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WOOLLEY, C.L. & LAWRENCE, T.E.: Wilderness of Zin. (Introduction by T.S.N. Moorhead). 3 maps, 37 plates of illus., and a further illus. in text, index, appendices; lxviii+290pp. orig. cream cloth gilt, Third English Edition, 2003. In d.w. cf. O'BRIEN A006. [ Ref: RGW9534] £25
*This edition is the first for over 65 years. It contains in the appendices many background documents, from the archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund, the original publisher in 1915, including letters from T.E. Lawrence, Capt Newcombe, and C.L. Woolley.

ARAB BULLETIN. The Arab Bulletin of the Arab Bureau in Cairo 1916-1918. With a new introduction and explanatory notes by R. Bidwell. 4 vols. 1900pp. orig. black cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g., Archive Editions, 1986. O'BRIEN A10a [ Ref: RGW7926] £595
*The founding of the Arab Bulletin, "a secret magazine of Middle East politics" was inspired by T.E. Lawrence, who edited the first issue and contributed many reports thereafter. It was very secret, about 30 copies only being printed, and it could not be quoted from. This was the first time all 114 journals were published together.

[PALESTINE CAMPAIGN. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT]: A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. July 1917 to October 1918. Frontis. portrait of Allenby, 56 maps; vi+114pp text. folio orig. pictorial wrappers, Third Edition, Facsimile reprint of 1919 edit., 2003. [ Ref: RGW9544] £16


BROOKS, C. & WARREN, R.P.: Modern Rhetoric. Index; xx+880+xxpp. orig. cloth, New York, 3rd edit., Harcourt Brace & World, 1970. O'BRIEN F0150a [ Ref: RGW10836] £18
*Reprints a number of passages from "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" as examples.

DOUGHTY, CHARLES M.: Travels in Arabia Deserta. Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. 2 vols. in one. Frontis. portrait, 8 plates, folding colour map, text illus., glossary and index; l+623, 690pp. 8vo orig. black cloth, spine gilt, wear on extremities, Fourth English Edition, Jonathan Cape, Thin Paper Edition, 1930. O'BRIEN A016. [ Ref: RGW8433] £50
*This is a variant binding not recorded by O'Brien, with "Jonathan Cape & The Medici Society Ltd" on the spine, even though it was published solely by Cape.

DOUGHTY, CHARLES M.: Travels in Arabia Deserta. Text Abridged and Arranged by Edward Garnett, General Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Map. Illus., many full-page by EDY LEGRAND, glossary; xx+453pp. folio pictorial oatmeal cloth, with flap covering fore-edge, 4th American Edition, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1953. Very good copy. O'BRIEN A024 [ Ref: RGW8410] £50


DOUGHTY, CHARLES M.: Travels in Arabia Deserta. Text Abridged and Arranged by Edward Garnett, General Introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Map. Illus., many full-page by EDY LEGRAND, glossary; xx+453pp. folio pictorial oatmeal cloth, 4th American Edition, New York, The Heritage Press, 1953. Very good copy in orig. slipcase (repaired). O'BRIEN A025 [ Ref: RGW5472] £45
*Printed by offset lithography from the Limited Editions Club edition of the same year.

LAWRENCE, T.E. (Translator): The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by T.E. Shaw. With an Introduction by Bernard Knox. xxiv+327pp. orig. green cloth gilt, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1991. Very good copy in d.w. (spine slightly faded) [ Ref: RGW5602] £20
*Well-produced book similar in layout to the first English trade edition, with a scholarly introduction. Apart from a limited edition, this would appear to be the first hardback edition for nearly forty years.

LAWRENCE, T.E.: The Diary of T.E. Lawrence. While travelling in Arabia during 1911. 13 black and white illus.; 96pp. orig. cloth, 1995. In d.w. (split at head of spine) cf. O'BRIEN A194 [ Ref: RGW5629] £25
*Lawrence kept this diary when he went on a journey on foot through Syria during the "off- season" from the dig at Carchemish. It was first published in a limited edition by The Corvinus Press in 1937.

LAWRENCE, T.E.: T.E. Lawrence in War and Peace. An Anthology of the Military Writings of Lawrence of Arabia. (Ed. M. Brown). 16 plates of illus.; 320pp. orig. cloth. 1st edit., 2005. [ Ref: RGW12210] £25


LAWRENCE, T.E.: Seven Pillars of Wisdom. a triumph. (Preface by A.W. Lawrence). Frontis. portrait after Kennington, 44 portraits by Kennington, Roberts, John and others, 9 other illus., 4 maps, appendices, index; 672pp. 4to orig. buckram gilt, spine and part of back cover faded, 6th impression, 1935. O'BRIEN A042 [ Ref: RGW5513] £65
*A beautifully produced book, well-laid out, and containing the reproductions of the marvellous series of portraits by Eric Kennington, Will Roberts, Augustus John and others. All but six of these plates had to be pasted in by hand. This edition was published within two month's of Lawrence's death. There were two previous editions, both privately printed. The total complete copies from those editions were less than two hundred.

LAWRENCE, T.E.: Revolt in the Desert. Frontis. portrait after Augustus John, 15 plates, folding map, index; 446pp. 8vo orig. buckram, spine gilt, worn and marked, uncut edges, 3rd Impression, 1927. See O'BRIEN A102 [ Ref: RGW10870] £20


LAWRENCE, T.E.: Revolt in the Desert. Frontis. portrait after Augustus John, 15 plates, folding map, index; xx+335pp. 8vo orig. brown cloth, First American Edition, George H. Doran, 1927. O'BRIEN A107 [ Ref: RGW5598] £35


LAWRENCE, T.E.: Revolt in the Desert. Frontis. portrait after Augustus John, folding map, index; xvi+335pp. 8vo orig. brown cloth, spine faded, small mark on back cover, Third American Edition, Garden City "Star Series", n.d. O'BRIEN A109 [ Ref: RGW6034] £15


LAWRENCE, T.E.: The Mint. A day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/c Ross. 206pp. Large 8vo orig. blue cloth, 1st English edit., 1955. In d.w. (slightly marked) O'BRIEN A173 [ Ref: RGW5620] £38


LAWRENCE, T.E.: Oriental Assembly. (Ed. A.W. Lawrence). Frontis., map, 120 photographic plates by T.E. Lawrence; xii+293pp. orig. cloth, Imperial War Museum, Facsimile reprint of 1st edit. (1939), 1991. In d.w. cf. O'BRIEN A221 [ Ref: RGW5649] £35
*A well-produced reprint with an introduction by Malcolm Brown.

LAWRENCE, T.E.: Selected Letters of T.E. Lawrence. Edited by David Garnett. Index; 384pp. orig. cloth, First English edition, Reprint Society, 1941. See O'BRIEN A232. [ Ref: RGW5652] £10
*An abridgement of the Collected Letters of 1938.

LAWRENCE, T.E.: Lawrence of Arabia. The Selected Letters. (Edited by Malcolm Brown). Illus., index; xxxiv+590pp. orig. cloth, 1st edit., 2005. In d.w. [ Ref: RGW12496] £20
*An updated edition of the editor's "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence", first published in 1988. This volume which contains 470 letters, includes a few additional letters and there have been corrections to the editorial matter.

LAWRENCE, T.E.: Letters to E.T. Leeds. (Ed. J.M. Wilson) With A Commentary by E.T. Leeds, and with a Memoir of E.T. Leeds by D.B. Harden. Line drawings by RICHARD KENNEDY, photographic illus. by Lawrence taken at Carchemish, some letters reproduced in facsimile; 168pp. quarter buckram printed boards, First Edition, The Whittington Press, 1988. Fine in slipcase. One of 650 copies on Zerkall mould-made paper.O'BRIEN A263 [ Ref: RGW5788] £145
*These fifty letters, to one of Lawrence's closest friends who worked at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, have not been printed before except for four in Garnett's edition. J.M. Wilson regards them as one of the most important pieces of biographical information to have surfaced recently. This is a beautifully produced book from one of England's finest private presses.


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