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Title

Revolt in the Desert

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First Edition

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Fine Binding

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Author

T. E. Lawrence

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Year of Publication

1927

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Publisher

London: Jonathan Cape.

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For full description see below - after all photographs

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Description:

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.

First edition. Octavo, pp.446.

Folding map plus many illustrations.

Elegantly bound in brown half morocco over cloth boards, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, fore and tail edges uncut.

Textblock is clean. Overall a fine copy in a handsome recent leather binding.

Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (1888 - 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916 - 18.

The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia.

Revolt in the Desert was an abridged version of Seven Pillars, which he began in 1926 and was published in March 1927 in both limited and trade editions. He undertook a needed but reluctant publicity exercise, which resulted in a best-seller.

Again he vowed not to take any fees from the publication, partly to appease the subscribers to Seven Pillars who had paid dearly for their editions. By the fourth reprint in 1927, the debt from Seven Pillars was paid off. As Lawrence left for military service in India at the end of 1926, he set up the Seven Pillars Trust with his friend D. G. Hogarth as a trustee, in which he made over the copyright and any surplus income of Revolt in the Desert. He later told Hogarth that he had made the Trust final, to save myself the temptation of reviewing it, if Revolt turned out a best seller.

Condition Report

Externally

• Spine – very good condition – some scratches and marks.
• Joints – very good condition – little wear.
• Corners – very good condition.
• Boards – very good condition.
• Page edges – good condition.
• See above and photos.

Internally

• Hinges – very good condition.
• Paste downs – very good condition.
• End papers – good condition.
• Title – good condition.
• Pages – good condition.
• Binding – good condition – attractive.
• See photos

Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1927
Binding: Hardback

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