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PIRIE-GORDON, H. (editor). A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. July 1917 to October 1918, Cairo: The Palestine News, 1919. 4°, linen-backed half-tone portrait frontispiece, full-page colour-printed key illustration and 55 maps (light browning), original cloth-backed printed wrappers (a little marked, wrapper edges rubbed, head and tail of spine slightly frayed). Provenance: Sir Wilfred Thesiger (b.1910, bookplate) -- sale, Sotheby's London, 14 December 1992, lot 96, part lot. FIRST EDITION. O'Brien A011.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE WRITER AND EXPLORER WILFRED THESIGER. THIS WORK CONTAINS LAWRENCE'S 'FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF THE ARAB CAMPAIGN' (O'Brien). A Brief Record ... gives the order of battle and maps of the campaigns for the Near Eastern front, and contains two unsigned pieces by Lawrence: 'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and 'Story of the Arab Movement' on the versos of plates 48-52.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE WRITER AND EXPLORER WILFRED THESIGER. THIS WORK CONTAINS LAWRENCE'S 'FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF THE ARAB CAMPAIGN' (O'Brien). A Brief Record ... gives the order of battle and maps of the campaigns for the Near Eastern front, and contains two unsigned pieces by Lawrence: 'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and 'Story of the Arab Movement' on the versos of plates 48-52.
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