8vo. xiii, 317 pp, frontispiece portrait, 64 b/w photographs, maps, cloth slightly faded & rubbed at spine ends, previous owners’ name inscribed on front fly leaf, Hutchinson & Co, London, no date, circa, 1924.

Synopsis

First edition of the first biography of Lawrence. Thomas spent a few weeks in Akaba during the Arab revolt, and he met Lawrence there. In 1919, he began to give lantern-slide lectures on the Middle Eastern campaigns, which proved very popular in England and America. O’Brein E012.