Desmond Stewart: T.E. Lawrence, 1977. £19.50

the first use of d.g. hogarth’s papers in a lawrence biography

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward – Desmond STEWART. T.E. Lawrence. London: Ebenezer Baylis and Son, Ltd., The Trinity Press for Hamish Hamilton, 1977.

Octavo (233 x 153mm), pp. xii, 352, [4 (blank ll.)]. 6 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and-verso, 6 full-page maps after Patrick Leeson in the text. (A few light marks, occasional spotting, small marginal hole on 10/7.) Original brown boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, dustwrapper (retaining price). (Dustwrapper slightly spotted and lightly creased at edges). A very good copy.

First edition. A biography by the British historian and journalist Stewart (1924-1981), the author of a number of works on the Middle East. Stewart was the first of Lawrence’s biographers to use the Hogarth Papers at St Anthony’s College, Oxford extensively.

O’Brien E367.

£19.50

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