Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 672pp., 48 plates, 4 maps. Original gray cloth with gilt lettering framed by swords on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, black and red lettering on spine. Protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece. Decorative initials. First printed privately in 1926. "This is the complete, unabridged, definite edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It is frank, beautiful, great; touched with legend and mystery; an experience in reading which in its many rich rewards is without parallel in the literature of our generation." (Publisher). The British Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1835), known as "Lawrence of Arabia," was a British army officer, diplomat and archaeologist, best known for his role during the Arab Revolt. Illustrated with forty-eight plates of portraits, some of them scenery, three full-page in-text drawings, and three additional drawing in-text. Dustjacket with chips and small closed tears along top edge and some at bottom of back cover. Binding with minor wear along edges. Block lightly age-toned with light ink smudges on pages 36 and 37. Good- to very good condition. Item #54628
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