Arfa Hassan General (11 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Larger book, quality shiny blue cloth, very bright gilt lettering and design on spine, ink owner's name at top of first front end paper, 457 pages including glossy photo sections throughout. Bottom tip of page 223 creased. DJ price-clipped beneath mylar, glossy green background to front and spine, white and black lettering, photo of general in formal uniform on back. DJ has tiny nicks at top front bookfold edge, light wear to top front edge, very slight surface wear to spine top and bottom edges, nick at spine bottom right edge, very tiny tear at top back edge. Good DJ/Fine book.…

1st edition. 8vo. [x] + 457pp. B/w. illustrations, 4 maps. Original cloth. Green d/w. lettered in white and black. Some minor wear. US$15.

1st edition. 8vo. [x] + 457pp. B/w. illustrations, 4 maps. Original cloth. Green d/w. lettered in white and black. Some minor wear. US$15.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. CURRENTLY WE ONLY SELL TO UK LOCATIONS. PLEASE DO NOT PLACE ORDER IF INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS REQUIRED. This is an ex-library book so has the usual library marking, stamps and labels inside and sometimes on the spine. Edge of pages slightly discoloured. Dust cover in poor condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US edition (UK edition published in 1964). Thick 8vo, x + 462 pp. plates. Very good copy in very good dust wrapper, slightly frayed at top of spine, one-inch tear along seam in upper left corner of front panel. The five shahs of the title were the last three Qajar shahs (Mozaffar ad-Din, Mohammed Ali, and Ahmad) and the two Pahlavi shahs, Reza and Mohammed Reza. We also have listed his "The Kurds.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is good, with some creasing and rubs. Not price clipped. Text is solid, shows a bit of foxing on top edge. In protective covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Some light shelfwear to the book and jacket. Dustjacket is clipped. Previous owner's signature to the front endpage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. John Murray, London, 1964. 1st Edition. Physical desc. : ix, 457p. , 22p. Of plates : ill. , maps, ports. ; 23cm. Includes index. abundantly photo illustrated. Subject: Arfa, Hasan. Generals - Biography. Iran - History - Politics and government - 20th century Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 1 Kg. 457 pp. …

General Afra was an officer in the Iranian Army for thirty years before his political and diplomatic career. First edition Hardback. Near Fine, edges dusty slight bumping, in clean and bright dustwrapper. Showing very minor wear, slightest discolouration, some bumping, and rubbing couple small closed tears,which is housed in a protective removable sleeve. There are no ink marks or writing. Excellent clean example. 14167.…

1st edition dust jacket Near Fine octavo ix + 457pp., b/w pls., maps, appendix, index, Much on 20th Century Iranian Wars ; Campaigns aginst the Kurds & nomadic tribes, WWI & Bolsheviks.

orig. cloth. 22x14cm, ix,457,(14)pp. Autobiography of an Iranian general & Pahlavi dynasty ambassador. ["., Arfa first met Reza Shah Pahlavi (ruled 1926 - 1941), who was then Minister of War, at the outset of the campaign against the Kurds in 1921. Reza Shah's forceful character left a deep impression on him, and Arfa remained a loyal supporter of the Pahlavis throughout his life..During the joint Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran in August 1941, the shah appointed Arfa chief of staff in charge of the defenses for Tehran..Arfa became involved in national politics during the 1940s and 1950s. As Chief of the General Staff from 1944 to 1946, he authorized the supply of weapons to the Shahsavan tribesmen who opposed the autonomous government of Azerbaijan..Arfa became a founding member of the secret committee of military officers, the Committee to Save the Fatherland, formed in 1952 with the objective of overthrowing Mossadegh.." -wikipedia]. Minor rubbing. Small tear to dustwrapper. VG., 22x14cm. 10pp photoplates, 4pp maps. (illustrator).…