Frye var iranofil. I augusti 1953 gav Ali Akbar Dehkhoda honom hederstiteln Irandust ("Iranvän") och han fick motta flera akademiska utmärkelser och priser i Iran för sin livslånga gärning inom iranistik.
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The Near East and the Great Powers, Harvard University Press, 1951
Iran, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1960
The Heritage of Persia: The pre-Islamic History of One of the World's Great Civilizations, World Publishing Company, New York, 1963
Bukhara: The Medieval Achievement, University of Oklahoma Press, 1965
The Histories of Nishapur, Harvard University Press, 1965
Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, vol. III, Dura-Europos, London, 1968
Persia (3rd edition) Allen and Unwin, London, 1969
The United States and Turkey and Iran, Archon Books, 1971
Sasanian Remains from Qasr-i Abu Nasr. Seals, Sealings, and Coins, Harvard University Press, 1973
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The Golden Age Of Persia: The Arabs in the East, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1993
The heritage of Central Asia from antiquity to the Turkish expansion Markus Wiener, Princeton, 1996
Notes on the Early Coinage of Transoxania; Numismatic Notes, 113, American Numismatic Association, New York
Assyria & Syria: synonyms. Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES) and Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies (JAAS)
