LAWRENCE, T.E. | Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, 2 copies, dust-jackets

From the Library of Alan Milne

LAWRENCE, T.E.

SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, JONATHAN CAPE, 1935

8vo, first trade edition, 54 black and white illustrations (after Augustus John, Eric Kennington, et al), 4 folding maps, original cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jacket; [together with:] another copy, without dust-jacket (2)

Loosely inserted in both volumes are copies of the Lawrence of Arabia Committee. Lawrence of Arabia Memorial (London, 1935, [O'Brien E068]")

"Lawrence had not misled the Arabs, although he later wrote in Seven Pillars that he had worn a 'mantle of fraud' throughout the campaign. He had never been a plenipotentiary. The Arab leadership knew from the Anglophobe Egyptian press and Soviet Russia's revelations of secret allied diplomacy in December 1917 that the allies had agreed to partition the Turkish empire. None the less Lawrence continued to feel a burden of shame in having been an accomplice to what he believed to have been a cynical betrayal of the Arabs." (Lawrence James, Oxford DNB)

LITERATURE:

O'Brien A042

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