed by Author .
Houghton Mifflin, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. Signed later printing, Houghton Mifflin hardcover w/ DJ, 1971. Book is VG, w/ clean text, solid binding. DJ is VG, price-clipped, w/ light edge/shelf wear. Signed by author (and inscribed to previous owner) on title page; includes author's card. Free delivery confirmation.
Mulholland Books, 2011-05-12. US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed on the Title Page SIGNED. Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions. We are always looking to buy hardcover Mysteries and Thrillers.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 039512090X . Text is clean. Cover shows normal wear. DJ shows wear, with some chipping at head/base of spine and tiny tears along edges. Chip missing from top edge of front panel. Author's busines card taped to front free endpaper, inscribed by author to previous owner on title page. 14th printing. ; 275 pages; Signed by Author .
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. x, 275pp, glossary, decorated endpapers. Upper page edges tinted. Prev owner's name on the front flyleaf. INSCRIBED and signed by the author in English and Arabic on the title page. Decorative cloth boards in price-clipped and edge-worn dustjacket. The author's twelve years in a Saudi Arabian harem. . Signed by Author. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. This hard cover book has a color illustrated dust jacket with black and yellow dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Book is generally clean and crisp, some dust jacket wear. The true story of a California girl's years in an Arabian harem. 6"x8.5" with 275 pages. . Author. 7th Printing. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/Collectible-Good. 6"x8.5".
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. SIGNED by author on title page. Very light edge wear, clean copy. First edition, first printing. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2011.
Houghton Mifflin Company A Signed copy on title page by author. . The Dust-Jacket's original price is still present. Slight wear to edges & corners, DJ served to protect book. Red cloth boards edges & corners sharp & clean. Decorated end-sheets & fly-leaf, prev. owner's tiny name & address sticker on fly-leaf, Author signed to prev. owner on title page in pink ink. Pages are clean, tight and bright. Top edge pages light red tinted. Very Good readable copy. The true story of a California girl's years in an Arabian harem. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/very Good.
Little, Brown/New York. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). 1st Printing 387 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: Fine/Near Fine. 1st Ed., 1st Printing/First Edition, First Printing. Flat signed by author at title page. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The book is inscribed by Marianne Alireza in penon the title page. The jacket has some surface wear along the top and bottom edges. .
Little, Brown and Company, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 0316069418 First Print. Signed by the author on the title page. NOT inscribed, clipped or otherwise marked. Dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box. Complete # line 10987654321.
Knopf Canada, 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/Fair. In Fair Condition. Welll Used. Signed By Authur "To Bill". Hard To Find. With Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. A Bestselling Investigative Journalist Takes A Tour Of The Alberta Oil And Gas Industry, Revealing How Canada'S Richest Province Is Squandering Our Chance For A Sustainable Future. In Its Desperate Search For Oil And Gas Riches, Alberta Is Destroying Itself. As The World Teeters On The Edge Of Catastrophic Climate Change, Alberta Plunges Ahead With Uncontrolled Development Of Its Fossil Fuels, Levelling Its Northern Boreal Forest To Get At The Oil Sands, And Carpet-Bombing Its Southern Half With Tens Of Thousands Of Gas Wells. In So Doing, It Is Running Out Of Water, Destroying Its Range Land, Wiping Out Its Forests And Wildlife And Spewing Huge Amounts Of Greenhouse Gases Into The Atmosphere, Adding To Global Warming At A Rate That Is Unrivalled In Canada Or Almost Anywhere Else In The World. It'S Digging, Drilling And Blasting Its Way To Oblivion, Becoming The Ultimate Symbol Of Canada'S - And The World'S - Pathological Will To Self-Destruct. Nowhere Has The World Seen Such Colossal Environmental Destruction As Is Being Wreaked On Alberta. At One Point The Province Even Went So Far As To Consider A Scientist'S Idea Of Nuking Its Underbelly To Get At The Tar Sands. Stupid To The Last Drop Looks At The Increasingly Violent Geopolitical Forces That Are Gathering As The World'S Gas And Oil Dwindle And The Age Of Oil Begins Its Inevitable Slide Towards Oblivion. As Canadians Deplete Their Energy Reserves, Selling Them Off To Americans At Bargain-Basement Prices, No Thought Is Given To Conservation Or The Long-Term Needs Of The Nation. In This Powerful Polemic, William Marsden Journeys Across The Heart Of A Province Seized By The Destructive Forces Of Greed, Power And The Energy Business, And Envisions A Very Bleak Future.
boston: houghton mifflin & co, 1971. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by author. signed by author. 275 p. At the Drop of a Veil: Marianne Alireza-SIGNED BY; AUTHOR-HARDCOVER-Marianne Alireza (Author)-CONDITION GOOD-DJ FAIR-SIGNED BY AUTHOR-COPYRIGHT1971 11TH PRINTING-275 PAGES-PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO, BOSTON This review is from: At the Drop of a Veil (Hardcover) This book tells the tale of Marianne Alireza, an American college student who married a Saudi citizen in 1943. In 1945, Alireza moved to Jeddah with her husband and infant daughter, and from there witnessed Arabian lifestyle firsthand for 12 years. She describes her experiences as part of the Alireza harem, composed of her mother-in-law, 2 sisters-in-law and their various children, of which Marianne herself eventually had 5. Alireza discusses how the family traveled to the mountains of Ethiopia to escape the summer heat in Jeddah, and how development changed all of their lives. She also details the events that led to the end of her marriage, and how she abducted her children from their school in Switzerland. The details of this book make it invaluable for anyone wanting to learn about living conditions for women in affluent Saudi Arabia in the 1940s and 50s. The story of Alireza's marriage and its demise should also serve as a warning to any Western woman considering marrying a Muslim. Under Islamic law, a Muslim man is usually granted sole custody of his (weaned) children following divorce and a Western woman who is divorced from a Middle Eastern Muslim man stands a very high chance of never being allowed to see her children again. From the man's point of view, his child custody rights are guaranteed by God, and he would be devastated to lose his children. It was exactly this sort of situation which put Marianne in the position where she felt she had no choice but to abduct her children and try to escape back to the States. All marriages these days face a relatively high risk of divorce, but cross-cultural marriages bring added stress and tend to have even higher divorce rates than marriages within a culture. Thus, a Western woman who decides to marry a foreign Muslim man is entering into a situation where there is a 1 in 2 chance of divorce, and if divorce does happen, she has an extremely high chance of losing her children forever. And this is true no matter how happily the marriage starts off, as it happened in Marianne's case. Interestingly, a quick 2001 Web search for Marianne's children turned up a traveler's note stating that all 5 of her children decided to return to Saudi Arabia upon reaching adulthood
New York: Rawson Associates, 1989. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 323pp.incl.index; HB quarter-bound; blue w/indigo&silver; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/blue&red; slight rub. "What you can do to protect your family and yourself in today's growing water crisis." signed.
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