Clare Sydney Smith (T.E. Lawrence). THE GOLDEN REIGN: The Story of My Friendship with 'Lawrence of Arabia', with a Foreword by Mrs S Lawrence, and new Introduction by Malcolm Brown. Newly illustrated by vintage photographs. The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, Huddersfield, 2004.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine copy (without the slip-case) of edition of 500. 185,[3]pp., 205 x 265mm.

Seller: E.S.A.W Books, Wellington, WN, New Zealand

Smith, Clare, Sydney. The Golden Reign: the Story of My Friendship with Lawrence of Arabia, with a New Introduction By Malcolm Brown, Newly Illustrated By Vintage Photographs. The Fleece Press, Denby Dale, 2004.

Price: US$102.47 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A fine new copy, a superb private press reissue with new material and illustrations of the book first published in 1940. This account tells in a moving manner of the friendship of T.E. Lawrence with the wife of the commander of the RAF station where he was in the late 1920s early 1930s. It shows a rather different aspect to the character of T.E. than the popular image. If you are interested in T.E. and have not read this volume be prepared for a pleasurable read, full of insight into T.E. A significant new introduction by Lawrence scholar Malcolm Brown and many previously unpublished photographs which add considerably to the value of this edition. The edition is limited to 500 copies and includes around 45 photographs printed from vintage prints in high quality, many, as indicated above, have not been published before. Those who know the Fleece Press titles will realise the quality that this volume achieves and how the illustrations greatly add to the story.

Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom

Clare Sydney Smith. The Golden Reign. Fleece Press, Upper Denby, Huddersfield, 2004.

Price: US$115.28 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 21x27cm, 183pp. With multiple reproductions of photographs, and an introduction by Malcolm Brown. One of 500 copies, bound in full blue cloth over boards, 'TES' device blind-stamped to front cover, paper title-label to the spine. The handsome Fleece Press edition, based on the original 1940 edition with additional photographs and an extremely insightful introduction by the Lawrence scholar Malcolm Brown, laying out the context of 'not the only book about Lawrence written by an author in love with him'. The book covers Lawrence's period stationed at RAF Mount Batten, Plymouth (which he called the 'Golden Reign' on account of his relative contentment there) where the author's husband, Sydney Smith, was his commanding officer. Fine.

Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom

[The Fleece Press] Smith, Clare Sydney.. The Golden Reign. The story of my friendship with 'Lawrence of Arabia'.. Upper Denby, Huddersfield: The Fleece Press, 2004., 2004.

Price: US$125.52 + shipping

Description: LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, set in Miller Display by Simon Lawrence. Publisher's blue cloth with printed label on spine, blue endpapers and 'T. E. S.' blind stamped on the front board. A new edition of a work first published in 1940, with many extra photographs copied directly from vintage prints. Oblong Quarto. pp. 192. New Introduction by Malcolm Brown and Foreword by Lawrence's mother. Newly illustrated by vintage prints. A book in Fine condition. Now with a custom built slipcase by Christopher Shaw.

Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom

SMITH, CLARE SYDNEY:. The Golden Reign. The Story of My Friendship with "Lawrence of Arabia". with a new introduction by Malcolm Brown.. New Edition, FLEECE PRESS, 2004. Edition Limited to 500 copies., 2004.

Price: US$153.70 + shipping

Description: Approx 45 photographic illus., 185pp. oblong folio ( 205 x 265mm) orig. cloth, with Lawrence's initials blind-stamped on upper cover, This interesting biography by one of Lawrence's few close women friends, whom he got to know when her husband was his commanding officer at R.A.F. Mount Batten, the Flying-Boats Base near Plymouth, was first published in 1940. It was illustrated from photographs, some showing Lawrence and Clare Sydney Smith in the "Biscuit", the speedboat they used to use to make trips up the Tamar and around Plymouth harbour. Subsequent editions of "Golden Reign" did not include these illustrations. The original vintage prints have survived, and can therefore be reproduced to the highest quality, unlike those in the first edition which were poorly printed. A number of photographs which were not in the 1940 book are also included.

Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom

(Lawrence, T.E) Smith, Clare Sydney. The Golden Reign. The story of my friendship with T.E. Lawrence. With a foreword by Mrs. S. Lawrence, and a New Introduction by Malcolm Brown. Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2004.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: One of 500 copies. Illustrated. 183, [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. A handsomely produced volume, based on the original edition, with additional illustrations and a substantial new introduction. Bound by Smith Settle. O'Brien E138 for first edition, 1939 Blue cloth, upper cover stamped in blind, printed spine label. Fine Illustrated. 183, [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. Oblong 4to

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Sydney Smith, Clare.:. The Golden Reign and story of my friendship with 'Lawrence of Arabia'.. Upper Denby The Fleece Press, 2004.

Price: US$192.13 + shipping

Description: Ob. 4to. 183pp. Newly illustrated by vintage photographs. Foreward by Mrs S. Lawrence and a new Introduction by Malcolm Brown. One of 500 copies. Blue cloth with paper spine label in blue slipcase. A fine copy.

Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom

SMITH, Clare Sydney.. THE GOLDEN REIGN. The story of my friendship with 'Lawrence of Arabia.' With a foreword by Mrs S. Lawrence, and a new introduction by Malcolm Brown.. Upper Denby: Fleece Press, 2004.

Price: US$198.53 + shipping

Description: 500 copies, oblong sm.4to, (208x262mm), 185p. 59 Illustrations from photographs. A very good copy in original cloth. Superbly presented, and based on Smith's original edition of 1940 with additional illustrations. HEAVY BOOK, overseas customers please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based, email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and additional charges.

Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom

SMITH, Clare Sydney. The Golden Reign The story of my friendship with 'Lawrence of Arabia'. With a foreword by Mrs. S. Lawrence, and a new introduction by Malcolm Brown. Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2004.

Price: US$254.75 + shipping

Description: Oblong quarto, 184 pp. plus limitation leaf at the rear, illustrated with photo plates throughout. A fine copy with the slipcase. A personal account of friendship with Lawrence during his testing and development of novel speedboat designs at the RAF Flying Boat Station. There are 500 copies of this new edition of The Golden Reign, based on Clare Sydney Smith's original 1940 edition, with additional illustrations. Curiously, a short note by Lawrence's mother is included in this edition.

Seller: Rare Aviation Books, Millers Point, NSW, Australia

Smith, Clare Sydney [Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 - 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916-1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915-1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War] With a Foreword by Mrs S. Lawrence and a New Introduction by Malcolm Brown.. The Golden Reign | The Story of my Friendship with Lawrence of Arabia (Signed by Malcolm Brown + Signed Letter by the Publishers + Publisher's Press Release). Published by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press, 95 Denby Lane, Upper Denby, Huddersfield First Edition . 2004., 2004.

Price: US$320.22 + shipping

Description: First edition thus newly illustrated with vintage photographs, including those of the author which only appeared in the first edition and no later reprints prior to this. Hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, printed label to the spine, 'T.E.S.' blind stamped device to the front board, Purbeck grey end papers. Oblong 8¼'' x 10½''. 1 of 500 Limited Edition copies. Contains 183 pp + colour plate with approximately 45 vintage monochrome archive photographs throughout. In Fine condition. SIGNED by Malcolm Brown to the end of the introduction 'Malcolm Brown' | SIGNED card by the publisher to the end of the Acknowledgements leaf 'Simon L. | 13. 05. 04' | Loosely inserted signed A4 letter dated May 6th 2004 by the publisher concerning the printing of the book | Two A4 pp synopsis from the publisher loosely inserted | Publisher's original 2004 sales receipt enclosed. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir)

Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Fleece Press. Lawrence (T.E.) By Clare Sydney Smith. With a foreword by Mrs S. Lawrence and a new introduction by Malcolm Brown. The Golden Reign; the story of my friendship with ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. The Fleece Press, Upper Denby,, 2004.

Price: US$336.23 + shipping

Description: "Newly illustrated by vintage photographs" One of 500 copies, set in Miller Display Oblong 4to Fine copy, as new, in slipcase. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Simon Lawrence to Ian and Valerie Rogerson Rogerson 57 Blue blind-stamped cloth ("T.E.S."), spine with printed label, by Smith Settle

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

Smith Clare Sydney. THE GOLDEN REIGN. The story of my friendship with 'Lawrence of Arabia.' With a Forward by Mrs. S. Lawrence, and New Introduction by Malcolm Brown. Upper Denby The Fleece Press 2004, 2004.

Price: US$385.00 + shipping

Description: LIMITED EDITION, one of only 500 copies based on Ms. Smith's 1940 edition. Newly illustrated with vintage photographs, including those of the author which only appeared in the first edition and no later reprints prior to this. The author's photos are here produced in much higher quality and larger than in the 1940 edition, and with a number of additional photos and illustrations not included in that first printing. Oblong 4to, publisher's original navy blue cloth by Smith Settle with 'T.E.S.' embossed on the upper cover in blind, the spine with a printed paper label, and in the original slipcase of matching blue cloth. 183, [1] pp. An essentially mint copy of this seldom seen title in the Lawrence oeuvre, the text-block still in pristine condition, the binding and box also in very fine condition. A LAVISHLY PRODUCED LIMITED EDITION BY SIMON LAWRENCE OF THE FLEECE PRESS OF CLARE SYDNEY SMITH'S WONDERFULLY PERSONAL MEMOIR OF HER FRIENDSHIP WITH T. E. LAWRENCE. The Golden Reign was Lawrence's term for the time he spent under the command of Sydney Smith at the R.A.F. Flying-Boat Station Mount Batten in the early 1920s. The photographs are some of the most casual and candid images of Lawrence ever published. They include several of the author and Lawrence in the 'Biscuit', a speed-motor boat the two would use to make recreational excursions around Plymouth Harbor. This special limited edition includes a colour photograph of the model of the 'Biscuit' which Lawrence kept at his Clouds Hill residence. This, like many of the illustrations were not included in any previous issues. This is perhaps the most personal and informal of the many memoirs by associates of the enigmatic figure now and forever known as "Lawrence of Arabia"; and it is here presented in its finest and most complete format.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.