Palestine Unveiled

London: Blackie & Son. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature "Cecil C. Palmer / 1941". Fading to dust-jacket spine. Three 30mm tears to margins of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Uncommon with dust-jacket. [2 (blank)], ix, [1], 242 pages + frontispiece + 15 plates. Maps on endpapers. Pink cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 195 x 131mm. "This is an account of a spiritual pilgrimage through the Holy Land, by one who went with his mind prepared by a study of its history, as told in the Bible and many other chronicles, but who was unconvinced of the truth of Christianity. His realization of the Past in what he say with his own eyes made a profound effect upon him. [. . .] Throughout the book the Holy Land as it is to-day, in the grip of racial passions and hatred and terror, where Arab, Englishman and Jew daily walk in fear of their lives, provides a vivid backcloth of physical strife, savage, selfish and fanatical." - from dust-jacket blurb. Illustrations include: British troops marching into Nazareth to quell disorders; Mount Carmen and Haifa Bay; The Great Mosque of St. John of Acre; Nazareth: From the Church of the Silesian Fathers; Afuleh, the central Jewish colony on the plain of Armageddon; Beth Alpha and the valley of Jezreel, from Mt. Gilboa; The new communal settlement in the Sharon Valley; The nucleus of a new Jewish agricultural settlement. .