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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Compiled from official sources. This is the second edition, first was published by "The Palestine News." Olive green printed paper covered boards with green spine. Binding lightly marked and rubbed. Content clean, bright and sound. This book is large and overweight and will require additional postage. Photos available on request.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Description: Compiled from Official Sources & Published by the Palestine News. 1st Ed., [vi]+113+[112]pp., 4to, 55 maps, key. Cairo: Govt. Press & Survey of Egypt. Detailed narratives & exceptionally good maps of each notable phase or operation; also Orders of Battle listing commands & staff & giving a brief history of each formation. Nice copy of the original & scarcer Cairo impression, orig. brown printed wraps. with cloth spinestrip, titled in black. See illustration on our website.
Seller: Turner Donovan Military Bks, Brighton, SXE, United Kingdom
Price: US$99.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1919 (second edition)/ 1919 (in Cairo). Large quarto, [vi], 113 pages plus a frontispiece portrait of Allenby and 55 full-page colour maps (each with a facing page of explanatory text). Quarter cloth and printed papered boards (with some loss to silverfish, mainly near the leading edges); endpapers offset; minimal silverfish damage to the endpapers and margins of the first and last few leaves; contemporary ink ownership signature of Miss V. McCullagh (who later donated the book to the Margaret Gardiner Cuthbertson Memorial Library at The Business and Professional Women's Club of Melbourne, according to the large bookplate on the pastedown); small later ownership label; a very good copy with a clear plastic cover taped in a few spots to the pastedowns. One of 16,000 copies printed so that members of the EAF 'may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they played a part' (preface). The work is now mostly collected because of the few unattributed sections contributed by T.E. Lawrence ('Sherifian Co-operation in September', and 'Story of the Arab Movement', on the five pages facing maps 49-53). There is a partially erased pencilled note to this effect on the front flyleaf. There is also much on the Australian Light Horse and Camel Brigade actions, perhaps most famously the charge on Beersheba. Trigellis-Smith 258; O'Brien A011.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$99.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers darkened. Red cloth spine missing small piece to base of spine and small scar near the top. Previous owners name crossed out on ffep. No internal foxing or stains
Seller: Arete Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: This is the record of the First World Wars Egyptian Expeditionary Force and their actions on the Near Eastern front. This copy belonged to the library of the British Armys Staff College, Camberley.The text contains unattributed accounts by T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), who found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This second English edition was issued swiftly following the first, but rather than the buff card binding of the first edition, which was published by "The Palestine News' in December 1918, this edition was slightly more durably bound, with an olive-gray linen spine over olive-gray paper-covered boards, and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in 1919. The copy is complete, intact, and unrestored, in very good minus overall condition. Provenance is noteworthy. The bookplate affixed to the front pastedown is that of the British Armys "Staff College, Camberley". On the plate are two ink-stamps, both in purple. An oval stamp is that of "STAFF COLLEGE LIBRARY" and date of "JAN 30 1922". An overlaying rectangular stamp reads, in two lines, "WITHDRAWN | H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE" with a crown intervening. The only other indications of provenance are a small library sticker on the upper spine and "D(5)II G" inked on the upper left front cover. Two superficial scars at the lower right of the front cover may indicate previous removal of an additional label.Despite ex-library status, this is a clean copy. The binding remains square, tight, and unfaded, with only modest wear to extremities and light overall soiling. The contents are respectably bright with no spotting."This book contains the order of battle and the campaign maps for the Near Eastern front of which Lawrences campaign was a part. Two pieces of text were written by Lawrence. The book is not always recognized as containing Lawrences work, as the pieces are unsigned." Together with the reports in the Arab Bulletin and in The Times, Lawrences contributions to this book are "his first published accounts of the Arab campaign. The publisher, The Palestine News, was the official newspaper of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and was edited by H. Pirie-Gordon" (OBrien) Created in 1916 to guard the Suez Canal, the Egyptian Expeditionary Force was an archetypal multi-ethnic, multinational British imperial formation composed of troops from across the empire including India, Australia, and New Zealand. During the First World War they evolved, as the E.E.F. campaigned against the Ottomans in Egypt and Palestine. This book records the E.E.F.s actions from July 1917 when General Allenby took command to October 1918 when the Armistice of Mudros ended conflict in the Middle Eastern theatre. In 1916, under the auspices of the British Arab Bureau, The Arab Bulletin was founded on the initiative of T. E. Lawrence to provide "a secret magazine of Middle East politics" intended to inform officials and military commanders. Here Lawrence first published his records of the Arab campaign, some of which were included in The Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Lawrence would later and most famously tell the full tale of his role in and perspective on the Arab revolt in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Reference: O'Brien A012
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$163.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1919. Governement Press and Survey of Egypt/The Palestine News, Cairo. Softcover. Book-Good, darkened, wear to edges and spine ends, corners slightly curled, previous owners inscription, ex-libris label on front endpaper. 11.5x9. 226pp. Colour maps. B/w photo frontis.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Buff-coloured card covers as issued, cloth spine, black lettering, portrait frontispiece of Allenby with his facsimile signature, 114 pp with 55 colour maps, no foxing on the text or map pages which are all remarkably clean, endpapers a little spotted with offset browning where the customised brown wrapper has met the pages, overall in unusually good, very clean condition. General Allenby was C-in-C of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force towards the end of the First World War, and this publication was a record for departing troops of its activities to the east of the Suex Canal (a printed name on the first blank leaf may possibly be one of those troops?). Two passages of text, namely 'Sherifian Co-operation in September' and 'the Story of the Arab Movement', are generally accepted as being by T.E.Lawrence, compiled from his notes, although uncredited to him, and they represent his first account of the Arab Campaign in which he was so personally involved. A very good copy indeed, uncommon in this condition.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, 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$794.03 + 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$3288.77 + 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