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réf. 63833 — G.S.I. T. Headquarters Ninth Army February 1942. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 24 x 17 cm. pp.vi Title and Contents plus pp.ii Errata plus iii-xv The Bedouins of Northern Arabia by Lt. Col. J.B. Glubb and pp.186. Original blue printed paper wrappers rubber stamped 102 and in red "This Document will be kept under lock and key when not in actual use". Ownership inscription of "P.M. Holt/28.0.59/Hastings" A fascinating handbook on the tribal peoples of Syria with a remarkable folding map of 'The Arab Tribes in Syria' a French map overprinted with the tribes' names and their Summer and Winter locations. The handbook was compiled by the British 'Ninth Army' which occupied Syria and Lebanon after the allied defeat of Vichy France in 1941. An official publication it was issued for a limited readership: "This document is the property of H.B.M. Government and is issued for the information of officers and responsible officials." Most surviving copies show signs of official ownership and this is no different with sporadic manuscript annotations updating the intelligence. Uncommon. LibraryHub lists three holdings in the UK at SOAS the British Museum and Oxford. OCLC adds six holdings at the American University in Beirut Princeton Duke University NYU Abu Dhabi Monash University and Keio University. Peter Malcolm Holt 1918 -2006 eminent historian of the Middle East and Sudan and a founding editor of the Cambridge History of Islam. G.S.I. (T). Headquarters, Ninth Army, February, 1942. unknown