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Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: Two catalogues for the private Whittington Press, looking at the works they were publishing from 1988 to 1991. Two catalogues for the Whittington Press, for the years 1988 to 1991.The Whittington Press is a small private press that was founded in 1971, which has one of the largest working collections of Monotype composition matrices.These two catalogues showcase the unique works that they were publishing from 1988 to 1991, such as a selection of letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds.Prior owner's gift inscription to Allen Freer to the first leaf of the 1988-1990 catalogue. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, near fine. Small mark to the rear wrap of 1988-1990. Small tear to the tail of the spine of 1991. Internally, 1991 is disbound. Pages are bright and clean. Prior owner's gift inscription to the first leaf of the 1988-1990 catalogue. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE T.E.. T.E. Lawrence: Letters to E.T. Leeds.. Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1988.
Price: US$179.57 + shipping
Description: First edition. Edited by J.M. Wilson. Quarto (29 x 21cm). 'One of the most important books the Press had published to date. The text consists of 53 letters from T.E. Lawrence to E.T. Leeds, the majority written from Carchemish in Syria between March 1911 and April 1914, where Lawrence was assistant with the British Museum's excavations.'- Butcher. pp.xxii,[2],140,[2]. With a mounted frontispiece, 6 leaves of plates from photographs and line drawings by Richard Kennedy. No.174/650 copies quarter-bound in buckram, the front board illustrated, with a slip-case, published at £75. Near fine copy. [O'Brien A263; Butcher 94; Horne 275]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine clean copy of this important collection of letters relating to the significant friendship between E.T. Leeds of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). In slipcase as issued, slight wear to cloth edges of slipcase. There are line drawings decorating the volume executed by Richard Kennedy, tipped in photograph as frontispiece and other photographs illustrate the work. An edition limited to 750 copies .
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Lawrence, T.E.. T.E. Lawrence: Letters to E.T. Leeds. Andoversford The Whittington Press 1988, 1988.
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: LIMITED EDITION in slipcase. No.'353' of 650 copies quarter-bound in buckram, the boards covered in printed paper. Quarto. pp. 138, 12 pages of photographs. A book in Fine condition in a Near Fine slipcase. Lawrence as archaeologist - his account of the pre-WW1 excavations at Carchemish on the Syrian-Turkish border plus a smaller number of letters from his later war career. E. T. Leeds was Assistant Keeper, and later Keeper, of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. O'Brien A263
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$228.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter brown buckram and matching paper covered boards in bright condition, contents clean, housed in a matching slipcase, number 86 from an edition of 750 Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, T.E.. Letters to E.T. Leeds.. Andoversford: Whittington Press (1988)., 1988.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. 140 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher's slipcase, but for a small abrasion to the one panel. One of 650 numbered copies. Edited and with an Introduction by J.M. Wilson, memoir by D.B. Harden, and illustrated with drawings by Richard Kennedy.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Linen and boards. Frontis photograph. Illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy and with photographs. Fine in slipcase (the latter with a small corner bump). First edition, ordinary issue. One of 650 numbered copies bound thus, from a total edition of 750 copies printed in Caslon type on Zerkell mould-made paper. Edited, with an introduction, by J.M. Wilson, and with a memoir of Leeds by D.B. Harden. A sequence of fifty-two letters, most previously unpublished, chiefly from the time of Lawrence's Carchemish expedition.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: No. 173 of 650 copies (total edition 750). Quarto. xxii (ii), 140p, colophon. Edited by J. M. Wilson. Memoir of Leeds by D. B. Harden. Illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy. Frontispiece photo and 12 plates on coated stock. Quarter bound by The Fine Bindery in gilt-titled brown spine over illustrated boards. Butcher. Whittington Bibliography, no. 94. No. 173 of 650 copies (total edition 750).
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy of this relatively rare work in a Near Fine slip case. Edited by and with an introduction by J.M.Wilson, including a Memoir of E.T.Leeds by D.B.Harden and illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy. No Jacket (as published). Slip Case: brown with tan edges top and bottom, slightest of bumping, Near Fine condition. Cover: quarter tan cloth with printed paper covered boards, with red outline drawing by Richard Kennedy to front and gilt lettering to spine, Fine condition. Internally: Near Fine condition, very small, discreet bookplate from previous owner on front paste-down, otherwise Fine, top edge tan. Limited edition. This is No. 480 of 650. Set in 14-point, monotype Caslon and printed on a special making of Zerkall mould-made paper. xxiv, 142pp. Tipped in frontispiece and 24 plates
Seller: Brian Corrigan, Knutsford, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, T.E.. Letters to E.T. Leeds. The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire., 1988.
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Description: First edition. Edited by J.M. Wilson. Quarto. pp xxiv, 140. Seven page Introduction by the editor. Six page Note on the Life of Edward Thurlow Leeds, 1877-1955 by D.B. Harden and R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford. Drawings by Richard Kennedy. Mounted photographic frontispiece. Cloth-backed paper boards.Number 195 of 650 copies out of a total edition of 750.Fine in very near fine, slightly bumped board slipcase with cloth sides.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$270.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition/Limited Edition. Slipcased. Hand-numbered; #264 of 650 copies. A fine copy in a close to fine slipcase. Hardcover; small folio; quarter cloth spine and paper over boards; gilt spine titles; 140 pp.; b/w photographic frontispiece; illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy and 23 b/w photographs in section at end; slight rubbing to slipcase extremities, else a clean and crisp copy. Extra shipping may apply.
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$352.74 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 21 of 650 copies from a total edition of 750, 4to, xxii, (ii), 140 pp. Publisher's quarter terracotta cloth over orange boards illustrated in red to the upper cover, gilt lettering to the spine, slipcase. Frontispiece and 40 photographic illustrations plus line drawings in the text Occasional very mild wear to the slipcase, an attractive copy. An out of the ordinary copy of the standard issue, being signed by the illustrator Richard Kennedy, the editor Jeremy Wilson and the publisher John Randle. Another signature appears above theirs which looks to be that of one of Leeds' descendants.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
T. E. Lawrence. T. E. Lawrence: Letters to E.T. Leeds. The Whittington Press, 1988.
Price: US$768.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$942.76 + shipping
Description: With a memoir of E.T. Leeds by D.B. Harden. Illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy. Black and white frontispiece and twenty-four plates taken from photographs. With an additional folio of proofs of Richard Kennedy's illustrations. First edition. One of 80 numbered copies of a total edition of 750. 8vo., original Nigerian Goatskin gilt. With marbled endpapers by Colleen Gryspeerdt. Top edges stained red, fore and lower edges uncut. Slipcase. Andoversford, The Whittington Press. At the time of its publication this was probably the most important volume of writing by Lawrence to have been published since the Home Letters of 1954. Leeds was an archaeologist in Oxford and an early friend of Lawrence. The correspondence, which consists of some 50 letters is largely continuous from 1909-1935 and is important not only for its continuity but also for the light it sheds on his light-hearted approach to life before the War. Leeds was particularly keen that his friendship with Lawrence not be exploited, and the correspondence was unknown prior to publication.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition thus. 4to. Editor's introduction; memoir of E. T. Leeds by D. B. Harden. Tipped-in frontispiece, 1 full-page drawing by Lawrence, 6 Lawrence letters in facsimile, 17 b/w photographs (mostly by Lawrence); line drawings and upper cover design by Richard Kennedy. Bibliography; glossary. Full gilt stamped leather, marbled endpapers (by Colleen Gryspeerdt), t.e.g., uncut. Publisher's brown cloth and board slipcase. Fine. Number 34 of 80 numbered special copies, with additional proofs of Kennedy's illustrations housed in a separate folder.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An extremely fine, clean copy of this important collection of letters relating to the significant friendship between E.T. Leeds of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). In full leather with gilt titling to spine and in slipcase as issued, There are line drawings decorating the volume executed by Richard Kennedy, tipped in photograph as frontispiece and other photographs illustrate the work. No. XIX of only copies 80 copies so bound, hand numbered, these were bound in Nigerian Goatskin. Endpapers marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt, with additional proofs of Richard Kennedy's illustrations presented in a seperate slim volume. 140pp. A highly desirable volume.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$994.82 + shipping
Description: with a commentary by E. T. Leeds. Edited and with an Introduction by J. M. Wilson. With a memoir of E. T. Leeds by D. B. Harden & illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy. Pp. xxiv+142(last colophon, blank), hand-tipped frontispiece, 12 pages of photographic plates, 10 line drawings printed in red (9 full page), appendices, bibliography; narrow demy 4to; full red/brown Niger morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt; t.e.g.; marbled endpapers; [with] black & white proof copies of Richard Kennedy's 10 illustrations in a brown papered portfolio; together in a brown papered slipcase with cloth sides; The Whittington Press, Andover, 1988. First edition, limited to 750 numbered copies; this one of 80 thus bound and with the illustration proofs. O'Brien A263. *With a couple of loose inserts including the printed errata slip annotated in ink (probably by the editor). Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877-1955) was an archaeologist and museum curator who at the time of this correspondence was Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum. Most of the letters are published here for the first time: only 4 were included in David Garnett's Letters of T. E. Lawrence.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Copy xvi of 80 copies. xxii, [2], 140, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to. O'Brien A263 Full brown Nigerian gilt, marbled endsheets. Slipcased with cloth portfolio of additional proofs of line illustrations. As new xxii, [2], 140, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1050.00 + shipping
Description: This is the strikingly beautiful and scarce full Nigerian goatskin issue of the 1988 Whittington Press edition, hand-numbered copy "XLII" (42 for you non-Romans) of only 80 issued thus. This contents are printed on "a special making of Zerkall mould-made paper" with untrimmed fore and bottom edges and gilt top edge and profusely illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy, a tipped-in photographic frontispiece, and 12 pages of illustrated plates, bearing 24 drawings and correspondence facsimiles and photographs. In addition to Lawrences letters to Leeds spanning 1909 to 1935, the contents include commentary by E. T. Leeds, an introduction by Lawrences official biographer, J. M. Wilson, and a memoir of E. T. Leeds by D. B. Harden. The standard binding was quarter buckram over paper-covered boards. Of a total edition of 750 copies, only 80 were issued thus, bound in full orange-brown Nigerian goatskin with gilt front cover illustration and endpapers marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt. Unique to these 80 full goatskin copies is an accompanying hard-sided, orange-brown paper-covered portfolio containing 10 additional proofs of Richard Kennedys illustrations. Both the illustrations portfolio and volume are housed in the publishers stout slipcase with tan linen paper-covered top and bottom and dark brown paper-covered sides and spine. Condition is magnificently fine. The volume features pristine binding and contents. Neither the illustrations portfolio nor the proofs therein show any discernible wear or signs of handling. The slipcase is only very gently scuffed. Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877-1955) was an English archaeologist and museum curator. He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum from 1928 to 1945. A decade before he became Lawrence of Arabia: "While T. E. Lawrence was still at school in Oxford he began to take a serious interest in mediaeval archaeology By 1905 Lawrence was already familiar with the Ashmoleans extensive mediaeval collection " In the spring of 1908, E. T. Leeds became assistant keeper of the Ashmolean and "soon became one of Lawrences most valued friends. Although Leeds was eleven years older than Lawrence, such age differences mean very little in an academic context, and the two were soon treating one another on equal terms. They were nevertheless very different in personality. Leeds was by nature a pure scholar" who gave "an impression of pomposity; yet he was evidently a very approachable person, much liked by successive generations of Oxford students. Lawrence, who loved to deflate any kind of self-importance, must have been irresistibly tempted to poke fun at Leeds. When he did so, he found that his victim greatly enjoyed the joke. The special humour in these letters was clearly due to this contrast in personalities." (from the editors Introduction) The illustrator, Richard Kennedy (1910-1989), went to work for Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their embryonic Hogarth Press in 1926, at the age of sixteen and had a prolific career primarily noted for his work on childrens books.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, T.E.. Letters to E.T. Leeds. The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire., 1988.
Price: US$1122.34 + shipping
Description: First edition. Edited by J.M. Wilson. Quarto. pp xxiv, 140. Seven page Introduction by the editor. Six page Note on the Life of Edward Thurlow Leeds, 1877-1955 by D.B. Harden and R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford. Drawings by Richard Kennedy. Mounted photographic frontispiece.Number 80 of 80 copies out of a total edition of 750, bound in Nigerian Goatskin, with marbled endpapers, and with additional proofs of Richard Kennedy's illustrations preserved in a folder.Fine in fine slipcase.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: One volume plus portfolio. FIRST EDITION. THE MOST LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 80 ROMAN NUMBERED COPIES, specially bound and with additional proof prints of the Richard Kennedy illustrations from a total printing of only 750 copies. Illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy printed in umber, as well as with a tipped in photographic frontispiece and 24 illustrations from black and white photographs on glossy plates, and with the addition of ten proof plates in a separate portfolio ONLY INCLUDED IN THE SPECIAL DELUXE COPIES. 4to, in the special deluxe binding for the 80 numbered copies of full Nigerian goatskin with endpapers marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt, with an image of Lawrence of Arabia on horseback on the upper cover in gilt from one of Kennedy's line drawings, the spine gilt lettered, the proof plates in an umber paper-covered portfolio enclosed with the book in the printer's original slipcase of brown paper-covered boards trimmed in umber cloth. xxi, 140, [1] pp. All very fine and as mint, pristine, including the slipcase. ONE OF ONLY 80 COPIES AND A PRISTINE SET WITH THE ADDED PORTFOLIO. E. T. Leeds became Assistant to the Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum in 1908, and soon thereafter met Lawrence, a young man with a keen interest in mediaeval archaeology. In short order, he would become one of Lawrence's most valued friends. These letters, reproduced here as exactly as possible, are especially insightful into Lawrence's time at Carchemish, the archeological reasons for that excavation, and Lawrence's relationship with D. G. Hogarth.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5002.43 + shipping
Description: Andoversford: Whittington Press. 1988. 4to. Original black nigerian goatskin, upper cover inlaid with a design after Kennedy in red and khaki morocco, suede pastedowns, top edge gilt, others uncut. Suite of 10 proofs of the illustrations after Kennedy printed in black and signed in pencil by Kennedy loose in portfolio as issued (c. 282 x 200mm). Suite of 12 mounted glossy photographic prints (c. 176 x 238mm) after Lawrence and others, original japanese-style stab-bound wrappers with letterpress title-label on upper cover. All bound by The Fine Bindery and contained within a cloth box with gilt morocco lettering-piece on spine. Limited to 750 numbered copies. This copy is no ix of 20 copies in a designer binding and also includes proofs of the illustrations and 12 additional photographs taken by Lawrence (or under his direction) at Carchemish in 1911-1914. Newly discovered and previously unpublished, these letters were largely written by Lawrence from various excavation sites in Syria on which he was working between 1909 and 1914, to an archeologist friend at Oxford. Light-hearted and intimate, they provide important information on Lawrence's early life. J.M. Wilson, Lawrence's official biographer, has written a full introduction and lengthy notes. O'Brien A263.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom