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Lawrence's Secret Despatches Golden Cockerel

Title: Secret Despatches from Arabia by T.E. Lawrence, Published by Permission of the Foreign Office
Author: Lawrence, T. E.
Description: Foreward by A.W. Lawrence. Photogravure frontispiece portrait. 9¾x7½, quarter blue niger & cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. No. 330 of 970 copies, from a run of 1000, printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press.Despatches first published in the confidential paper called "The Arab Bulletin," 1916-1918. The brainchild of Lawrence, the Bulletin contained summaries of political news received from the Turkish Empire, Arab and other Moslem countries, and Abyssinia. With the bookplate of W. & P.J. Kupfer.
Heading: zziPlace Published: Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire
Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press
Date Published: [1939]

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Some soiling and discoloration to cloth; very good or better.

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Americana - Travel & Exploration
1:00 PM PT - Apr 17th, 2008

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