T.E. LAWRENCE

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. First Edition. With many illustrations on full-page plates and maps throughout the text. 8vo, publisher's original brown cloth, the spine lettered in gilt. xii, 352 pp. A fine copy, portions of the dustjacket tipped in at the front of the book, textual considerations printed by the publisher at the front and rear flaps of the dustjacket tipped into the rear of the volume. FIRST EDITION. The publisher notes that the author, in this book, shows us where the genius of T.E. Lawrence really lay; 'making his hypnotic influence believable and explains the dedication to SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM giving us a deeper insight into that extraordinary work.... Through his own experience of Iraq and Egypt, his friendships with Arab statesmen, fellahin, bedouin and scholars, the author constantly sifts hard fact from misleading metaphor. The Lawrence we come to know in these pages is courageous, brilliant, fallible and, above all completely real.
Stewart has been the first biographer of Lawrence to study in depth the Hogarth papers, containing the correspondence of that archaeologist and spymaster, and the first who has had direct access to contemporary Arab sources: and the Bonn State Archives.'