The Persian Yankee
New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Hardcover. 114p. hardcover in edgeworn dust jacket, inscribed by the author as a wedding gift. The Iranian immigrant author became a Presbyterian minister, residing in Pasadena. More
Cat.No: 318769
New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Hardcover. 114p. hardcover in edgeworn dust jacket, inscribed by the author as a wedding gift. The Iranian immigrant author became a Presbyterian minister, residing in Pasadena. More
Cat.No: 318769
Venice, CA: Rira Publishers, 2001. Paperback. 117p. paperback, some creasing to front cover. Text in Persian, with English title on rear cover. More
Cat.No: 318784
Venice, CA: Rira Publishers, 1998. Paperback. 104p. paperback, very good. Text in Persian, with English title on rear cover. More
Cat.No: 318783
Detroit: Committee on Medical Matters of the Responsible Enterprise Association, 1946. Pamphlet. 96p. staplebound booklet, 3.5x8.5 inches; rear cover had mailing label and postal markings. Dinshah Ghadiali, an immigrant from India who was naturalized as a US citizen in 1917, melded various streams of naturopathy, vegetarianism, and drugless medicine into..... More
Cat.No: 316204
Berkeley: ISA, 1975. Pamphlet. 49p., staplebound pamphlet; slight soil on front cover, else very good. Accuses the American M-L group of supporting the Iranian dictator for differing with the Iranian Students Association on various political points. More
Cat.No: 59880
Venice, CA: Rira Publishers, 1999. Paperback. 106p. paperback, very good. Text in Persian, with English title on rear cover. More
Cat.No: 318786
Denver: Colorado Press Pub. Co., 1942. Pamphlet. 30p. staplebound booklet, mild edgewear, cover stained at bottom of spine; label signed and dated by the author affixed at bottom of title page. Second printing of the poem, revised. With a PhD from Princeton, Nakosteen was an instructor in Comparative Education and..... More
Cat.No: 281998
Denver: General Printing Company, for the author, 1938. Pamphlet. 32p. staplebound booklet, very good. Translation of Uryan's eleventh-century poem, together with an original composition by Nakosteen. With a PhD from Princeton, Nakosteen was an instructor in Comparative Education and Philosophy at the University of Denver. More
Cat.No: 281977
Encino, CA: Kanoon-e Andishe, 1987. 112p., wraps mildly worn, interior clean. Persian poetry. More
Cat.No: 166479
n.p. Iranian Students Association in the US, Supports of O.I.P.F.G., [198-]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, very good. In the context of the Iranian government's crackdown on Marxist forces, argues that the minimum foundation of cooperation with any "non-proletariat" forces in Iran would be acceptance of the need..... More
Cat.No: 317987
London: Moslem Students Society, 1982. Newspaper. 16p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned else very good. Cover story is the assassination of PMOI member Moussa Khiabani. More
Cat.No: 174640
Long Beach, CA: MSS, 1360 SH (1982). Pamphlet. 65p. staplebound booklet, covers foxed, interior clean. Āmuzishhāī dar bārah-i Sāzmān 9. Published by supporters in US exile. In 1981, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), which had been part of the 1979 revolution, joined protests against the impeachment of Banisadr, and the Iranian government..... More
Cat.No: 298188
Long Beach, CA: MSS, 1359 SH (1981). Pamphlet. 132p. paperback, minor foxing and shelfwear. Published by supporters in US exile, though the Carter administration had already ended. In 1981, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), which had been part of the 1979 revolution, joined protests against the impeachment of Banisadr, and the Iranian..... More
Cat.No: 298158
Houston, TX: Book Distribution Center, 1978. 240p., paperback, covers lightly worn. More
Cat.No: 269366
Long Beach, CA: Moslem Students Society (U.S.A.), 1981. handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, uneven toning. "The whole world now recognizes the inevitability and necessity of the fall of Khomeini's bloodthirsty regime..." More
Cat.No: 315597
Long Beach, CA: Moslem Students Society (U.S.A.), 1981. 21p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. "Contrary to the superficiality and prosaic formalism of Khomeini's system.." p.7. More
Cat.No: 160393
n.p. n.pub. [198-]. Pamphlet. 29p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.75 inches, smudged wraps else very good condition. Declaration issued by 16 Marxist-Leninist groups from around the world in 1984; the Revolutionary Communist Party USA being the American affiliate. This Farsi edition most likely published by Iranian expats in the United States. More
Cat.No: 158426
Los Angeles: Persian-American Pub. Co., 1924. Hardcover. 121p. hardcover, previous owner's elaborate inscription and drawing inside front cover. Short essays on spiritual themes, by a Persian-American author who had been ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's secretary. He was expelled from Baha'i orthodoxy in 1939 because of conflicts with Shoghi Effendi. More
Cat.No: 316569
New York: New History Society, n.d. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, very good. Nineteen guidelines for a moral life, by a Persian-American author who had been ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's secretary. He was expelled from Baha'i orthodoxy in 1939 because of conflicts with Shoghi Effendi. More
Cat.No: 316483
San Francisco: Pay Am Iran, 1979. Magazine. 45p., slick paper throughout, with English texts printed triple-column and Persian in double columns; slight signs of handling, front cover has a tiny dog-ear, a clean sound copy. From masthead: "Iran Sun-- an independent magazine published monthly for all Iranians in North America...... More
Cat.No: 226824
Berkeley: Regent Press/Graphic Ways, 2009. Hardcover. 109p., 10x12 inches, preface, introduction, technical notes, very good first edition review copy reissued by the Berkeley publisher who bought up the original first edition copies, in gray cloth and price-clipped dust jacket with a sticker scar and a crayon mark on the front..... More
Cat.No: 145001
n.p. Twin Lakes Publishing, 2004. Paperback. 216p., trade paperback, lightly edgeworn wraps, illus., upper corner of back cover and preceding pages somewhat bumped, else good. Inscribed by the author. Memoirs of the Iranian-born emigre to the U.S. and later New Zealand. Full of amusing anecdotes. More
Cat.No: 226453
Highlands Ranch, CO: Alien Books, 1996. Pamphlet. 16p. staplebound chapbook, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Poetry by the Iranian immigrant English professor. More
Cat.No: 285152