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Price: US$429.51 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fordingbridge, Castle Hill Press, 2009. Quarto, xiv, 340 pages with a tipped-in colour frontispiece portrait of Lawrence by Augustus John. Quarter beige cloth and grey papered boards with a gilt-lettered leather title-label on the spine; small name-stamp (and private library number) on the front free endpaper; a fine copy. Number 249 of only 277 copies printed for subscribers (the first 77 copies were issued in two deluxe editions). + LAWRENCE: The Mint. A Day-book of the RAF Depot between August and December 1922, with Later Notes by 352087 A/c Ross. London, Jonathan Cape, 1955 [first British edition]. Quarto, [ii], 206 pages. Original quarter morocco and cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; covers lightly rubbed and sunned; ownership details as above; an excellent copy. Number 104 of 2000 copies (this limited edition contains the unexpurgated text, while the trade edition omitted many of the profanities). [2 items].
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$495.59 + shipping
Description: Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Pp. xiv+340, printed on grey and white paper, hand-tipped coloured portrait as frontispiece, pictorial endpapers; demy 4to; qr. blue-grey goatskin, spine lettered in gilt, blue cloth boards, edges lightly flecked; ribbon marker; within cloth slipcase, which is also lightly flecked; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper; Castle Hill Press, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, 2009. Edition limited to 277 numbered copies, this being one of 200 copies thus bound, initialled by Jeremy Wilson at end of the Introduction.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: This Castle Hill Press limited edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with significant "Later Writings about Service Life" and additional unpublished material. Of a total edition of 277, 200 copies were bound thus for subscribers, in quarter blue-gray goatskin with blue cloth boards and accompanying blue cloth slipcase, with illustrated endpapers, head and foot bands, gray satin ribbon marker, and printed on gray (pages 3-134) and white (pages 135-340) paper, denoting respectively the original text of The Mint and later writings about service life. The limitation page is hand-numbered "83" and the publisher's Introduction is hand-signed. The slipcase is lined in dark blue felt.The Mint is T. E. Lawrence's unstintingly candid portrait about life in Royal Air Force ranks. "I set out to give a picture of the R.A.F., and my picture might be impressive and clever if I showed only the shadow of it. but I was not making a work of art, but a portrait." T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This time defined Lawrence with indelible experience and celebrity which he would spend the rest of his famously short life struggling to reconcile and reject, to recount and repress.Lawrence told the tale of this time in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a work with a tortuous writing, editing, and publishing history culminating in posthumous publication. Perhaps equally tortuous is the tale of how this story about the R.A.F. was written and published. In a state of nervous exhaustion following the First World War, his work on the post-war settlement, and writing and re-writing Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John Hume Ross. He swiftly concluded "there is grand stuff here, and if I could write it." so he began making notes "scribbled at night, between last post and lights out, in bed."In January 1923 his identity became public and he was discharged from the R.A.F., but allowed to re-enlist two and a half years later, this time using the surname "Shaw", under which he had meanwhile served in the Tank Corps. On re-enlistment, he resumed making notes. In 1927, while serving in Karachi, Lawrence arranged these notes into a manuscript which he circulated to a small number of people, including Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard. As with Seven Pillars of Wisdom, publishers were eager, but Lawrence resisted, in part due to Trenchard's concerns.A saga followed in which efforts were made to control publication via uncirculated copyright editions in both the U.S. and Britain; the book remained unavailable to the public. Lawrence made revisions in the last months of his life with a possible view to publication in a private edition (as he had done with the 1926 Subscriber's Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom), but the work remained unpublished until 1955, after the death of an officer described unfavorably in the text. Even then, the British edition blanked out objectionable words and substituted name changes to avoid libel.This beautiful limited edition of The Mint is the most comprehensive and elaborate yet published. The edition "contains the full 1928 text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence's later writings about his life in the ranks. The narrative of Lawrence's RAF years therefore begins in 1922 and ends with his retirement in February 1935. The result is a far more interesting version of Lawrence's second book." This copy is in fine condition in a fine slipcase. The book is pristine apart from a small bump to the lower rear corner and a corresponding bump to the lower rear corner of the slipcase.For reference to the original publication of The Mint see OBrien A166.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$668.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of only 150 numbered copies of the large format edition, bound in quarter goatskin with embossed design to spine,this is a handsome significant volume in the Castle Hill Press subscription edition of T.E. Lawrence's works and letters. In original card slipcase Small attractive bookplate of previous owner to inside of front board. "Do you remember my telling you once that I collected a shelf of ‘Titanic’ books . . . and that they were The Karamazovs, Zarathustra, and Moby Dick. Well, my ambition was to make an English fourth." During the period 1919-22 T.E. Lawrence's intellectual and creative powers were at their zenith. At the Peace Conference, in Whitehall and at All Souls he mixed with some of the most brilliant men and women of his time. His personal outlook was informed by two cultures. His opinions drew on an extraordinary range of experience, and on first-hand knowledge of the peoples of the Middle East. His writings during this period show a breadth of analysis unparalleled in anything he wrote before or afterwards. In Seven Pillars of Wisdom and in essays like 'The Changing East' and 'Evolution of a Revolt' you can see the mind that impressed contemporaries such as Winston Churchill, Arnold Toynbee and Lionel Curtis. These qualities are surely one of the reasons why Seven Pillars of Wisdom has had such enduring appeal.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: This Castle Hill Press limited, finely bound, hand-numbered edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with significant "Later Writings about Service Life" and additional unpublished material. Of a total edition of 277 printed for subscribers, just 50 copies were issued thus, unique in both binding and content. These 50 are bound in full blue-grey goatskin with raised spine bands, head and foot bands, gilt edges, silk ribbon marker, and dark grey laid paper end sheets with a letterpress seaplane design. The Uxbridge chapters are printed on gray paper, while the Service chapters and the Later Writings About Service Life, and Uxbridge and Cranwell Notes (unique to the full goatskin copies) are printed on white paper. The limitation page is hand-numbered and the publisher's Introduction is hand-signed. The pale blue cloth covered slipcase is lined in dark blue felt.This copy is hand-numbered "18" on the copyright page. We acquired this copy from the original subscriber and the original purchase receipt is laid in. Condition is truly fine, the binding and contents pristine. The slipcase is near fine, with no appreciable wear, marred only by some minor toning.The Mint is T. E. Lawrence's unstintingly candid portrait about life in Royal Air Force ranks. Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This time defined Lawrence with indelible experience and celebrity which he spent the rest of his famously short life struggling to reconcile and reject, to recount and repress.Lawrence told the tale of this time in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a work with a tortuous writing, editing, and publishing history culminating in posthumous publication. Perhaps equally tortuous is the tale of how this story about the R.A.F. was written and published. In a state of nervous exhaustion following the First World War, his work on the post-war settlement, and writing and re-writing Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John Hume Ross. He swiftly concluded "there is grand stuff here, and if I could write it." so he began making notes "scribbled at night, between last post and lights out, in bed." In January 1923 his identity became public and he was discharged from the R.A.F., but allowed to re-enlist two and a half years later, this time using the surname "Shaw", under which he had meanwhile served in the Tank Corps.On re-enlistment, he resumed making notes. In 1927, while serving in Karachi, Lawrence arranged these notes into a manuscript which he circulated to a small number of people, including Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard. As with Seven Pillars of Wisdom, publishers were eager, but Lawrence resisted, in part due to Trenchard's concerns. A saga followed in which efforts were made to control publication via uncirculated copyright editions in both the U.S. and Britain; the book remained unavailable to the public. Lawrence made revisions in the last months of his life with a possible view to publication in a private edition (as he had done with the 1926 Subscriber's Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom), but the work remained unpublished until 1955, after the death of an officer described unfavorably in the text. Even then, the British edition blanked out objectionable words and substituted name changes to avoid libel.This spectacular limited edition of The Mint is the most comprehensive and elaborate yet published, containing "the full 1928 text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence's later writings about his life in the ranks. The narrative of Lawrence's RAF years therefore begins in 1922 and ends with his retirement in February 1935. The result is a far more interesting version of Lawrence's second book."
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Number 6 of 50 copies. Frontispece. xiii, [i], 340, VIIIpp. 4to. Full blue-gray morocco, a.e.g., by the Fine Book Bindery. Blue cloth slipcase. Very Fine Frontispece. xiii, [i], 340, VIIIpp. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1057.25 + shipping
Description: First Limited Editions; Imp. 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xx, 227; Vol. II. pp. xviii, 238; Vol. III. xiv, 247; Volume IV. pp. xxii, 282; text illustrated with b/w. photographs, several large folding photographic illustration, sources, indexes, each bound in matching green cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines, stamped decoration on upper boards, dustjackets, a sprinkling of pale foxing, housed in original green cloth slipcase, very good copies. Volumes I-III limited editions of 600 copies, Volume IV one of 475 copies. The aim of the Series was to present as far as possible the complete surviving record of each of Lawrence's friendships, including not only letters in each direction but also collateral material such as biographical essays and reviews.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: This Castle Hill Press limited, finely bound, hand-numbered edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with significant "Later Writings about Service Life" and additional unpublished material. Here is copy #1, the first of just 50 issued thus, unique in both binding and content. Of a total edition of 277 printed for subscribers, 50 were issued in full blue-grey goatskin with raised spine bands, head and foot bands, gilt edges, silk ribbon place marker, and dark grey laid paper endpapers with a letterpress seaplane design. The Uxbridge chapters are printed on gray paper, while the Service chapters and the Later Writings About Service Life, and Uxbridge and Cranwell Notes (unique to the full goatskin copies) are printed on white paper. The limitation page is hand-numbered and the publisher's Introduction is hand-signed. The pale blue cloth covered slipcase is lined in dark blue felt.This copy is hand-numbered "1" by the publisher on the copyright page. Condition is spectacularly fine, the binding and contents pristine. The slipcase is likewise fine apart from a barely noticeable, miniscule bump to the lower front corner.The Mint is T. E. Lawrence's unstintingly candid portrait about life in Royal Air Force ranks. Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This time defined Lawrence with indelible experience and celebrity which he spent the rest of his famously short life struggling to reconcile and reject, to recount and repress.Lawrence told the tale of this time in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a work with a tortuous writing, editing, and publishing history culminating in posthumous publication. Perhaps equally tortuous is the tale of how this story about the R.A.F. was written and published. In a state of nervous exhaustion following the First World War, his work on the post-war settlement, and writing and re-writing Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John Hume Ross. He swiftly concluded "there is grand stuff here, and if I could write it." so he began making notes "scribbled at night, between last post and lights out, in bed."In January 1923 his identity became public and he was discharged from the R.A.F., but allowed to re-enlist two and a half years later, this time using the surname "Shaw", under which he had meanwhile served in the Tank Corps. On re-enlistment, he resumed making notes. In 1927, while serving in Karachi, Lawrence arranged these notes into a manuscript which he circulated to a small number of people, including Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard. As with Seven Pillars of Wisdom, publishers were eager, but Lawrence resisted, in part due to Trenchard's concerns.A saga followed in which efforts were made to control publication via uncirculated copyright editions in both the U.S. and Britain; the book remained unavailable to the public. Lawrence made revisions in the last months of his life with a possible view to publication in a private edition (as he had done with the 1926 Subscriber's Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom), but the work remained unpublished until 1955, after the death of an officer described unfavorably in the text. Even then, the British edition blanked out objectionable words and substituted name changes to avoid libel.This spectacular limited edition of The Mint is the most comprehensive and elaborate yet published, containing "the full 1928 text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence's later writings about his life in the ranks. The narrative of Lawrence's RAF years therefore begins in 1922 and ends with his retirement in February 1935. The result is a far more interesting version of Lawrence's second book."
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.