Jonathan Cape, London, 1938, 1^st.  Hard cover, 896 pages including Index.  Brown boards with gold lettering and design on spine; orange top-stain, bottom edge rough cut.  A bit of edge, corner and spine end wear; binding sound.  Dust jacket with price intact has edge and cover wear, age spotting and small losses; spine sunned; front of jacket detached along front spine edge.  Prior owner’s name and date inked on front paste-down, covered by inner flap fold; black & white frontis of Lawrence, Hogarth and Alan Dawnay at Cairo, fold-out maps, black & white photos and reproductions; a bit of age spotting on front and rear pastedowns and end papers, some age spotting along fore-edge.  Interior clean and unmarked.  Folded New York Times Book Review dated August 29, 1954 laid in.  ‘In this book the career of T. E. Lawrence from the time he was a schoolboy, interested in archaeology, until his death in 1935, is recorded almost entirely in his own words:  in his letters and in unpublished secret documents and official reports.’ (from front flap)