Official British Annual Reports on Mandate Palestine 1925, 1933 and four of the intervening years

                These reports by the British colonial government catalog the laws created and enforced with statistics and analysis. In their cold bureaucratic way they tell a great deal of the quotidian story of Mandate Palestine. The volume for 1933 includes twenty sub-sections within the main section Palestine (other sections are Trans-Jordan and Appendices) which are: Jewish National Home Autonomous Administration, Jewish Agency, Immigration and Emigration, Land Regime, Nationality, Judicial System, Economic Equality, Holy Places, Freedom of Conscience, Military Clauses, International Agreements Conventions and Treaties, Antiquities, Official Languages, Holy Days, Trans-Jordan (refers you to the large section - very British), Labour, Trade in and Manufacture of Drugs Arms and Liquors, Education, Public Health, Public Finance, Demographic Statistics, Customs Excise and Trade, Posts Telegraphs and Telephones, Agriculture Forests and Fisheries, Public Works Geology and Mining and (lastly) Railways.
                 Perhaps it is just me that is interested in these sorts of things. Back when I was still in Junior High School I became so obsessed with a 1943 pocket encyclopedia of the US that another kid had that I insisted that he sell it to me. $5.00 was the price that we settled on. He thought he had made a killing but honestly I couldn't have been more thrilled. Sometimes the little details in all their dryness can be the sharpest spurs on the imagination. Like I said, maybe its just me.
               All of these are available on the hollanderbooks.com website subject to prior sale.

Report by His Britanic Majesty's Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1925 (For Report for 1923 see Non-Parliamentary Publications, Colonial No. 5, June 1924 (Price 1s. 9d.), and Colonial No. 9, March 1925 (Price 6d), and for Report of 1924 see Colonial 12, July 1925 (Price 2s. 3d.) and Colonial 17, October, 1925 (Price 1s. Od.). London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1926. Octavo, paper covers with minor wear to the spine, 166 pp. Softbound. Very Good-.  (52586)      $45.00

Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1928 (For Reports for 1926 and 1927 see Non-Parliamentary Publications, Colonial No. 26, 1927, and Colonial No. 31, 1928, Price 3s. 6d and 4s. 3d. respectively). London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1929. Octavo, paper covers with minor wear to the spine, 137 pp., map of Palestine, map of Trans-Jordan. Softbound. Very Good-.  (52585)     $45.00

Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1930 (For Reports for 1928 and 1929 see Non-Parliamentary Publications, Colonial No. 40, 1929, and Colonial No. 47, 1930, Price 4s. 9d and 7s. 6d. respectively). London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1931. Octavo, paper covers with minor wear to the spine, x, 261 pp., fold-out map of Palestine, tables, with a color fold-out map at the rear (Haifa Harbor General Plan). Softbound. Very Good-.  (52584)     $60.00

Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1931 (For Reports for 1929 and 1930 see Non-Parliamentary Publications, Colonial No. 47, 1930, and Colonial No. 59, 1931, Price 7s. 6d and 10s. 0d. respectively). London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1932. Octavo, cocked paper covers with a few short tears and creasing, x, 210 pp., tables, with a color fold-out map at the rear (Haifa Harbor General Plan). Softbound. Good.  (52583)     $60.00

Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1932 (For Reports for 1930 and 1931 see Non-Parliamentary Publications, Colonial No. 59, 1931, and Colonial No. 75, 1932, Prices 10s. 0d and 8s. 0d. respectively). London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1933. Octavo, half blue cloth with fraying along the spine, gray paper covered boards, xii, 267 pp., tables, with a color fold-out "Sketch Map of Palestine"." Softbound. Very Good-.  (52587)     $60.00

Report by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the Year 1933 (For Reports for 1931 and 1932 see Non-Parliamentary Publications, Colonial No. 75, 1932, and Colonial No. 82, 1933, Price 8s. 0d and 9s. 6d. respectively). London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1934. Octavo, black cloth with gold lettering, xii, 315 pp., tables, with a color fold-out "Palestine," "Palestine [by jurisdiction]", fold-out table of Lake Level Variations. Softbound. Very Good.  (52588)  $60.00