SECTION A: Books written, co-written or translated by Robert Graves

A26 LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS [1927]

a. First edition:

Collation: [A]8 B–2E8 2F4, 228 leaves.

p.[i] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p.[ii] quotation (2 ll.) from Jeremiah; p.[1] title-page; p.[2] publication and printer’s notices; pp.3–4 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; pp.5–7 INTRODUCTION; p. [8] blank; p.[9] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p.[10] blank; pp. 11–437 text; pp.438–448 appendices; pp.449–454 INDEX. Illustrations face pp.[1], 48, 60, 72, 92, 118, 142, 156, 164, 178, 196, 212, 226, 254, 260, 274, 278, 298, 308, 326, 336, 342, 346, 358, 370, 386, 402, and 428.

20.0 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 3.0/3.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in tan buckram (O’Brien); H & W say mustard orange cloth; front blank; back blind-stamped with publisher’s emblem; spine stamped in gold: LAWRENCE | AND THE |ARABS | [four diamonds in diamond shape] | ROBERT | GRAVES | JONATHAN CAPE

Price: 7s. 6d. Number of copies: 60,000. Published in early November 1927 in white dust-jacket printed in black and blue-green. The publisher’s prospectus gives 17 November 1927 as date of publication.

Notes: This edition had four print runs from October through December of 1927 and the total of all these runs is the figure given above.

O’Brien (E030) reports variant colors of cloth bindings.

Many copies have an order blank for Doughty’s Arabia Deserta tipped in between pp.448 and 449. Some copies of the first impression are seen bound in reddish brown cloth which is thought to be a secondary binding.

Impressions: 2nd, November 1927; 3rd, November 1927 (in slick brown cloth); 4th, December 1927 (carries the date 1928).

Seven of the illustrations are by Eric Kennington.

A photograpic facsimile (in paper covers) of A26a was produced by Paragon House, New York, 1991.

This book has been translated into Czech, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

Reference: O’Brien, E030

A26b. First American edition (1928):

Collation: [1]–[26]8, 208 leaves.

pp.[i]–[ii] blank; p.[iii] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABIAN ADVENTURE | [publisher’s emblem]; p.[iv] quotation (2 ll.) from Jeremiah; [frontispiece, back blank, photograph of Kennington bust]; p.[v] title-page; p.[vi] copyright printer’s and edition notices; pp.[vii] – [viii] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; pp.[ix]–[xi] INTRODUCTION; p.[xii] blank; p. 1–400 text; pp.[401]–[404] blank. Illustrations are tipped in facing pp. 32, 56, 76, 96, 116, 132, 148, 164, 176, 184, 196, 216, 224, 236, 268, 284, 296, 300, 312, 324, 336, 352, 376.

21.8 × 14.7 cm. Bulk: 3.2/3.6 cm. White wove paper; top edge only trimmed and stained red. White wove endpapers; backs blank; inner sides contain maps in red and blue; front: THE ARAB AREA and THE RIDE TO AKABA; back: LAWRENCE’S RIDES and THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH. Bound in medium-brown cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: LAWRENCE | & THE | ARABIAN ADVENTURE | [man with lance on camel] | ROBERT | GRAVES | DOUBLEDAY DORAN

Price: $3.00. Number of copies: 20,000. Published 30 March 1928 in buff dust-jacket printed in red and blue.

Note: There was a second impression in 1928 which lacks the ‘FIRST EDITION” notice present on the verso of the title-page in the first impression.

A26c. Concise edition, Florin impression ([1934]):

Collation: [A]16 B–H16 I/I*88, 144 leaves.

p.[1] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS | [at lower right:] Florin Books; p.[2] publisher’s advertisement; p.[3] title-page; p. [4] publication, publisher’s and printer’s notices; p.[5] Note; p.[6] blank; p.[7] map; p.[8] blank; p.[9] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p.[10] blank; pp. 11–94 text; p.[95] map; pp.96–146 text; p.[147] map; pp.148–232 text; p.[233] map; pp.234–288 text. A 16 pp. gathering of publisher’s advertisements, on cheaper paper than the text, is sewn in at the end.

Price: 2s. Number of copies: 10,000. Published in March 1934 in white dust-jacket printed in black and red.

Notes: There were the following impressions: 2nd , April 1934 (5,000 copies); 3rd , February 1935 (5,000 copies); 4th, May 1935 (5,000 copies); 5th, May 1935 (5,000 copies); 6th, July 1935 (5,000 copies); 7th, September 1935 (5,000 copies); 8th, January 1936 (5,000 copies); 9th, September 1937 (5,000 copies); 10th, October 1939 (2,500 copies); and 11th, October 1940 (2,500 copies). A Life and Letters impression (see below) was published in May 1935 (2,000 copies) at 4s. 6d.; it was reissued in February 1937 (1,000 copies); this impression contains 4 maps and 8 illustrations.

A26c.1. Concise edition, Life and Letters series impression ([1935]):

Collation: [A]16 B-II6 X 10 , 154 leaves, pp. [1-10] 11-288 [20].

p. [1] THE LIFE & LETTERS | SERIES, VOLUME 71 | LAWRENCE AND | THE ARABS | [series device]; p. [2] [Life and Letters series announcement]; [frontispiece, back blank, photograph titled ‘T. E.’ ON ‘BOANERGES’, THE MOTOR-BICYCLE’]; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] impression notice, printer’s binder’s, papermaker’s credits; p. [5] Note; p. [6] blank; p. [7] List of Illustrations; p. [8] blank; p. [9] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS | L.A. [asterisk]; p. [10] map; pp. 11-288 text; with illustrations printed on coated paper inserted between pp. 28/29, 92/93, 170/171, 198/199, 236/237, 250/251, 282/283 and with pp. [95], [147], [233] being maps.

[Some copies have a catalogue following p. 288: pp. [1] A LIST OF BOOKS IN | THE LIFE AND LETTERS SERIES; p. [2] blank; pp. 3-18 advertisements; p. [19] printer’s notice; p. [20] blank.]

Price: 4s 6d. Number of copies: 2,000. Published May 1935 in a white dust-jacket printed in green. Volumes 63-66 in the Life and Letters series are advertised on the back flap and numbers 67-70 are advertised on the back panel. Lawrence and the Arabs is number 71 in the Life and Letters series and it is advertised on the front flap.

Note: There was a second impression in February 1937.

Reference: O’Brien E035.

A26d. Concise edition, children’s impression ([1935]):

ILLUSTRATIONS EDITED BY | ERIC KENNINGTON | JONATHAN CAPE THIRTY BEDFORD SQUARE | LONDON

Collation: [A]8 B–S8, 144 leaves.

p 11] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p.[2] blank; p.[31 title-page; p. [4] publication, publisher’s and printer’s notices; p. [5] Note; p. [6] blank; p.7 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; p.8 MAPS; p.[9] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p.[10] map; pp.11–94 text; p.[95] map; pp.96–146 text; p.[147] map; pp.148–232 text; p.[233] map; pp.234–288 text. Illustrations face pp.[3], 28, 36, 80, 92, 122, 134, 170, 186, 206, 228, 236, 242, 250, 278, 284.

19.9 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 2.9/3.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in red-orange cloth; front stamped in black open type: LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; back stamped with large publisher’s emblem in black; spine stamped in black open type: LAWRENCE | AND THE | ARABS | ROBERT | GRAVES | JONATHAN | CAPE

Price: 3s.6d. Number of copies: 3,000. Published in November 1935 in white dust-jacket printed in black and green.

Note: Impressions: 2nd, December 1935 (1,000 copies); 3rd, October 1936 (1,000 copies); 4th, March 1937 (1,000 copies).

A26d.1. German reader edition (in English) [1935]:

Collation: 1-58, 40 leaves, pp. [1] – [3] 4-80.

[frontispiece, back blank, photograph of Lawrence in Arab dress]; p. [1] title-page; p. [2] printers notice; pp. [3] 4-59 text; p. [60] note on Lawrence, Graves and the text; pp. [61] – 80 notes, with pp. [78]–[79] being maps and unnumbered. Plates precede p. [1] and follow p. 16.

19.0 × 12.2 cm. Bulk: 0.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in yellow paper covers printed in black. On front cover: Neusprachliche Lesebogen | [Oxford rule] Nr. 284 | [Oxford rule] | Robert Graves | Lawrence and the Arabs | [Oxford rule] | VELHAGEN & KLASING. The inner front cover is blank and the inner and outer back covers have publisher’s advertisements.

Note: O’Brien states that the issue date is on p. [2] along with the printer’s credit. In the copy examined there was no date.

Reference: O’Brien 040b

A26e. English school edition ([1940]):

Collation: [A]/A*8 8 B/B* – F/F*8 8, 96 leaves. p.[i] [5 ll. flush right:] [lamp with shade on table with book open underneath] The Heritage of Literature Series | [rule] | SECTION A, NO. 36 LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p.[ii] series advertisement; p.[iii] blank; p.[iv] cut of Lawrence; p. [v] title-page; p.[vi] publisher’s notices and printer’s notice; p.[vii] permission notice; p.[viii] map; pp.ix–xi PROLOGUE; p. [xii] blank; pp.1–8 text; p.[9] portrait of Feisal; p.[10] blank; pp. 11–46 text; p.[47] blank; p.[48] portrait of Auda; pp.49–178 text; p.l79 EPILOGUE; p.[180] blank.

16.3 × 10.9 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in dark yellow-olive cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: Lawrence | and the | Arabs | [series emblem, as p.[i]] | Longmans

Price: ls.6d. Number of copies unknown. Published 3 June 1940.

Note: This edition is number 36 in the Heritage of Literature Series, Section A.

A26f. First Canadian edition ([1941]):

Collation: [1]15 [2] –[8]16 [19]17, 144 1eaves.

p.[1] NELSON’S COLLEGIATE CLASSICS | LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p. [2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication history, copyright, printing notices; p.[5] Note by R. G.; p.[6] blank; p.[7] map; p.[8] blank; p.[9] NELSON’S COLLEGIATE CLASSICS | LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p.[10] blank; pp. 11–288 text, with maps on pp.[95], [147],and [233].

Price: Undetermined. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1941.

Notes: Impressions: 2nd, 1942; 3rd, 1946.

Copies of the first and second impressions have been seen in a variant binding which adds on the front cover, at bottom: [within black bar with orange showing through:] NELSON’S COLLEGIATE CLASSICS

A26g. Australian school edition ([1942]):

Collation: [A]16 B–D16 E18, 72 leaves. pp.[i] –[viii] as A26f; pp.[ix]–x PROLOGUE; pp.1–153 text; p. [154] EPILOGUE.

18.4 × 12.4 cm. Bulk: 1.1 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in tan cloth affixed to flexible paper covers; back blank; front printed in brown: Lawrence and | the Arabs | [lamp] | LONGMANS; spine: [from top to bottom:] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS [rule] LONGMANS

Price: 3s. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1942.

Notes: This edition was entirely set and printed in Australia by Brown, Prior, Anderson of Melbourne. The illustrations, which are integrated into the text, are by Evelyn Faulds.

A26h. Services edition, abridged [1943].

Collation: 96 leaves.

p. [1] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS; p. [2] list of books by Graves; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] publication, war economy standards, and printer’s notices; pp. 5-192 text.

18.1 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 1.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; white paper covers printed in tan and black, with portions of white showing through; front: [white letters showing through tan:] GUILD [overprinted in black with letters slanting upward to right:] Services | [band of white, upon which in black with letters slanting upward to right:] LAWRENCE AND | THE ARABS | Robert Graves | [white letters showing through tan:] BOOKS [overprinted in black with letters slanting upward to right:] Edition | [at bottom in black on white:] NON-FICTION BIOGRAPHY; back: printed in tan with band in white printed in black with letters slanting upward to left:] This edition is produced for the | SERVICES CENTRAL BOOK DEPOT | Finsbury Barracks, City Road, London E.C. | for circulation to the | FIGHTING FORCES OF THE ALLIED NATIONS | [at bottom in black on white:] THIS BOOK MUST NOT BE RESOLD; spine: [in black from top to bottom:] LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS ROBERT GRAVES [upright:] S46

Price: Distributed to members of the allied fighting forces. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1943.

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