New Titles and a Dodger Victory!

Baseball season has started in the States and we are pleased to say the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers have crushed the vile defending world-champion San Francisco Giants on opening day. But because of our magnanimity we will continue to pay sales tax for all Californians including our friends in The Bay.
 
In other news we are proud to have been accepted as members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association.

For the third month, and only at RugBooks.com, we have chosen 9 fresh titles for our $9 sale on 9 select titles.

We are pleased to offer 3 new titles marked with a ‡ as well as 6 books that are now back in stock. You can keep current on our offerings by visiting our New Additions page. 

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Bowie, Theodore Islamic Art Across the World Indiana University Art Museum Bloomington, IN 1970 61 black and white 76 pp. 8.5 x 10 Paperback in Good condition. Tears to spine. Deaccessioned from a museum library with usual marks. University art museum exhibition catalog.
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Bregel, Yuri An Historical Atlas of Central Asia: Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik - Part 8: Uralic & Central Asian Studies, 9 Brill Leiden/Boston 2003 47 color maps 110 pp. 11.25 x 14.75 Hardback in New condition in publisher's shrinkwrap. Corner bumped. An essential resource for those interested in Central Asia and its people, this book contains 47 maps covering the 4th century BC to the present. "Each map is accompanied by a text which gives a concise survey of the main events of the political and ethnic history of the respective period. With special maps on the distribution of the Turkmen, Uzbek, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz tribes in the 19th-20th centuries, as well as the location of major archaeological sites and architectural monuments." -Back Cover.
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Ikuo Hirayama and the Silk Road: From West to East - New Works and Relics of the Desert [Ancient Orient Museum?] [Japan] 1989 69 color plates 15 black and white 1 map 122 pp. 8.5 x 11.5 Paperback in Very Good condition Silk Road inspired art from this revered traditional Japanese artist along with ancient silk road sculpture, textiles and paintings. Japanese text with English plate captions. More on the Silk Road

Kuhnel, Ernst The Arabesque: Meaning and Transformation of an Ornament Verlag fur Sammler Graz 1949 (1977) 39 black and white illustrations 43 pp. of text 9 .5 x 6.5 Hardback in dustjacket in Very Good condition
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‡Lee Kyung Ja, Hong Na Young, and Chang Sook Hwan Traditional Korean Costume: The History of Hanbok and Its Ornaments Global Oriental Kent 2007 Over 600 color and black and white 335 pp. 8.25 x 7.75 Hardback in dustjacket in New condition Chapters on headdresses, hair ornaments, accessories, shoes, jackets and vests, pants, skirts and socks, and coats.
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‡Nakagaki, Nobuo and Yoshifumi Hayase Dragon Robes of China: Exhibition Catalogue / Chung-kuo chin hsiu. Chuugoku kin shuu Japan Foundation [Tokyo] 1982 76 color plates 59 black and white illustrations 64 pp. 8.25 x 10 Paperback in Very Good condition. Minor edgewear and spotting. Scarce catalog of an exhibition held at the Laforet Museum, Tokyo of Chinese textiles. Japanese text with list of the exhibits in English. 
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Pinkwart, Doris and Elisabeth Steiner Bergama Cuvallari. Die Schmucksäcke der Yürüken Nordwestanatoliens [Bergama Cuvallari: The Bags of the Yürük of Northwestern Anatolia] Uta Hülsey Wesel 1991 282 color plates 240 pp. 8.5 x 11 Paperback in dustjacket in As New condition GWO 1308. A dissertation on a group of bags made and used in Turkish village and nomadic life. Study was based on extensive field research and investigation. German text with English captioned plates. 
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Schevill, Margot Blum with an historical essay by Christopher H. Lutz Maya Textiles of Guatemala University of Texas Press Austin 1993 159 color plates 75 black and white 112 figures 295 pp. 8.5 x 12 Hardback without dustjacket in Very Good condition A social-cultural history of Mayan textiles in Guatamala based on the 1902 Gustavus A. Eisen Collection at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley. 222 textiles and garments from the 19th century are shown and described. Includes introductory texts on the expressive nature of Mayan textiles, the history of the collection, a biography of Gustave A. Eisen and the social aspects of textile production. [CSROT 4743]. 
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‡Tomm, Arwed Faszination Kelim. Gewebte Kunst aus Anatolien [Kilim Fascination: Woven Art from Anatolia] Arwed Tomm Aachen [2013] 154 color plates 2 maps 198 pp. 8.25 x 11.75 Paperback in As New condition The Tomm collection of 70 antique Turkish flatweaves described and shown in color along with a dissertation on the production and use in rural and nomadic households, tips for collecting and preservation. The emphasis of this collection is on originality, color palette and design rather than condition. Non-Teutonic print quality. German text.
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