Author: 'LAWRENCE, T. E'
Title: Revolt in the Desert
Description: Garden City, NY, Garden City Publishing. reprint. Hardcover. 335 pp. 8vo. Bound in brown woven cloth with vignette stamped on front board. Slight discolouration to the top left of the front board, light general shelf wear. tiny tear to the bottom of the rear hinge; very good. The folding map is present and in near fine condition. The uncommon dust jacket (similar to that encasing the first American edition) is present, although it is torn and creased, and now in about fair condition. Illustrations by Augustus John and others. A smaller format edition of the 1927 Doran 1st American edition. O'Brien A190 identifies this as the third American edition, and notes that 'There are many printings of this edition and no effective means of determining priority of issue' (p. 101). However, it appears that the earliest issues were bound in what O'Brien describes as 'rough cloth binding', with a blind stamped rectangle on the front board. We have seen many different copies of this edition of this title, and this particular copy is bound as O'Brien describes, and is thus an early, or possibly, first printing of the third edition. Most of our other copies are similarly bound, but in smooth brown cloth, with no blind-stamped rectangle. Thus, we present this as a very early issue of the third American edition. Ill.: b&w drawings, folding map.

Keywords: Lawrence Of Arabia;World War I;Saudi Arabia;Arabs;T. E. Lawrence;;;; b&w drawings, folding map


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