[Rarebooks] For Sale: Lawrence's "Wilderness of Zin."

[Norman Kane]

WOOLLEY, LEONARD & LAWRENCE, T. E.   THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN. WITH AN 
INTRODUCTION BY SIR FREDERIC KENYON AND A CHAPTER ON THE GREEK 
INSCRIPTIONS BY M. N. TOD.   N. Y.: Scribner's, 1936.  First US 
edition of this new edition of Lawrence's first book.  Sm. quarto, 
original fine buckram, a very good copy, without d.w.  Complete with 
40 plates (mostly from photos), 2 maps, and many 
text-illustrations.  (This archaeological expedition, mounted on the 
eve of WW 1, was a cover for mapping an area in the Middle East in 
which, as it turned out, fighting did occur between British/Arab forces
and the Ottoman Empire.)  $125.00       (Trade Discount  10 %.)


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