Guide to the Iraqi Pavilion. Damascus International Fair - 1957.

[IRAQ.]

Guide to the Iraqi Pavilion. Damascus International Fair - 1957.

UNRECORDED GUIDE TO IRAQ

First edition. Arabic text, with English cover title and captions. Frontispiece portrait of King Faisal II, 40 further black and white illustrations in the text, and a map of Iraq on the verso of the front cover. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers; light wear to extremities, corners bruised, otherwise very good. 72pp. Baghdad, [probably published by the Ministry of Culture and Information], 1957.

£500.00

An extremely rare illustrated guide to Iraq, published for presentation at the Damascus International Fair in 1957. It provides an overview of the country in the mid-1950s, with sections on: Education; Schools and Universities; the Army; the Red Crescent; Agriculture; Date Production; Commerce; Industry; Oil Production; the Peoples of Iraq; Construction; Housing etc.

Seemingly unrecorded, with no copies located in LibraryHub or OCLC.

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Guide to the Iraqi Pavilion. Damascus International Fair - 1957.

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