[Literature] [Lawrence, T.E.] Group of 6 Volumes Related to T.E. Lawrence

1. A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force...
Cairo: Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919. First edition. 4to. Edited by Harry Pirie-Gordon, and containing two unsigned reports written by Lawrence. Illustrated with color maps. Original quarter brown cloth over printed wrappers; scattered wear.

2. Thomas, Lowell
With Lawrence in Arabia
New York & London: The Century Co., (1924). First edition. Inscribed by Lowell on front free endpaper: "May Allah give you peace and may you live forever! With deepest salaams Lowell Thomas". Publisher's pictorial orange cloth, worn and soiled; in supplied dust-jacket from the Star Books reprint.

3. Graves, Robert
Lawrence and the Arabs
London: Jonathan Cape, (1927). First edition. 8vo. With an autograph note, initialed by Graves tipped-in on front free endpaper ("Sorry, I haven't read the books. I don't admire the same books as yourself. My black & white drawing of Lawrence I gave long ago to Liddel (sic) Hart..."). With black and white reproductions. Three-quarter tan morocco over light tan linen-covered boards, decorated in gilt; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; for Henry Sotheran Ltd.

4. Lawrence, T.E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom a triumph
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First American trade edition. 4to. With black and white illustrations, maps, etc. Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco over tan linen-covered boards, stamped in gilt, boards worn and soiled, lower front board split; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; ownership signatures on front blank; dampstaining in bottom corner of most leaves; sheets toned.

5. Lawrence, T.E.
Secret Despatches From Arabia
(London): Golden Cockerel Press, (1939). First English edition, limited issue, #622/1,000 numbered copies in Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Lawrence after B.E. Leeson. Publisher's quarter black niger over cream buckram, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; spotting to text; slip case wanting. O'Brien A226

6. Lawrence, T.E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph
Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 1997. In three volumes. Limited edition, #717/752 numbered sets. Publisher's quarter grey linen over grey paper-covered boards, green leather spine labels stamped in gilt; Illustration volume in flexible grey linen over boards; in dust-jackets; together in red cloth slip case. As new.

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[Literature] [Lawrence, T.E.] Group of 6 Volumes Related to T.E. Lawrence

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