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Secret Despatches from Arabia.

Stock Code 106982

London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1939

Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00
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One of 1000 copies. Secret Despatches includes most of Lawrence's contributions to the Arab Bulletin, a confidential summary of Middle East politics which supplemented the intelligence reports then circulated by the General Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. It also marks the first appearance in print of Lawrence's, Syrian Cross Currents. The most extensive of the Golden Cockerel volumes by Lawrence.

First edition, first impression, number 899 of 970 copies, from a total edition of 1000; 4to, (26.2 x 19.7 cm); portrait frontispiece, dated ownership inscription in blue pen to front free endpaper, light toning to lower margin, slight offsetting to endpapers; publisher's black quarter morocco gilt over cream cloth boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, others uncut, corners slightly rubbed, original orange card slipcase.

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Secret Despatches from Arabia.

LAWRENCE, T.E.

Stock code: 106982

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