T.E. Lawrence. First American edition (stated). New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. Missing dust jacket. Hardcover in Very Good condition, with brown cloth. Some pages are soiled and have foxing. No loose lages, binding is tight. Maroon brown cloth stamped in black, illustrated endpapers, top edge stained chocolate brown. With folding map (which is fully intact and in great shape) tipped-in before rear endpaper, Introduction and prefatory Foreword by TEL, and portrait illustrations in text (including frontispiece of Lawrence). No writing or markings in the book, 335 pp. Stated first American printing, March, 1927.
First American trade edition, following the actual first US edition of 250 numbered copies (despite "First printing in America, March 1927" statement).
An account of the Arab revolt in 1916-18 against the ruling Ottoman Empire in the Arabian Peninsula from T. E. Lawrence's point of view as a British Army officer. With 16 striking illustrations, including a frontis portrait of the author in Arab costume. Mr. Lawrence is best known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'; and the 1962 David Lean film of the same name was very successful.
