The Vanished Library

Searching lost libraries for living books. The purpose is to create a dynamic library for book donations, auction, adoption and so on.

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Profusely Illustrated. (at El Hegaz St.)

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Dodo. Chapter One.

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Beneath the Persian rugs.

Some of the titles: •Philip the Second Vol I & II - Prescott •Ducs de Bourgogne Vol IIII - Prosper de Barante •Ma Vie - Ahmad Haki •La Rêve - Emily Zola •Histoire Charman de l'Adlescente - Mardrus •La folle histoire de Fridoline - Guy Chantepleure •Out of the running - Alice & Claude Askew •La Mediterrane - E.Ludwig •L'Usurier - M.Montegut •Anthologie de L'amour - Quitard •Cleopatra - H.R.Haggard •Through the heart of Patagonia •I Promesi Sposi - Manzoni •Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens •Costanza Vince Ignoranza •Napoleon Buonaparte - Lockhart •Cesare Cleopatra - Shaw •Grande Scoperte (Arti & Chemica) •The Fine Art Scott books x3 •Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan - Lafcadio Hearn •First Principal - Herbert Spencer •The Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb •Un Début dans la Vie - Balzac •La Pere Goriot - Balzac •Salades de Saison •Lord Macaulay’s Essays •O Have and O Holy - Johnston •2 books by Tome •Aventures Su Capitaine Gorcoran •"Q" - Sir John Constantine •The Tower of London - W.H.Ainsworth

Also, under these books, behind the carpets, are some more that are neither listed here or photographed.

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At the end of 26th July st in Zamalek, you’ll find an antique store on a corner. Underneath a pile of rugs, you’ll find these lost books. Details will follow. (at Cairo Marriott Hotel and Omar Khayyam Casino)

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Look at that.

“Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel’s heroine is a half-irish girl working in Paris as an arists’ model and laundress; all the men in the novel are in love with her. The relationship between Trilby and Svengali forms only a small, though crucial, portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of a milieu” (at كورنيش ابو الفدا - الزمالك)