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T.E.LAWRENCE. A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H.Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources. Government Press and Survey of Egypt. Palestine News, Cairo 1919 [in fact December 1918]. The first edition, preceding the HMSO edition. 114pp + lvi plates of colour maps with descriptions to adjacent verso leaves. Portrait frontispiece of Allenby with his printed facsimile signature. Buff paper covers with a cloth spine. Covers lightly dust soiled. Endpapers and several preliminary and concluding leaves spotted and with some off-set browning to the front endpaper from a laid-in newspaper clipping. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. Includes two sections (Sherifian Co-operation in September and Story of the Arab Movement) compiled from Lawrence's official notes, unaccredited yet still his first published accounts of the Arab Campaign. Lawrence is also mentioned twice in the text. O’Brien (A011) notes that 16,000 copies were printed, yet this remains really quite uncommon. £200

T.E.LAWRENCE. Revolt in the Desert. Jonathan Cape, London 1927. First trade edition. Royal 8vo. 446pp. Buckram with the publisher’s brown top edge stain, the fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. With a portrait frontispiece, fifteen illustrations (by Augustus John, Eric Kennington, William Roberts &c) and a two-colour foldout map at the rear. Loose protective tissue in situ for two or three of the plates. Prospectus for Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta tipped before p.434, as required. Spine ends a little rubbed and with just a touch of light browning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, dust stained and with a couple of little edge-nicks, one inch-long edge-tear and some accompanying creasing and with some fading to the publisher’s red spine panel lettering. Lawrence's abridgement of the 1926 Subscribers Edition text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (itself an abridgement of the Oxford Text). O’Brien A102. £150

T.E.LAWRENCE. Aufstand in der Wuste. Translated into German and introduced by Dagobert von Mikusch. With a preface by Bernard Shaw (taken from a contribution to The Spectator), and illustrated with four plates and a folding map. Paul List Verlag, Leipzig [1927]. The first German edition of Revolt in the Desert. Royal 8vo. 355pp. Covers a little dusty, marked and spotted with some uneven browning. Endpaper hinges cracked and tender, and with a little browning and staining to a dozen preliminary leaves, mostly only impacting the margins. A short tear to the natural fold of the map page. A good copy. No jacket, as issued. O'Brien A116. £25

T.E.LAWRENCE. John Gawsworth (under the name ‘G’). Annotations on some Minor Writings of “T.E.Lawrence”. Scholartis Press, London 1935. First edition – limited to 500 numbered copies (of which 450 were for sale). 28pp. With a previously unpublished portrait frontispiece by Frederick Carter entitled T.E.Shaw – Cecil Court, March 1934. Notes on twenty-three publications, plus extracts from thirty-eight letters. Brief prefatory note by ‘G’. Endpapers lightly browned and spotted and binding tender at pp. 14/15. A very bright copy in slightly grubby dust marked dust wrapper. O'Brien E077. £60

T.E.LAWRENCE. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by T.E.Shaw (Colonel T.E.Lawrence). Oxford University Press, London 1935. The second English edition, and first UK trade issue, printed from the sheets of the 1932 US edition. Tall 8vo. 327pp. Buckram. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Endpapers and one blank preliminary and concluding leaf lightly spotted and toned. Very good indeed in somewhat handled dust wrapper, nicked with five or six portions of edge loss from the spine ends and corner tips, chafed at the natural folds, and with some spotting to the flaps and internally. O’Brien A144. £50

Lawrence was persuaded to undertake this new translation of Homer by Bruce Rodgers; he wrote it during his free time whilst serving in the ranks, and it was first published in 1932 in a limited edition of 530 copies. A US edition was issued the same year, and this English edition is produced from those trade US sheets.

T.E.LAWRENCE. A handbill for the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial, issued circa 1935-6 to raise construction funds. A single sheet, folded to form four pages. The whole lightly creased, with an inch wide strip of spotting and discolouration to the upper edge, although primarily impacting just the cover, and with two short tears. £10

“The Committee appointed to deal with the matter inform us that space for a memorial to Lawrence of Arabia in St. Paul’s Cathedral has now been offered by the Dean and Chapter. It will take the form of the bronze head modelled by Kennington from life, with the words ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ cut in the stone of the wall underneath…”

T.E.LAWRENCE. Hendrik Van Loon. Van Loon on the Air. Broadcasts Delivered by Hendrik Willem Van Loon from The Studio of the National Broadcasting Company, Radio City, New York. George G Harrep & Co Limited, London, Bombay & Sydney 1936. First Edition. A slightly dusty but otherwise good copy with excellent tight binding. Missing dust wrapper. Contains T.E.Lawrence’s obituary. £20

T.E.LAWRENCE. Selden Rodman. Lawrence: The Last Crusade. (A 'dramatic-narrative poem'). Viking Press, New York 1937. First edition (never published in the UK). 8vo. Covers rather marked and faded. No jacket. Name of former owner. O'Brien E116. £35

T.E.LAWRENCE. Men in Print. Essays in Literary Criticism. With an introduction by A.W.Lawrence. The Golden Cockerel Press [1940]. One of 500 copies. Bound in quarter blue Niger, lettered in gilt with five raised bands. Cream linen boards. Top edge gilt. Boards somewhat handled, grubby and a little stained at top edge. Spine sunned and a little rubbed at head, base and in several tiny areas in-between. Internally in fine state. A scarce item. Contains five essays by Lawrence, including reviews of works D.H.Lawrence, H.G.Wells and James Elroy Flecker, plus his noteworthy Criticism of Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter, with some remarks on the style of Doughty's Arabia Deserta, the suggested charges from which were subsequently incorporated by Williamson into the text of the fourth edition of Tarka. O'Brien A229. £250

T.E.LAWRENCE. Lettres de T.E.Lawrence. A series of letters printed in the periodical Les Temps Modernes. No 32. Paris. May 1948. Card wrappers, slightly torn, chipped and with some light uneven tanning. Rather fragile and brittle, missing extreme tips of one or two top corners. O'Brien A207. £30

T.E.LAWRENCE. John Thomas. The True Book About Lawrence of Arabia. With illustrations by G.H.Channing. Frederick Muller Ltd., London [1953]. First edition. 8vo. 136pp. Some light bruising to the spine ends and the corner tips gently knocked. Endpapers browned and with one or two pinpricks of spotting to several preliminary leaves and occasional margins. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. A curiously uncommon account of the exploits of T.E.Lawrence, seemingly aimed at younger readers (“It may have been that ordinary boys’ games were too tame for him. In spite of his quiet looks he was brimful of adventure, and he likes to do out-of-the-ordinary things”). O’Brien E187. £15

T.E.LAWRENCE. The Mint. Notes made in the RAF Depot 1922 and at cadet Collegee in 1925. Regrouped and copied in 1927 and 1928 at Karachi. Doubleday, New York 1955. The deluxe edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies (preceding the deluxe  UK edition). Small 4to. Dark blue covers with gilt lettering, triflingly rubbed at head of spine. A very good copy, lacking the slipcase. O'Brien A167. £85

A book with a complex publication history, Lawrence began making notes for it when he joined the RAF in 1922 and he was still making revisions in the last moths of his life. In 1936 the manuscript found its way to America and, in order to control publication a limited issue of 50 copies was produced - 10 of which were for sale priced at $500,000 each in order to prevent purchases. Following the death of an officer Lawrence describes unfavourably, a revised edition was published in 1955 in both a limited edition (2,000 copies in the UK and 1,000 in the US) and a trade issue -  all of these states having the objectionable words lifted from the text. A definitive unexpurgated edition did not appear until 1973. 

T.E.LAWRENCE. The Mint. A Day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922. With later notes by 352087 A/c Ross (i.e. T.E.Lawrence). Jonathan Cape, London 1955. First UK edition, of which 2,000 numbered copies were printed (this being #1461). 4to. 206pp. Original publisher’s quarter blue morocco with cloth sides. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Handsome marbled endpapers. Just a hint of wear to the corner tips and to several extremities, and a small area of fading to the head of the rear board. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper, as issued, but lacking the slipcase. Published posthumously and edited by Lawrence's brother, this issue precedes the trade issue which appeared later the same year. O’Brien A172. £125

T.E.LAWRENCE. Richard Aldington. Lawrence of Arabia. A Biographical Enquiry. Collins, London, 1955. First edition. 8vo. 448pp. Buckram. With a portrait frontispiece, eleven photographs and three maps. A short crease to the corner of the first three leaves, but thereafter an exceptionally crisp and bright copy in dust wrapper, just a little rubbed at extremities with several tiny slivers of loss. Aldington's controversial biography of T.E.Lawrence caused a scandal upon publication, claiming as it did that Lawrence was both illegitimate and homosexual. The book subsequently came to be regarded as a scathing attack upon the Lawrence myth, one from which Aldington's own reputation never fully recovered. £20

T.E.LAWRENCE. R.P.Blackmur. The Lion and the Honeycomb. Essays. Methuen, London 1956.  The first English edition. 8vo. 309pp. Spine slightly faded. A nice, bright copy. No dust wrapper. Includes Blackmur's 1940 essay The Everlasting Effort: A Citation of T.E.Lawrence. O'Brien F0102.  £7

T.E.LAWRENCE (interest). Colonel R.Meinertzhagen. Middle East Diary 1917-1956. The Cresset Press, London 1959. First edition. 8vo. 376pp. Minor production fault creases to the head of a number of leaves. Tiny bump to the tips of two corners. A very good copy in price-clipped, lightly faded, tanned and edgeworn dust wrapper with one miniscule closed tear and one slightly longer jagged tear with a little accompanying creasing. Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen’s diary of his time in the Middle East, much of which was later determined to have been falsified. Includes nearly thirty index references to T.E.Lawrence. O'Brien F0722. £75

“Meinertzhagen knew no half measures. He was logical, an idealist of the deepest, and so possessed by his convictions that he was willing to harness evil to the chariot of good. He was a strategist, a geographer, and a silent laughing masterful man; who took as blithe a pleasure in deceiving his enemy (or his friend) by some unscrupulous jest, as in spattering the brains of a cornered mob of Germans one by one with his African knob-kerri. His instincts were abetted by an immensely powerful body and a savage brain” – T.E.Lawrence writing in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 

T.E.LAWRENCE. Letters to T.E.Lawrence. Edited and with a preface by A.W.Lawrence. Jonathan Cape, London 1962. First edition. Illustrated with holograph reproductions of correspondence from Churchill, Conrad, Augustus John, Kipling, Sassoon and G.B.Shaw. In fine state with nicked, chipped and a little faded dust wrapper. A collection of thirty-seven letters to Lawrence from a variety of correspondents including Blunden, Buchan, Coward, Day Lewis, Doughty, Forster, Garnett, Graves, Manning, Pound, Tomlinson, Wells, Yeats and others. O'Brien E251. £45

T.E.LAWRENCE (interest). Ronald H.Clark. Brough Superior. The Rolls-Royce of Motor Cycles. Goose & Sons, Norwich 1964. First edition. 8vo. 174pp. Quarter cloth. Illustrated with photographs and mechanical pans. A touch of very light soiling to the margins, else in fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat faded at the spine panel and a little rubbed and nicked at the spine ends. Includes a seven-page section about T.E.Lawrence (he famously owner seven Brough Superiors), plus a photograph Lawrence astride his SS100 alongside George Brough, and a facsimile letter from T.E.L. to Brough. A rare O’Brien omission. £75

T.E.LAWRENCE. Minorities. Edited by J.M.Wilson and with a preface by C.Day Lewis. Jonathan Cape, London 1971. First trade edition. 8vo. 272pp. Boards, edges and preliminary leaves a little spotted. A bright if slightly dusty copy in tanned, spotted and chafed dust wrapper, with a small area of loss from the head of the front panel. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A lengthy introduction precedes a collection of 112 poems, a “private anthology which necessity and much travelling compelled me to select and copy into a small notebook for myself. A notebook called ‘Minorities’: since they were good poems by small poets, or small poems by good poets” – Lawrence. O’Brien A258. £20

T.E.LAWRENCE. Lawrence of Arabia. The Simple Facts. Compiled by Harry Broughton (sometime Mayor of Wareham). Privately published by the author [no date]. 8vo. 15pp. Stapled glossy card wrappers. Illustrated with eight photographs. Some light soiling and spotting to the wrappers. Very good. A brief chronological account of Lawrence's life and death, probably just a re-titled re-issue of Broughton’s Lawrence of Arabia, The Facts Without the Fiction (O’Brien E322). £10

T.E.LAWRENCE. Donald Weeks. T.E.Lawrence. An hitherto unknown Biographical/ Bibliographical Note. Privately printed at the Tragara Press, Edinburgh 1983. First Edition, limited to 230 copies. 16pp. Somerville laid paper sewn into stiff card wrappers with title label. A detailed and scholarly analysis of TEL’s proof corrections to Wilfred Ewart's Scots Guard - the only known copy of any book corrected by Lawrence, involving over 200 corrections, all of which bar four were incorporated into the final book. Also details of Lawrence’s association with John Gawsworth's who masterminded the collaboration. In fine state. O'Brien E393. £30

T.E.LAWRENCE. Philip O’Brien. T.E.Lawrence: A Bibliography. G.K.Hall & Co., Boston 1988. The first American edition of O’Brien’s vast and essential bibliography of T.E.Lawrence. 8vo. xii + 724pp. A tiny scuff to the tip of the front free endpaper, else in fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper. £35

T.E.LAWRENCE. Jeremy Wilson. T.E.Lawrence. Lawrence of Arabia. The catalogue of the 1988-89 T.E.Lawrence exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. National Portrait Gallery, London 1988. First edition – the card wrapper issue. 4to. 248pp. Glossy card wrappers. Lavishly illustrated throughout with scores or photographs and reproductions, some in colour. A small area of discolouration to the front wrapper where a price sticker was once affixed, and two areas of light offset browning to two preliminary leaves where newspaper clippings have been store. A virtually fine copy. £20

T.E.LAWRENCE. Secret Despatches from Arabia and Other Writings. Edited and with an introduction by Malcolm Brown. Bellew Publishing, London 1991. A new edition, reprinting Lawrence's Arab Bulletin contributions, and containing some material not included in the Golden Cockerel Press limited edition of 1939. With a new six-page introduction by the editor, who has also inscribed this copy and dated it the year after publication. 8vo. 279pp. Illustrated with fifteen photographs and several maps. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. £45

T.E.LAWRENCE. J.N.Lockman. Meinertzhagen’s Diary Ruse. False Entries on T.E.Lawrence. Cornerstone Publications Inc., Grand Rapids 1995. First edition. 8vo. 114pp. A tiny hint of spotting to top edge, else in fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. A detailed study refuting the T.E.Lawrence-related entries in Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen’s Middle East Diary 1917-1956: claims long doubted (Jeremy Wilson called them “pure fantasy” in his 1989 biography) and here irrefutably rebuffed. £30