LAWRENCE, T.E. | Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 2nd US edition, limited issue, 1935

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

SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK: COUNTRY LIFE PRESS FOR DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC, 1935.

4to, second American edition, LIMITED ISSUE, NUMBER 502 OF 750 COPIES, frontispiece and 47 plates after Augustus John, Eric Kennington, Lawrence and others, 4 colour-printed collotypes, 4 maps printed in red and black, and 3 collotype facsimiles (one folding), original morocco-backed buckram over bevelled boards, spine titled in gilt, top edge red, others uncut, dust-jacket, slipcase, small nick to jacket at base of spine, very slight spotting and edge-wear to slipcase

The American deluxe issue of the author's great masterpiece, which he had begun writing in 1919 while attending the Paris peace conference, and which went through a long and complicated history before the 'corrected text' of the special subscribers' edition was finally published in 1926.

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O'Brien A053

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