Morik Brin (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The second, revised edition (1 Jan. 1943) of this "Ideal handbook for Members of the Allied Forces containing A short Grammar, a Manual of Conversation, a Vocabulary and a Guide-book with maps", published by Horus, the Press of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology. Cloth-covered flexible boards have slight shelfwear but unmarked. Binding secure, text block edges browned. Owner name to front pastedown and half-title page, remains of ?dustcover to both pastedown fore-edges, extensive neat ink notes to 2 Memoranda pages. Otherwise slight general browning but unmarked. 160 pp; adverts front and back and interspersed in text plus inside back cover, foldout map of Cairo to rear. Copyright.…

pp. 157, (i). Folding map, numerous interleaves of advertisements and cartoons from the 'Egyptian Gazette', foldout advert at the end for TEA, 'Peps you up and keeps you fit'. Pictorial cloth, stitching weak, covers faded and blotchy, shabby externally but text OK. *VERY SCARCE - OCLC records two copies only, one in the BL and one in America. This, first edition, printed in a run of 5000 copies.…

A charming booklet of practical Arabic for British troops in Egypt during World War II, with a set of propaganda cartoons reprinted from the Egyptian Gazette, and street map of Cairo. The contemporary advertisements include everything from the only ice cream parlour in Cairo selling 'American-style' pasteurised ice cream to hotels and English-language bookshops. Scarce. We locate copies at the British Library and Southern Illinois University only. First edition; 24mo (13.5 x 11 cm); 4 cartoons on green paper, numerous contemporary advertisements interleaved, folding map of Cairo, text in English and transliterated Arabic; original limp green pictorial cloth, paper toned, title loose, otherwise a remarkably well-preserved copy of a fragile booklet; [viii], 157 pp. Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription of A Bonnyoul[?] dated 17.1.1943 at "alex." (Alexandria). …