Silk Road Books & Photos

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Ministry of Commerce

Carpets and Rugs of Afghanistan

37 colour photos and 46 pages in soft cover as originally issued circa 1980.

232

Ministry of Information and Culture

Aryana (Afghanistan Republic)

No 4 July 1974 63 pages a journal promoting Daoud’s newly formed republic and promoting Daoud’s Pashtunistan foreign Policy. Good Condition in original card cover.

233

Ministry of Information and Culture

The Monuments of Herat

Photographic guide to Herat 38 pages.Sept 1975 Kabul, Republic of Afghanistan.

234

Ministry of Information and Culture

The National Museum of Afghanistan

15 plates and one map and 20 pages in total including 6 pages of text. 1973 Cover photo shows the front of the museum building in Dar ul Aman Kabul.

235

Ministry Of Foreign Affairs DRA

White Book Foreign Policy Documents of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

Published jointly by the DRA Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Information and Archives Department  Kabul 1982. Pp179 paperback in good condition.

236

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Afghanistan

White Book Implementation of Geneva Accords in the interests of all Mankind

In original card cover which is water soiled. 35 black and white photos including photos of bombs in toys. Kabul 1988.

237

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Afghanistan

Afghanistan in the Mirror of the World Press

Kabul 1989, PP151. Presents a short view of the Afghan war followed by press Articles analysing and reporting upon then war . There are also annexes, containing amongst other things information on ‘Military Training Centres of Armed  Opposition Forces in Pakistan’ and two maps. Condition good, paperback.

238

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Information and Press Department

White Book, China’s interference in the Internal Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

Kabul 1985, 40 pp. cover stained In limp card which is slightly worn. Photos ncluding a map of China, as well as Chinese arms seized from rebel fighters.

239

Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan

Afghanistan Ancient Land with Modern Ways

This book is a hardback large photographic book documenting Afghanistan of the 1960s, dust wrapper present. This is the Afghanistan of King Zahir Shah at the start of the swinging 1960s - a now vanished golden age of peace in Afghanistan. Women had until 1959 been required to wear the Chador this was abolished in 1959 and Afghan Women began to wear Western Dress without having to wear the Chador. The Photos vividly illustrate Afghan Women in western Dress and in the professions such as Nursing. The book consists of 199 pages illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photos detailing the construction and modernisation of Afghanistan such as the building of Kandahar Airport, Women in a Music shop purchasing records, President Eisenhower landing at Kabul being greeted by Zahir Shah. The book is embossed with the gilt Royal Afghan Coat of Arms and is in English and Pashto. Size 28cmx22cm, published by the Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan.
Heavy blue faux leather cover with gilt spine lettering. Lovely colourful mapped endpapers, pages clean, binding tight. The reader discovers that both the people of Afghanistan are proud of their past, conscious of their present & confident of their future. An attempt to present an accurate panorama of the "Afghan Life", through text
and profuse photos, black & white & colour.

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Mitford R.C.W

To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade

A Narrative of the experiences of the Force under General Roberts with map and illustrations from sketches. Reprint of original 1880 punlication by Vanguard books Lahore 1999. 212 pages.