338171, TE (Lawrence of Arabia)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1963. Octavo, orange cloth, spine printed with black lettering, 128 pp. Light foxing on endpapers, faint localised water mark on top edge of text block, dust-jacket a little worn and torn without loss of text; otherwise a near-fine copy with a very good dust-jacket. First American edition, second printing. A close and considered analysis of T. E. Lawrence's inner life and personality by Buenos Aires writer Victoria Ocampo. Written by Ocampo in French in 1942, this English translation by David Garnett includes additional notes of the Spanish translation published in 1963, together with an introduction by Lawrence's brother Professor A. W. Lawrence, in which he states: "Victoria Ocampo has given the most profound and the best-balanced of all portraits of my brother." O'Brien, E154. Item #4856
Price (AUD): $150.00