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First Edition, Second impression. 8vo, publisher's original gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in the printed an decorated dustjacket. 216 pp. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved and near as pristine.

Edizione: a very fine copy of the letters to t. e. lawrence collected and edited by his brother. soon would come the movie version of 'lawrence of arabia' starring peter o'toole. in a. w. lawrence's own words, "in recent years, my brother has been inadequately portrayed or mis-portrayed in books and on the stage, and if he is made the subject of a film the limitations of that medium will, at the best, entail an extreme simplification of the character. as a corrective, i am publishing some letters to him (selected from the very large number preserved) in the belief that they will throw light upon their recipient no less than upon their writers. to me, at any rate, his personality is reflected distinctly by the collection as a whole." <br> among the writers of the letters will be found; a. j. balfour, gertrude bell, edmund blunden, wilfrid scawen blunt, robert bridges, h. g. wells, john buchan, winston churchill, noel coward, e. m. forster, george b. shaw, augustus john, and ezra pound. a fascinating look into the times and the people that made it so historically significant.