8vo. xix, [1], 532pp. With a portrait frontispiece and a further 20 photographic plates. Original publisher's navy cloth. Without dustwrapper. Rubbed, a trifle marked. upper corner of FFEP shaved. Signed by the author on title page.

The immensely popular memoir of colonial governor and Middle Eastern specialist Sir Ronald Storrs (1881-1955). Storrs served alongside T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Bureau, and became an intimate associate; he was described by Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom (London, 1935) as 'the first, and the great man among us'.