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Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2008 . First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xviii, 382. Maps. Illustrated. Notes. Checklist. Index.

pb, 320pp, plates.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York City: The Heritage Press, 1953. Reprint . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Mapsplates, Illustrations In Text. Xxi, 453 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Brown, Illustrated Endpapers. Reprint Of The Limited Editions Club Issue. Fine In Lightly Used Dust Jacket, Some Browning, In Slipcase With Some Wear And Browning.

Greenhill Books, 2005. First Edition. . Hardcover. Vg/Vg. 320pp. Plates. Map. Size: 8vo

London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. First Edition, second impression, within a month of the first and as the first. With numerous illustrations and maps throughout. 8vo, publisher's original sienna cloth lettered on the spine and upper cover in gilt. 448, index pp. A very fine copy, pristine and near as mint. FIRST EDITION, EARLY IMPRESSION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. In 1929 it was suggested to Captain Liddell Hart that he write a considered study of the Arab Revolt and Colonel Lawrence's share in it. This book is the result. It gives a new interpretation of the Middle East campaigns for Jerusalem an Damascus, the major operations to which the Arab Revolt was tied. War Cabinet records to soldiers' stories were opened for the first time to Hart during his authoring of the book. And certain letters of T.E. Lawrence are published here for the first time. Drafts of the chapters were necessarily submitted to Lawrence and a number of his notes and remembrances are included here, also for the first… Read More

this edition (first with Lawrence introduction) published January 1921; this set is a reprint dated September 1921, described on dust jacket as 'second edition of the re-issue; 2 vols, hardbacks in green cloth board covers with gilt lettering and motifs and with gilding to upper text blocks , 623 + 690 pages | portrait frontis. in vol 1; maps, plans, collotype plates etc, all as per original 1888 edition; large cloth-backed folding map in pocket at rear of vol 1 | both volumes are sound and square; covers show moderate shelf wear with heavier wear at edges and some fading ; spines frayed at head and tail, but not such as to affect spine function | vol 1 front endpaper split at hinges, others are intact; both volumes free of names, inscriptions etc, | dust jacket fragment survives | along with a reproduction of the author's portrait, 15 x 20 cms approx, with inscription on back, dated 1922 | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1936. The handsomely produced new and definitive edition, first impression. Doughty's masterpiece was first published in 1888, "an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia" (ODNB). Lawrence was instrumental in getting the second English edition published and his introduction first appeared in that edition of 1921. Two volumes, large octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges brown, others untrimmed. With dust jackets. Half-tone portrait frontispiece of Doughty, 8 plates and illustrations throughout, 2 folding coloured maps showing Doughty's routes; title pages printed in red and black. Touch of sunning to head of spines, slight creasing to fore corners of vol. II title page due to a production fault; jackets lightly soiled, some nicks, chips and closed tears with some loss, old stain to front panel of vol. II; very good copies in used but presentable jackets. O'Brien A017.

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1936. New and definitive edition, first impression, in a handsome binding. Travels in Arabia Deserta, "an unrivalled encyclopaedia of knowledge about all aspects of nineteenth-century and earlier Arabia" (ODNB), was first published in 1886. T. E. Lawrence was instrumental in having the book republished in 1921, with a new introduction and preface by himself and Doughty, both included here. This edition was published in a format matching that of the 1935 Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Two volumes, large octavo. Attractively bound in recent reddish-brown morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, roll to boards gilt, marbled endpaers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Half-tone portrait frontispiece of Doughty, 8 plates (2 folding), 2 large folding coloured maps showing Doughty's routes, illustrations to text; title pages printed in red and black. An excellent copy. O'Brien A017.

London: Corvinus Press, 1937. First, finely bound, limited, and hand-numbered edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly well-preserved copy of the scarce and extraordinarily beautiful 1937 Corvinus Press limited first edition of The Diary of T. E. Lawrence, which has been called “the most ambitious and handsome volume published by the Corvinus Press.” Of the entire edition of 203 copies, 130 were printed thus on sumptuous, mould-made “parchment substitute paper” with gilt top edge and untrimmed fore and bottom edges, bound with 13 tissue-guarded collotype plates of photographs “taken by the author during the time the diary was being written.” These are bound in quarter brown leather with the gilt-stamped title bracketed by a gilt-stamped Corvinus Press crow at each end of the spine. The covers feature beautifully textured chirigami kozo boards with parchment corners. It was issued by the publisher in a seldom-seen brown card slipcase. This copy is hand-numbered “92” on the limitation… Read More