Seven Pillars of Wisdom

"First thus" traps dominate this title. Any 1935-or-later Cape or Doubleday, Doran printing sets an abridgement of the 1922 text and is routinely catalogued as "first trade edition" — accurate, but not the first edition of the work. Revolt in the Desert (Jonathan Cape, London, 1927; Doran, New York, 1927) is a separate Lawrence-made abridgement rather than an edition of Seven Pillars: a large-paper limited issue (reported variously as 300 or 315 copies; pigskin-backed buckram, colour plates after Eric Kennington, folding map at end) precedes the British and American trade issues of the same year, and the Doran copyright page reads "First printing in America, March, 1927" with the GHD lozenge to be confirmed on the title verso. The 1997 Castle Hill Press parallel-text sets and "complete 1922 Oxford text" sets are modern limited editions, not the 1922 printing.