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Title

Revolt in the Desert

By

‘T.E. Lawrence’

[First Edition Fourth Impression ~ Publisher’s Binding]

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Author

T. E. Lawrence

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Year of Publication

1927

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Publisher

London: Jonathan Cape.

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Description:

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First Edition, Fourth Impression.

Folding map plus many illustrations.

In the publisher’s original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles to the spine, blind stamped with the publisher’s logo to the rear board, gently marked and worn.

Text block is clean.  Darkened page top edges and untrimmed to the fore and bottom edges.

Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (1888 - 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916 - 18.

The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia.

Revolt in the Desert was an abridged version of Seven Pillars, which he began in 1926 and was published in March 1927 in both limited and trade editions. He undertook a needed but reluctant publicity exercise, which resulted in a best-seller.

Again he vowed not to take any fees from the publication, partly to appease the subscribers to Seven Pillars who had paid dearly for their editions. By the fourth reprint in 1927, the debt from Seven Pillars was paid off. As Lawrence left for military service in India at the end of 1926, he set up the Seven Pillars Trust with his friend D. G. Hogarth as a trustee, in which he made over the copyright and any surplus income of Revolt in the Desert. He later told Hogarth that he had made the Trust final, to save myself the temptation of reviewing it, if Revolt turned out a best seller.

Pagination: 446pp. With a folding map at the rear.

Provenance: inscription for W See (?) to the front.

Approximately 9 ½ inches (24cm) tall.

 

Condition Report

Externally

• Spine – good condition – minor marks and wear, gilt titles.
• Joints – good condition – minor wear.
• Corners – good condition – gently bumped, rubbed and worn.
• Boards – good condition – marked and worn.
• Page edges – good condition – tope edge darkened, others tanned and untrimmed.
• Binding – good condition – attractive.
• See above and photos.

Internally

• Hinges – good condition – sound.
• Paste downs – good condition – tanned.
• End papers – good condition – tanned and foxed.
• Title – good condition – tanned.
• Pages – good condition – tanned, loose tissue guards to the illustrations.
• See photos.

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