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BURBIDGE, William Frank. The Mysterious A.C. 2. A Biographical Sketch of Lawrence of Arabia. Bognor Regis and London: Bobby & Co. Ltd. for John Crowther Ltd, [1940].
Octavo (202 x 126mm), pp. 40. One full-page map in the text. Original printed grey wrappers. (Some marking on wrappers, extremities slightly rubbed.) A very good copy of a scarce work. Provenance: 20th-century notes about Lawrence in a neat hand on p. [4] and inside lower wrapper – Serendip Fine Books, Lyme Regis, 3 January 1972 (loosely inserted letter from C.E.H. Chapman, offering this and other works relating to Lawrence to:) – Roy Turner, Nottingham (1926-2012, this item and four others marked on Chapman’s letter by Turner).
First edition. A scarce biography, which was intended for juvenile and popular audiences, and produced during World War II under the strictures of war economy standards. Burbridge was the author of a number of other biographies in this series, including World Statesman: Field-Marshall Smuts; Mr. Valiant: Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill; and The Wizard of Wales: Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George. This copy of The Mysterious A.C. 2. is from the T.E. Lawrence collection of Roy Turner, whose interest in Lawrence began while he was serving in Palestine with the Royal Engineers in circa 1945-1948 and continued into the late 1990s.
O’Brien E136.
£39.50
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