London, Corvinus Press, 1937
One of 30 copies. Scarce T. E. Lawrence title, one of only 30 numbered examples on Canute paper of an edition limited in total to 203 copies. After graduating from Oxford University, Lawrence went to work on a dig at Carcemish in northern Syria. During the 1911 off-season, Lawrence travelled alone on foot through Syria, keeping a diary, published here. This was the most ambitious and handsome volume published by the Corvinus Press. The text was later published in Oriental Assembly (1939).
First edition, number 9 of 30 copies on Canute paper of an edition limited to 203 copies (150 for sale); 4to; illustrated with 13 photographs taken by the author; publisher's brown morocco, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt vignette of bird with worm in beak to lower cover, top edge gilt others uncut, upper joint lightly rubbed, a very good example.
O'Brien A194.
First edition, number 9 of 30 copies on Canute paper of an edition limited to 203 copies (150 for sale); 4to; illustrated with 13 photographs taken by the author; publisher's brown morocco, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt vignette of bird with worm in beak to lower cover, top edge gilt others uncut, upper joint lightly rubbed, a very good example.
O'Brien A194.
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