Orientations

Description: Large 8vo. Gilt illustrated cloth. Title Gilt on Spine. Book... Large 8vo. Gilt illustrated cloth. Title Gilt on Spine. Book Condition: Sl. wear. Second Edition. xvii, 624 pp; frontispiece portrait, 15 plates, 4 maps including 2 endpaper maps, index. The second edition published the same month & the same year as the first edition. * much on Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus.

Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very good... Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very good copy in d/w that has some minor wear to edges. The memoirs of Ronald Storrs, former Governor of Jerusalem, Cyprus and Northern Rhodesia. Of him T.E. Lawrence said "The first of us was Ronald Storrs, Oriental Secretary of the Residency, the most brilliant Englishman in the near east....". 532pp.

Description: Large, thick 8vo., frontis portrait, lates, maps, blue boards,... Large, thick 8vo., frontis portrait, lates, maps, blue boards, gilt device to front board, pp. xvii, (1), 624, with 16 plates (including 1 unlisted, perforated for ease of removal if it was found offensive), 2 drawings in text & 4 maps (1 folding, 1 text and 2 endpaper). Library cancel else fine.

Description: Fair. Despatched from UK within 24hrs of picking the item.... Fair. Despatched from UK within 24hrs of picking the item. Published by NICHOLSON AND WATSON in 1943, hardback (no D/J), poor, no D/W, stained, reading copy only, pages tanned, marked.

Description: 20pp photoplates; maps. Rubbed. Spine sloped. Some light cover... 20pp photoplates; maps. Rubbed. Spine sloped. Some light cover stains. Good. 24x15cm, 532(20)pp. Memoirs of a British colonial administrator in Palestine. ["In December 1917, Storrs was appointed the first military governor of Jerusalem after Allied troops entered the city. He believed that the role of Britain's military government in Palestine was simply to administer the country, not to introduce fundamental social or political changes. Britain, however, had pledged to support Zionist settlements in Palestine through the Balfour Declaration. In April 1918, Storrs formally received the Zionist commission, headed by Chaim Weizmann, which had traveled to Jerusalem to begin making arrangements for implementing the Balfour Declaration. He felt that the commission's dismay at the negative attitude displayed toward it and Zionism in general betrayed a fundamental naïveté about the Palestinians and their understanding of Zionism. Palestinian nationalist frustrations were manifested in the Nabi Musa disturbances (April 1920). As governor of Jerusalem, Storrs subsequently dismissed the mayor of Jerusalem, Musa Kazim alHusayni, for his role in the affair. Husayni went on to become the senior Palestinian nationalist figure in the 1920s, as head of the Arab Executive. Storrs took an interest in cultural preservation in Jerusalem, forming the Pro-Jerusalem Society to restore historic monuments in the city. He arranged for Armenian artisans to produce tiles for the Islamic shrines at the Haram al-Sharif as part of these efforts. Following the introduction of civil rule in Palestine in the mid-1920s, Storrs was Jerusalem's first civilian governor.., . "-

Description: Fair. Slight damage to spine. Tanning to pages and page edges... Fair. Slight damage to spine. Tanning to pages and page edges All items ordered before 1pm will be dispatched the same day (weekdays)