Item #129533 A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and published by 'The Palestine News'. T. E. LAWRENCE, Lieutenant-Colonel H. PIRIE-GORDON.
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and published by 'The Palestine News'
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and published by 'The Palestine News'
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and published by 'The Palestine News'

A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and published by 'The Palestine News'

London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1919 (second edition)/ 1919 (in Cairo).

Large quarto, [vi], 113 pages plus a frontispiece portrait of Allenby and 55 full-page colour maps (each with a facing page of explanatory text).

Quarter cloth and printed papered boards (with some loss to silverfish, mainly near the leading edges); endpapers offset; minimal silverfish damage to the endpapers and margins of the first and last few leaves; contemporary ink ownership signature of Miss V. McCullagh (who later donated the book to the Margaret Gardiner Cuthbertson Memorial Library at The Business and Professional Women's Club of Melbourne, according to the large bookplate on the pastedown); small later ownership label; a very good copy with a clear plastic cover taped in a few spots to the pastedowns.

One of 16,000 copies printed so that members of the EAF 'may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they played a part' (preface). The work is now mostly collected because of the few unattributed sections contributed by T.E. Lawrence ('Sherifian Co-operation in September', and 'Story of the Arab Movement', on the five pages facing maps 49-53). There is a partially erased pencilled note to this effect on the front flyleaf. There is also much on the Australian Light Horse and Camel Brigade actions, perhaps most famously the charge on Beersheba. Trigellis-Smith 258; O'Brien A011.

Item #129533

Price (AUD): $150.00