Published by London The Golden Cockerel Press, 1940
One of 500 copies, small 4to., original quarter blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering direct, top edge gilt, others uncut, a little sunned and rubbed at spine, some light marking to cloth.
Published by [Waltham St Lawrence:] Golden Cockerel Press, [1939], 1939
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first impression, number 460 of 1,000 copies only, handsomely printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on handmade paper. This volume collects the majority of Lawrence's contributions to the Arab Bulletin, a confidential summary of developments in the Near East acting as a supplement to the intelligence bulletin circulated by the General Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. The Arab Bulletin, founded at Lawrence's instigation shortly after his return to Cairo from Mesopotamia, ran from 1916 to 1919. It "included regional political and personality profiles in addition to military assessments of troop strength, dispositions, and movements, often accompanied by firsthand accounts of fighting in Arabia by British observers. Reaction to developments in Arabia from throughout the Muslim world were also carefully monitored in the Bulletin" (Westrate, p. 103). O'Brien A226; Pertelote 145. Bruce C. Westrate, Arab Bureau: British Policy in the Middle East, 1916-1920, 2010. Large octavo. Original black quarter niger by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, cream cloth sides, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Housed in the original green card slipcase. Collotype frontispiece portrait of the author. Bookplate of Francis W. Bailey, designed by A. Spence, with the symbols associated with the medical profession, on front pastedown and front cover of slipcase. Gilt bright, cloth slightly toned and spotted, sporadic internal foxing; slipcase with neat repairs to splits at joints: a very good copy.