LAWRENCE, T.E. (introduction) | DOUGHTY, Travels in Arabia Deserta, 1921, 2 volumes, signed

From the Library of Alan Milne
LAWRENCE, T.E. (CONTRIBUTOR)

DOUGHTY, CHARLES M. TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA. (LONDON AND BOSTON:) PHILIP LEE WARNER, FOR THE MEDICI SOCIETY AND JONATHAN CAPE, 1921

8vo, 2 volumes, second edition with new preface by the author and introduction by T.E. Lawrence, ONE OF 500 COPIES, photographic frontispiece in volume 1, SIGNED BY DOUGHTY ON THE HALF-TITLE, plates and folding maps in volume 1, extra folding map in pocket at end of volume I, original green cloth pictorially gilt, black endpapers, top edges gilt, prospectus loosely inserted, spotting, upper joint weak, some edge-wear to binding

A SIGNED COPY OF DOUGHTY'S CLASSIC OF TRAVEL LITERATURE. T.E. Lawrence had long admired Doughty's classic work and in 1920 he persuaded Jonathan Cape to undertake a new edition. It was Cape's first book, published in January 1921.

LITERATURE:
O'Brien A013

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