Marmaduke Pickthall: First Edition (33 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Good. shelf wear, paperback Used - Good 1996 First Edition All purchases support Project HOME - ending homelessness in Philadelphia.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Washington, D.C., 2005; glossy green paper covers; mild corner wear; front cover lifted; 16mo - over 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 638 pages.

PHYSICAL BOOK as published 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: very good (spine lettering a little dulled; no dust jacket).

Paperback. first edition. M-94 almost near fine, appears unread paperback.

PAPER BACK MULTI. Condition: FAIR. FIRST PRINTING. Much foxing and browning and text block feels fragile DATE PUBLISHED: 1953, SEPTEMBER EDITION: FIRST PRINTING 464.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. First Mass Market Paperback Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy in gold and white laminated wrappers, as issued. Slight laminate lift at points, else unworn and clean. 464pp. with Index. English only. Q09872.

First Edition (includes publisher's catalog for 1919 at rear). -- Novel, critique of the rituals and bullying at the author's school Harrow in England. -- Hardcover, red cloth, 254 pages. Condition: very good minus (spine is lightly sunned and bumped at tips; owner name dated 1926; no jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. xxi 326pp hardback, blue cloth gilt chipping and slight loss to top of spine, few ms pencil notes to rear end-paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing. Octavo. Dust jacket designed by Frank McIntosh (small chips). Very good. 314 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 319pp hardback, brown boards black-lettered, ownership signature and bookplate, spine sunned, second printing.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). First. 8vo, cloth; small nick at top of spine. London: Mills & Boon, n.d. (1914). First Edition.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket As New tall octavo xxiv + 693pp., b/w plates, text ills., indexes, Pickthall's is the only English translation to have received the approval of the Supreme Islamic authority of Al-Azhar in Cairo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing with (1) on page 310. Octavo. Original light brown pictorial cloth with designs in blue, cream, and black of a camel, building, palm tree and seated man in turban with hookah by DD. No dust jacket. Very good, tight sound copy. 310 pages. Faded signature on front free endpaper and pastedown. Small book seller stamp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue boards with titles to the spine and front. Clean pages with just a small amount of foxing. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Purple boards with gilt titles to the spine. The spine is a bit dulled. Clean pages with just a bit of foxing to the first few pages. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Original red cloth with some slight marks and damp fading with slight bruising to corners, some fading to spine, otherwise very good with clean contents. No jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The scarce review copy of an intriguing historical fiction based around the First Crusades, written by a noted novelist and Islamic scholar. The scarce review copy of Knights of Araby: A Story of the Yaman in the Fifth Islamic Century, written by British novelist and Islamic scholar Marmaduke Pickthall. Published by Collins in 1917.In the publisher's original red cloth, with review copy stamp to title leaf.This intriguing historical fiction was inspired by the old Arabic history of Al Yaman, and delves into struggles during the First Crusade. Pickthall's writing was praised by E.M Forster and H.G. Wells among others.Pickthall was an Islamic scholar who converted from Christianity and became a champion of Islamic rights, including defending the rights of Palestinian Arabs during the debate over the Balfour Declaration. He is now best remembered for his 1930 translation of the Koran, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. In the publisher's original red cloth. Externally, fading to the spine and the odd small mark to board extremities. Slight edgewear, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. End papers are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the free end papers. Bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning to leaf extremities. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st thus 2008. Slightly better than very good condition with no wrapper. An interpretation by Marmaduke Pickthall. White cloth with blue and gilt blocking. Blue ribbon page marker. Colour plates. Top edge gilt. xxvii and 515 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's silpcase which is a little scuffed, has white marks to one end of spine, one open corner bumped (book not affected) and is lightly faded to one open edge. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xiii, 216. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. The publisher's own retained copy with their inked stamp on the front endpaper and a penciled note on the front pastedown reading 'File Copy - March 19th 1914'. First appeared as a series of articles in 'New Age'. Chapter include: Stamboul and Pera, A Modern Khoja, Ottoman Greeks, Assassination as a Tonic, Islam and Progress. Slight wear to covers, very slight fading at spine with faint wear at inner hinge, otherwise sound, very good. Decent copy.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Spine bottom carefully repaired; slightly cocked; tiny nick in top edge of eight leaves; ownership notation on front flyleaf.

Octavo, original black cloth. First edition. Eighteen short stories, most of them set in the Middle East, conveying a knowledgeable and vivid realism. Pickthall was another in the long line of Englishmen who became fascinated by the Arabs and their culture. One of these stories, "Hashish," describes an Arab's introduction to and growing acquaintance with the drug (first consumed here as an edible jam). Top edge of text block dusty, a bright, near fine copy. Scarce. (#113426).…

FIRST PRINTING. A NEAR FINE COPY IN A SLIPCASE WHICH IS BADLY DAMAGED ON THE BOTTOM PANEL. GILT TO TOP PAGE EDGES. A BEAUTIFUL COPY. SCARCE.

First edition. Ownership signature of the artist, Gerald Kelly, to inner corner of free endpaper. Subsequently, Barry Humphries' copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Cloth slightly soiled, thin stain to head of front pastedown, hinge cracked at half-title, else a good, sound copy.

First edition. Barry Humphries' copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Spine slightly browned, and rubbed at edges; cloth slightly soiled, endpapers cracked, else a good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Slip Case custom. 1st Edition. Very good and very scarce FIRST EDITION First printing of a very important novel once owned by prolific (11 novels) historian and writer John Seargeant Cyprian Bridge ( 1877-1959) who stated on the front paste down, " One of the finest 'Oriental' novels" Baker? " Builds to the best fiction" The novel revolves around Said the fisherman, a low class Syrian deliquient and incorrigible scoundrel who today could be considered a con-artist. " The best place for Said in any culture is in this book" This first edition, went through 14 British edition in the first 25 years, and was much admired by the likes of D.M. Forrester, H.G. Wells, and D. H. Lawrence. Said is a devout Muslim and is fanatical about his religion "much like football fans are today". This is more than a yarn about an incorrigible Syrian peasant, it is a statement of what are the problems of Muslims at large (1903). The author Marmaduke Pickthall was considered one of the great novelist of the early 20th century but has been largely forgotten except for a few scholars and collectors of books of cultural significance. Pickthall, best known for his translation of the Holy Qur'an was an expert of the late 19th century Middle-East. Book is very scarce, rare and quite collectible. Book is trimmed on the top and fore edge and untrimmed on the bottom edge. The book is 302 pages plus a very interesting and impressive 40 page historically important Catalogue of books and announcements of Methuen and company publishers: London Feb. 1903 Book has a very fine custom slip case. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, unpriced possibly for colonial issue. Pickthall is one of the genuinely extraordinary figures of English letters: the Suffolk clergyman's son whose Near Eastern fiction, Saïd the Fisherman above all, was admired by Wells and later praised by E.M. Forster as the real thing; who publicly embraced Islam in 1917 while England was at war with the Caliphate, and whose Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), produced in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, remains among the most used English renderings a century on. As Others See Us is late fiction from the threshold of that final vocation, and the title declares the method of his best work: the observing eye reversed, the English seen as others see them: a trick few other novelists of his generation could perform without lapsing into condescension. Light foxing, ownership inscription dated 1931 to front pastedown; cloth softened slightly at head of spine, a little minor bumping; jacket rubbed with some edge wear and chipping/creasing, but overall very good given the age. Book.…

First edition. Barry Humphries' copy, with two of his bookplates. Spine slightly darkened, fore-edge slightly foxed, free endpapers lightly browned, very small piece torn from lower corner of rear free endpaper, else a very good copy.

First Edition. 8vo. 381 pp. Publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering & ruling. Endpapers just starting to split at front & rear hinges; light wear & bumping to extremities; contemporary owner inscription; small bookseller label inside front cover; else a near fine copy of an uncommon title. Pickthall (1875-1936) was a Western Islamic scholar noted for his English translation of the Qur'an. "All Fools" is his first published novel which, for the time period, ".contained morally problematic passages which were to saddle him in later years with the reputation of a libertine. Even his mother was disturbed by the most offending passage in the book, which used the word 'stays', an unmentionable item of Victorian underwear. The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, to whom Pickthall unwisely sent a copy, was similarly agitated, and the young novelist lost many friends. Soon he bought up the unsold copies, and had them destroyed." He went on to become one of the bestselling English novelists of the day. …