Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. [First Trade Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF FIRST TRADE EDITION
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. [First Trade Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF FIRST TRADE EDITION | Livres anciens et modernes | Lawrence T. E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. [First Trade Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF FIRST TRADE EDITION
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. [First Trade Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF FIRST TRADE EDITION | Livres anciens et modernes | Lawrence T. E.
Mode de Paiement
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- Carte bancaire
- Virement bancaire
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Détails
- Année
- 1935
- Auteur
- Lawrence T. E.
- Éditeurs
- Jonathan Cape
- Thème
- modern first editions, modern firsts, lawrence, te lawrence, lawrence of arabia, arabia, middle east, ww1, wwi, great war, seven pillars of wisdom
- Langues
- Anglais
Description
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 47 plates by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts and others, 6 illustrations in the text and 4 folding maps, endpapers faintly spotted; original decorative brown buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, brown top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The first publicly available edition of this literary classic, following private publication in 1926 and the limited edition of 1935. Winston Churchill believed that it 'ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language'. The work also formed the basis of David Lean's multiple Oscar-winning feature film 'Lawrence of Arabia' starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. Enser, p.191; O'Brien A042.
