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NY: Arco Publishing Company, 1978. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight bright, clean, slight skew to spine. 2 surface creases on back cover, reading crease on spine, rubbing to top edge of front cover. 219 pages of detailed descriptions and color illustrations of, not only the full uniform, but also badges, wings, helmets and equipment. Includes, not only the major countries, but the tiny countries involved.

Curtis Books, 1962. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, age tanning to pages and spine, clean, and square. Light rubbing to cover edges. The story of the Lafayette Escadrille, American idealists who, before their country entered World War I, volunteered to serve in the French army…becoming the first unit of American airmen ever to go into combat. Among them, William A. Wellman (director of Wings), Nordoff and Hall (authors of Mutiny on the Bounty).

Boston, MA: W.A. Butterfield, 1916. (3rd printing, July 29). Hardbound. GOOD. Tight, light age tanning to pages, clean except for light foxing to page edges and some finger smudges on frontispiece and title page, square. No dust jacket. Includes business card size printed note. "This little book…is published for the benefit of the American Fund for the French Wounded..."

NYGeorge H. Doran Company, 1927. (1st American edition). Hardbound. GOOD. Tight, lightly age tanned pages with occasional fingerprint shadows, light soil to dusty-rose cloth covers with black lettering and pictures, age fading to spine, square. Deckle edges side and bottom; matched to color cover on top edge. Softening of spine ends and light rubbing to cover hinges and corners. No dust jacket. 335 indexed pages with 15 full-page, black and white illustrations, mostly portraits. Illustrated endpapers. Rear fold-out map as new. Lawrence's abridged and far more accessible edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - of his role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18 2.0

Burlington, VT: The War Service Committee of the University of Vermont, 1924. (1st edition). Hardbound. GOOD-. Tight but has previously had inner hinge reinforced with tape. Spine is tilted, softened and frayed at both ends, sunned and has a horizontal rip in the cloth near the bottom of the title block. Interior pages are bright and clean. Red cloth with gilt titles and trim. Short biographies and photos of the 22 who died including John McCrae, author of "In Flanders Fields". Detailed lists of Wounded; Decorated; War Service Records (all); Women; YMCA; YMHA; Auxiliary War Work; and a short section of "Memorabilia".