8vo. xiv, 386 pp., 2 maps, notes, cloth in d/w, biblio, 2 indexes, foreword by Albert Hourani, small mark/tear on lower corner of jacket, light foxing to outer edges, copy inside clean & in very good condition, from the St. Antony’s Middle East Monographs Series, No. 14, Ithaca Press, London, 1981.