London.Secker and Warberg. 1990. [10], 510pp. Map of Syria at front. Original boards, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Small bookplate of J.A. F. Hailwood; occasional highlighting to the margin in ink (just a vertical line); two page number references, one on rear endpaper and one on rear jacket flap; else a very good copy. Loosely laid-in is a manuscript single page letter on ABC News International, Inc. paper to John Hailwood from the Charles Glass, and two other manuscript letters to John Hailwood, one from Sally Mazloumian writing on behalf of her husband whose vision is poor, and a very short and poorly scripted note from K. Mazloumian himself, both of whom are mentioned several times in the book. There is also a newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph concerning the mugging of Glass in Notting Hill in 1995.