Lawrence, T.E.
Title |
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula |
Date |
Fordingbridge 2008 |
Publisher |
Castle Hill Press |
Description
First public edition, with amendments, having been first printed as a confidential document for the War Office General Staff, Geographical Section, December 1914. One of 40 copies bound in full goatskin and numbered '20'. Full beige goatskin binding with all block edges and lettering to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, brown silk page marker. Housed in cloth covered slipcase. Spine lettering variant showing 'Peninusular' instead of 'Peninsula', identified as first state binding of first public edition. Quarto. pp. [xxxii], 144. Brown paper folder, within slipcase, with three full colour maps which accompanied the original report.
Condition
A book in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase and Fine binding.