Revolt in the Desert

[Melbourne]: [George J. Hicks & Co.]. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dampstain to rear board, barely visible. Minor foxing. Folding map with a 35mm tear. Rubber stamp on front endpaper . Adhesive tape stain to rear endpaper. Dust-jacket with a couple of 25mm splits along folds, 15mm tear and 10mm chips at head and tail of dust-jacket spine. Foxing to dust-jacket. Dampstain to rear panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First Australasian edition. Title page imprint is: "Garden City New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc." Copyright page: "Copyright, 1926, 1927. By George H. Doran Company / First Printing In America, March, 1927 / Revolt In The Desert / -B- / Printed In The United States Of America". Tail of spine has: "DOUBLEDAY / DORAN". Australian publisher's imprint appears on dust-jacket only, "GEORGE J. HICKS & CO" on front panel of dust-jacket, "HICKS" at tail of dust-jacket spine, "Australasian Edition / 15 /- Net / Australasian Publishers: / GEORGE J. HICKS & CO. / MELBOURNE SYDNEY PERTH WELLINGTON, N.Z." on rear panel of dust-jacket. xvi, [4], 335, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 15 plates + folding map at rear (map printed in red and black). Pink cloth boards with black lettering and illustration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 229 x 156mm. "In this book Colonel Lawrence has at last told the world the extraordinary story of the War in Arabia, 1916-18, and of his own part in uniting and leading the Arab tribes to victory over the Turks, ending with the day of Allenby's smashing break through in Palestine and the Allies' entrance into Damascus." - from blurb on front flap of dust-jacket. "The figure, T. E. Lawrence, has become famous in a small gallery of true heroes. An unimpressive, studious young nam of twenty-six, he was rejected in the opening days of the war as physically unfit for service. // His unique genius directed his strange destiny." - from blurb on rear flap of dust-jacket. .