Enjoyable and well-researched work on the Ottoman Empire and its rulers during the 19th and 20th centuries: Padishah, Khedives, Pashas, Beys, Sultans, Shahas, Mullahs, Khans and Emirs — their palaces, their harems, their idiosyncrasies — little and extraordinarily large …

Hardback, around eight inches by more than 10.5 tall, retains its original pictorial dust jacket, intact and unclipped, reinforced with strengthening tape, over its publisher's original red cloth, titled on the back-strip protecting the spine in original gilt.

First edition published by Vendome Press, NY, undated (but 1988-9). Provenance: from Turkish book seller’s stamp to foot of trailing endpage [as photo, below]; free from further permanent inscription and markings to the text.

Although interior condition is overall good, because this original letterpress book is old(ish), it does display minor signs of use and age — such as the usual discolouration to old paper; periodic minor markings that do not compromise legibility — consistent with a printed object of this vintage. All 192 pp main text (inc index) are complete and otherwise correct.

¶ Philip Mansel (b 1951); English historian and author ¶

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