Colonialism Lawrence T E (1 results)

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's russet cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 291pp. Light wear to spine and corners, some small abrasions to the bottom edge of the cloth, a strong and handsome copy in a lightly soiled tan dustjacket with toning to the spine panel, some fraying and shallow loss to the spine ends and a pinhole piece of damage a third of the way down the spine interfering with the "T" in the author's name. A good, solid copy in dustjacket. Internally clean with some spotting and foxing to the prelims and page edges. Lavishly illustrated with photographs by the author. Edited by A.W. Lawrence, the author's brother, with the suppressed introductory chapter to The Seven Pillars of Wisdom included alongside "The Changing East" a Lawrence essay that was later expanded into chapter 33 of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence, only in his early 20's, spent the summer of 1911 in Syria and surroundings, studying Crusader ruins and seeking out interesting bits and pieces for the British Museum, the photographs he took, and the observations he made, form the basis for this book.