Aufstand in der Wuste Einzig autorisierte Ausgabe (Revolt in the Desert) by Lawrence, T.E. (Thomas Edward Lawrence, later Shaw) 1888-1935

Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1956. First Edition in this form. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: Penguin Books ; 1015. Physical description: 335 pages ; 18cm. Subjects: Lawrence, T.E. (Thomas Edward) (1888-1935). Great Britain Army -- Biography.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1927. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 445, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates [one fold.] : ill., plates, col. and fold. map ; 24 cm. Subject; Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward) 1888-1935.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. [History] FIRST EDITION. Small Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.206. Publisher's air force blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and RAF wings motif in blind to upper board, top edge blue. Cream dust jacket featuring black and mauve titles, priced at 17/6. Some minor spotting, a few marks to covers, jacket gently toned to the spine. Very good indeed. Lawrence's 'The Mint' is a memoir of his experiences as an ordinary aircraftman in the Royal Air Force; working from a notebook he kept while enlisted under the assumed name of John Ross, Lawrence wrote of the daily lives of fellow servicemen and about his feelings towards the RAF. During this period he participated in the development of rescue motorboats for downed aircraft. The book, with its sparse and sharp prose, is stylistically very different from 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', and was published posthumously, edited by his brother Prof. A.W. Lawrence.

London : J. Cape, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of William Schofield. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 328 pages, port. ; 21cm. Subjects: Lawrence, T.E. (Thomas Edward) (1888-1935). World War, (1914-1918) -- Middle East -- Campaigns.

London : J. Cape, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 206p. ; 27cm. Subjects: Great Britain -- Royal Air Force -- Military life.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] 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, gilt titles to spine, gilt scimitars and motto motif to upper board, top edge brown, others untrimmed. Contents clean without the usual spotting, page edges fresh, no inscriptions, cloth with a few light rubs and marks. Near fine, without the jacket. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph' is the autobiographical account of the experiences of T.E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. The author vowed "No further issue of the Seven Pillars will be made in my lifetime" when he faced bankruptcy following the privately printed edition of 1926. This first trade issue therefore followed in 1935, within weeks of Lawrence's tragic motorcycle accident.

[Rolls Passage, London]: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A Limited Edition of 2,000 copies, in quarter blue morocco over blue cloth, corners, edges rubbed. Spine, gilt titles. Internally, limitation/half title, [2], [2], 3-206 pp, t.e.g., remainder uncut, blue marbled endpapers. (257*194 mm). (O'Brien, P.M.T.E. Lawrence,; A172/A173). The Mint is a book written by T. E. Lawrence[a] and published posthumously in 1955. It describes his time in the Royal Air Force, working, despite having held senior rank in the army (colonel), as an ordinary aircraftman, under an assumed name, 352087 Ross. The book is notable, despite flaws noted by critics, for its sharp observation, for the insight it gives into Lawrence himself, and for the censorship issues around its publication.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935. [Classics in Translation] FIRST UK TRADE EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 327 [1]. With a dichromatic vignette title page. No maps to endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt roundel illustration to upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the brown typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Inscribed in black ink to fly-leaf: 'To dearest Morag | a Christmas memento | from her beloved | grandfather | Granville Bantock | Christmas 1946' by Bantock's son Julian following the death of his father in the autumn of that year. Light toning to edges and endpapers, otherwise a nice clean copy, partially unopened. Sunning to cloth, corresponding to jacket losses. Jacket toned to spine, with wear and chipping to extremities, and quite a large loss to head of spine. Very good. A prose translation of the Ancient Greek classic by 'Lawrence of Arabia,' first published in a limited edition, and more widely in the US, in 1932. From the Library… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1938. [Letters and Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS. Two volume box set. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] x; 187 [1]; pp.[2] x; 233 [3]. Each with a black and white frontispiece, and printed on fine, handmade paper. Both being copy 172 of 1000 thus, SIGNED by Graves and Liddell Hart respectively to the limitation leaves. Publisher's orange and grey buckram, with gilt titles to contrasting red and grey labels to spines and uppers. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With the grey cloth-covered slipcase. Spotting to box and to buckram. Spines a little sunned and toned. Clean, unmarked copies internally. Very good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] 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 to upper board reading 'The Revolt also means clean-ness + death'; top edge brown, others untrimmed, typographic dust-jacket priced at 30s. An exceptionally clean copy internally. A little sunning to spine and some marks to boards. Some small chips and closed tears to jacket edges. Jacket lightly browned and marked, with some larger losses to head of jacket spine. Very good. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph' is the autobiographical account of the experiences of T.E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. The author vowed "No further issue of the Seven Pillars will be made in my lifetime"… Read More