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Brotherton Collection87
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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)9
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The Arabs

Atiyah, Edward Selim (1903-1964)

1955

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Israeli and Arab Translations

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1967

Typescript letters from Tom Maschler at Jonathan Cape to Silkin (19 January 1967), and from Silkin to Nora Smallwood at Chatto and Windus (28 January 1967), regarding the proposal for an anthology of ...

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Introduction [Anglo-Arab]

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

Typescript carbon copy titled 'Introduction', with Anglo-Arab written on the top in pencil, 2ff. Refers to an exhibition of artists from countries including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Egypt.

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The Arab chief : a ballad

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)

1912

Printed for Thomas J. Wise. Edition limited to twenty copies.

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Title: An old Arab poem

Author: Anonynmous

Date(s): 179-?

Manuscript: Lt 100

Contents: On the persistency of mourning, even after the external signs, such as tears, have ceased; said to be an Arab poem

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Practical Arabic grammar

Green, Arthur Octavius (1847-)

1883

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Jews Without Arabs: Drafts

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1987-1989

Ms and typescript drafts of the poem 'Jews without Arabs', including drafts titled 'Hebrew', 'Absolom was lovely in his death', and 'Enemies'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs of ...

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Translations from Hebrew and Arabic

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1966-1968

Ms and typescript drafts and copies of translations of poems from Hebrew and Arabic, inlcuding poems by Yehuda Amichai, Avraham Chalfi, Amir Gilboa, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Dalia Ravikovitch, Bat-Sheva She...

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Images from the Arab world : fragments of Arab literature translated and paraphrased with variations and comments

Howarth, Herbert (1900-); Shukrallah, Ibrahim

[1944]

"First published September, 1944."

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Arabic Spain, sidelights on her history and art

Whishaw, Bernhard (1857-1914); Whishaw, Ellen M

1912

"An attempt to elucidate some points in the history of Seville under the Moslems."--Prefatory note. "Genealogical tables of the descendants of Witiza, the last legitimate king of the Goths of Spain"...

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Oh give me but my Arab steed! : a romantic ballad

Hodson, G A (1863); McGhie, William

[ca. 1830]

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Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate : from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources

Le Strange, G (1854-1933)

1924

Part of the plans accompanied by a leaf containing descriptive letterpress, not included in the collation.

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