1935 Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first trade edition, first impression, following a privately printed edition in 1926. 

The first issue, with the line illustrations at pages 304-305 misprinted in the illustrations list as 302-303, as called for.

In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.

T. E. Lawrence's fascinating account of his experienced serving as a Colonel in the British Army as a military adviser to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, from 1916 to 1918. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece, forty-seven illustrated plates, and four folding maps. Collated, complete.

Contemporary inscription of John Deedes of Heswell, 1935 to the front pastedown. With a loosely inserted 1991 copy of Lawrence's 1953 death certificate present.

Also loosely inserted are two copies of the 'Lawrence of Arabia Memorial' pamphlet, a solicitation pamphlet that was sent out in 1935 as an appeal to raise funds for the St Paul's Cathedral memorial to T. E. Lawrence, which was successfully installed in 1936. The committee included Winston Churchill, Lionel Curtis, Augustus John, G. Bernard Shaw and Evelyn Wrench, all of whom were friends, colleagues and admirers of Lawrence. 

A lovely first edition of this work, which was adapted into the 1962 motion picture 'Lawrence of Arabia'.