[LAWRENCE, T. E.] LOWELL THOMAS

8vo. Original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket. Jacket tanned and slightly worn, with some chipping to extremities. 

first edition, presentation copy inscribed by lowell in the year of publication on front fly-leaf ("Sep 22, 1924 | Dear Mr. Wickes | I am herewith sending my caravan | to your door. But I warn you to have a | well filled canteen at your elbow when | you start into the desert with me because | it's a long long trek to Oasis 'Page 408.' | Very cordially yours | Lowell Thomas.") The key book in the creation of the Lawrence myth.