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Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: First edition; 4to (29.5 x 22 cms); vi & 112 pages of text; with a portrait-frontispiece (backed with linen) and 55 coloured maps, each with text page opposite, and a coloured reference late (making plates 1-56 in total); softcover: card covers; the whole is very worn, binding has disintegrated, spine split, covers grubby, edges worn and darkened, with some marginal tears, staples rusted through, with staining around each, frontispiece stained. T E Lawrence: Includes two sections of text, opposite plates 49-53,'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and 'Story of the Arab Movement' compiled from Lawrence's official notes, unaccredited yet still his first published accounts of the Arab Campaign. In poor condition, but complete, really suitable only as a working copy.
Seller: Andrew Johnson Books, Shipston-on-Stour, United Kingdom
Price: US$219.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A smart first edition copy of this illustrated record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, with maps throughout. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and fifty-six plates of maps with colour. Collated complete. A record of the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine. T.E, Lawrence's report on the Arab Revolt are found in the accompanying text to the plates at the rear. Under the command of Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, a senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor who fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper boards. Externally, worn with wear to the extremities and marks to the boards. Light loss to the head and tail of the spine with splits in the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot to the endpapers. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition, preceding the H.M.S.O. edition. 114pp + lvi plates of colour maps with descriptions to adjacent verso leaves. Portrait frontispiece of Allenby with his printed facsimile signature. Buff paper covers with a cloth spine. Covers lightly dust soiled. Endpapers and several preliminary and concluding leaves spotted and with some off-set browning to the front endpaper from a laid-in newspaper clipping. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. Includes two sections ('Sherifian Co-operation in September' and 'Story of the Arab Movement') compiled from Lawrence's official notes, unaccredited yet still his first published accounts of the Arab Campaign. Lawrence is also mentioned twice in the text. O'Brien (A011) notes that 16,000 copies were printed, yet this remains really quite uncommon.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Description: First Edition: Paperback, brown card covers, black titles, cloth spine with black titles, 225 x 295 mm., 900g., 113 pp. text + 1 colour Plate of Reference to Conventional Signs and 55 colour Map Plates, 1pp. Explanatory Note to the Map Illustrating Operations and 55 pp., of Campaign Accounts to Relevant Maps, Portrait frontis of General Sir Edmund Hynman Allenby, Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from June 1917, Explanatory Note for Plates 48, 49, 50 and 51, by T. E. Lawrence, removed tape mark to tear on front cover, card covers worn and discoloured, Good copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Price: US$497.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. original printed paper wrappers, cloth spine.the boards are darkened, the spine still solid with wear along the edge; pencil written name on end paper: E.B.Spencer, lieut. inside excellent; 4°; 114 pages with 56 coloured maps each with an accompanying leaf of text; beautiful modern cloth bookcase with gilt title on a leather label on spine, gilt ex libris of a previous owner on board of the book case;
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Price: US$544.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue of the text. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of General Allenby, signed in the plate, and a profusion of colour maps, 56 in all. 4to, publishers original tan wrappers, lettered in black on the upper cover and on the burnt-orange linen spine. [iv], 112 pp. A very well preserved copy, handsome with some light wear to the wrappers, a light bit of foxing to the end-leaves as usual, the text-block clean throughout, all maps in fine order. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, THE TRUE CAIRO PRINTING FOR THE PALESTINE NEWS. A core text for understanding the modern Middle East and the fall of Ottoman dominion over the land. This primary document gives a largely day-by-day progression of the events between July 1917 and October 1918 that led up to the Arab revolt against the Ottoman rule in Arabia, the defeat of the Ottoman Turks and ultimately, the fall of Damascus. This important work is one of the very best documents for understanding the conflict and the subsequent agreements settling the affairs of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan and greater Arabia at the end of the First World War. Included are two pieces by T.E. Lawrence, the famous "Lawrence of Arabia" and arguably, the most important of all the individuals involved with leading the revolt (see Seven Pillars of Wisdom). The two articles compiled from Lawrence's own writing concern the 'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and the 'Story of the Arab Movement' that accompany plates 49-50 and 51-53 (concerning the Arab Revolt and the fall of Damascus), as well as various military reports and numerous maps marking the daily positions of the troops as the final showdown grew nearer. This document was created so that "members of the Force may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they have played a part" [preface]. This is one of the earliest accounts of that campaign, its details being still "fresh in the memory." A fascinating and comprehensive record. Much of what is covered in the text is important in the establishment of the modern Middle East, including Israeli statehood and the various events leading up to it: the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$611.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition produced by the Government Press and Survey of Egypt. Original printed wrappers, cloth spine, preserved in a specially made cloth-covered fall-down-back box with a leather label. Quarto. pp. [vi], 112 + 56 plates of coloured maps illustrating operations, frontispiece portrait of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. There are two unsigned reports by T. E. Lawrence in the book, "Sherifian co-operation in September", and "Story of the Arab Movement" A book in Very Good condition in a Very Good box. The text includes Allenby's despatches, the order of battle for each Division and a record of actions by other branches of the British Army. The maps are an illustrated record of all operations, terminating with a map to show the terms of the Turkish Armistice. Contributions by Lawrence face the maps showing the battles and campaigns for the Near Eastern Front, of which his Arab campaign was a part. They are the "Sherifian co-operation in September" on maps 48-49 and the "Story of the Arab Movement" on maps 50-52. These, and his reports in the 'Arab Bulletin' and in 'The Times', are his first published accounts of the Arab campaign. O'Brien A011
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with many maps. FIRST EDITION. 4to., original printed wrappers, cloth spine. Cairo, Produced by Government Press and Survey of Egypt and Published by the Palestine News. Frontispiece portrait of Allenby. 55 maps, printed in color,4to. Official history of the British campaign in Palestine and Syria, leading to the capture of Jerusalem and Damascus. T.E. Lawrence's contributions to this volume, reporting on the "Sherifian Co-operation" and the progress of the Arab Revolt, appear at the text accompanying plates 49 to 53 at the back of the volume. A near-fine copy with no signs of previous ownership. Housed in a sand-collared cloth clamshell case by the Heritage Bindery.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$806.16 + shipping
Description: Under the Command of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and Published by The Palestine News. Pp. [vi]+114, linen backed frontispiece portrait of Allenby, plus 56 coloured plates (55 maps plus a plate of reference to conventional signs) with explanatory text on versos; demy 4to; half navy leather [roan?], spine lettered and ruled in gilt, lighter blue cloth boards, faintly soiled, fore-corners slightly bruised, the spine rubbed at extremities, with short split at head of upper joint; free endpapers offset, lower free endpaper also creased, tiny hole to title page, small piece torn from top fore-corner pp. 43-46, a little light foxing; Government Press and Survey of Egypt, Cairo, 1919. First edition. O'Brien A011. *'This book contains the order of battle and the campaign maps for the Near Eastern front of which Lawrence's Arab campaign was a part. Two pieces of text were written by Lawrence. This book is not always recognized as containing Lawrence's work, as the pieces are unsigned. The pieces in question appear to have been extracted from official reports. Together with the reports in the Arab Bulletin and in The Times, are his first published accounts of the Arab campaign. The publisher, The Palestine News, was the official newspaper of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force' [O'Brien]. Copies are more usually found in printed paper wrappers. O'Brien describes 'a few' copies bound in sand coloured cloth and an unspecified number in '3/4 leather'.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Allenby. 55 maps, printed in color. 1 vols. 4to. Official history of the British campaign in Palestine and Syria, leading to the capture of Jerusalem and Damascus. T.E. Lawrence's contributions to this volume, reporting on the "Sherifian Co-operation" and the progress of the Arab Revolt, appear at the text accompanying plates 49 to 53 at the back of the volume. They are derived from material printed in the Arab Bulletin. In the uncommon cloth issue, this copy with presentation slip (signed by Palestine News editor P.S. Taylor) to Lieutenant Colonel Angus Cameron (1871-1961), officer and colonial governor, seconded to the Egyptian Army in 1899 and who had served as governor of the Mogalla, Kassala, and Sennar provinces in the Sudan from 1906.During the Great War he served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the Western Desert, in the campaign against the Senussi Arabs. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel in June 1919. After the war he returned as governor of the Sennar province of the Sudan. O'Brien A011 ("a few copies bound in sand coloured cloth") Original sand cloth printed in black. Collaborator's copy with duplicated slip tipped to front flyleaf. Near fine copy Frontispiece portrait of Allenby. 55 maps, printed in color. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3314.67 + shipping
Description: Small folio (227 x 294 mm). (6), 113, (1) pp. With Allenby's portrait frontispiece on cloth and 56 coloured maps (facing explanatory texts printed on versos). Original printed wrappers with printed cloth spine. First edition, edited by Harry Pirie-Gordon as a souvenir album: an account of the 1917-19 campaign in the Middle East. Contains two reports written by T. E. Lawrence, "Sherifian Co-Operation in September" and "Story of the Arab Movement", in which he details the Ashraf contribution to the War effort and narrates his own involvement in a third-person report. - Rubbed and stained, with occasional edge flaws. Endpapers have pencil ownership of O. A. Holstius, attached to Headquarters, 19th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Loosely inserted is a typed extract from "The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War, 1914-1919" by George Goold Walker (1930), detailing living conditions in the Jordan Valley during the Great War (torn and frayed at edges). - O'Brien A011.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria