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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Secret Despatches from Arabia, edited by A.W. Lawrence, [London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. 4° (251 x 190mm). Collotype portrait frontispiece after B.E. Leeson. (Occasional light spotting on margins.) Original black niger morocco backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt spine, top edge gilt, others uncut (a few light marks on boards). FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 815 OF 970. Loosely inserted are a prospectus and 2 other pieces of ephemera relating to the work. Clements pp.45-48; O'Brien A226; Pertelote 145.
Gertrude BELL (1868-1926). The Arab War ... being Despatches Reprinted from the Secret "Arab Bulletin". [London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. 4° (250 x 190mm). (Light marginal spotting.) Original green niger morocco backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt spine, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine and parts of boards faded). Provenance: Theodora Duncan (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NO. 186 OF 470. Pertelote 147.
G. BELL. The Arab War. [London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. 4° (250 x 190mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Original green buckram backed yellow boards, gilt spine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NO. 495 OF 470; apparently in a variant (possibly trial) binding. Pertelote 147.
The Arab Bulletin, edited by Robin Bidwell. Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Archive Editions, 1986. 4 volumes, 8° (246 x 159). Original synthetic binding, top edges gilt. Second English edition; the first edition, issued in 26 (later more) copies is rare. O'Brien A10a.
Lawrence's Secret Despatches were reprinted from The Arab Bulletin (a paper initiated by Lawrence), which produced '"Summaries" of political news received from the Turkish Empire, Arab and other Moslem countries, and Abyssinia ... Of the first few numbers only twenty-six copies were printed, for distribution to the British authorities -- civil, military or naval -- in the Near and Middle East, and to the Foreign Office, War Office and Admiralty in London; the contents were to be treated as "strictly secret"' (p.5). The nature of The Arab Bulletin meant that 'The topics discussed are extremely varied and range from the religious views of Hussein to military operations against the Hedjaz railway, and because of their secret nature, have an honesty of approach' (Clements). The work also includes Lawrence's previously-unpublished article 'Syrian Cross Currents'. (7)
Gertrude BELL (1868-1926). The Arab War ... being Despatches Reprinted from the Secret "Arab Bulletin". [London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. 4° (250 x 190mm). (Light marginal spotting.) Original green niger morocco backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt spine, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine and parts of boards faded). Provenance: Theodora Duncan (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NO. 186 OF 470. Pertelote 147.
G. BELL. The Arab War. [London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. 4° (250 x 190mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Original green buckram backed yellow boards, gilt spine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NO. 495 OF 470; apparently in a variant (possibly trial) binding. Pertelote 147.
The Arab Bulletin, edited by Robin Bidwell. Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire: Archive Editions, 1986. 4 volumes, 8° (246 x 159). Original synthetic binding, top edges gilt. Second English edition; the first edition, issued in 26 (later more) copies is rare. O'Brien A10a.
Lawrence's Secret Despatches were reprinted from The Arab Bulletin (a paper initiated by Lawrence), which produced '"Summaries" of political news received from the Turkish Empire, Arab and other Moslem countries, and Abyssinia ... Of the first few numbers only twenty-six copies were printed, for distribution to the British authorities -- civil, military or naval -- in the Near and Middle East, and to the Foreign Office, War Office and Admiralty in London; the contents were to be treated as "strictly secret"' (p.5). The nature of The Arab Bulletin meant that 'The topics discussed are extremely varied and range from the religious views of Hussein to military operations against the Hedjaz railway, and because of their secret nature, have an honesty of approach' (Clements). The work also includes Lawrence's previously-unpublished article 'Syrian Cross Currents'. (7)
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