LAWRENCE, T.E. | Secret Despatches from Arabia, 1939, no.442/1000, with prospectus

From the Library of Alan Milne
LAWRENCE, T.E.

SECRET DESPATCHES FROM ARABIA. EDITED BY A.W. LAWRENCE. WALTHAM ST. LAWRENCE: THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, 1939

4to, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, NO. 442/1000 COPIES, collotype portrait frontispiece after B.E. Leeson, original black niger morocco-backed buckram by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, with prospectus, some slight spotting to endpapers

Lawrence's Secret Despatches were reprinted from The Arab Bulletin (a paper initiated by Lawrence), which produced summaries of political news received from the Turkish Empire, Arab and other Muslim, and Abyssinia. The work also includes Lawrence's previously-unpublished article "Syrian Cross Currents".

LITERATURE:
O'Brien A226, A227 (Prospectus)

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