[LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward]. Harry PIRIE-GORDON (editor).
A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from official sources and published by the Palestine News.
Cairo, Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919. Small folio (22.5 x 29.5 cm). With a frontispiece portrait of Allenby, mounted on cloth, and 56 coloured maps with explanatory texts on the facing pages. Contemporary half linen. [6], 113, [1] pp.
€ 3,000
First edition, edited by Harry Pirie-Gordon as a souvenir album, of an account of the 1917-1919 campaign in the Middle East. It contains two anonymous reports, in fact written by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), "Sherifian co-operation in September" and "Story of the Arab movement", in which he details the contribution of the Arab army to the allied war effort, in particular their capture of Ashraf Bey and confiscation of his £20,000 fund and narrates his own involvement in a third-person report.
Rubbed and stained, with occasional edge flaws. Endpapers with pencilled owners inscription of O. A. Holstius, attached to headquarters, 19th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Loosely inserted is a typed extract from "The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War, 1914-1919" by George Goold Walker (1930), detailing living conditions in the Jordan Valley during the Great War (torn and frayed at edges). OBrien A011.
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