Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence published by Jonathan Cape, London. Privately printed in 1926, this is the first of the edition released for general publication in 1935. 672 pages with black and white illustrations indexed and includes 4 folded maps.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting 'hospital' in Damascus. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no Boys Own Paper tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of Yeats, Eliot and Joyce.

Condition: Brown clothbound hardback with gilt lettering on the spine and motif on the front. A clean copy with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. Binding is strong and all pages are legible with little to no foxing and tanning and rough page edges. There are marks and fading to the hardback brown clothbound on all front, spine and back. No Dust Jacket