a t.e. lawrence biography


LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward – Michael YARDLEY. Backing into the Limelight. A Biography of T.E. Lawrence. London: Harrap, 1985.

Octavo (234 x 156mm), pp. 267, [5 (blank)]. 16 plates with half-tone illustrations recto-and-verso. 5 maps in the text, 3 full-page. Original black boards titled in gilt on the spine, dustwrapper. (Dustwrapper price-clipped and with very slight rubbing and chipping at the edges of the dustwrapper.) Provenance: Derek Nappa, August 1985 (neat ownership inscription on the front free endpaper). 



First edition. A biography by the soldier and author Michael Yardley, which examines the (often misleading or inaccurate) reporting of Lawrence and his actions in the media, both during his lifetime and afterwards, and is based on both documentary sources and personal interviews.

O’Brien E398.

£12.50


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