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57. LAWRENCE, T. E.
A Brief Record of the Advance of
the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
Under the command of General Sir
Edmund H. H. Allenby. July 1917 to
October 1918.
Cairo, The Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919 [35523]
£250
4to. Original tan cloth-backed buff wrappers printed in
black, titles to spine in black. Illustrated. Some spotting to
the prelims but an excellent copy. Some typical spotting
throughout, wrappers a little marked but a nice copy.
FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Sections are based on
the notes Lawrence wrote for the Arab Bureau.
O’Brien A011.
58. LAWRENCE, T. E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph.
[London, privately printed by Manning Pike and C.J. Hodgson,]
1926 [38784] £47,500
4to (265 × 197 mm). Original scarlet morocco by Best, raised
bands to the spine, title gilt to second compartment, t.e.g.,
others uncut. 66 plates printed by Whittingham & Griggs,
including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John,
many coloured or tinted, 4 double-page, by Eric Kennington,
William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul
Nash and others, 4 folding colour-printed maps, that is 2
maps duplicated, rather than the 3 called for by O’Brien,
folds reinforced with linen verso, 58 illustrations in text, one
coloured, by Roberts, Nash, Kenning, Blair Hughes-Stanton,
Gertrude Hermes and others. Historiated initials by Edward
Wadsworth printed in red and black. From the Spiro Family
Collection, pencilled accession mark, “HS.SP1” to the first
blank. Very occasional marginal foxing, externally the lightest
of hints of shelf-wear at the corners, head and tail of the spine
and at the extremities of the spine bands, some minor marks
to the boards, the spine a little darkened, but on the whole a
clean, handsome and striking copy. Housed in later coral red
cloth chemise and slip-case, red morocco label to the spine.
One of the Cranwell or “Subscriber’s” edition of 211
copies, this one of 170 “complete copies”, inscribed by
Lawrence on p. xix “Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES”, with
one manuscript correction to the illustration list, a “K”
identifying Kennington rather than Roberts as the artist
responsible for “The gad-fly”. This copy is in the usual
state, with page XV mispaginated as VIII and as often
without the two Paul Nash illustrations called for on pages
92 and 208; nor does it have the Blair Hughes-Stanton
wood engraving illustrating the dedicatory poem found in
only five copies. However, it does include the “Prickly Pear”
plate, not called for in the list of illustrations.
O’Brien A040.
59. LAWRENCE, T. E.
Revolt in the Desert.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1927 [39905] £1500
4to. Original quarter brown pigskin on sand buckram, title gilt
to spine, t.e.g. others uncut. Coloured portrait frontispiece and
10 other similar plates, 8 uncoloured plates, folding map at
the rear. Endpapers a little browned, spine slightly pulled at
the head, the upper board a touch mottled towards to the tail
edge, but overall a very good copy.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Large Paper, Limited to 315
copies, of which 300 were for sale, this no. 111. The
costs for production of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom
had ballooned to such an extent that Lawrence was
contemplating selling either his library or some of his
property to clear the debt. Eventually he settled on an
abridgement, undertaken in 1926 by Lawrence himself
with the help of some of his fellow servicemen, an
earlier attempt by Edward Garnett having been set aside.
Published in March 1927 in Great Britain and America, in
both limited and general issues, three impressions were
soon sold out and two more quickly added. The profits
from this publication made the fortunes of the Cape
publishing house.
Catalogue 57: Travel Section 2: Africa and the Middle East to Persia
3 3
O’Brien A101.
A handsome
volume from
the Corvinus
Press
60. LAWRENCE, T. E.
The Diary of T. E. Lawrence
MCMXI.
London, Corvinus Press, 1937 [39025] £5750
4to (295 × 235 mm). Original full vellum, title gilt to upper
board and spine, Corvinus crow gilt to lower board, ivory silk
ties, in plain card cloth slip-case as issued. 13 collotype plates,
head-piece printed in gold and black. Loosely inserted tissueguards
a little browned as usual, otherwise very good indeed,
the vellum slightly mottled, slip-case lightly finger-soiled.
FIRST EDITION, limited to 203 copies, “150 only are for
sale” this being copy no. 53, one of 40 on Medway paper.
The binding is as described by O’Brien for the “one of 30”
copies. “This was the most ambitious and handsome
volume published by the Corvinus Press” (O’Brien).
O’Brien A194.
61. LAWRENCE, T. E.
T. E. Lawrence to His Biographer
Liddell Hart; [together with:] T.
E. Lawrence to His Biographer
Robert Graves. Information about
Himself, in the Form of letters,
Notes, Answers to Questions and
Conversations.
London, Faber and Faber, 1938 [23633] £500
2 volumes, 8vo. Original buckram red and grey, with lettering
pieces blocked to spines and front boards gilt, top edge gilt,
other edges untrimmed. Some light offsetting early and late,
small book labels to front pastedowns, spines a trifle faded but
a very nice set, beautifully produced.
FIRST UK EDITIONS. One of 500 sets issued in the UK signed
in their respective volumes by Graves and Liddell Hart.
O’Brien A210 & A211.