Bertram Thomas Lawrence Sir Arthur (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The second impression of the first edition, same year as the first. Original brown buckram cloth hard covers with gilt titles to spine. Light handling and fading to covers; edges and endpapers toned. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated, maps -- all present as listed including fold-out map at rear. Appendices, index. xxxii,397pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First reprint. [First reprint, in the same year as the first edition]. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xxx, 397. edges untrimmed, a large coloured folding map at the rear, a slight blemish from the front endpaper through to the frontispiece, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth slightly faded marked and worn the spine a little more faded and slightly marked.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition. British explorer crosses the 600-mile stretch of desert called the Rub' al Khali, or 'empty quarter' in 1931; finds it not empty. With a foreword lament the passing of the 'old Arabists' by Lawrence; anthropometric appendix on the "Racial characters of the Southern Arabs" by Keith, zoological appendix by W. T. Calman. First American edition (first printing, with 'A' on copyright page), hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book, corners lightly bumped, lower edge faded; jacket loose & tattered, with tears, creases, chips, holes, scuffs, some internal tape mends - not archival, but non-yellowing. Text clean; xxix, [3], 397 pages; maps (one large folding, in color), b/w plates, figures, all present as called for. Size: Large Octavo.