8vo. xviii, 590 pp., 2 folding colour maps (1 loose), tables, cloth, lightly rubbed, appendices, index, small closed cut at top margin of page vii without any loss, otherwise copy in general good condition, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London & NY, second edition, 1954.

Synopsis

First published in 1950. A number of specialists contributed to this useful compendium of political, social and economic information on Arabia, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Israel, the Sudan, Syria and Lebanon, Transjordan and Turkey.