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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Original wraps 11x17cm attractively illustrated with a colourful Cairo cityscape dominated by the Citadel and mosques, printed by Misr Press, Cairo. 40pp including wraps. Fine except for some pencil annotations to the lower wrap. This has a destination map to the back, and contains information for passengers, timetables and fares (Cairo, Alexandria, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Cyprus, Turkey, Palestine, Iraq, Cyprus, Lebanon, Italy, Switzerland etc), and several adverts.

Folding brochure. 2 pp. 440 x 380 mm. Brochure advertising the Comet 4c Jet, the "first jet-operator of the Middle East", showing the air routes and various destinations such as Jeddah, Khartoum, Kuwait, London and Rome. - Inaugurated in 1952, the de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. The last variant, the Comet 4c, first flew on 31 October 1959. Ordered by Kuwait Airways, Middle East Airlines, Misrair (later United Arab Airlines), and Sudan Airways, it was the most popular Comet variant and made its final flight in 1997. - Somewhat faded; some tears.