Robert H. Goodsall — Palestine Memories 1917-1918-1925

Canterbury, Cross and Jackman, 1932 . Cloth. A smart copy of this richly illustrated cheap edition of Robert H. Goodsall"s memoir of wartime and Mandate-era Palestine, inscribed and signed by the author to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Cheap edition. First published in 1926, this later 1932 issue was produced as a more affordable reprint of Goodsall"s memoir of British Palestine.A presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, dated December, 1948.Illustrated with six colour plates including the frontispiece, four maps including one folding map, twelve line sketches, and forty-one plates of monochrome photographs. Collated, complete. A personal memoir recounting Robert H. Goodsall"s experiences in Palestine during and after the First World War, covering the period from the British military campaign of 1917–1918 through the early years of the British Mandate.An insightful portrait of the landscape, society, and political conditions of Palestine during a formative moment in its modern history. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight fading to spine and extremities. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Gilt lettering to spine rubbed. The odd minor handling mark to boards. Slight rubbing to boards. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Robert H. Goodsall. Very Good Indeed .