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Harem: The World Behind the Veil
[Buy it!] | Croutier Alev Lytle | USD 18.89
(Mon Jun 3 06:59:26 2024) | Biblio | Cocksparrow Books | SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. US.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Abbeville Press* Binding and cover condition: Stiff card covers with French folded flaps, some shelf wear to edges including some de-lamination at top front. No creases to spine or hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no tanning, beautifully presented, slightly dusty, seems un-read. VG++* Illustrations: B/w and colour photos & plates throughout.* Pages: 206 pp. text. xviii pp. Chronology, bibliography, acknowledgements & index at rear.* Product Description :- This book offers an insight into the harem and harem life, focusing on the famed Seraglio of Topkapi Palace. The author uses her first-hand experience to describe the absolute rule of the sultans, the slave markets and the eunuchs. The book is illustrated with paintings by Delacroix, Ingres and Renoir, Turkish woodcuts, Persian miniatures, photographs and film stills. A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. U.S. edition, 1st. impression, reduced by some slight cover wear to VG* Date: 1993. Abbeville Press Inc., ISBN 1558591591 9781558591592 [GB] |
