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Allenby, General Edmund H. H. [Signed].
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby, G. C. B., G. C. M. G.
Publisher: His Majesty’s Stationery Force, London;
Date of Publication: 1919
Stock Code: 12839
Second Edition. Quarto. pp., 113. Publisher’s blue quarter cloth and buff paper boards. Author portrait frontispiece and 56 full-page chromolithographic maps with facing commentary pages. Title printed to upper cover, imprint to lower cover. With Allenby’s signature loosely inserted. Clipping of poem ‘The Red-House Garden. Wadi Ghuzee, before Gaza, Palestine, Summer, 1917’ mounted to rear paste-down. Covers scuffed; corners rubbed; spine head rubbed. Ownership inscription of ‘R. J. Harrison 1919’ to front free endpaper. The two pieces to pp., 49-53 "Sherifian Co-operation in September" and "Story of the Arab Movement" are by T. E. Lawrence, comprising his first published accounts of the Arab Campaign. One of Lawrence’s scarcer contributions ornamented with Allenby’s signature.

£185.00