T.E. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM A TRIUMPH

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Trade Edition. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere.

LAWRENCE, T. E

Seven pillars of wisdom: a triumph

London. Jonathan Cape, [1935]. First trade edition.

Quarto. 672pp. With a photogravure portrait frontispiece of Lawrence (from the plaster bust by Eric Kennington), 53 plates (four in colour), and four folding maps. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary gilt-tooled brown morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers Housed in custom tan cloth slipcase. An immaculate copy.

A handsomely bound copy of the first trade edition of Lawrence's magisterial account of the Arab Revolt during the First World War.

. Fine. Item #895

Price: $4,500.00