ARAB HIGHER COMMITTEE
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ARAB HIGHER COMMITTEE

Memorandum submitted ... to the Permanent Mandates Commission and the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Jerusalem: Commercial press, 1937. Small 4° (221 x 150mm). 16pp. Text in English. (Last 2 leaves faintly dogeared.) Original buff printed wrappers, stapled (upper wrapper lightly unevenly darkened at upper margin). [With:] -- The Palestine Arab Case. Cairo: Costa Tsoumas & Co., 1947. Small 4° (240 x 166mm). 70, [2, blank] pp. Folding colour-printed map, text in English. Original light-green printed wrappers, stapled (wrappers lightly spotted, spine rubbed and worn). Provenance: pencil signature in margin of map. [With:] [ARAB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE] PALESTINE ARAB DELEGATION. The Holy Land. The Moslem-Christian case against Zionist Aggression. London: Harrisons & Sons Ltd, [1922]. 8° (200 x 122mm). 12pp. Text in English. Original light-green printed wrappers, stapled (upper wrapper lightly creased). Provenance: duplicate stamps to upper cover. [And:] THE ARAB OFFICE. The Future of Palestine. London: Imprimerie Centrale, Geneva, for The Arab Office, 1947. Small 4° (204 x 145mm). [4], 166, [2, blank] pp. Text in English. Original light-green printed wrappers (small tear at foot of spine).

RARE PAMPHLETS: the first-named is a response to the Peel Commission (see lot 392), demanding an independent Palestinian state; the third-named pamphlet describes the case put forward by the Arab Delegation to London before the Mandate was officially enacted; and the last-named contains the plan proposed to the British government by the Arab states at the London conference. Khalidi & Khadduri 782, 783 (this English translation not mentioned), 786 (reprint of the 1921 A brief statement of the demands of the Arab people of Palestine) and 884.
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