<*> IMAGES AVAILABLE FOR ALL STOCK BOOKS <*> Try www.denismcd.com/[BKID#].jpg Ex. www.denismcd.com/01234.jpg ** Quiller-Couch, Arthur (compiler) #17617 THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE 1250-1900; Oxford University Press, n.d.: $25.00 'POPULAR EDITION printed for distribution in the United States only by Blue Ribbon Books, Inc.', 8vo, blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt, 883pp, spine age darkened, neat owner bookplate on front paste-down, very light wear to covers, else GOOD/no dustjacket. ** Chosen and edited by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch. T.E. Lawrence had a copy of the 1915 edition in his Clouds Hill library in Dorset and carried a copy with him during the Arab Revolt. He wrote in his copy: "Bought in Cairo 191 6. Carried through Hejaz and Syria 1917-1918. T.E. Lawrence, Damascus, 1.10". TE's own book "Minorities", a collection of 112 poems he compiled between 1919 and 1922, contains 30 poems from the this book. {at} #21699 THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE 1250-1900. Chosen and edited by Arthur $112.00 Quiller-Couch; Oxford, Clarendon Press 1912: small 12mo, blue cloth, gilt, all edges gilt, 1,084pp, thin paper, indexes, Christmas inscriptions, 1915 & 1946 respectively, corners and head of spine rubbed else VERY GOOD/ no dustjacket. ** This is a reprint of the 1900 first edition. T.E. Lawrence had the 1915 reprint, which has the same collation as the 1912 edition, in his library at Clouds Hill in Dorset. He wrote in his copy: "Bought in Cairo 1916. Carried through Hejaz and Syria 1917-1918. T.E. Lawrence, Damascus, 1.10". TE's own book "Minorities", a collection of 112 poems he compiled between 1919 and 1922, contains 30 poems from the this book. {UK STOCK} #18525 THE OXFORD BOOK OF VICTORIAN VERSE; Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1913: 12mo, $52.00 navy blue cloth, gilt, 1024pp, top edge gilt, 4cm of top edge of rear cover scraped, else GOOD+/no dustjacket. ** T.E. Lawrence had the same edition in his library at Clouds Hill in Dorset and carried the 'Oxford Book of English Verse' (1915), with him during the Arab Revolt. {UK STOCK} ** Quinn, Anthony & Paisner, Daniel #14174 ONE MAN TANGO; NY, Harper Collins 1995: FIRST PRINTING IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, black $25.00 cloth & boards, gilt, 388pp, 50 b&w photos, 7 color plates (Quinn's sculptures & oil paintings), 1 color photo (Quinn in his art studio), index, FINE/FINE. ** ~Anthony Quinn's "One Man Tango" is about a day of reckoning unlike any other in the rich life of the legendary actor, a day that leaves him to confront a lifetime of memories, wrestle the lingering demons of his youth, and defy the passage of his time on this earth. The story hangs on a simple frame: Quinn is painting at his Italian villa when he receives a large packing box from his first wife, Katherine De Mille. He cannot bring himself to open it, afraid of what he might find inside. Instead, Quinn leaves the box unopened, wakes before the sun the next morning, grabs his bicycle, and takes off on a reflective 40 kilometer rides over the seven hills of Rome. It is to be, quite literally, the ride of his life. Here Quinn discovers himself -- a child of the Mexican Revolution {born in 1915 in Chihuahua, Mexico), smuggled into El Paso on a coal wagon; studying architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright, preaching for Aimee Semple McPherson; learning his craft at the hands of Michael Checkhov, Akim Tamiroff and the great John Barrymore. Along the way there are intimate reminiscenes of some of Hollywood's brightest stars (such as Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, and Orson Welles) and reflections on the author's short and long-term affairs with several of Hollywood's leading ladies (including Carole Lombard, Rita Hayworth, and Ingrid Bergman). And there are deliberations on the making of nearly 300 motion pictures, spanning almost 60 years.~ Among his many roles, Quinn was a magnificent Auda Abu Tayi in David Lean's Academy Award Winning "Lawrence of Arabia". References to T.E. Lawrence and "Lawrence of Arabia". ["F" Item / Not in O'Brien] ISBN: 0060183543 ** Quinn, Patrick (ed.) #20963 FOCUS ON ROBERT GRAVES AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. Vol. 1, No. 8, November 1988; $30.00 Department of English, University of Maryland, European Division 1988: FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, brown stapled paper covers, 16pp, Editorial Comment by Patrick Quinn, NEW. ** Contains: "The Graves Estate" by William Graves: ~When Robert Graves died in 1985, I was made executor of his Will.~ -&- "'Outdaring with a kiss all-powerful wrath:' Images of War, Images of Death" by Michael Thompson: ~What, perhaps, "made" Richard Aldington a real writer was his experience of the 1914-18 War and the subsequent agony of being a physical survivor of the "holocaust".~ -&- "Heroes and Hero-worship in 'Goodbye to All That'" by Christopher MacLachlan: ~In all phases of the book Graves presents the reader with a hero who embodies values Graves himself clearly admires. Each hero provides a comment upon Graves' own situation at that stage of his life...~ -&- "Few Women and Less Dogs -- Lawrence's Arabia" by June Van Ingen: ~"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is a marvellous adventure book, complete with the Boys' Own explosive Kit and instructions on how to fly a model plane. The desert descriptions are beautiful, the desert a giant obstacle course chock full of physical endurance -- hunger, thirst, and lice -- and recreations -- camel racing, horseback riding, and robbing birds' nests (ostriches). As in all good boys' books, the women are not missed, and the dogs, who might be, are successfully replaced by exotica: gazelles, jerboa, ibis, oryx, and snakes.~ -&- "Her Obedient Servant" (a poem) by Daniel Hoffman. [O'Brien G1789] #24949 FOCUS ON ROBERT GRAVES AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. Vol. 1, No. 8, November 1988; $15.00 Department of English, University of Maryland, European Division 1988: FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, brown stapled paper covers, 16pp, Editorial Comment by Patrick Quinn, red "Received" stamp with in date & initials on front wrapper, else NEAR FINE. ** Contains: "The Graves Estate" by William Graves: ~When Robert Graves died in 1985, I was made executor of his Will.~ -&- "'Outdaring with a kiss all-powerful wrath:' Images of War, Images of Death" by Michael Thompson: ~What, perhaps, "made" Richard Aldington a real writer was his experience of the 1914-18 War and the subsequent agony of being a physical survivor of the "holocaust".~ -&- "Heroes and Hero-worship in 'Goodbye to All That'" by Christopher MacLachlan: ~In all phases of the book Graves presents the reader with a hero who embodies values Graves himself clearly admires. Each hero provides a comment upon Graves' own situation at that stage of his life...~ -&- "Few Women and Less Dogs -- Lawrence's Arabia" by June Van Ingen: ~"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is a marvellous adventure book, complete with the Boys' Own explosive Kit and instructions on how to fly a model plane. The desert descriptions are beautiful, the desert a giant obstacle course chock full of physical endurance -- hunger, thirst, and lice -- and recreations -- camel racing, horseback riding, and robbing birds' nests (ostriches). As in all good boys' books, the women are not missed, and the dogs, who might be, are successfully replaced by exotica: gazelles, jerboa, ibis, oryx, and snakes.~ -&- "Her Obedient Servant" (a poem) by Daniel Hoffman. [O'Brien G1789] #24337 FOCUS ON ROBERT GRAVES AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES Vol. 1, No. 13, Winter 1992; $15.00 Department of English of the University of Maryland's European Division 1992: 12mo, blue (stapled) paper wrappers lettered & illustrated in white, 58pp, red "Received" stamp on front wrapper and first page, else FINE. ** Contains: "Robert Grave's 'Pier Glass': War Revisited and Love Lost" by Patrick Quinn [pp. 1-12], "Graves and the Scottish Ballads" by Thomas Carroll Tulloss, "Women as a Spiritual Force in Laura Ridings's 'Lives of Wives'" by Peter G. Christensen, "Prologue to the Great War: Encounters with Apollo and Dionysus in 'Death in Venice'" by Herbert O. Smith, "War Protest, Heroism, and Shellshock; Siegfried Sassoon: A Case Study" by Carole Shelton and "Robert Graves and His Contemporaries: A Textual Realignment" by Crystal J. Lucky. References to T.E. Lawrence on pages 5 & 6. [O'Brien G2327] ** Raban, Jonathan #21700 ARABIA Through the Looking Glass; London, Collins Harvill 1985: FIRST EDITION $50.00 (thus) IN DUST JACKET, 8vo, grey boards, gilt, 348pp, FINE/FINE. ** First published by Collins in 1979. The author, after being a university lecturer for four years became a professional writer in 1969. He is the holder of the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Award and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He began a long looping journey around the Arabian peninsula. His trip, through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan, took him deeply into a fascinating and much-misunderstood society. He found an Arabia which was very different from that legendary terrain described by early travellers, yet it was still an extraordinary, vital and mysterious place. References to T.E. Lawrence. Laid in the publisher's leaflet stating that this is a REVIEW COPY. [O'Brien F0880] {UK STOCK} ** Raswan, Carl R. #30074 BLACK TENTS OF ARABIA. (My Life Among the Bedouins); NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux $45.00 (c.1935) 1971: FIRST EDITION (thus) IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, black boards, gilt, 206pp, foreword, introduction, 29 b&w photos by the author, raw spots on top & bottom edges of both boards, else VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. ** ~A lifelong lover of Arabia and Arabian horses, Carl Raswan spent almost 30 years off and on among the Bedouins. "I claim one thing," he said, "that during my sojourn in Arabia, I lived entirely as a Bedouin. I had never any need to deny my race or my creed amongst the Arabs... [for] I was careful to adhere to all their cherished customs and prejudices...". In this beautifully written book, Mr. Raswan has told the story of the wandering herdsmen and mounted raiders, of the loves, battles, and the struggle for livelihood of a wild and little-known people. In a style of almost biblical purity, with a rich and subtle dramatic sense, he enters, in an utterly convincing way, the nomadic spirit. He tells of the beautiful, tragic love of Faris, "a friend of God", and Tuema, "as shy as a gazelle fawn" -- a love which was consummated only at the moment of death. And he tells of the splendid "drinkers of the wind", the Arabian horses; and of the code of life and honor which along made life possible in "Arabia Deserta". "It is my desire in this book", said Raswan, "to deal with things of human interest rather than, with scientific questions, and where possible to allow my adventures and experiences with the men and animals of the wilderness to comprise my story."~ From the author's foreword: ~My debt to Colonel Lawrence of Arabia is great, in that he has been my constant companion through the pages of his book on my last eight journeys...~ Originally published by Little Brown in 1935. By the author of "Escape from Baghdad" (1938), "The Arab and His Horse" (1955), "The Raswan Index and Handbook for Arabian Breeders" (1969), etc. References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0885] LCCN: 71161365 ** Rattigan, Terence #17234 ROSS. A Dramatic Portrait; London, n.p. 1960: THEATRE PROGRAMME, 21.5 x 14cm $75.00 (large 12mo), 12pp, coated paper stapled with two metal staples, frontis portrait of Alec Guinness as Ross, list of characters, biographical sketches on the actors, adverts, GOOD+. ** The programme for the first performance of "Ross" at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. The play, directed by Glen Byam Shaw, opened in London on 12 May 1960 and starred Alec Guinness as A/c Ross (aka T.E. Lawrence) who later starred as Prince Feisal in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia. The action of the play begins and ends at a Royal Air Force depot, near London, on an afternoon, the same night and following morning of a day in the Winter of 1922. The central passages cover the two years 1916-1918 and are set in the Middle East. PLUS: an invitation from Tennent Productions to a performance of the same play in the following year (Feb. 1961) when the part of Ross was played by Michael Bryant AND a typewritten carbon copy of a letter from Vivienne Byerly, of Tennent Productions, offering free tickets for drama critics to review the play. [O'Brien E225] #16591 ROSS. A Dramatic Portrait; NY, Random House 1962: stated FIRST PRINTING IN $50.00 DUSTJACKET (price clipped), 20.6 x 13.9cm (8vo), black cloth with dark gray boards, gilt, 180pp, frontis (b&w photo of scene), Cast, 2 b&w photos (scenes), dj lightly soiled, else FINE/VERY GOOD+. ** Originally written in 1958 as a screenplay starring Dirk Bogarde as T.E. Lawrence. Rattigan adapted it to the stage and in 1960 Alec Guinness starred as A/c Ross (T.E. Lawrence) in London and John Mills in the US. It was first presented by David Merrick at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City on 26 Dec. 1961. The action of the play begins and ends at a Royal Air Force depot, near London, on an afternoon, the same night and following morning of a day in Winter 1922. The central passages cover the two years 1916-1918 and are set in the Middle East. Terence Rattigan was one of the most popular English playwrights of the 20th century; writing 22 plays from 1936 to 1977. From the late 1920s until the late 1950s Rattigan ruled London's West End and was the author of four of the greatest plays of the period. [O'Brien E224] LCCN: 62-12731 #17523 ROSS. A Dramatic Portrait; London, Hamish Hamilton 1960: FIRST EDITION IN $70.00 DUSTJACKET (price clipped with photo portrait by Angus McBean of Guinness in Arab robes), 18.4 x 12.2cm, red boards, 122pp, cast of characters, 1/2in. damp spot to rear cover, dj lightly soiled with very minor edgewear including a 1/2in. closed tear to bottom right of rear panel, else FINE/NEAR FINE. ** The play, directed by Glen Byam Shaw, opened at Royal Haymarket Theatre in London on 12 May 1960 and starred Alec Guinness as A/c Ross (aka T.E. Lawrence) who later starred as Prince Feisal in David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia". The action of the play begins and ends at a Royal Air Force depot, near London, on an afternoon, the same night and following morning of a day in Winter 1922. The central passages cover the two years 1916-1918 and are set in the Middle East. Terence Rattigan was one of the most popular English playwrights of the 20th century; writing 22 plays from 1936 to 1977. From the late 1920s until the late 1950s Rattigan ruled London's West End and was the author of four of the greatest plays of the period. [O'Brien E222] #25613 ROSS. A Dramatic Portrait; NY, Random House (c. 1960): Fireside Theatre BOOK CLUB $15.00 EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 20.6 x 13.9cm (8vo), tan cloth with pinkish colored boards, gilt, 180pp, frontis (b&w photo of scene), Cast, 2 b&w photos (scenes), head & foot of spine slightly thumbed, moderately soiled and edgeworn with some loss to bottom of from panel, else FINE/GOOD. ** Originally written in 1958 as a screenplay starring Dirk Bogarde as T.E. Lawrence. Rattigan adapted it to the stage and in 1960 Alec Guinness starred as A/c Ross (T.E. Lawrence) in London and John Mills in the US. It was first presented by David Merrick at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City on 26 Dec. 1961. The action of the play begins and ends at a Royal Air Force depot, near London, on an afternoon, the same night and following morning of a day in Winter 1922. The central passages cover the two years 1916-1918 and are set in the Middle East. Terence Rattigan was one of the most popular English playwrights of the 20th century; writing 22 plays from 1936 to 1977. From the late 1920s until the late 1950s Rattigan ruled London's West End and was the author of four of the greatest plays of the period. [O'Brien E224] LCCN: 6212731 #16781 ROSS. A Play in Two Acts; London, Samuel French (c.1960): FRENCH'S ACTING EDITION, $50.00 21.6 x 13.3cm, white (glossy) paper wrappers lettered & decorated in brown, 103pp, list of the original cast members, sketches, stage directions (for props and lighting, etc.), covers lightly soiled, else VERY GOOD. ** The play, directed by Glen Byam Shaw, opened at Royal Haymarket Theatre in London on 12 May 1960 and starred Alec Guinness as A/c Ross (aka T.E. Lawrence) who later starred as Prince Feisal in David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia". The action of the play begins and ends at a Royal Air Force depot, near London, on an afternoon, the same night and following morning of a day in Winter 1922. The central passages cover the two years 1916-1918 and are set in the Middle East. Terence Rattigan was one of the most popular English playwrights of the 20th century; writing 22 plays from 1936 to 1977. From the late 1920s until the late 1950s Rattigan ruled London's West End and was the author of four of the greatest plays of the period. [See Notes for O'Brien E223] ** Raymond, E. Capt. #26396 PETRA; Thousand Oaks (CA), Artisan Sales 1987: FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, $35.00 softcover, 128pp, map, Preface: "A rose-red city half as old as time", profusely illustrated in b&w (photos, illus., engravings, maps, plans, etc.), 1.5cm closed tear to front spine seam at foot, rear cover slightly soiled, else VERY GOOD. ** ~Petra is like no other city. It is one of the most mysterious, fascinating and most beautiful of all the ancient Biblical sites. Known in the Scriptures as "Selah", during the time of Abraham, it is situated in the mountains of Seir -- in the land of the Edomites. So perfectly concealed among the rose-red cliffs of Edom, this amazingly preserved city of Petra remained lost and almost forgotten for over a 1,000 years. Nestled in a craggy canyon of red, pink, white, brown and violet rock, the city is practically invisible from the air and impregnable from the ground. The natural caves that honeycomb the area were home to man thousands of years before history began. In A.D. 106, Petra and its territories became a Roman Province. Under Roman rule, Petra prospered greatly and some of its finest monuments date from this period. In the third century A.D., a decline set in, and by the seventh century A.D., Petra remained but an empty shell. The very memory of the great and mighty city was lost, its situation completely forgotten, and it became a legend of mystery and wonder. Explorers tried in vain to find its fabled glories. From beneath the shifting sands that cover ancient Petra has emerged evidence that has shed light on the city and its people. These people are woven intermittently across the pages of the Bible. By the author of "Jacob's Pillar", King Solomon's Temple", Great Pyramids Decoded", "Stonehenge and Druidism", etc. Contains a chapter on T.E. Lawrence titled "Lawrence of Arabia" (pp.119-127). ["F" Item / Not in O'Brien] ISBN: 0934666237 ** Read, Herbert #16148 A COAT OF MANY COLOURS. Occasional Essays; London, George Routledge & Sons 1945: $47.00 FIRST EDITION/Third Impression, red cloth, gilt, 352pp, frontis, notes, spine faded + three 3mm holes in spine cloth, else GOOD+/no dustjacket. ** Read, a critic, ~...has gathered together representative writings of the past fifteen years which have not previously appeared in book form. There are more than seventy essays, of varying length, covering every aspect of his critical activity.~ Contains "Lawrence of Arabia" (pp.19-23) and "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (pp.24-26). The Library of Congress lists 262 records for author and poet Sir Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968). [O'Brien F0888] {UK STOCK} #29751 A COAT OF MANY COLOURS. Occasional Essays; London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. $50.00 1956: SECOND EDITION (REVISED) IN DUSTJACKET, 12mo, red boards, 352pp, preface, notes, some browning (from dj flaps) to paste-downs, dj spine is sunfaded with minor edgewear to head & foot (with small loss) and closed tear (tape repaired on reverse), else FINE/GOOD. ** 71 essays by the likes of Henry James, George Herbert, William Morris, Shelley, James Joyce, Walter de la Mare, D.H. Lawrence and more. ~In this volume Herbert Read has gathered together representative writings of the past fifteen years which have not previously appeared in book form. There are more than seventy essays, of varying length, covering every aspect of his critical activity - art, literature, philosophy and political theory. The book may be regarded as a breviary of the work of one of the few outstanding critics of our time.~ From the Preface: ~The essays in this volume are selected from the various products of my critical activity over a period of twenty years - not the past twenty years, but the period in which I was most active, beginning about 1925. None of the essays have been previously published in book form, except the one entitled "The Paradox of Anarchism", which I have include in "Anarchy and Order" (1954), a collection of essays, and I have deliberately refrained from giving them any classification; they have no particular design on the reader; I wish them to be read for their variety.~ Contains "Lawrence of Arabia" (pp.19-23) and "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (pp.24-26). The Library of Congress lists 262 records for author and poet Sir Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968). First published in 1945. [O'Brien F0888] LCCN: 56001641 ** Reid, Brian Holden #28029 STUDIES IN BRITISH MILITARY THOUGHT. Debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart; Lincoln $50.00 (NE), University of Nebraska Press 1998: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, black cloth, gilt, 287pp, preface, afterword, notes, Bibliography of the Principal Writings of Fuller and Liddell Hart, index, FINE/FINE. ** John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966), British soldier, military analyst, and war historian, is considered the father of modern armored (tank) warfare -- first as planner of the attack at Cambrai in November 1917, and then as author of a number of works that challenged traditional British military thought. His ideas were resisted in his own country but had a major impact on German and Soviet military doctrine. Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895-1970) was also a British military historian and analyst of note and authored influential military histories covering figures from Scipio Africanus to Field Marshal Rommel. In the twelve analytical essays in this book, the author examines these two figures whose ideas have influenced the interpretation of events in military history from antiquity to the Cold War. He compares and contrasts their views on tactics, operational art and strategy, and war as a social phenomenon. Additionally, he discusses the radically different temperaments of the two and shows how their differences shaped their work in important ways. In so doing, he continues to bring their ideas to students and practitioners of modern warfare and raises fundamental issues concerning the nature of war. Contents: 1. "Military Intellectuals in Britain", 2. "Fuller's Theory of Mechanized Warfare", 3. Fuller and the Revival of Classical Military Thinking in Britain 1918-1926", 4. "Fuller and the Revolution in British Military Thought", 5. "Fuller and the Operational Level of War", 6. "Fuller and the Theory and Practise of Strategy", 7. "Gas Warfare: The Perils of Prediction", 8. "British Military Intellectuals and the American Civil War: Maurice, Fuller and Liddell Hart", 9. "T.E. Lawrence and Liddell Hart", 10. "Fuller, Liddell Hart, and the Odyssey of British Fascism: Two Contrasting Attitudes to Political Tumult", and 12. "British Military Intellectuals and the Lure of Antiquity". Numerous references to T.E. Lawrence. ["F" Item / Not in O'Brien] ISBN: 0803239270 ** Richards, Vyvyan #21450 PORTRAIT OF T.E. LAWRENCE. "The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom"; London, $271.00 Jonathan Cape 1936: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, 256pp, frontis (b&w photo portrait by Howard Coster), introduction, 5 b&w photos, map (Mecca to Akaba), map (Akaba to Damascus), index, dj rear panel slightly soiled, else FINE/VERY GOOD. ** From the INTRODUCTION: ~This critical study of T.E. Lawrence has a threefold aim. It gives a few records that others could not give -- often trivial, but even the little parts are needed to get a puzzle complete. It gives the story of the Arabian revolt in one long chapter, but not for the events only. I have sought to bring out their revealing significance in relation to the central figure, whose portrait is there painted. Lastly, it is, I hope, provocative. Many have been puzzled, and indeed offended by strange things in Lawrence's acts and words. These should be faced. He did not want to be the popular mystery man and limelight hero that so many would make of him. He was a mystery to himself, and the "Seven Pillars" is his great effort, not perhaps to solve, but to face up to that mystery. He wanted to be just one of us -- ask his companions in the field, in the mess, anywhere, if that is not true, and if it did not warm their hearts unforgettably. In the letter about this book, which I quote later on, he says: "I really do cut myself down, in all sincerity. I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary.... In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."~ Pages 185-188 detail correspondence between them about TE's writing of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". [O'Brien E097] {UK STOCK} #23550 PORTRAIT OF T.E. LAWRENCE. "The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom"; London, $125.00 Jonathan Cape 1936: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, 256pp, frontis (b&w photo portrait by Howard Coster), introduction, 5 b&w photos, map (Mecca to Akaba), map (Akaba to Damascus), index, dj soiled & edgeworn with some loss to head & foot of spine and top right of front panel, else NEAR FINE/GOOD. ** From the INTRODUCTION: ~This critical study of T.E. Lawrence has a threefold aim. It gives a few records that others could not give -- often trivial, but even the little parts are needed to get a puzzle complete. It gives the story of the Arabian revolt in one long chapter, but not for the events only. I have sought to bring out their revealing significance in relation to the central figure, whose portrait is there painted. Lastly, it is, I hope, provocative. Many have been puzzled, and indeed offended by strange things in Lawrence's acts and words. These should be faced. He did not want to be the popular mystery man and limelight hero that so many would make of him. He was a mystery to himself, and the "Seven Pillars" is his great effort, not perhaps to solve, but to face up to that mystery. He wanted to be just one of us -- ask his companions in the field, in the mess, anywhere, if that is not true, and if it did not warm their hearts unforgettably. In the letter about this book, which I quote later on, he says: "I really do cut myself down, in all sincerity. I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary.... In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."~ Pages 185-188 detail correspondence between them about TE's writing of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". [O'Brien E097] #23610 PORTRAIT OF T.E. LAWRENCE. "The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom"; London, $195.00 Jonathan Cape 1936: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET (price clipped), 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, 256pp, frontis (b&w photo portrait by Howard Coster), introduction, 5 b&w photos, map (Mecca to Akaba), map (Akaba to Damascus), index, dj rear (white) panel moderately soiled with spine lettering age darkened and a 1cm closed tear to bottom front panel, else FINE/VERY GOOD. ** From the INTRODUCTION: ~This critical study of T.E. Lawrence has a threefold aim. It gives a few records that others could not give -- often trivial, but even the little parts are needed to get a puzzle complete. It gives the story of the Arabian revolt in one long chapter, but not for the events only. I have sought to bring out their revealing significance in relation to the central figure, whose portrait is there painted. Lastly, it is, I hope, provocative. Many have been puzzled, and indeed offended by strange things in Lawrence's acts and words. These should be faced. He did not want to be the popular mystery man and limelight hero that so many would make of him. He was a mystery to himself, and the "Seven Pillars" is his great effort, not perhaps to solve, but to face up to that mystery. He wanted to be just one of us -- ask his companions in the field, in the mess, anywhere, if that is not true, and if it did not warm their hearts unforgettably. In the letter about this book, which I quote later on, he says: "I really do cut myself down, in all sincerity. I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary.... In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."~ Pages 185-188 detail correspondence between them about TE's writing of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". [O'Brien E097] #25647 PORTRAIT OF T.E. LAWRENCE; NY, Scholastic Book Services "T 543" [April] 1967: $19.00 FIRST EDITION/Second Printing, 16.3 x 10.4cm (small 12mo), pictorial paperback, 148pp, chronology, map of the Middle East, bibliography, text age darkened at edges, wrappers slightly rubbed, else VERY GOOD. ** The First American Edition was only published in paperback. Despite the title being the same as the earlier biography ("Portrait of T.E. Lawrence: The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom" published by Jonathan Cape in 1936 [O'Brien E096]), this is a reprint of the Duckworth 1939 edition, titled "T.E. Lawrence", which the author wrote specifically for the publisher's "Great Lives" series. Richard knew Lawrence intimately in his Oxford days and after. He brings a personal; sensitive touch to this study of his friend; especially upon such subtle points as the development of Lawrence's attitude to life and his own art of writing. He speaks with unique authority of the early years. Richards finds in Lawrence the representative of his own self-conscious age, rather than a romantic "crusader". He should have been called "Lawrence of the Seven Pillars"; and the highlights of his own self-portrait in that book are here studied at length for their revelation of the man behind. [See Notes for O'Brien E126] #30095 PORTRAIT OF T.E. LAWRENCE; NY, Scholastic Book Services "T 543" (Mar.) 1964: FIRST $25.00 PRINTING, 16.3 x 10.4cm (small 12mo), pictorial paperback, 148pp, chronology, map of the Middle East, bibliography, text lightly tanned, VERY GOOD. ** The First American Edition was only published in paperback. This is the first printing which had the "Copyright Notice Erratum" sticker on the copyright page. Despite the title being the same as the earlier biography ("Portrait of T.E. Lawrence: The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom" published by Jonathan Cape in 1936 [O'Brien E096]), this is a reprint of the Duckworth 1939 edition, titled "T.E. Lawrence", which the author wrote specifically for the publisher's "Great Lives" series. Richard knew Lawrence intimately in his Oxford days and after. He brings a personal; sensitive touch to this study of his friend; especially upon such subtle points as the development of Lawrence's attitude to life and his own art of writing. He speaks with unique authority of the early years. Richards finds in Lawrence the representative of his own self-conscious age, rather than a romantic "crusader". He should have been called "Lawrence of the Seven Pillars"; and the highlights of his own self-portrait in that book are here studied at length for their revelation of the man behind. [See Notes for O'Brien E126] #30188 PORTRAIT OF T.E. LAWRENCE; NY, Scholastic Book Services "T 543" (Mar.) 1964: FIRST $25.00 PRINTING, 16.3 x 10.4cm (small 12mo), pictorial paperback, 148pp, chronology, map of the Middle East, bibliography, light tanning to edges of text, covers lightly rubbed, else NEAR FINE. ** The First American Edition was only published in paperback. This is the first printing which had the "Copyright Notice Erratum" sticker on the copyright page. Despite the title being the same as the earlier biography ("Portrait of T.E. Lawrence: The Lawrence of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom" published by Jonathan Cape in 1936 [O'Brien E096]), this is a reprint of the Duckworth 1939 edition, titled "T.E. Lawrence", which the author wrote specifically for the publisher's "Great Lives" series. Richard knew Lawrence intimately in his Oxford days and after. He brings a personal; sensitive touch to this study of his friend; especially upon such subtle points as the development of Lawrence's attitude to life and his own art of writing. He speaks with unique authority of the early years. Richards finds in Lawrence the representative of his own self-conscious age, rather than a romantic "crusader". He should have been called "Lawrence of the Seven Pillars"; and the highlights of his own self-portrait in that book are here studied at length for their revelation of the man behind. [See Notes for O'Brien E126] ** Richardson, Frank M. Maj.-Gen. #24789 MARS WITHOUT VENUS. A Study of Some Homosexual Generals; Edinburgh, William $50.00 Blackwood 1981: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET (price clipped), 8vo, gray cloth lettered in silver, 188pp, introduction, 8 b&w photos & illus., 2 appendices, index, white dj slightly age darkened (as is usual) with a tiny nick to head of spine, else FINE/NEAR FINE. ** ~When Mars was discovered in the arms of his lover, Venus, the hapless good of war was summarily exposed to the ridicule of his Olympian colleagues. This humiliating experience may well have been a contributory factor to his success on the battlefield. It is likely that the lives of the generals who are the subject of this book were greatly affected by a psychological influence similar to Mars's humiliation -- their homosexuality. Living in times when homosexual inclinations were at the very least looked upon as abhorrent and a matter for concealment, these men became great military heroes, each himself a Mars without a Venus, as Prince Eugene of Savoy was in fact described. How sublimation of their homosexuality shaped their characters and personalities -- and consequently helped to set them on the course to greatness -- is the central theme of "Mars Without Venus."~ From the INTRODUCTION: ~The four Englishmen who are among those whose lives are examined in this book -- John Nicholson, "The Hero of Delhi", General Gordon, Kitchener of Khartoum and Lawrence of Arabia -- lived at a time when homosexual inclinations were a matter for concealment, a dark secret; and, I believe, usually a source of deep unhappiness. Perhaps they were helped to become heroes in the eyes of their fellow countrymen by a psychological process first described by Sigmund Freud, and given by him the name "sublimation". Consideration of that possibility and of the influence which homosexuality could have had upon their lives was my objective, rather than joining in the overworked pastime of exposing heroes' feet of clay. I have uncovered no scandals which had not been exposed and written about the lifetime of the men whom I describe, or  quite soon after their deaths. The skeletons have already been rattled.~ A study, by the former Director of Medical Services of the British Army of the Rhine, including Napoleon, General Charles George Gordon (of Khartoum), Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Charles XII of Sweden, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Brigadier John Nicholson and T.E. Lawrence. By the author of "Napoleon: Bisexual Emperor", "Napoleon's Death: An Inquest", "Fighting Spirit: Psychological Factors in War", "The Public and the Bomb", etc. [O'Brien F0894b] ISBN: 085158148X ** Robinson, Edward #20873 LAWRENCE. The Story of His Life; Oxford (England), Oxford University Press 1935: $40.00 FIRST EDITION, 19 x 12.7cm (12mo), brown cloth, 252pp, frontis (color portrait by James McBey), Inroductory Note by A.W. Lawrence, map of the Sinai (showing the area from Damascus to Medina), preface, 32 b&w photos, traces of penciled scribbles on rear paste-down, else GOOD+/no dustjacket. ** ** From the "Introductory Note" ~The author of this book was himself an eyewitness of many of the scenes described. I have read the proofs of the book, and find no errors of fact... July 1935. A.W. Lawrence~ A.W. was TE's youngest brother. ~No man within living memory has so captured the imagination of the English-speaking world as Lawrence of Arabia; both by reason of what he did -- and few men in any age have crowded as much into a brief span of life -- as well as of what he was, his name will long be held in affectionate remembrance by his country men. It is natural that the boys and girls of today should want to know all about Lawrence: to them he is a great romantic figure -- an adventurer in the best sense of the word. Mr. Edward Robinson the author of this book is in a position to tell them both what Lawrence did and what he was, for he served under him during his campaign in Arabia, and felt the magic of his personality. It is a great story: that of a man who ever smiled in the face of danger: who so struck dismay into the enemy that the offered a reward of 10,000 Pounds for his capture, dead or alive; and who sought no other laurel than his country's glory.~ The author also wrote "Lawrence the Rebel" (1946). [O'Brien E083] [O'Brien E083] {UK STOCK} #16933 LAWRENCE THE REBEL; London, Lincolns-Praeger 1946: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, $75.00 21.2 x 13.7cm (8vo), light green cloth lettered in gilt, 228pp, frontis (b&w photo portrait), introduction, map, bibliography, index, sunfaded along top & bottom edges, attractive bookplate on front paste-down, white dj moderately soiled (as usual) and edgeworn with a few short tears and a small piece missing from bottom left of rear panel, else VERY GOOD/GOOD. ** ~Edward Robinson, first an apprentice to journalism, then a soldier in the 1914-18 war, and once more a journalist, has written one other book on Lawrence, an Oxford University Press publication primarily intended for the schools. His hobby is the study of the Middle East, and to his own personal knowledge of Lawrence and the Sharifian campaign in the Hejaz, he has added the result of years of research into Russian, German, Italian, French, Arabic, Jewish and British sources for background material to the campaign proper. This has all been condensed into a pocket history in which Lawrence rightly takes the centre of the stage, from the day he bought a uniform, through the days when he was "El Orrance", "Ross", and "Shaw", until that Sunday morning of May 19th, 1935, when his life ended.~ From the INTRODUCTION: ~I found myself an active participant in most of the campaign and "keeper of the records". Records widen the horizon of a soldier; the experience of active service puts meaning into the record. So this biography is a history by a man in the street for the man in the street. I have written it in the hope that it will help him not only to understand Lawrence, but to understand the reasons for the present tangle of trouble in the Middle East.~ The author was responsible for an earlier juvenile work titled simply "Lawrence" in 1935. [O'Brien E164] #24976 LAWRENCE THE REBEL; London, Lincolns-Praeger 1946: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, $60.00 21.2 x 13.7cm, light green cloth, gilt, 228pp, frontis (b&w photo portrait), introduction, map, bibliography, index, GOOD/GOOD. ** ~Edward Robinson, first an apprentice to journalism, then a soldier in the 1914-18 war, and once more a journalist, has written one other book on Lawrence, an Oxford University Press publication primarily intended for the schools. His hobby is the study of the Middle East, and to his own personal knowledge of Lawrence and the Sharifian campaign in the Hejaz, he has added the result of years of research into Russian, German, Italian, French, Arabic, Jewish and British sources for background material to the campaign proper. This has all been condensed into a pocket history in which Lawrence rightly takes the centre of the stage, from the day he bought a uniform, through the days when he was "El Orrance", "Ross", and "Shaw", until that Sunday morning of May 19th, 1935, when his life ended.~ From the INTRODUCTION: ~I found myself an active participant in most of the campaign and "keeper of the records". Records widen the horizon of a soldier; the experience of active service puts meaning into the record. So this biography is a history by a man in the street for the man in the street. I have written it in the hope that it will help him not only to understand Lawrence, but to understand the reasons for the present tangle of trouble in the Middle East.~ The author was responsible for an earlier juvenile work titled simply "Lawrence" in 1935. [O'Brien E164] ** Rodman, Selden #18195 LAWRENCE. The Last Crusade. A Dramatic-Narrative Poem; NY, Viking 1937: FIRST $50.00 EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 23.5 x 15.5cm, grey cloth, gilt, 129pp, map, notes, cloth slightly age darkened about the edges (as is usual), dj lightly soiled and very edgeworn with some loss, else VERY GOOD/FAIR. ** ~There have always been contemplative and active spirits, but rarely have both elements been so terribly fused in one man as in Lawrence of Arabia. This epic of his three lives brings poetry back to serve its great and original function; to bring out the legend and the meaning of the events. It offers the modern reader a story with a hero -- a story told in the grand manner about a man whose career has already taken on the attributes of a legend. In dramatic and lucid verse it links that central portion of his life, well known from "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom", to his earlier life as an archaeologist and his later life in the air force, resolving all three in the tragic chord of his death. At the same time it fulfills the poetic purpose of presenting its hero as a symbol: a modern man of vast abilities and great integrity who emerges from an intermediate social class: a tragic figure arriving at a crossroads, but a figure of infinite hope. Many diverse elements are shown to be suing for his hand. Will he assist in building a modern world out or the materials crying for use? or will he satisfy his ego with mere power, turning tools into destructive weapons? Lawrence's life was cut off before the answer was given. But the questions had already been posted, and it is clear on which side of the poet stands.~ [O'Brien E116] #18171 LAWRENCE. The Last Crusade. A Dramatic-Narrative Poem; NY, Viking 1937: FIRST $75.00 EDITION IN DUSTJACKET (price clipped), 23.5 x 15.5cm, gray cloth, gilt, 129pp, map, notes, cloth lightly age darkened about edges (as is usual), dj moderately edgeworn with some loss to top edges, else VERY GOOD/GOOD. ** INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/POET: "To Beatrice & Oliver, movers, shakers, eloquent producers and (I hope) kind critics. from Selden.." (Oliver is author/historian, Oliver Carlson.) ** ~There have always been contemplative and active spirits, but rarely have both elements been so terribly fused in one man as in Lawrence of Arabia. This epic of his three lives brings poetry back to serve its great and original function; to bring out the legend and the meaning of the events. It offers the modern reader a story with a hero -- a story told in the grand manner about a man whose career has already taken on the attributes of a legend. In dramatic and lucid verse it links that central portion of his life, well known from "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom", to his earlier life as an archaeologist and his later life in the air force, resolving all three in the tragic chord of his death. At the same time it fulfills the poetic purpose of presenting its hero as a symbol: a modern man of vast abilities and great integrity who emerges from an intermediate social class: a tragic figure arriving at a crossroads, but a figure of infinite hope. Many diverse elements are shown to be suing for his hand. Will he assist in building a modern world out or the materials crying for use? or will he satisfy his ego with mere power, turning tools into destructive weapons? Lawrence's life was cut off before the answer was given. But the questions had already been posted, and it is clear on which side of the poet stands.~ [O'Brien E116] ** Rolls, S.C. #28839 STEEL CHARIOTS IN THE DESERT. The Story of an Armoured-Car Driver with the Duke of $65.00 Westminster in Libya and in Arabia with T.E. LAWRENCE; England, Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts Club 1988: FIRST EDITION (thus) IN DUSTJACKET, 19.9 x 13.3cm (small 8vo), dark blue boards simulating leather, gilt, 286pp, Quote from "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", Preface to 1937 Edition, Preface to 1988 Edition by Lt.-Col. Eric Barrass, 6 b&w photos, 2 maps, AS NEW/AS NEW. ** A unabridged facsimile of the Jonathan Cape 1937 edition. T.E. Lawrence wrote, in "Seven Pillars of Wisdom": "Rolls, the driver, our strongest and most resourceful man, the ready mechanic, whose skill and advice largely kept our cars in running order... Great was Rolls, and great was Royce!" ~The latter mention of "Rolls" in the quote refers to the author of this book. It was this Rolls who was personal driver of the legendary "Lawrence of Arabia" throughout what are widely regarded as some of the most romantic and brilliant campaigns of the First World War. Sam Cottington Rolls, a qualified motor mechanic, volunteered his services to the newly formed Duke Westminster's Armoured Car Squadron. So strange then was the use of any sort of motor vehicles in the armed services, that the Squadron was part of the still fledgling Royal Naval Air Service. Initially the author saw service in France, ferrying "brass-hats" to forward positions are Ypres; soon transferring to the army to join a new Brigade of armored cars that was to demonstrate its special skills and attributes in trackless desert conditions. Sam Rolls provides eye witness accounts of such as the desert rescue of the survivors of the British ship the Tara from the Senusites; and Lawrence "sawing" a wooden plank with revolver shots to help repair his stricken Rolls-Royce. Readers are made aware of the almost magical charisma radiated by Lawrence and how it inspired British and Arab alike.~ [O'Brien E114a] ** Rooney, David #28981 MILITARY MAVERICKS. Extraordinary Men of Battle; London, Cassell 1999: FIRST $40.00 EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, black boards, 251pp, preface, introduction, 10 b&w photos & illus., 13 maps, bibliography, index, NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. ** ~What makes a maverick? Is it simply an unorthodox mind, a dislike of rule and tradition? Or is it more than that, a flagrant disregard for convention? Can there ever be a place for the maverick in a disciplined military hierarchy: and if so, is the military maverick more likely to win, or lose, his battles? In his absorbing new study of heroes who broke the rules, historian David Rooney show how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every challenge to an opportunity, leads from the front, and wins the unwinnable. The contrary chaos of war can be so intimidating to the traditional mind that -- perhaps -- victory can only belong to the military maverick. Here are the stories of twelve mavericks, from Alexander the Great and Stonewall Jackson, through Garibaldi and Lawrence of Arabia to Second World War stalwarts such as Heinz Guderian and George S. Patton. Each had flaws that would have brought down a lesser man. each faced strong opposition from their own side, but they all proved their bravery and leadership in battle. Full of insight into the nature of the military mind, this book reveals by how much, and how often, success in battle depends on the irreplaceable presence of just one man.~ Other mavericks include Shaka Zulu, Col. Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck and General Jan Smuts in German East Africa, "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell, Orde Wingate, Otto Skorzeny and Vo Nguyen Giap. By the author of "Burma Victory: Imphal, Kohima, and the Chindit Issue, March 1944 to May 1945" (1992), "Wingate and the Chindits" (1994), etc. ["F" Item/Not in O'Brien] ISBN: 0304353167 #29008 MILITARY MAVERICKS. Extraordinary Men of Battle; NY, Castle Books / Barnes & Noble $30.00 Books 2004: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, hardcover, 251pp, preface, introduction, 10 b&w photos & illus., 13 maps, bibliography, index, VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. ** ~What makes a maverick? Is it simply an unorthodox mind, a dislike of rule and tradition? Or is it more than that, a flagrant disregard for convention? Can there ever be a place for the maverick in a disciplined military hierarchy: and if so, is the military maverick more likely to win, or lose, his battles? In his absorbing new study of heroes who broke the rules, historian David Rooney show how often the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every challenge to an opportunity, leads from the front, and wins the unwinnable. The contrary chaos of war can be so intimidating to the traditional mind that -- perhaps -- victory can only belong to the military maverick. Here are the stories of twelve mavericks, from Alexander the Great and Stonewall Jackson, through Garibaldi and Lawrence of Arabia to Second World War stalwarts such as Heinz Guderian and George S. Patton. Each had flaws that would have brought down a lesser man. each faced strong opposition from their own side, but they all proved their bravery and leadership in battle. Full of insight into the nature of the military mind, this book reveals by how much, and how often, success in battle depends on the irreplaceable presence of just one man.~ Other mavericks include Shaka Zulu, Col. Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck and General Jan Smuts in German East Africa, "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell, Orde Wingate, Otto Skorzeny and Vo Nguyen Giap. By the author of "Burma Victory: Imphal, Kohima, and the Chindit Issue, March 1944 to May 1945" (1992), "Wingate and the Chindits" (1994), etc. ["F" Item / Not in O'Brien] ISBN: 0760758573 #29816 MILITARY MAVERICKS. Extraordinary Men of Battle; Edison (NJ), Castle Books 2004: $17.50 FIRST CASTLE EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, black boards, 251pp, preface, introduction, 10 b&w photos & illus., 13 maps, bibliography, index, AS NEW/AS NEW. ** ~What makes a maverick? Is it simply an unorthodox mind, a dislike of rule and tradition? Or is it more than that, a flagrant disregard for convention? Can there ever be a place for the maverick in a disciplined military hierarchy: and if so, is the military maverick more likely to win, or lose, his battles? In his absorbing new study of heroes who broke the rules, historian David Rooney show howoften the day is won by sheer determination to succeed, despite the odds, despite the criticism of peers and elders. It is invariably the maverick who turns every challenge to an opportunity, leads from the front, and wins the unwinnable. The contrary chaos of war can be so intimidating to the traditional mind that -- perhaps -- victory can only belong to the military maverick. Here are the stories of twelve mavericks, from Alexander the Great and Stonewall Jackson, through Garibaldi and Lawrence of Arabia to Second World War stalwarts such as Heinz Guderian and George S. Patton. Each had flaws that would have brought down a lesser man. each faced strong opposition from their own side, but they all proved their bravery and leadership in battle. Full of insight into the nature of the military mind, this book reveals by how much, and how often, success in battle depends on the irreplaceable presence of just one man.~ Other mavericks include Shaka Zulu, Col. Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck and General Jan Smuts in German East Africa, "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell, Orde Wingate, Otto Skorzeny and Vo Nguyen Giap. By the author of "Burma Victory: Imphal, Kohima, and the Chindit Issue, March 1944 to May 1945" (1992), "Wingate and the Chindits" (1994), etc. First published in 1999. ["F" Item / Not in O'Brien] ISBN: 0785816798 ** Roseler, David [Timms, Edward Vivien] #16440 LAWRENCE, PRINCE OF MECCA by David Roseler (E.V. Timms); Sydney, Cornstalk $85.00 Publishing Co. 1927: SECOND EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 18.2 x 12cm (12mo), red cloth lettered & ruled in black, 227pp, color frontis + 3 b&w illustrations by Edgar Halloway, 3 maps, dustjacket has large pieces missing from the front panel head of spine, else NEAR FINE/POOR. ** Apparently the publisher just tipped-in a new title-page with "Second Edition" and added two lines to the copyright statement. From Chapter X "The Fight at Aba el Lissan": ~The fight raged until afternoon without either side gaining the supremacy. The Turks, penned in the valley below, were merely being held and not beaten. The refused to charge recklessly up the steep slopes, which would instantly have been swept with the hissing lead from above. Unless some decisive action was undertaken by the Bedouin the Turks would take advantage of the approaching night and cut through the ring of their enemies. Night was the only hope for their salvation. The Bedouin were divided into the camelmen under Nasir and the horsemen under Auda Abu Tayi, and it was Auda who, as the result of Lawrence's impatient and sarcastic remark, launched the thunderbolt charge that first broke the Turks. Auda, boastful, and filled with elation at the target practise in progress, futile as it was, asked Lawrence what he thought of the Howeitat warriors, fully expecting to be complimented by the white Shareef. "Indeed", replied Lawrence, "The Howeitat shoot a lot and hit a little."~ One of the earliest T.E. Lawrence biographies. David Roseler was a pseudonym for Edward Vivien Timms (1895-1960); a World War I veteran wounded at Gallipoli and an Australian author. As with most juvenile biographies, this is a difficult book to find in decent condition. [See Notes for O'Brien E028] LCCN: 28013319 ** Rothenstein, William #18059 TWENTY-FOUR PORTRAITS. With Critical Appreciations by Various Hands; London George $50.00 Allen & Unwin Ltd., London 1920: FIRST EDITION, small 4to, cloth and boards, unpaginated, top edge gilt others uncut, 24 portraits with an accompanying biographical sketch for each, covers soiled, corners bumped and frayed, text very good, overall GOOD/no dustjacket. ** ONE OF A 2,000 COPY EDITION (unnumbered) of which 1,200 were for sale in England and 800 in the US. Sir William Rothenstein (b.1872-d.1945) was the Official War Artist in France 1917-18 and to the Canadian Army of Occupation 1919. Each portrait is accompanied by an essay. The portraits are of: Granville Barker, Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Robert Bridges, Arthur Clutton-Brock, T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, John Drinkwater, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir James Frazer, Andre Gide, Edmund Gosse, Lord Haldan, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, W.H. Hudson, The Dean of St. Paul's, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Sir J.J. Thomson, John Masefield, George Russell, George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells. Contains a portrait of T.E. Lawrence and a short one page biography written by D.G. Hogarth. Between 1920 and 1922, Rothenstein produced an oil painting and two chalk drawings of T.E. He said of TE that he was "Generous with his time, he never seemed to object to standing for hours together -- once, when I was painting the folds of his outer garment, he remained standing for two hours without a rest!". [O'Brien F0915] ** Sachar, Howard M. #30202 EUROPE LEAVES THE MIDDLE EAST 1936-1954; NY, Alfred A. Knopf 1972: FIRST EDITION $50.00 IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, hardcover, 687pp, Introduction by William L. Langer, preface, bibliography, 16 maps, NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. ** ~What is the genesis of the Middle East as a political powder keg in today's world? In his major new work, Howard M. Sachar traces the incendiary hatreds between neighboring peoples and regimes, together with the hostility dividing the Arab world and the West, to a decisive gestation period between 1936 and 1954. It is within this time-span, paradoxically, that Britain and France, far from seeking to fasten their grip more tightly on the Middle East, were groping rather for a viable method of withdrawal. Departure, as this book makes clear, was far more complex and difficult than the original Allied military conquest during World War I. It was bedeviled not merely by European efforts to protect strategic installations and economic investments, but by an Axis expansionist effort that extended from Egypt to Iran, by the later emergence of Soviet Russia on the threshold of the "northern tier", by an abrasive Anglos-French contest for influence in the Levant, and above all by the lethal confrontation of Arab and Jewish national ambitions in Palestine. In his lucid, richly documented account of this first and historic phase of European post-imperialism, and its explosive climax in the birth of Middles Eastern sovereign independence, the author focuses his attention equally on the negotiations of Allied, Axis, and Soviet statesmen, on the calculated gambles of military strategists, and on the far-reaching nationalist exertions of the Arab, Jewish, Turkish, and Iranian political leaders.~ By the author of "The Emergence of the Middle East 1914-1924" (1969) and "A History of Israel" (1976). References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0930b] ISBN: 0394460642 ** Salter, Lord #28006 MEMOIRS OF A PUBLIC SERVANT; London, Faber & Faber 1961: FIRST EDITION IN $50.00 DUSTJACKET, 8vo, blue cloth, gilt, 356pp, preface, index, top corners slightly bumped, dj lightly soiled, else NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. ** ~These memoirs give a picture of the public life of this century from an unusual angle (or rather angles) of vision. Lord Salter is one of the very few men who have held high office first as civil servants and then as Ministers -- and both at home and overseas. He served, too, as one of the last Independent University members. In the political drama he has been backstage, on stage and among the critics in the stalls. The book includes pen-portraits of political personalities, among them Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, Stafford Cripps and Ernest Bevin, similar to those of other statesmen which were a notable feature of his earlier books, "Recovery", "Security", and "Personality in Politics". It also gives a vivid picture of life and his personal work in other countries -- India, China, Austria, Bulgaria and Greece -- and of the statesmen he worked with, such as Chiang Kai-Shek and Venizelos. Similar accounts with personal sketches (to take a few among many) reflect experiences in Washington (Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Roosevelt), Paris (Messieurs Clemenceau and Poincare, General Smuts and T.E. Lawrence), Geneva (Lord Robert Cecil and Monsieur Briand). "Memoirs of a Public Servant" is a gallery hung with vivid pictures of great men and great events -- and with a delightful and modest self portrait. It is, too, an important contribution to the history of our own time.~ [O'Brien F0934] ** Sassoon, Siegfried #20685 MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN; London, Faber and Faber 1967: NEW EDITION/Second $50.00 Impression IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, decorated red cloth, gilt, 313pp, decorations by William Nicholson, dj lightly soiled, else NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. ** This is the first volume of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy "The Memoirs of George Sherston"; which was followed by "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" and "Sherston's Progress". In this book, he describes his childhood experiences -- in rural England in the late 1800's & early 1900's and deals with SS's exploits at fox-hunting and cricket -- up to his joining the Royal Welch Fusiliers and being sent to the Western Front in World War I. In his "War Books", Cyril Falls gave the book TWO STARS and wrote: ~Mr. Sassoon's famous and brilliant page of the annals of pre-War England, can hardly be called a War novel. And yet it cannot be left out of this list. Even while he is painting the pleasant life of the young fox hunter, Mr. Sassoon seems to be looking back upon him over the gulf of war, and he helps us to realise who vast that gulf is. The actual war scenes, short as they are, are impressive.~ Sassoon was a friend and contemporary of T.E. Lawrence and, in a letter to Edward Marsh, TE wrote: ~Every verse of his makes me say "I wish to God I'd said that": and his fox-hunting gave me a shock of astonishment that he was so different and so good to know.~ The last few chapters of this book might be, more properly, the prelude to the "Infantry Officer". T.E. Lawrence had a copy of this title in his library at Clouds Hill in Dorset. Originally published in 1927. #28197 THE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON; PA, Giniger / Stackpole Books 1967: FIRST EDITION $35.00 (thus) IN DUSTJACKET, small 8vo, gray cloth, 656pp, NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. ** Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy. Contains "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man", "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" and "Sherston's Progress". The major portion of the memoirs have to do with his experiences with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in France during World War I. In his "WAR BOOKS", Cyril Falls gave "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man" TWO STARS and wrote: ~Mr. Sassoon's famous and brilliant page of the annals of pre-War England, can hardly be called a War novel. And yet it cannot be left out of this list. Even while he is painting the pleasant life of the young fox hunter, Mr. Sassoon seems to be looking back upon him over the gulf of war, and he helps us to realise who vast that gulf is. The actual war scenes, short as they are, are impressive.~ Cyril Falls wrote of "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer": ~The first book in Sassoon's trilogy is reviewed on page 295 and receives two of the coveted stars; it contained only a little on the war. His books merge fiction with autobiography; how much, one wonders, is the direct experience of that Royal Welch Fusilier, and how much is the fictitious George Sherston? It does not matter, because it is so completely captivating and so brilliantly written that it can be permitted to engulf the reader in perfect enjoyment. Sherston's experiences are portrayed without bitterness, sometimes casually and with humour, always with an authentic air. Perhaps the best writing, certainly amongst the most authentic, occurs when he describes the battles of April 1917 and his reflections when he is brought back to a London hospital after being wounded.~ Sassoon was a friend and contemporary of T.E. Lawrence and, in a letter to Edward Marsh, TE wrote: ~Every verse of his makes me say "I wish to God I'd said that": and his fox-hunting gave me a shock of astonishment that he was so different and so good to know.~ The last few chapters of this book might be, more properly, the prelude to the "Infantry Officer". T.E. Lawrence had copies of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man", "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" in his library at Clouds Hill in Dorset; "Sherston's Progress" was published after his death. LCCN: 6712926 #24805 SIEGFRIED SASSOON DIARIES 1915-1918; London, Faber and Faber 1983: FIRST EDITION $187.00 IN DUSTJACKET, small 8vo, green boards, gilt, 288pp, frontispiece, biographical table, index, AS NEW/AS NEW. ** Siegfried Sassoon was almost 28 when he enlisted on 3 August 1914. It was the terrible impact of the Western Front that turned him from a versifier into a poet. These diaries, written in tiny notebooks, often by the light of a candle in dug-out or billet, provided the material for "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man", "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" and "Sherston's Progress". Here are raw, immediate reports on events as they happened and included are many poems which Sassoon eventually thought worthy of publication only in a periodical or not at all. They form an unforgettable picture of an appalling time by one of its greatest recorders. Many entries about Robert Graves and two about T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0939a] {UK STOCK} #29958 SIEGFRIED SASSOON DIARIES 1915-1918; London, Faber and Faber 1983: FIRST EDITION $125.00 IN DUSTJACKET (price clipped), small 8vo, green boards, gilt, 288pp, frontis photo of Sassoon, introduction, biographical table, index, FINE/FINE. ** Siegfried Sassoon was almost 28 when he enlisted on 3 August 1914. Till then, after education at Marlborough and Clare College, Cambridge, he had lived at home, hunting and playing cricket in Kent and Sussex, and writing agreeably derivative poems which he had privately printed in very small editions. It was the terrible impact of the Western Front that turned him from a versifier into a poet. These diaries, written in tiny notebooks, sometimes in pencil, often by the light of a solitary candle in dug-out or billet, provided the material for his first three prose books, "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man", "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" and "Sherston's Progress" -- books which, along with his war poems, established his fame. The correspondence between the diaries and the published books is a close one; but in the books a thin veil of fiction is drawn over the events described - names are altered, events heightened. Here, instead, are raw, immediate reports on events as they happened; and included in the diaries are many poems which Sassoon eventually thought worthy of publication only in a periodical or not at all. They form an unforgettable picture of an appalling time by one of its greatest recorders.~ Many entries about Robert Graves and two about T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0939a] #29353 SIEGFRIED'S JOURNEY 1916-1920; NY, The Viking Press (c.1945) 1946: FIRST EDITION $45.00 IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, green linen with paper spine label, 338pp, dj moderately soiled with edgewear including small pieces missing from bottom left of rear panel and bottom right of spine, else VERY GOOD+/GOOD. ** ~Near the beginning of this mellow and gently humorous memoir the author remarks: "The War brought me to a deepened consciousness of peace-time values and enjoyments and a new determination to get the best out of life wherever I happened to be." In his admirable prose he conveys to the reader this sense of heightened appreciation of his own experiences and surroundings, beginning when he was invalided home in 1915 after 16 months on the Front, and ending just after his American lecture tour in 1920. These were not easy days for the soldier-poet, because he was then publicly raising his voice against war, an attitude far from popular. As his readers know, Mr. Sassoon has a sensitive feeling for people and an equally sensitive manner of writing about them. Since it has been his good fortune to know many of the great men in English literature, we find here memorable portraits of [John] Galsworthy, [Robert] Bridges, [John] Masefield, the Sitwells [Edith & Robert], T.E. Lawrence, and many others. There is a particularly notable treatment of [Thomas] Hardy; a story about Wilfred Owen which no one except Sassoon could ever tell, for Sassoon knew and understood him both as human being and poet. In America he met, among others, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Vachel Lindsay.~ By the author of "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man" (1928), "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" (1930), etc. References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0941] ** Scheyer, Amram #11924 LAURENS HAMERED BAMIDBAR UL'ACHARAV; Israel, v'Hotsa'at Sheba 1972: FIRST EDITION, $85.00 21.2 x 13.6cm, yellow boards lettered in black, 133pp + bibliography & index, b&w photos, moderate soil to covers with an edge fray or two, small rubber stamp on half-title & title-page, else GOOD/not issued in dustjacket. ** First Israeli Edition. I'm told the title in English is "The Revolt in the Desert and Afterwards". The book concentrates on T.E. Lawrence and his attitude towards the Zionist aspirations in Palestine including his contacts with the members of the Nili spy ring. By the author of "Shelomoh ibn Gevirol" (1968), "Amram. Ruhaniyim: o mered ha-Frantsiskenim" (1970), and "Kolonel Shtaufenberg" (1971). Text in Hebrew. [O'Brien E329] ** Shankland, Virginia [Lawrence, T.E.] #28033 T.E. LAWRENCE ("Lawrence of Arabia") (1888-1935); Middlesex (England), Brook Bond $25.00 Tea, n.d.: approx. 2.5" x 1.5", card stock, color illustration by Angus McBride (front), biographical sketch by Virginia Shankland (back), AS NEW. ** No. 37 of 50 picture cards issued by the Brook Bond Tea company in their "Famous People" series. The front of the card is a color illustration of Lawrence in Arab headdress with camel riders in the background. The back of the card has a short biography. ** Shaw, George Bernard # 5288 THE APPLE CART. A Political Extravaganza; London, Constable & Co. 1930: FIRST $5.00 EDITION/69th Thousand [same year as 1st], 18.1 x 12.2cm, green cloth, gilt, 80pp, 25pp preface by GBS, minor foxing to endpapers, else NEAR FINE/no dustjacket. ** This play premiered on 19 Aug. 1929. T.E. Lawrence wrote to H.A. Ford on 18.iv.29: ~In August I may be in Malvern. They are doing G.B.S.'s new play there on Aug 19th, 21, 27 & 31, and Heartbreak House, a marvellous work of art, on 23, & 29, and I'd like to hear them.~ TE had a copy of the first edition in his library at Clouds Hill cottage in Dorset. #11311 THE APPLE CART. A Political Extravaganza; London, Constable 1930: FIRST EDITION, $25.00 12mo, beige cloth, gilt, 80pp, 25pp preface by GBS, minor foxing to endpapers, else NEAR FINE/no dustjacket. ** This play premiered on 19 Aug. 1929. T.E. Lawrence wrote to H.A. Ford on 18.iv.29: ~In August I may be in Malvern. They are doing G.B.S.'s new play there on Aug 19th, 21, 27 & 31, and Heartbreak House, a marvellous work of art, on 23, & 29, and I'd like to hear them.~ [David Garnett's "Letters of T.E. Lawrence" pp.650-1]. T.E. Lawrence had a copy of this edition in his library at Clouds Hill, Dorset. [UK STOCK] ** Shaw, [George] Bernard #28542 SAINT JOAN. A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue; NY, Brentano's MCMXXIV $15.00 (c.1924): FIRST EDITION, 12mo, dark green cloth with printed spine label, 163pp, top edge trimmed others uncut, Preface to Saint Joan: Joan the Original and Presumptuous (pp.v-lxxxiv), Epilogue (pp.140-163), cover moderately soiled, else VERY GOOD/no dustjacket. ** ~"Saint Joan" is, past all question, the greatest play of the greatest living dramatist. The universal appeal of the Joan of Arc legend has moved many biographers to interpretations of the Maid's life and, until now, Anatole France, Mark Twain, Andrew Lang and others, less great, each seemed, at times, to have captured the essence of the girl-mystic's personality. But, in the light of this new conception, this revelation of Bernard Shaw's, their works stand as nothing. "Saint Joan", the play, has already taken the theatre-going world by storm. Heywood Brown calls it, "the finest play of our time", in which opinion he is substantiated by practically every other critic of note. "Saint Joan", the  book, prefaced lengthily, rich with reason and with Shavian wit, cannot do less in the realm of literature. Is is inconceivable that anyone with a pretence to intelligence will fail to read "Saint Joan".~ T.E. Lawrence had the Constable 1924 edition in his library at Clouds Hill cottage in Dorset. GBS is said to have modelled his St. Joan on T.E. Lawrence. ** Shaw, George Bernard #13833 TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD, VILLAGE WOOING & ON THE ROCKS. Three Plays by George Bernard $65.00 Shaw; London, Constable 1934: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET (price clipped), small 8vo, maroon cloth, gilt, 274pp, first & last few leaves lightly foxed, dj aged darkened at spine, else VERY GOOD+/VERY GOOD. ** Contains: "Too True to Be Good: A Political Extravaganza" with a 22 page preface, "Village Wooing: A Comediettina for Two Voices" and "On The Rocks: A Political Comedy" with a 43 page preface. From the Preface of "Too True to Be Good": ~Somewow my play, "Too True To Be Good", has in performance excited an animosity and an enthusiasm which will hardly be accounted for by the printed text. Some of the spectators felt that the had had a divine revelation, and overlooked the fact that the eloquent gentleman through whose extremely active mouth they had received it was the most hopeless sort of scoundrel: that is, one whose scoundrelism consists in the absence of conscience rather than in any positive vices, and is masked by good looks and agreeable manners. ... My play is a story of three reckless young people who come into possession of, for the moment, unlimited riches, and set out to have a thoroughly good time with all the modern machinery of pleasure to aid them. The result is that they get nothing for their money but a multitude of worries and a maddening dissatisfaction.~ Typical of GBS humor the character of Pvt. Napoleon Alexander Trotsky Meek is T.E. Lawrence. TE had a copy of the this edition in his library at Clouds Hill cottage in Dorset along with 17 other works by George Bernard Shaw. [O'Brien F0960] ** Sheean, Vincent #24049 FAISAL. The King and His Kingdom; Tavistock (England), University Press of Arabia $55.00 1975: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, hardcover, 161pp, map (Kingdom of Arabia) as front endpapers, foreword, 25 b&w photos, index, map (of "The Arab World") as rear endpapers, head of spine slightly thumbed, dj spine sunfaded with minor edgewear including a 2cm closed tear to dj seam at top front fore-edge, else FINE/VERY GOOD+. ** ~No monarch and no country has been so suddenly thrown into the world's limelight in recent years as King Faisal and his country, Saudi Arabia. Yet until only a matter of years ago, Saudi Arabia remained largely unknown to the world outside. In 1973 in the aftermath of the second Middle East war Saudi Arabia emerged as a major world power and King Faisal became a leader of obvious world significance. In his own country, however, Faisal had already accomplished vast social changes and had seen his kingdom transformed from a desert state to a prosperous nation. The author's long experience of Saudi Arabia is revealed in the painstaking description of the development of a land of sand and rock, peopled with roaming Arabs. His understanding of the complex historical and political factors which led to the single independent state of Saudi Arabia is perhaps unique in the Western world. The rise of the Sa'ud family is traced from the time of Sa'ud the Great in the 18th century, the founder of the dynasty. We learn how the doctrines of Islam form the basis of the Sa'udi success story. This success, however, was not achieved without hardship. The near annihilation of the Arabs at the hands of the Turks in the early 19th century, the destruction of Dari'yah, the ancestral capital, the famous capture of Riyadh and the founding of the Kingdom by Abd el Aziz and his 40 followers, and the discover of oil in the new kingdom all form part of this history. Mr. Sheean writes with the confidence of personal knowledge. His vivid description of the King's state visit to the Sudan in 1966, which he accompanied, makes fascinating reading. So, too, does the account of the difficult days when Faisal took over the kingship from his brother, Sa'ud. The author's close knowledge of Faisal brings a familiar feeling of immediacy to this book and makes it of topical importance to all those who seek to understand the Arabian Peninsula.~ By the author of "An American Among the Riffi" (1926), "The New Persia" (1927), "Not Peace But a Sword" (1939), "Thomas Jefferson: Father of Democracy" (1953). "Mahatma Gandhi: A Great Life in Brief" (1954), "Nehru: The Years of Power" (1960), etc. References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0963a] ISBN: 0904066002 ** Shenfield, Margaret #18619 BERNARD SHAW; (Paris), Hachette, 1967: cloth boards, 23.5 x 18.5cm, 144pp, b&w $55.00 photos in text (one or two on almost each page), chronology, few small and very slight stains to front board, else FINE/no dustjacket. ** A biography. French text by M. Matignon. References to T.E. Lawrence. Text in French. ["F" Item / Not in O'Brien] {BELGIAN STOCK} ** Shepherd, Rose. [Lawrence, T.E.] #22176 "LIVING DANGEROUSLY"; "The Sunday Times" (Television Section 9) 12 April 1992: 34 $16.00 x 27.3cm, VERY GOOD+. ** Full page coloured photograph on front page of Ralph Fiennes playing T.E. Lawrence in the film drama, "Living Dangerously" and on page 6 a Profile - "Rising star Ralph Fiennes talks to Rose Shepherd about playing the hero." [O'Brien H1642] {UK STOCK} ** Sherwood, John [Flecker, James Elroy] #16687 NO GOLDEN JOURNEY. A Biography of James Elroy Flecker; London, Heinemann 1973: $78.00 FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, brown cloth, gilt, 238pp, foreword, 13 b&w photos, select bibliography, index, FINE/VERY GOOD. ** ~James Elroy Flecker was born in 1884 and died of consumption in 1915. He is chiefly memorable for a few dozen outstanding lyric poems, notably "The Golden Journey to Samarkand", and for his oriental play "Hassan". The early pressures of his home and the late-Victorian public-school system branded him in him own eyes as inadequate and guilty and sowed the seeds of his later masochism. Though half of him struggled to be an English gentleman, a restless streak in his heredity made him a spendthrift, passionate, luxury-loving poet with an eager response to the garish colour and life of the near East. John Sherwood is Flecker's nephew. He has drawn upon a wealth of letters and family papers to reconstruct a vivid picture of a fascinating, complex personality. In addition to Flecker's lifelong wrestling match with his parents, the story embraces his relationship at Oxford with a fellow undergraduate whose unpublished poetry throws light on his own; his years at Cambridge on the fringes of what was later to be the Bloomsbury Group; the involvement with three women at once which led him to write a play on Don Juan; his wanderings as a British Consular official in the Turkish Empire and his marriage to a Greek poetess; and finally his last illness amid the Swiss snows.~ Flecker was a friend of T.E. Lawrence from December 1911 until his death in January 1915. They had similar interests through poetry and the Middle Eastern intelligence. By the author of "Hour of the Hyenas" (1979), "Death at the BBC" (1983), "Green Trigger Fingers" (1984), "Bones Gather No Moss" (1994), etc. References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0968] {UK STOCK} ISBN: 0434695351 #24322 NO GOLDEN JOURNEY. A Biography of James Elroy Flecker; London, Heinemann 1973: $55.00 FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, brown cloth, gilt, 238pp, foreword, 13 b&w photos, select bibliography, index, NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. ** ~James Elroy Flecker was born in 1884 and died of consumption in 1915. He is chiefly memorable for a few dozen outstanding lyric poems, notably "The Golden Journey to Samarkand", and for his oriental play "Hassan". The early pressures of his home and the late-Victorian public-school system branded him in him own eyes as inadequate and guilty and sowed the seeds of his later masochism. Though half of him struggled to be an English gentleman, a restless streak in his heredity made him a spendthrift, passionate, luxury-loving poet with an eager response to the garish colour and life of the near East. John Sherwood is Flecker's nephew. He has drawn upon a wealth of letters and family papers to reconstruct a vivid picture of a fascinating, complex personality. In addition to Flecker's lifelong wrestling match with his parents, the story embraces his relationship at Oxford with a fellow undergraduate whose unpublished poetry throws light on his own; his years at Cambridge on the fringes of what was later to be the Bloomsbury Group; the involvement with three women at once which led him to write a play on Don Juan; his wanderings as a British Consular official in the Turkish Empire and his marriage to a Greek poetess; and finally his last illness amid the Swiss snows.~ Flecker was a friend of T.E. Lawrence from December 1911 until his death in January 1915. They had similar interests through poetry and the Middle Eastern intelligence. By the author of "Hour of the Hyenas" (1979), "Death at the BBC" (1983), "Green Trigger Fingers" (1984), "Bones Gather No Moss" (1994), etc. References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0968] ISBN: 0434695351 #24347 NO GOLDEN JOURNEY. A Biography of James Elroy Flecker; London, Heinemann 1973: $40.00 FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, brown cloth, gilt, 238pp, foreword, 13 b&w photos, select bibliography, index, front board slightly warped, dj moderately rubbed & soiled with two short closed tear (tape repaired on verso) to top edge, else VERY GOOD/GOOD. ** ~James Elroy Flecker was born in 1884 and died of consumption in 1915. He is chiefly memorable for a few dozen outstanding lyric poems, notably "The Golden Journey to Samarkand", and for his oriental play "Hassan". The early pressures of his home and the late-Victorian public-school system branded him in him own eyes as inadequate and guilty and sowed the seeds of his later masochism. Though half of him struggled to be an English gentleman, a restless streak in his heredity made him a spendthrift, passionate, luxury-loving poet with an eager response to the garish colour and life of the near East. John Sherwood is Flecker's nephew. He has drawn upon a wealth of letters and family papers to reconstruct a vivid picture of a fascinating, complex personality. In addition to Flecker's lifelong wrestling match with his parents, the story embraces his relationship at Oxford with a fellow undergraduate whose unpublished poetry throws light on his own; his years at Cambridge on the fringes of what was later to be the Bloomsbury Group; the involvement with three women at once which led him to write a play on Don Juan; his wanderings as a British Consular official in the Turkish Empire and his marriage to a Greek poetess; and finally his last illness amid the Swiss snows.~ Flecker was a friend of T.E. Lawrence from December 1911 until his death in January 1915. They had similar interests through poetry and the Middle Eastern intelligence. By the author of "Hour of the Hyenas" (1979), "Death at the BBC" (1983), "Green Trigger Fingers" (1984), "Bones Gather No Moss" (1994), etc. References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0968] ISBN: 0434695351 ** Silver, Alain & Ursini, James #12854 DAVID LEAN AND HIS FILMS; London, Leslie Frewin 1974: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, $45.00 large 8vo, maroon boards, 255pp, introduction, numerous b&w photos, Appendix: Bio-Filmography, Appendix: Select Bibliography, index, corners slightly bumped, else FINE/FINE. ** ~This highly informative and scholarly book is the fist attempt to draw a detailed portrait of David Lean, the master film maker, as mirrored in the body of his fine motion pictures and his accomplished professional methods. It is also an attempt to elucidate the thematic and expressive values of Lean's individual films, first as unique and self-sustaining works of considerable merit and, second, as they relate to each other and constitute a collective statement of the director's "world-view". As many of Lean's films -- notably "Brief Encounter", "Great Expectations", "Oliver Twist", "The Bridge Over The River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago" and "Ryan's Daughter" -- have become "classics" in the accepted sense of having survived their first years of release and being now the subject of frequent revivals and re-issues. This important book -- the first full and in-depth study of Lean's work -- includes the first detailed filmography of his work ever compiled and a selected bibliography. It is illustrated with a wide variety of photographs many from the films themselves, as well as interesting "off-set" shots of the director's work.~ By the authors of "The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1993), "What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?: His Life And His Films" (1995), "Film Noir Reader" (1996), "The Noir Style" (1999), "The Horror Film Reader" (2000), etc. Chapter 9 "Lawrence of Arabia (1962)" [pp.161-82] . References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0972] ISBN: 0856320951 ** Silverman, Stephen M. #13085 DAVID LEAN; NY, Harry N. Abrams 1989: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 4to, green $60.00 cloth, gilt, 208pp, author's foreword, introduction by Katherine Hepburn, Beginnings, 118 b&w and 50 color photos [including film stills and archival photos never before published], postscript, filmography, Academy Awards, selected bibliography, photograph credits, index, AS NEW/AS NEW. ** ~"David Lean" is a lively compendium about the 60-year career of one of the greatest movie makers of all time -- and consequently, about the British and American film industries. For the first time, this normally reticent director of such classics as "Brief Encounter", "Great Expectations", "Summertime","The Bridge on the River Kwai", and the magnificent epics "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" has given his cooperation to a project documenting his life and work, and the result is a book as spectacular as his critically acclaimed films. Author Stephen Silverman spent the better part of a year meeting with Sir David Lean to secure firsthand information for this book. An intensely private man, Lean opened up to Silverman and shared with him the story of his life, from his Quaker upbringing, through his decade as Britain's star film editor, to the present day, when the reputation for perfection he gained through the series of intelligent, literate films he began directing in the 1940s has reached its zenith with the recent re-release of "Lawrence of Arabia". Lean's films have collected an unprecedented 27 Academy Awards~ By the author of "Public Spectacles" (1981). "The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox" (1988), "Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies" (1996), "Funny Ladies: The Women Who Make Us Laugh" (1999), "Movie Mutts : Hollywood Goes to the Dogs" (2001), etc. Chapter "Sam Speigel II: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)" [pp.126-49] with 10 b&w and 16 color photos. References to T.E. Lawrence. [O'Brien F0973b] ISBN: 0810935503 ** Simmons, James C. #20408 PASSIONATE PILGRIMS. English Travelers to the World of the Desert Arabs; NY, $40.00 William Morrow 1987: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, cloth & boards, gilt, 399pp, Prologue: "Send Us a Lurens!", 18 b&w photos & illus., map, Epilogue: A Ford Outside Every Tent: The Death of the Bedouin Culture, notes, selected bibliography, index, FINE/FINE. ** ~Arabia was a magnet that drew many English adventurers of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries to its wild lands. Here are the true legends of those men and women who, under the spell of a passionate enchantment, lived and loved among the nomadic tribes of the Arabian desert. They range from the British soldiers who fought Napoleon in Egypt to the World War I hero T.E. Lawrence. The experience of these extraordinary voyages shocked the contemporaries of their day. Even now their stories have the power to startle, so exotic are the adventures, so fierce are the loves. Readers can travel with the explorers, empire builders, and eccentrics who had one thing in common: an obsessive, lifelong involvement with Arabia while it was still the land of romance and dreams.~ Travelers the likes of Napolean, Lady Hester Stanhope, A.W. Kinglake, Sir Richard Burton, Father William Palgrave, Lady Jane Digby el Mesrab, Sir Willfred Scawen Blunt & Lady Anne Blunt, Charles M. Doughty and T.E. Lawrence. A chapter is devoted to each. By the author of "The Novelist as Historian" (1973), "Americans: The View From Abroad" (1990), "The Big Book of Adventure Travel" (1990), "Castaway In Paradise" (1993), "Star-Spangled Eden" (2000), etc. [O'Brien F0973d] ISBN: 0688065597 ** Sims, Reginald [Lawrence, T.E.] #24297 THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF T.E. LAWRENCE; West Yorkshire (England), The Fleece $25.00 Press 1994: 27.1 x 13.2cm, single sheet printed on one side only, AS NEW. ** ADVERTISING FLYER / PROSPECTUS: 300 copies, about 72 pages, printed on Mellotex paper, of which 30 copies will be bound in full goatskin with a set of the portraits housed separately, in a solander box, price 335 Pounds (325 Pounds before publication). 270 copies will be bound in airforce blue cloth, price 172 Pounds (64 Pounds before publication). The Fleece Press, 1 Grey Gables, Netherton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Please -- no money yet!~ [O'Brien E106c] ** Sinclair, Andrew #19230 SPIEGEL. The Man Behind the Pictures; Boston, Little, Brown 1987: FIRST EDITION IN $30.00 DUSTJACKET, black & red boards, gilt, 162pp, Trailer 26 b&w photos, selected bibliography, articles, newspaper references, index, FINE/FINE. ** ~The life story of the outstanding producer who made four of the greatest films of all time: "On the Waterfront", "The African Queen", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", and "Lawrence of Arabia". Sam Spiegel oversaw every aspect of his productions and was a central force in the European and American film world from the 1920s until his death in 1985. His private life, crowded with women and dominated by gambling, offers stark contrast to his public life, in which, with Spiegel as the catalyst, such figures as Greta Garbo, Harold Pinter, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlon Brando met and socialized with the British royal family, the Kennedys, and the Rainiers. Spiegel became an international celebrity to rival Onassis as he and various illustrious companions cruised the world on his yacht. Spiegel's early days were spent as an illegal immigrant, passing bad checks and fighting for acceptance. But as Budd Shulberg later observed of Spiegel's film career, "If anyone knew how to ride out a loser, it was S.P. Eagle." Searching interviews with friends, foes, and colleagues, and his own personal knowledge of Spiegel, have enabled Andrew Sinclair to create this exceptionally powerful portrait.~ By the author of "Jack: A Biography of Jack London" (1977), "John Ford" (1979), "Corsair: The Life of J. Pierpont Morgan" (1981), "Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times" (1993), "Che Guevara" (1998), "Dylan the bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas" (1999), etc. [O'Brien F0973g] ISBN: 0316792365 ** Singer, Kurt (ed.) #25167 THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPY STORIES; London, Brown Watson Ltd. / Digit Books 1954: $40.00 FIRST EDITION, small 12mo, paperback, 160pp, some age darkening to text, wrappers lightly soiled and moderately rubbed, else GOOD. ** CONTENTS: "The Spy School in Leningrad" by Jan Valtin, "Belgrade" by Eric Ambler, "The Executioner" by Hilda Jung, "The Man Who Did Business With Himmler" by Edwin Mueller, "The Traitor" by W. Somerset Maugham, "I Was A Red Spy In Korea" by Serge Molonkev, "A Man's Foes" by Pearl S. Buck, "The Informer" by Joseph Conrad, "The Dark Invader" by Franz von Rintelen, "Code No. 2" by Edgar Wallace, and "Blowing Up A Train" by T.E. Lawrence. ~Himself the writer of half a dozen books on spies and traitors, this subject has so fascinated him that it has become his hobby, and out of his vast private collection of spy stories, both fact and fiction, he has selected those that he considers the best for inclusion in this book. The heights and depths, the noble and the sordid, the infinite variety of human emotions that motivate the spy -- all are explored by distinguished story tellers and the reader who loves to lose himself in a good spy story will find here all the excitement and thrills, the glamour and the danger, which epitomize the act of espionage.~ Kurt Singer wrote biographies of Ernest Hemingway, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Mata Hari, etc. and numerous books on spies, traitors, espionage, etc. [Paperback Edition of O'Brien D0024] ** Slade, Gurney [Bartlett, Stephen] #18174 IN LAWRENCE'S BODYGUARD; NY, Frederick A. Stokes 1930 (c.1930): FIRST EDITION, $65.00 18.7 x 12.7cm, blue cloth, 267pp, 4 b&w illustrations by William Siegel, endpaper maps, spine slightly age darkened, else NEAR FINE/no dustjacket. ** Gurney Slade was a pseudonym of Stephen Bartlett. This is his first of three books on T.E. Lawrence followed by "Led by Lawrence" (1934) and "Lawrence in the Blue" (1936). Juvenile fiction about what it would be like to be in TE's bodyguard. From the author's PREFACE: ~By his exploits in Arabia Lawrence has delivered himself into the hands of fiction-writers for all time, and by weaving a few of the incidents of his campaign into the plot of a boys' book, I am only one of the forerunners of a might horde. My hope is that this book of mine may serve as a finger-post to "grown-up" non-fictional works, such as Lawrence's own "Revolt in the Desert" and Robert Grave's fascinating volume, "Lawrence and The Arabs," to both of which I am indebted.~ From CHAPTER XIV: ~Two hours after Lord Carstanley's aeroplane had droned out of sight, into the golden haze to the west, Irwin and Fahd were enrolled as members of Lawrence's bodyguard. They had been vouched for by the high-placed, and their own reputations and appearance backed the guarantee; also the army was upon the eve of marching on what promised to be the last and most triumphant phase of the desert warfare. The bodyguard, fresh from a month's feasting with Nuri Said's Rualla in the Sirhan, were full of riotous spirits and overjoyed at the prospect of riding with Lawrence again.~ By the author of "Lovers and Luggers" (1928) as Gurney Slade and "A Pearl for My Lady: A Novel" (1929) and "Captain Quid" (1937) as Stephen Bartlett. [O'Brien E050] #18942 IN LAWRENCE'S BODYGUARD; NY, Frederick A. Stokes 1930 (c.1930): FIRST EDITION, $55.00 18.7 x 12.7cm, blue cloth, 267pp, 4 b&w illustrations by William Siegel, spine lettering flecked, frontis pulled away from title-page (but still intact), else VERY GOOD/no dustjacket. ** Gurney Slade was a pseudonym of Stephen Bartlett. This is his first of three books on T.E. Lawrence followed by "Led by Lawrence" (1934) and "Lawrence in the Blue" (1936). Juvenile fiction about what it would be like to be in TE's bodyguard. From the author's PREFACE: ~By his exploits in Arabia Lawrence has delivered himself into the hands of fiction-writers for all time, and by weaving a few of the incidents of his campaign into the plot of a boys' book, I am only one of the forerunners of a might horde. My hope is that this book of mine may serve as a finger-post to "grown-up" non-fictional works, such as Lawrence's own "Revolt in the Desert" and Robert Grave's fascinating volume, "Lawrence and The Arabs," to both of which I am indebted.~ From CHAPTER XIV: ~Two hours after Lord Carstanley's aeroplane had droned out of sight, into the golden haze to the west, Irwin and Fahd were enrolled as members of Lawrence's bodyguard. They had been vouched for by the high-placed, and their own reputations and appearance backed the guarantee; also the army was upon the eve of marching on what promised to be the last and most triumphant phase of the desert warfare. The bodyguard, fresh from a month's feasting with Nuri Said's Rualla in the Sirhan, were full of riotous spirits and overjoyed at the prospect of riding with Lawrence again.~ By the author of "Lovers and Luggers" (1928) as Gurney Slade and "A Pearl for My Lady: A Novel" (1929) and "Captain Quid" (1937) as Stephen Bartlett. [O'Brien E050] #17515 LED BY LAWRENCE; London, Frederick Warne (c.1934): FIRST EDITION, 19.4 x 13cm, $40.00 green cloth lettered & ruled in black, 288pp, frontis (color illustration), preface, glossary, spine faded & spotted, covers unevenly faded, interior foxed (more so to first and last few leaves), cloth rubbed, else FAIR/no dustjacket.** Gurney Slade was a pseudonym of Stephen Bartlett. This is the second of Slade's three juvenile book on T.E. Lawrence; preceded by "In Lawrence's Bodyguard" (1930) and followed by "Lawrence in the Blue" (1936). From the Preface: ~In a previous book about Arabia I was handicapped by a disinclination to put words into the mouth of a living man, and one of the criticisms levelled against the book was that there was "not enough Lawrence in it." In the present volume I have more or less taken the bit between my teeth, and herein he talks and acts as one of the principal characters. In these pages fiction is often grafted on to fact; but when dealing with Lawrence the wildest fiction might well be true. As I write Lawrence is in the prime of his manhood, alert and vigorous as ever, and fit, one would imagine, to write a classic or clear a continent -- and with his sense of humour still intact. No doubt he extracts some satisfaction from having, shall we say, kicked the Turks out of Arabia, but he has smilingly refused to step on the pedestal prepared for him by his admirers. He remains Lawrence, and therein lies the fascination. Perhaps some day a casual turning of these pages may call a twinkle into his genial blue-gray eyes. If that should happen, I shall indeed have killed two birds with one stone.~ By the author of "Lovers and Luggers" (1928) as Gurney Slade and "A Pearl for My Lady: A Novel" (1929) and "Captain Quid" (1937) as Stephen Bartlett. [O'Brien E057 Notes] #23308 LED BY LAWRENCE; London, Frederick Warne (c.1934): FIRST EDITION, 19.4 x 13cm, $75.00 orange cloth lettered & ruled in black, 288pp, frontis (color illustration), preface, glossary, VERY GOOD/no dustjacket. ** Gurney Slade was a pseudonym of Stephen Bartlett. This is the second of Slade's three juvenile book on T.E. Lawrence; preceded by "In Lawrence's Bodyguard" (1930) and followed by "Lawrence in the Blue" (1936). From the Preface: ~In a previous book about Arabia I was handicapped by a disinclination to put words into the mouth of a living man, and one of the criticisms levelled against the book was that there was "not enough Lawrence in it." In the present volume I have more or less taken the bit between my teeth, and herein he talks and acts as one of the principal characters. In these pages fiction is often grafted on to fact; but when dealing with Lawrence the wildest fiction might well be true. As I write Lawrence is in the prime of his manhood, alert and vigorous as ever, and fit, one would imagine, to write a classic or clear a continent -- and with his sense of humour still intact. No doubt he extracts some satisfaction from having, shall we say, kicked the Turks out of Arabia, but he has smilingly refused to step on the pedestal prepared for him by his admirers. He remains Lawrence, and therein lies the fascination. Perhaps some day a casual turning of these pages may call a twinkle into his genial blue-gray eyes. If that should happen, I shall indeed have killed two birds with one stone.~ By the author of "Lovers and Luggers" (1928) as Gurney Slade and "A Pearl for My Lady: A Novel" (1929) and "Captain Quid" (1937) as Stephen Bartlett. [O'Brien E057 Notes / Binding Color Variant] ** Smith, Clare Sydney #28945 THE GOLDEN REIGN. The Story of My Friendship with "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA"; London, $65.00 Cassell 1978: FIRST EDITION (thus) IN DUSTJACKET (price clipped), small 8vo, black boards, gilt, 190pp, Foreword by Mrs. S. Lawrence (TE's mother), 3 reproductions of TE letters, index, mostly black dj lightly rubbed, else FINE/NEAR FINE. ** Third English Edition. From the FOREWORD: ~Much has been written about my son Ned, but no really clear and intimate picture of his life and work in the Royal Air Force has been presented. This book fills the gap, and no one else but Mrs. Sydney Smith could have given such a delightful and detailed account of his period of his life. "The Golden Reign" was his own name for the happy time he spent at R.A.F. Flying-Boat Station, Mount Batten, under the command of the author's husband. That it was a time of complete contentment can be appreciated by the many letters he wrote while he was there, some of which are contained in this book. Ned was on terms of great friendship with the Sydney Smiths and spent much of his leisure hours with them, sharing their home-life and family doings, listening to music in their house, amusingly christened by him "The Fisherman's Arms", or taking the author with him when he explored the beautiful rivers around Plymouth in his speed-boat. Apart from his spare time he found in his work as personal clerk, and even more in his designing and improving of speedboats, a new interest and outlet for his inventive capabilities under a Commanding Officer who was determined not to let his energies and talents go to waste. This led to a perfect combination and partnership of the two men which was, I know, extremely precious to Ned. Those years at Mount Batten went past all too quickly and the "dissolution of partnership" (again Ned's term) was a sad moment for all three men. But their friendship remained strong to the end.~ Originally published in 1940. [O'Brien E140] ISBN: 0304300381 #29022 THE GOLDEN REIGN. The Story of My Friendship with "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA"; London, $65.00 Cassell 1978: FIRST EDITION (thus) IN DUSTJACKET, small 8vo, black boards, gilt, 190pp, Foreword by Mrs. S. Lawrence (TE's mother), 3 reproductions of TE letters, index, mostly black dj lightly rubbed, else FINE/NEAR FINE. ** Third English Edition. From the FOREWORD: ~Much has been written about my son Ned, but no really clear and intimate picture of his life and work in the Royal Air Force has been presented. This book fills the gap, and no one else but Mrs. Sydney Smith could have given such a delightful and detailed account of his period of his life. "The Golden Reign" was his own name for the happy time he spent at R.A.F. Flying-Boat Station, Mount Batten, under the command of the author's husband. That it was a time of complete contentment can be appreciated by the many letters he wrote while he was there, some of which are contained in this book. Ned was on terms of great friendship with the Sydney Smiths and spent much of his leisure hours with them, sharing their home-life and family doings, listening to music in their house, amusingly christened by him "The Fisherman's Arms", or taking the author with him when he explored the beautiful rivers around Plymouth in his speed-boat. Apart from his spare time he found in his work as personal clerk, and even more in his designing and improving of speedboats, a new interest and outlet for his inventive capabilities under a Commanding Officer who was determined not to let his energies and talents go to waste. This led to a perfect combination and partnership of the two men which was, I know, extremely precious to Ned. Those years at Mount Batten went past all too quickly and the "dissolution of partnership" (again Ned's term) was a sad moment for all three men. But their friendship remained strong to the end.~ Originally published in 1940. [O'Brien E140] ISBN: 0304300381 #29360 THE GOLDEN REIGN. The Story of My Friendship with "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA"; England, $250.00 The Fleece Press 2004: FIRST EDITION (thus), oblong 8vo, dark blue cloth with TES blind-stamped on upper board and letterpress-printed paper label on spine, 185pp, frontis photo, New Introduction by MALCOLM BROWN, Foreword by Mrs. S. Lawrence (mother of T.E. Lawrence), 58 b&w photos (mostly full page), NEW/no dustjacket as issued. ** ONE OF AN EDITION OF 500 UNNUMBERED COPIES (400 for sale). A Limited Edition reprint of the First English Edition. "The Golden Reign" was published in 1940 with 25 indifferently printed photographs, including some of Lawrence and Clare Sydney Smith in the "Biscuit", and it is fortunate that vintage prints survive; this new edition will include all those that can be traced, as well as a number of others. Because most have been copied directly from vintage prints it means the highest quality images will be included in this book, in contrast to the rather indifferent quality of those in the 1940 book, which was the only one of three editions to be so illustrated. ~Trying to escape his own fame, T.E. Lawrence served under the author's husband at Flying Boat Station Mount Batten. They became close friends. This "golden reign" came after tumultuous events during Lawrence's involvement in with the Arab cause. As he saw them being increasingly used as a political weapon, and tired, too, of the constant stories, both true and false, which followed his every move, he sought refuge and anonymity as Aircraftman Shaw. Clare Sydney Smith narrates, in loving detail, little-known aspects of Lawrence's character. His love of music and the classics and, above all, his intense self-sufficiency were very different from the daring adventurer the world knew.~ Laid in is a bookmark INSCRIBED BY MALCOLM BROWN. Laid in is a handwritten note from Simon Lawrence (the publisher) thanking author HAROLD ORLANS the customer who bought this book. [O'Brien E140b ISBN: 0948375760 ** Smith-Nash, Susan #25721 T.E. LAWRENCE. A Veil in the Sand; White Plains (NY), Room Press 1994: FIRST $25.00 EDITION/Second Printing, 21.2 x 13.8cm, gray-blue stiff paper wraps lettered & decorated in black, 16pp, suggested reading list, AS NEW. ** A book of poetry. Contents: "Barchan", "On Strata", "Scourge Lawrence Arabia Flesh", "Geology and the Hero's Body" and "Sanctuary Mine". The Second Printing does not contain the boxes with graphic lettering & designs that were in the First Printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/POET. [O'Brien E466] ** Southworth, Samuel E. (ed.) #24595 GREAT RAIDS IN HISTORY. From Drake to Desert One; NY, Sarpedon 1997: FIRST EDITION $35.00 IN DUSTJACKET, 8vo, black boards, 338pp, preface, introduction, b&w photos & illus., bibliography, index, AS NEW/AS NEW. ** ~In and among the titanic battles of history, "politics by other means" has been conducted with small actions by elite troops in pursuit of limited goals -- operations best described as "raids". One of the oldest tactics of warfare, the raid has by now become one of the most sophisticated, and, in today's fragmented world, may well comprise the primary method through which future conflicts will be fought. "Great Raids in History" examines small-unit actions from over the course of the past four centuries, illuminating examples of reckless bravery, horrific combat and dynamic leadership -- all cases where a courageous few chose to attack into enemy territory, accepting the risk of their own annihilation. This book by modern historians describes raids, both successful and not, beginning with the Elizabethan era and continuing to the present. CONTAINS: "The Canadians at Dieppe" by Charles Whiting, "Mosby at Fairfax Court House" by Brent Nosworthy, "With Americans at Son Tay" by Michael F. Dilley, "The Cossacks at Hamburg" by George F. Nafziger, "The Israelis at Green Island" by Steven Hartov, "Morgan Across the Ohio" by Steven Smith,  "Belgian Paratroopers in the Congo" Robert Krott, "Delta Force at Desert One" by Richard Kiper, "Drake at Cadiz" by Warde G. Dudley, "The French and Indians at