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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. 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]. Kathleen Scott. (Lady Kennet). Homage. A Book of Sculpture. With a commentary by Stephen Gwynn. Geoffrey Bles, London 1938. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Title page printed in black and blue. Some quite light discolouration to the cloth at the backstrip and the board margins. A nice bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper which is price-clipped, unevenly tanned, edgeworn with three quite small areas of loss, an area of miscellaneous staining to the rear panel and with a seven-inch tear to the front panel-spine panel join. A six-page introduction by the author (the sculptor and widow of Robert Falcon Scott) precedes forty full-page sculpture and bust reproductions, each one accompanied by Stephen Gwynn’s commentary. The subjects include T.E.Lawrence, W.B.Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Lord David Cecil, John Galsworthy, Lord Northcliffe, Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, King George V, Neville Chamberlain, Lord Baldwin, Sir John Reith, Lord Hailsham and others. Not noted by O’Brien. £75

T.E.LAWRENCE. Oriental Assembly. Edited By A.W.Lawrence. With photographs by the author. Williams & Norgate Ltd., London 1939. First edition. 8vo. 291pp (including 127 pages of plates at the rear). Buckram covers with gilt lettering to the spine and the publisher’s black top edge stain. With a photographic frontispiece and well over one hundred mostly hitherto unpublished photographs, taken by the author, plus various maps and plans, and a facsimile reproduction of a page from Lawrence's diary. A strip of light spotting and browning to the free endpapers, and some spotting to the fore edge, preliminary leaves, and to occasional text leaf margins. Contemporary (1939) former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, a little toned at the spine panel with just a touch of wear to the spine ends and two short scores to the upper edge of the front panel, Contains all of the author's previously unpublished writings about the East, as well as the full text of the suppressed introductory chapter to Seven Pillars of Wisdom. O’Brien A221. £150

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. 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 (interest). The Best of Friends. Further Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. Selected and edited by Viola Meynell. Rupert Hart-Davis, London 1956. First edition. 8vo. 308pp. With a frontispiece drawing of Cockerell and six photographs (Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Johnson, Alec Guinness &c) and a reproduction of a painting of T.H.White by Jonathan van Doorn. A tiny hint of soiling to the free endpapers else in fine state with very lightly dust soiled dust wrapper. This copy from the library of T.E.Lawrence scholar Jeremy Wilson with his signature to the head of the front free endpaper. Includes seven index references to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which include reactions to Lawrence’s book by George Bernard Shaw (“It is about twice as long as the Bible”), and Siegfried Sassoon (“Undoubtedly one of the great English achievements in prose and a great historical document” and again “I have a letter from E.M.Forster, who has read about ¼ of The Seven Pillars & is absolutely stunned by its great qualities. And he is as fine a judge as anyone I know”). £50

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. Terence Rattigan. Ross. A Dramatic Portrait. An eight-page programme for the first performance of Rattigan’s T.E.Lawrence-inspired play at Theatre Royal Haymarket on 12th May 1960. Stapled wrappers. With a photograph of Alec Guinness as Lawrence. Some creasing and a short edge-tear around the original price sticker which also serves as a seal. O’Brien E225. £10

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. 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. 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. 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