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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

ROBERT GRAVES. (T.E.Lawrence interest). Lawrence and the Arabs. Jonathan Cape, London 1927. First edition. 8vo. 454pp. With four maps by Herry Perry [i.e. Heather Perry], printed in black and red, and a portrait frontispiece and twenty-three photographs and Eric Kennington drawings. Advertisement and order form for Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta tipped between pages 448-449, as called for. Backstrip ends gently bruised and a sliver of very light discolouration to the head of the upper board. A narrow strip of light browning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, price-clipped, lightly darkened at the spine panel, dust soiled in places, and with a little chipping and loss from the head of the spine panel and several other extremities. Higginson A26 / O’Brien E030. £350

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 (interest). The Bibliophile's Almanack for 1928. Edited by Oliver Simon and Harold Child. The Fleuron Ltd., London 1928. The deluxe issue of the first edition, printed on handmade paper at The Curwen Press and limited to 120 numbered copies (this being #11). 8vo. 85pp + [xiii] advertisements. Buckram-backed paper-covered boards. Boards lightly soiled in places and with just a hint of toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, possibly as issued. Includes Herbert Read’s somewhat controversial and defamatory seven-page review of T.E.Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom (“By the time this note appears, the topical interest of Colonel Lawrence’s book will have subsided…the meditative reader will wonder if, after all, it was a great book: whether all that the reviewers said about it was really true; whether Bernard Shaw is to be trusted as a critic of literature; and what good, finally, is the newspaper reputation of any book”).O’Brien F0093. £125

T.E.LAWRENCE. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by T.E.Shaw (i.e. 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. Several tiny fractions of fading to the buckram where the dust wrapper is defective, and the fore edges of two leaves slightly nicked and creased where they have been mis-cut. Very good indeed in dust wrapper, nicked with half a dozen small portions of edge loss from the spine ends, corner tips and top edge. Contemporary gift inscription from noted Cambridge and Worcester cricketer Gilbert Ashton neatly inked to the front free endpaper. 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. O'Brien A144. £95

T.E.LAWRENCE. Charles Edmonds. T.E.Lawrence. Peter Davies Ltd., London 1935. First edition. 8vo. 192pp. A handsome fine binding of quarter morocco with marbled paper sides, with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration and new endpapers. Illustrated with five maps and a photographic frontispiece of Lawrence. The publisher’s top edge stain a little faded, else a fine copy of this biographical study, published just months after  Lawrence's death, penned by Charles Carrington under his 'Charles Edmonds' pseudonym. O'Brien E079. £50

T.E.LAWRENCE. R.H.Kiernan. Lawrence of Arabia. George G.Harrap & Co., Ltd., London 1935. First edition. 8vo. ix, 198pp. With a portrait frontispiece, seven photographic plates and three maps. A sliver of discolouration to the head of the upper board. Top edge spotted, and with a little further spotting to seven or eight preliminary leaves. Tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown, and a contemporary former owner gift inscription to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, lightly rubbed and nicked at several edges, and with a little dust soiling to the unprinted rear panel. A biographical study of T.E.Lawrence, aimed at “boys of all ages”. O’Brien E073. £95

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. S.C.Rolls. Steel Chariots in the Desert. The Story of an Armoured-Car Driver with the Duke of Westminster in Libya and in Arabia with T.E.Lawrence. Jonathan Cape, London 1937. First edition. 8vo. 286pp. Illustrated with two maps and six captioned photographic plates. A little wear to the backstrip ends and a single tiny circular scorch-mark to the upper board. A little surface abrasion and tape residue to the pastedowns and endpapers from the wrapper protector, and also the ghost of several brief inked and pencilled notes. A little light spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves, and also to the plates and plate-adjacent leaves. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good in good dust wrapper, marked and soiled, quite browned at the spine panel, chipped at the spine ends with some internal repair, and with a little tenderness to several natural folds. All four corners of the flaps have been clipped, impacting two areas of the printed text. A small corresponding scorch-hole to the front panel. A respectable copy of Sam Cottingham Rolls’ uncommon Great War memoirs. Most uncommon in the dust wrapper. O’Brien E114. £250

T.E.LAWRENCE. Men in Print. Essays in Literary Criticism. With an introduction by A.W.Lawrence. The Golden Cockerel Press, [London] 1940. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #457) printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter in Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Small 4to. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter blue Niger with cream linen boards, gilt lettered at the spine with five raised bands. Top edge gilt. A light scattering of spotting to the upper board, and the Niger quite faded at the backstrip. Armorial bookplate of Sir Michael Oppenheimer and Lady Oppenheimer to the front pastedown. A very good copy. 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, (Lawrence’s suggested alterations 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. Eric Lönnroth. Lawrence of Arabia. An Historical Appreciation. Translated from the Swedish by Ruth Lewis. Vallentine, Mitchell & Co. Ltd., London 1956.  The first English-language edition (never reprinted). 8vo. xviii, 102pp. Illustrated with one map and a reproduction of a Turkish cartoon celebrating Lawrence's death. Cloth lightly marked and chafed in places. The free endpapers browned, and with touch of light spotting to the margins of very occasional text leaves. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little rubbed and nicked at several extremities and with a single short edge-tear to the head of the front panel. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. A critical survey of T.E.L.’s place in history, originally published in Sweden in 1943. O’Brien E160. £35

T.E.LAWRENCE. Geoffrey Bond. The Lawrence of Arabia Story. Arco Publications, London 1960. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. A tiny trace of spotting to the front free endpaper, and the lesser quality paperstock somewhat tanned. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, with a touch of light dust soiling, and some light chafing to several natural folds. A most uncommon summary of the life of T.E.Lawrence, penned for younger readers. O’Brien E221. £75

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. 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 card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. 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. Just a touch of wear to the upper and lower edges of the integral wrapper, else in fine state. O’Brien E393. £30

T.E.LAWRENCE. Charles Blackmore. In the Footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia. Harrap, London 1986. First edition. Small 4to. 160pp. Illustrated with over eighty-five maps and photographs, many in colour. A small indentation to the head of the boards, else a virtually fine copy in fine dust wrapper. The account of an expedition by four members of the Royal Green Jackets Regiment to retrace Lawrence's exploits in the Arab Revolt. O’Brien E406. £10

T.E.LAWRENCE (interest). Herbert Hodgson. Herbert Hodgson. Printer. Work for T.E.Lawrence at Gregynog. The Fleece Press, Wakefield 1989. First edition, limited to 340 copies printed and published by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press. With a three-page introduction by Richard Knowles. 8vo. 43pp. Quarter cloth with decorated paper sides and a paper spine label. Tipped-in photographic frontispiece portrait of Hodgson. A fine copy. No dust wrapper called for. The first appearance in print of the author’s account of his printing career, including his involvement with the 1926 Cranwell edition of T.E.Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom. O’Brien F0509a. £75

T.E.LAWRENCE. Sidney Sugarman. A Garland of Legends. "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Arab Revolt". The SPA Ltd., Hanley Swan 1992. First edition. 8vo. 255pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper, with a short closed tear to the base of the front panel and a lengthy accompanying crease, seemingly from where it was once poorly re-shelved. A concise study of the two intertwined myths: “Lawrence of Arabia” and “The Arab Revolt”. O’Brien E458. £10

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

[T.E.LAWRENCE]. Andrew Taylor. God’s Fugitive. The Life of Charles Montagu Doughty. HarperCollins,  London 1999. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 351pp.  With colour map-illustrated endpapers and twenty-one black and white photographs and reproductions. Several tiny indentations to the head of the boards and a little bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy in dust wrapper, rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips, lightly dust soiled and with two tiny closed tears. Includes nearly fifth index references to T.E.Lawrence. £7.50

T.E.LAWRENCE. Malcolm Brown. Lawrence of Arabia. The Life, the Legend. Thames & Hudson and association with the Imperial War Museum, London 2005. First edition, issued to accompany a major T.E.Lawrence exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. 4to. 208pp. Lavishly illustrated with nearly two hundred photographs and reproductions, over fifty of them in colour. A fine copy in dust wrapper, lifting a fraction at the upper edge and with a little light scoring to a small area of the rear panel. £20

T.E.LAWRENCE. James Barr. Setting the Desert on Fire. T.E.Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918. W.W.Norton, New York 2008. The first American edition. 8vo. 382pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Spine ends gently rubbed else a fine copy in dust wrapper, with a touch of corresponding wear to the spine panel ends. £15