1, London: Reprint Society, 1939 Lavery, Brian, Churchill's Navy: The Ships.
There are numerous black and white illustrations and maps.Brass bookends are not included in auction. and lettered in gilt and black yellow top a near fine copy in publishers board slip-case Folio Society, hardcover. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927 Lawrence, T.E., Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Vol. The book is bound in Sahara Gold coloured buckram boards, printed and blocked with a design on the front board and spine by David Eccles. It is a dramatic story of marathon rides through the desert, the blowing up of railways, talk under the stairs with mystics and adventurers and there are curious intervals of philosophic meditation and tortuous self-criticism.Published by The Folio Society in 2000, first edition in this form. In prose reminiscent of Doughty and the Elizabethans, Lawrence unfolds his personal story of the whirlwind campaign that drove the Turks out of Arabia and Syria, back beyond Jerusalem and Damascus. LAWRENCEForeword by Wilfred ThesigerIntroduction by Michael AsherMaps by Reginald PiggottFolio Society Edition 2000This is a beautifully bound edition of one of the most famous books of the 20th century, brilliant as the account of a military campaign, fascinating as a revelation of the author's complex personality. Beautifully bound editions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Crusader Castles.
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