Lawrence and the Arabs.

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Biography] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 454. With twenty-eight black and white plates; a mixture of photographs and illustrations. With the advertising sheet tipped-in after p.448. Recently re-bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and matching cloth over boards. Minor toning and spotting throughout, otherwise internally clean. Presented in an attractive new leather binding. Very good. An authorised biography of the enigmatic classical scholar, archaeologist, and architect of the successful Arab revolt against Ottoman rule during the First World War. Complimentary to the contemporaneously published 'Revolt in the Desert' (1927). Item #76522

Price: £375.00