Description

First Trade and First Published Edition for general circulation, the American issue by Doubleday from the English setting. Illustrated as the English issue, with the 48 full page illustrations reproduced from the privately printed edition in black and white. Thick, royal 8vo, publisher’s original polished gray/brown buckram lettered and decorated in gilt, upper cover with crossed swords motif in gilt. IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET, illustrated with pencil sketch style portrait of Lawrence and lettered in red and black, the back cover blank as in earliest states. 672 pp. The book is an especially fine copy, essentially as pristine and highly unusual thus, the jacket very handsome and especially well preserved with only slight evidence of age or shelving. Very rare in this condition.