SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence 1935 UK Cape Hardcover

Description: SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence 1935 UK Cape Hardcover Large print hardcover is in good condition, no dust jacket, stains, soiling at cover, bent spine edges, foxing at end-papers and some pages, previous owner name at front end-paper, no underlining, good binding please see photos JONATHAN CAPE, London, Great Britain, 1935, Third Impression of First Edition, 672 pages, illustrated with photogravures, maps and drawings 10 1/4 x 8 x 2 inches Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Third [i.e. second complete] edition overall, preceded by the incomplete "Oxford Edition" of 1922 (8 copies only were printed, 6 still extant) and the rare privately printed "Subscriber's Edition" of 1927 (170 copies); this is the first trade edition (there was also a limited issue of 750 numbered copies). Frontispiece portrait of a bust of Lawrence, 4 folding maps, 2 facsimiles (1 double-p.), and illustrations throughout, some in color, by John, Kennington, Roberts, Lamb, Dobson, Sargent, Young, Gill, Spencer, Rothenstein, and Carline; 3 of the illustrations herein did not appear in the 1926 subscriber's edition. Winston Churchill called this book of Lawrence of Arabia's covert activities in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire "one of the greatest books ever written in the English language."

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