Arab Revolt (9 results)

Sixth edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8¾'' x 5½''. Contains (xii), 227 pp with monochrome photographs and maps throughout. Spine sun faded, spotting to the title page and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. TURKEY (History and Culture).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original delphinium blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains portrait frontispiece 288 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition price clipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, printed end sheets. 8vo. 8½'' x 6¼''. Contains 160 pp with colour and monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. SIGNED by the author to the half-title page 'Malcolm Brown'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 320 pp with two maps, monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Malcolm Brown'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Previously issued in an expensive limited edition in 1939 by Golden Cockerel Press, this issue with new editorial material by Malcolm Brown. Contains (viii), 279 pp with monochrome archive photographs to the central pages. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Malcolm Brown'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. T. E. Lawrence Society pamphlet loosely inserted. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep russet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, blind publisher's device to the front board, orange paper end sheets. Square 4to. 11'' x 10''. Contains 208 pp with 195, 54 in colour, archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. SIGNED by the author to the half-title page 'Malcolm Brown'. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter black morocco, deep blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed, black, blue and white chevron end sheets. Quarto. 10¼'' x 8''. Hand written Number 1339 of 2000 Limited Edition copies. Published posthumously in 1955, it describes his time in the Royal Air Force, working, despite having held senior rank in the army (colonel), as an ordinary aircraftman, under an assumed name, 352087 A/c Ross. Contains red and black printed title, 206 pp divided into three parts: Part I: 'The Raw Material', with 29 chapters (many are 2 or 3 pages); Part II: 'In the Mill', with 22 chapters; Part III: 'Service', with 18 chapters. In Fine condition. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).

Oblong 4to (256 x 176 mm). 30 ff. (of which 12 ff. blank). With 126 black and white silver gelatin photographs (various sizes, 58 x 83 to 107 x 81 mm), some captioned in English on the reverse. Original saddle-stitched painted olive wood boards. A striking photographic record of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, compiled by a photographer with access to both British and Arab troops, including several photographs of the Arab leader Fawzi al-Qawuqji (1880-1977). Al-Qawuqji was evidently comfortable enough to pose for the camera: he smiles for the photographer with his rifle in hand, binoculars around his neck, and poses a second time with his two bodyguards; he is also photographed discussing plans with an aide, and on horseback directing operations and reviewing his army. - Many photographs were been taken during active battle: a line of al-Qawuqji's guerrilla fighters are seen firing at the enemy with rifles, or at the sky hunting RAF airplanes (famously, al-Qawuqji's forces had in fact shot down RAF planes as early as September 1936). All photographs of action are taken quite sensibly from behind, but quite close to the line of fire. Nor is warfare depicted cleanly; the photographer captures running soldiers in an Arab retreat, and carefully snaps photos of two Arab corpses. Several photographs also show the wreckage of train bombings, with twisted tracks and derailed locomotives, and one photograph, almost artistically composed, shows a line of British soldiers from behind looking out on a sunny hillside city where a plume of smoke rises. Other photos of British operations show two armed British soldiers in front of a crowd of Arab civilians with their arms in the air, soldiers manning a machine gun on the back of a lorry, bombed appartment complexes, and army camps. - In addition, this album documents another historic event: the coronation of King Abdullah I of Transjordan in Amman on 25 May 1946, one image showing Abdullah with his younger son, Nayef, next to Iraqi Ambassador Nuri Pasha Said. It also features parades of the Arab Legion and the King riding his Daimler car to the ceremony. - The remainder of the album provides a civilian backdrop to the battle scenes: several views such as one would expect in a Holy Land tourist album, including images of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, interiors of orthodox churches, ruins, ports and views of the desert, conjoint with pictures of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. - Altogether an attractive record of Mandate Palestine during the upheavals of the 1930s. - Gifted as a birthday present from on 12 April 1939, inscribed: "To Jean With Love From Margaret. Wishing You A Very Happy Birthday".

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original finely grained pistachio cloth covered boards, printed label to the spine, printed on Monadnock Dulcet paper. Square quarto. 9½'' x 9¼''. Contains frontispiece, blue and black printed title, 136 + i pp with 29 monochrome illustrations, advertisements and archive photographs throughout. T. E. Lawrence is known for his passion for motorcycling. This volume tells the story of the relationship with both his motorcycles, motorcycling and with the eponymous maker George Brough. It traces his early motorcycle experience and details the seven Brough Superiors that he owned and the eighth on order at the time of his death. Contains quotes from both T. E.'s and Brough's letters and the text of the chapter from The Mint, on Speed. Fine condition book in Fine condition acetate dust wrapper. Original invoice from The Fleece Press dated 3rd May 2005 loosely inserted. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).