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Thomas Edward Lawrence

Male : Writer. Worked an archaeological digs in Syria, Mesopotamia, Egupt & Sinai 1910-14. Joined British Intelligence and from 1916 organised the Arabs in a revolt against the Turks. In 1922 he enlisted in the RAF under the name of Ross. When found out he was discharged and the rejoined as T E Shaw and stayed in until 1935. Killed in an accident on his Brough motor-cycle
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire

Date of Birth : 1888 Date of Death : 1935 Age : 47

Pseudonyms : J H Ross, T E Shaw

Education : Oxford High Sch & Jesus College, Oxford
Military report on the Sinai Peninsula (1914 War Office) - Anon
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force
(1919 Cairo)
Revolt in the Desert
Revolt in the Desert
(1927 Cape) - 315 copies
(1927 Cape) - 1st Trade Ed with d/w
(1927 Doubleday Doran, NY) - 250 copies
(1927 Doubleday Doran, NY) - 1st US Trade Ed with d/w
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(1922 Oxford Ed) - Limited to 8 copies
(1924 London - first proof)
(1925 London, 2nd Proof) - 100 copies
(1926 Cranwell/Subscriber's Edition) - 169 copies
(1926 Cranwell/Subscriber's Ed) - 32 presentation copies
(1926 Doubleday Doran, NY) - 22 copies
(1935 Cape) - 350
(1935 Cape) - 60
(1935 Cape) - 1st Trade Ed with dust wrapper
(1935 Doubleday Doran, NY) - 750
(1935 Doubleday Doran) - 1st Trade Ed with D/W
Seven Pillars of Wisdom : Suppressed Introductory Chapter
(1977 PP) - 25 copies
Crusader Castles
Crusader Castles
(1936 Golden Cockerel Press) - 2 vols. 1000 copies
Offered in 1999 for £650
(1936 Golden Cockerel Press) : The Thesis 75 copies
(1936 Golden Cockerel Press) : The Letters 35 copies
Crusader Castles
(1937 Doubleday Doran, NY)
The Mint : A Day Book of the RAF Depot
(by '352087 A/C Ross')
US Copyright Edition
(1936 Doubleday Doran, NY) - Ltd Ed of 50
First Unexpurgated UK Edition
(1955 Cape) - Ltd Ed 2000
First UK Trade Edition - Expurgated
(1955 Cape 17/6)
First Unexpurgated UK Trade Edition
(1973 Cape)
US Limited Edition
(1955 Doubleday Doran) - Ltd 1000
First Unexpurgated US Trade Edition
(1955 DD)
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TRANSLATION BY "J H ROSS
The Forest Giant by Adrian Le Corbeau
(1924 Cape)
The Fores Giant
(1924 Harper, NY)

TRANSLATION BY 'T E SHAW'
The Odyssey of Homer
(1932 PP Bruce Rogers, US) - Ltd 530 copies

The Diary of T E Lawrence MCMXI
(1937 Corvinus Press) - Ltd Ed 30
The Diary of T E Lawrence MCMXI
(1937 Corvinus Press) - 40 on vellum in slipcase
Offered in 1999 for £3150
An Essay on Flecker
(1937 Corvinus Press) - 30 copies
An Essay on Flecker
(1937 Doubleday Doran, NY) - 56 copies
Two Arabic Folk Tales
(1937 Corvinus Press) - 31 copies
Oriental Assembly : ed by A W Lawrence
(1939 Williams & Norgate)
(1991 Imperial War Museum) - Facsimile Ed
Secret Dispatches from Arabia
(1939 Golden Cockerel Press) - Nos 1-30
Secret Dispatches from Arabia
(1939 Golden Cockerel Press) - Nos 31-1000
Offered in 1999 for £535
Men in Print : Essays in Literary Criticism
(1940 GCP) - Nos 1-30
Men in Print : Essays in Literary Criticism
(1940 GCP) - Nos 31-500
The Essential T E Lawrence
(1951 Cape) (1956 Penguin) - Ed by David Garnett
Evolution of a Revolt : Early Postwar Writings of T E Lawrence
(1968 Pennsylvania State Univ)
Minorities
(Ed by J M Wilson) (1971 Bertram Rota & Cape) - Ltd Ed 125
Minorities
(1971 Cape) - 1st Trade Ed

LETTERS
Letters from T E Shaw to Bruce Rogers
(1933 PP by Bruce Rogers) - Ltd Ed 300
More Letters from T E Shaw to Bruce Rogers
(1936 PP by B Rogers) - Ltd Ed 300
A Letter from T E Lawrence to His Mother
(1936 Corvinus Press) - Ltd Ed 30
Letter from T E Shaw to Viscount Carlow
(1936 CP) - Ltd Ed 17
The Letters of T E Lawrence : ed by David Garnett
(1938 Cape)
The Letters of T E Lawrence - New Ed. Ed by Malcolm Brown
(1938 Dent)
T E Lawrence to His Biographer, Robert Graves & T E Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart
(1938 Faber) - Ltd Ed 1000 signed
Eight Letters from T.E.L.
(1939 Corvinus Press, PP) - Ltd Ed 50
Selected Letters of T E Lawrence : Ed David Garnett
(1941 World Books)
Shaw-Ede : T E Lawrence's Letters to H S Ede 1927-35
(1942 Golden Cockerel Press) - Ltd Ed 500 Numbered
The Home Letters of T E Lawrence and His Brothers
(Ed by M R Lawrence) (1954 Blackwell)
From a Letter of T E Lawrence
(1959 Officina Bodoni) - Ltd Ed 75
T E L Five Hitherto Unpublished Letters
(1975 PP) - Ltd Ed 30
The Letters
(1988 Dent) - Ed by Malcolm Brown
Letters to E T Leeds
(1988 Whittington Press) - 750

READING
1925-1930
Lowell Thomas : With Lawrence in Arabia
(1924 Century, NY) (nd. 1925 Hutchinson)
Robert Graves : Lawrence and the Arabs
(1927 Cape)
(1928 Doubleday as "Lawrence & the Arabian Adventure")
T German Reed : Bibliographic Notes on T E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom
& Revolt in the Desert
(1928 Foyle) - 350. Paul Nash

1931-1960
Liddell Hart : T E Lawrence in Arabia and After
(1934 Cape)
R H Kiernan : Lawrence of Arabia
(1935 Harrap)
C Edmonds : T E Lawrence
(1935 Peter Davis, London)
Flora Armitage : The Desert and the Stars
(1956 Faber 25/-)

1961-1980
Victoria Ocampo : 338171 T E Lawrence
(1963 Gollancz)
Jane Sherwood : Post Mortem Journal - Communications from T E lawrence
(1964 Spearman)
Robert Payne : Lawrence of Arabia - A Triumph
(1966 Robert Hale)
P Knightley & C Simpson : The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
(1969 Nelson)
F A Clements : T E Lawrence - A Reader's Guide
(1973 David & Charles)
Desmond Stewart : T E Lawrence - A New Biography
(1977 Harper NY)
A Nutting : Lawrence of Arabia - The Man and the Motive
(1977 Hollis & Carter. 2nd Imp)
H M Hyde : Solitary in the Ranks - Lawrence of Arabia as Airman & Private Soldier
(1978 Atheneum, NY)

After 1981
Michael Yardley : Backing into the Limelight - A Biography of T E Lawrence
(1985 Harrap £12.95)
Jeremy Wilson : Lawrence of Arabia - The Authorised Biography
(1989 Heinemann)
(1992 Mandarin) - pb
Lawrence James : The Golden Warrior - The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
(1990 Weidenfeld & N) (1995 Abacus pb - Revised Ed)
Sidney Sugarman : A Garland of Legends - Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt
(1992 S Sugarman/The Self Publishing Assoc)
Philip M O'Brien : T E Lawrence - A Bibliography
(1988 St Paul's Bibliographies)
Michael Asher : Lawrence - The Uncrowned King of Arabia
(1998 Viking £20)

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