"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain
Revolt in the Desert.
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 at 30s. 'Travels in Arabia Deserta' order form tucked in. Contents clean, covers are bright, jacket with some small nicks to rear panel, spine a little sunned/toned. This is the first publicly issued text of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', abridged by Lawrence after the private printing of that book in 1926. Provenance; Joan Wootton (gift inscription and loose bookplate). Item #75751
O'Brien; T.E Lawrence- A Bibliography [A102].
Price: £250.00
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