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Title
Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
A Triumph.
T. E. Lawrence.
[First Trade Edition in the Original Dust Jacket – Bookplate for Gerald Selous to the front Paste Down]
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Author
T. E. Lawrence
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Year of Publication
1935
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Publisher
London: Jonathan Cape.
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full description see below - after all photographs
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Description:
London: Jonathan Cape. 1935. First Trade Edition.
Publisher’s original cloth binding, with gilt titles to spine and gilt crossed scimitar motif to upper board reading 'The Revolt also means clean-ness + death'. Page top edges brown, others untrimmed, the original (now protected) dust-jacket. The jacket in very good condition, price clipped and trimmed to the corners. Bookplate for Gerald and Camilla Selous to the front paste down. Newspaper cuttings from 1988 in an envelope addressed to G Selous at the rear.
With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index.
A few spots of foxing, no inscriptions. Very good.
'Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph' is the autobiographical account of the experiences of T.E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. The author vowed "No further issue of the Seven Pillars will be made in my lifetime" when he faced bankruptcy following the privately printed edition of 1926. This first trade issue therefore followed in 1935, within weeks of Lawrence's tragic motorcycle accident.
672pp.
Provenance: bookplate for Gerald and Camilla Selous.
Approximately 10 ¼ inches tall.
Condition Report
Externally
- Spine – good condition – faded, minor marks and scratches.
- Joints – good condition – faded, rubbed and worn.
- Corners – good condition – bumped and worn.
- Boards – good condition – brown cloth boards with double scimitars to the front board in gilt, unvenely faded.
- Page edges – good condition – top edge darkened, other edges untrimmed.
- Dust jacket – good condition – price clipped, otherwise in very good condition.
- See above and photos.
Internally
- Hinges – good condition – sound, hinges strained to the title page.
- Paste downs – good condition – bookplate to the front paste down.
- End papers – good condition – tanned.
- Title – good condition – gently tanned.
- Pages – good condition – browning to the edges, gently tanned throughout.
- Binding – good condition – attractive.
- See photos.
Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1935
Binding: Hardback
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