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Falcon Publishing, Helena Montana, 1999, 249 pgs. First edition in wraps in Very Good condition. Some bumping to bottom, very light creasing and a bit of edgewear, soiling and evidence of reading. The editor has Signed and inscribed on the title pg(please review photos for condition and signature). The book contains 32 Surfing stories of classic big waves. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box.

Houghton Mifflin Co.. Collectible - Good. Signed Copy Collectible - Good. Acceptable dust jacket. Inscribed by author on half title page. Writing inside.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. First. hardcover. very good/very good(+). viii, 584 pages. Thick 8vo, green cloth-backed boards, d.w. (lightly edgeworn). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First Edition. Signed by the author at title page. Ex-library copy with card and slot at rear and barcode sticker at flyleaf; corners lightly bumped. Otherwise internally clean and tight. Very good in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

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.

Little, Brown and Company. Collectible - Very Good. Signed Copy Collectible - Very Good. Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Volume 15

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.

IOTA Publishing, 2005. Soft cover. VG. Signed by Author(s)I. Signed by Author(s) Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK.

"All My Best" and signed by the author on the Title Page. Spine has one crease down the center (more felt than seen); binding firm. Pages clean and unmarked.

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

Orion Books, London. 2011. First Edition, UK. DW. SIGNED by the author to title page. 388pp. Lovely copy. Nr Fine in wrapper.