The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire & Sugar Street)
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First edition
The First printings in English published by The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo between 1989-1992. Large 8vos., 3 vols.; cloth-backed boards, each lettered in gilt to spine with coloured endpapers; together in the matching pictorial wrappers featuring sepia photographs by Culver Pictures and designed by Carin Goldberg; The BOOKS near fine to fine copies. All, clean and bright with the occasional bruise or small mark; in the near fine to fine WRAPPERS, the final volume with a small price sticker to the lower panel. The wrappers are protected in removable Brodart archival covers. First English language editions, preceding the US Doubleday editions. With 'BG' to copyright page of Vol. I, as called for. The complete Cairo trilogy by the Nobel Prize-Winning author Naguib Mahfouz. Mahfouz was born in Old Cairo in 1911, the youngest of seven children, and spent much of his early life in and around the city. In 1919 he witnessed British soldiers firing on demonstrators as part of the Egyptian revolution, and later referred to it as "the one thing which most shook the security of my childhood". In 1924 the family moved to Abbaseya, which was at the time a new Cairo suburb, and his mother took him to many cultural sites in and around the capital throughout his early life, including museums and ancient monuments. It was these experiences which bled into his later writings, many of them being set in these very locations. After studying Philosophy at the Egyptian University, Mah
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo
- Year: 1989
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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