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. A "collaborator's copy" bearing the name of Lieut. Col. G.E. Badcock on the official compliments slip pasted to the front free endpaper, which is signed by the editor Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Pirie-Gordon. Badcock was assistant director of trnasportation to the E.E.F. His ownership inscription to this effect to the front free endpaper, and brief obituary of Sir George Barrow, taped in and annotated in his hand. 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 - the explanatory sections verso of the plates facing 49-50, "Sherifian Co-operation in September", and 51-53 "Story of the Arab Movement" are by T. E. Lawrence, though unattributed, having been compiled from his notes written originally for the Arab Bureau, 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".
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