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39 KUWAIT. The Truth About Kuwait. Part 1. Baghdad: Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1961 First and only edition, an uncommon ephemeral propaganda piece, published in two parts in English and Arabic, paving the way for the unrealized annexation of Kuwait by Iraq during the Kuwait Crisis of 1961. The Kuwait Crisis was sparked following the granting of independence to Kuwait by British. Following the British withdrawal, the Iraqi regime, headed by Brigadier Abd al-Karim Qasim, announced its refusal to recognize Kuwaiti independence, threatening to subsume the emirate into Iraq. This pamphlet was produced and distributed by the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make the case for the annexation of Kuwait by Iraq, describing the granting of independence as illegal and invalid. Octavo, 30 pp. Wire-stitched in the original printed wraps. Full-page colour map. A little rubbed and soiled on the wraps, staples a touch rusted, but overall very good. £650 [159067] 40 LAWRENCE, T. E. A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby. Cairo: produced by the First edition, first impression, more commonly found in buff paper wrappers, O’Brien commenting that only “a few copies” were bound in cloth, scarce in this state. This is a “collaborator’s copy”, bearing the name of Corporal E. W. Grater on the official compliments slip pasted to the front free endpaper, which is signed by the editor Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Pirie-Gordon. Grater is not a common name but is most frequently found in Devon. A number of battalions of the Devonshire Regiment served Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919 one of a small number bound in cloth
in Egypt, in particular the 2/4th Battalion Territorial Force which saw a number of actions as part of 75th Division of the EEF. We have found that a Private Arthur William D. Grater was killed in action on the Western Front in late September 1918 while serving with the 1/5th Devonshires; he had served in the 2/4th Devonshires in the EEF, having transferred from India to Egypt, arriving on 27 October 1917 and employed on line of communication work until 13 December of that year, when the 2/4th joined the EEF as part of the 234th Brigade in the 75th Division. In August 1918 the unit was disbanded, so at some time between those dates Grater was sent to France, presumably “combed out” after the March 1918 German offensive put additional pressure on British units and extra troops were needed in Flanders. A Brief Record is a thorough account of the advance of the EEF from July 1917 and the end of October 1918, containing many articles, two of which are by T. E. Lawrence (though unattributed) which, along with the reports in the Arab Bulletin and The Times , are Lawrence’s first published accounts of the Arab campaign. The preface states that this record was created so that “members of that Force may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they played a part”. Quarto. Original sand-coloured cloth, spine lettered and decorated in black, front cover lettered in black, drab grey-green endpapers. Linen-mounted photographic portrait frontispiece of Allenby (with facsimile signature), 56 coloured plates (complete: plate 1 explanation of symbols used & 55 campaign and operational maps). Binding a little soiled and marked, some wear to extremities, inner hinges split but sound. ¶ O’Brien A011. £3,500 [108776] 41 LAWRENCE, T. E. The Foundations of Arab Revolt. London: Privately printed, 1924 “it was an arab war waged and led by arabs for an arab aim in arabia” Superbly provenanced copy of the famously rare first state of the prospectus for Seven Pillars of Wisdom , which includes
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