LAWRENCE (T.E.)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph.

First trade edition, de-luxe issue, one of 750 copies on hand made paper, this being number 432. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 47 plates (4 colour with tissue guards), 3 facsimiles (1 folding), 4 folding maps in red and black, illustrations in text. 4to., 26 x 20cm. Original quarter pigskin over brown cloth boards with upper cover lettered and blocked in gilt with a design of crossed scimitars, marbled endpapers, T.E.G., others untrimmed. London, Jonathan Cape, 1935.

£3,000.00
LAWRENCE (T.E.)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph.

Very good, spine slightly faded and worn at the very extremities, but far better than is often encountered.

T.E. Lawrence’s literary masterpiece, described by Winston Churchill as ‘… unsurpassable. It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language’. The story is unutterably romantic - the young and mysterious Englishman fights a fast, mobile and effective war alongside noble Arab chiefs in the heat of the desert - and it made a powerful contrast with the mud, trenches, cold and futility of the western front. In short, in a war with few heroes, Lawrence stood alone for the power of the individual.

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