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Price: US$333.52 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Large 8vo. Pp 62. Quarter morocco, raised bands, over buckram. Teg. Damage to fore edge of front cover. Soiling to boards. Scattered foxing internally. No.247/500 copies printed.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good clean copy. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue quarter morocco, as issued, t.e.g., cream cloth covered boards clean and bright with some minor spoting. Overall a bright copy. An edition limited to just 500 numbered copies. A fascinating range of letters not published elsewhere.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 x 10 in. 62 pp. Black calf and ivory linen boards. Limited edition of 31-500, this is numbered 37 on the limitation pg. Condition is VERY GOOD ; leather supple with no wear to joints. Uniform in color. Linen has some light toning/foxing. Minimal shelf wear. Binding tight. A few toned spots to endpapers. Text very clean with no markings. Lower edges of the text have a touch of rippling throughout. Text edges a bit foxed, just at tip. Hist. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 500 numbered copies of which this is no. 342. 62 p. 26 cm. Quarter leather with cream paper boards. Five raised bands. Bottom corners bumped, some soiling and discolouration to cloth. Worn spot on front hinge. Binder's signature S&S (Sangorski & Sutcliffe) at bottom of front pastedown. Harold Stanley Ede (1895 1990) was an English art collector who for many years kept up correspondence with T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), known as "Lawrence of Arabia." Lawrence had enrolled in the R. A. F. under the name T. E. Shaw, hence these letters from "Shaw" to Ede. Their letters cover many subjects, from art to literature to death.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Fine Copy of an important Private Press item First limited edition, in the publishers quarter blue morocco over linen-covered boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, spine with raised bands, gilt titles & tooling (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe). [2], 5-62 pp, the blue book no has seeped to verso. An edition of 470 numbered copies, from a total of 500. (254*186 mm). (OBrien A 234. Pertelote 151). This was written by T. E. Lawrence[a] and published posthumously in 1955. It describes his time in the Royal Air Force, working, despite having held senior rank in the army (colonel), as an ordinary aircraftman, under an assumed name, 352087 Ross.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition and One of 500 copies only, printed in Perpetua type on mould-made paper and bound in fine half blue Niger morocco over cloth covered boards. 4to, beautifully bound in green-blue crushed Niger morocco over buckram covered boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, the spine with raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt, t.e.g. [1-bl], 62, [2-bl], pp. A very handsome copy indeed, the binding tight, sharp and in excellent condition, the text-block clean and crisp, a small spot to the front cover and only very minimal evidence of age or use. RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE LIMITED ISSUE IN HANDSOME BINDING. "Shaw" of course was the name T.E. Lawrence used when he enrolled in the R.A.F. The relationship between Lawrence and Ede was a mutually satisfying one. Over forty letters are included here. The intimacy of feelings expressed by Ede is quite remarkable. He had taken little heed of T.E. Lawrence and the works penned by him and which had brought such great notoriety and honour. But in May 1927 when the illustrations for Seven Pillars were being exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, Ede read the introduction that T.E. had written for the catalogue and then, as he says in his own words, "Something in the English, some manner of arrangement, gripped me, and I went on reading with growing excitement. I was taken into my own intimate world, a world of singleness, isolation and yet of oneness with all life. I have always felt this way when I have realised beauty; a sound, an early morning, sunlight on a wasll; makeing for me an embodiment of that experience presented in the passing of the Graal. That was the beginning, and it was the more srange and sudden since I had felt so scornful.Here was a human being with vibrant human feelings, and yet not human, since he waa so much alone; an Olympian purposefulness and command, and at the same time so fine a fragility, so piercing a need for protection." Ede stepped clear, as he would say, of the Legend.he felt that he could help Lawrence to again live in some kind of normal way, and that he could help him to confidence. He wrote Lawrence telling him of these things, addressing him as "Dear Shaw" and addressing his letter to 'T.E. Shaw, R.A.F., Whitehall, London. A month later Lawrence's reply came, and the long correspondence was begun. The letters are elegant and purposeful, and at the same time prove Lawrence's vulnerability and fragility. The beauty of the writing is absolute (an example is given below) and Ede's commentary, quite brilliant in its own way. "16/vi/27Dear Ede I feel nervous. I'm an entirely ordinary person: nearly everybody is. There are 14 fellows in this room with me, and we are all, at once, of a muchness, and different. If you were here you would be the 15th (and an unlucky fifteenth, for there are only fourteen beds !) and that's all there would be to it. When I wrote that book of mine I was trying very hard to da a thing for which I am totally unfitted by nature:---to produce a work of creative imagination---and the strain of the unnatural effort came into the print, and affects people. At least that's the only explanation I can give." And further examples from Revolt, the copy which Ede read: "Rain came on, and soaked me, and thenit blew fine and freezing till I crackled in armour of white silk, like a theatre knight: or like a bridal cake, hard-iced" "The relief of the grass to our eyes after the daylong hard glitter of pebbles was so sudden that involuntrily I glanced up to see if a cloud had not covered the face of the sun." SHAW-EDE is a splendid work, The letters will often astound the reader, their emotion and clarity almost a tactile experience in reading.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, T. E.. SHAW-EDE. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1942.
Price: US$1002.45 + shipping
Description: T. E. Lawrence's letters to H. S. Ede, 1927-1935. Foreword and running commentary by H. S. Ede. Pp. 64(last blank); cr. 4to; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. navy morocco, the spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, cream canvas boards, faintly soiled, fore-corners lightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; bottom fore-corner of last few leaves faintly creased; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1942. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies on Arnold's mould-made paper. Pertelote 151; O'Brien A234. *The last of the four Golden Cockerel Lawrence titles. Of the 43 letters published here, only six appeared in The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. 'From these letters it is apparent that Lawrence's friendship with Ede was spontaneous and cordial. Mutual interest in topics of art, literature, morals, and life in general, prompted an intimate, revealing, and introspective honesty in their correspondence . more than in any of his others, Lawrence's culture, taste, and wisdom are revealed in sharp contrast with his surprising idiosyncrasies.' [Pertelote, p. 46].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia