SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. A Triumph.

First trade edition, first printing. Publisher's brown cloth boards with gilt titling to the spine and gilt sword illustration to the front panel. Without the dustwrapper. Illustrated with a black and white portrait frontispiece, 53 additional plates, and 4 maps by Eric Kennington, William Rothenstein, Augustus John, William Roberts and others. A Jonathan Cape 'Now and Then' promotional postcard loosely laid in. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping to the spine tips, the cloth with just a couple of light marks, is bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and and free from foxing, inscriptions or stamps. An attractive example.

The first publicly available edition published immediately after the author's death. The publication of this complete text is preceded by the very limited privately printed 'subscriber's' or 'Cranwell' edition of 1926. This first trade edition includes 3 illustrations not previously published. (O'Brien A042).