People who have been following this issue probably know the Lawrence “Seven Pillars” [[“Lawrence of Arabia”]] as being perhaps the best known screwed up copyright issue around -- well, perhaps excepting Mickey Mouse.

I have in my hands, to my surprise, a copy of T. E. Lawrence “Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph” purporting to be a copy of the 1922 Oxford Text – that which famously was “printed but not published but rather privately distributed” – and yet here it is being “published” in America.

ISBN 9781463587376

Final pages stating: Made in the USA, Lexington, KT, 15 October 2012

And what would normally be the copyright page stating simply:

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First paperback edition.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or

transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,

including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or

retrieval system, except in the case of excerpts by a reviewer, who may

quote brief passages in a review.

Printed and manufactured in the United States of America

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Where a publisher isn’t even identified in the book, but is given on Amazon as being “CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform”

My question is simply whether anyone knows anything about this?  Is this just a “pirate” edition that Amazon has picked up unknowingly?  Or has some newer copyright analysis been done by someone somewhere?