Lawrence of Arabia; A Biographical Enquiry
by Aldington, Richard (Biography of Lawrence of Arabia; T.E. Lawrence.)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Collins 1955. (Hardcover) 448pp. Very good plus in good to very good dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Photographic frontispiece, genealogy, photographs, maps, notes, sources, index. The dust jacket is edgeworn has a large chip missing from the spine, smaller chip missing from the front panel. "The facts recorded of T.E. Lawrence's parentage and upbringing are scattered and fragmentary, and the task of tracking them down, and fitting them into some order, is complicated and delicate. More is involved than a conventional curiosity which biographers always have felt or feigned about the antecedents of famous men and women" - from Chapter One. Biography of Lawrence of Arabia & T.E. Lawrence. Time Period World War 1. Locale: Arabia; Egypt; Syria. (World War 1, Biography, Military History).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153272
- Title
- Lawrence of Arabia; A Biographical Enquiry
- Author
- Aldington, Richard (Biography of Lawrence of Arabia; T.E. Lawrence.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- World War 1, Biography, Military History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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