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See below our stock of T. E. Lawrence First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291 [1]. With a photographic frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted black. Contents and edges clean, barring a few light thumb marks. Binding..... More
Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2003. [Arabian Travel / History] SECOND EDITION THUS, first one-volume edition of the 1922 text. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xxvi; 870. With a suite of eight black and white photographic plates, and an index at rear. Number 633 of 1225 copies, hand-numbered to the copyright page..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2010. [Near East Archaeology and Architecture] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 226. Heavily illustrated with sketches and black and white photographs. Publisher's blue cloth with black and silver titles and decoration to spine, and further decoration to upper. Black endpapers. With the navy..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel /Politics / Military History] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt crossed scimitar motif..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel / History] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST TRADE EDITION, first impression, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Recently bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [First World War] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] 446. With 16 black and white plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted brown, others untrimmed, in typographic dust-wrapper priced..... More