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Blackwell, Basil. The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers. Macmillan Company, 1954.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+/VG. 8vo. original black cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed, faint leaf edge speckling, occ. spots to outer leaves in dustwrapper (price-redacted, edges a little rubbed & frayed, strengthening on reverse); pp. xvi, 732 (last blank), with 45 illustrations. Heavy item (1.8 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
LAWRENCE, T.E.. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brothers.. , 1954.
Price: US$132.64 + shipping
Description: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954. Thick Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi, 732pp.). With frontispiece, and numerous full-page plates. 1st ed. End-papers slightly foxed, otherwise fine
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Lawrence, T.E.. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and His Brothers. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954.
Price: US$134.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Includes: A note by M.R. Lawrence, a note on the life of T.E. Lawrence, an introduction by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston S. Churchill; in addition there are notes on the lives of W.G. and F.H. Lawerence, with forewords to the sections containing their letters. Illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. 729 pages with index. Dark navy cloth with a touch of fading and shelfwear around the spine, and a slight bump on the top front edge. Jacket has some tears and chipping around the spine and corners with some edgewear and discolouration due to age. Front inside flap has been priceclipped. Otherwise in very good condition overall.
Seller: ! Turtle Creek Books !, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Lawrence, T. E.. The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and his Brothers. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's signature dated 1954. Some foxing. Some foxing and dust stains to dust-jacket. Small 20mm tear to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xvi, 731, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 44 illustrations on 19 plate leaves. 3 full page plans on the paginated leaves, several in-text illustrations. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 229 x 154mm.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$138.75 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. xvi, 730, [1]. 49 illus. on 20 plates. text illus. index. cloth. First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
LAWRENCE, T.E.. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and His Brothers. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954.
Price: US$149.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Black and white plates throughout. Some mild staining visible to the boards; light foxing to the outer edges of the pages and to the pages toward boards. Dustjacket has some paper loss to the outer corners and to the head and heel of the spine panel. Spine panel browned with wear to edges. Closed tear with some paper loss along spine edge at rear panel, with adjacent creasing to rear panel. Some staining to the front panel.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy bound in full dark blue leather with gilt title to the spine, fine blue endpapers. xvipp + 731pp. Portrait frontispiece. With 35 plates. A significant collection of letters relating to the Lawrence brothers, Thomas Edward Lawrence, William George Lawrence, Frank Helier Lawrence. An exceptional copy.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Lawrence, T. E.. The home letters of T. E. Lawrence and his brothers. Macmillan, New York, 1954.
Price: US$156.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, Amercan issue, (British sheets with a cancel title page, but with the Basil Blackwell dust jacket); 8vo, pp. xvi, 731; frontispiece and 44 illustrations on rectos and versos of 19 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth, dust jacket with some spotting on the spine and with very small chips out at the extremities.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$346.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good octavo xvi + 731pp., frontis., b/w pls., indexes, Some foxing to end papers & tender front hinge o/w VG copy in like dust jacket. Scarce
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$352.74 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, first impression. Original dark blue cloth by The Kemp Hall Bindery, gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. xvi, 732; frontispiece and 20 plates, all but one with illustrations recto-and-verso, full page facsimile of a letter by Churchill and illustrations and plans in text, 3 full-page, lettering printed in red and black; dust-jacket slightly faded on spine, creased with skilfully repaired short tear on lower panel. A book in Near Fine condition in a Good plus dust-jacket which is not price-clipped. The original Blackwell's purchase receipt laid in. O'Brien A246
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Lawrence, T. E.. THE HOME LETTERS OF T. E. LAWRENCE AND HIS BROTHERS. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954.
Price: US$397.93 + shipping
Description: Pp. xvi+732(last blank), frontispiece plus 37 plates, text illustrations, large red decorative initial at centre of title page, indices; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, with the 'Recommended by The Book Society' wrap-around band; upper hinge cracking, edges of leaves a trifle soiled, a little faint foxing; Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954. First edition. O'Brien A246; Cohen B145.1; Woods B53 [Churchill reference]. *The Introduction includes Churchill's Allocution on Lawrence, originally delivered in 1936, at the unveiling of the T. E. Lawrence Memorial at his old school in Oxford. With an unused postcard portrait of Lawrence loosely inserted.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
LAWRENCE, T.E.. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brothers.. Basil Blackwell, Oxford., 1954.
Price: US$416.87 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp xvi, 731. Letters by T.E., W.G. and F.H. Lawrence. The T.E. Lawrence section includes a selection of photographs taken by him.Some faint spotting to endpapers. Fine in near-fine, price-clipped dustwrapper slightly creased at the edges. A very bright copy.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$434.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. This copy with the Blackwell binding and dustjacket as preferred. Illustrated with black and white photographs of the Lawrence brothers and the various locations they traveled in. Hand drawn maps and illustrations by T.E. Lawrence. 8vo, publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in the original dustjacket. xvi, 731 pp. A clean, handsome and sturdy copy, essentially fine, in the original jacket a bit mellowed at the spine panel and with only light evidence of age or use. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE WORK AND ONE OF THE BEST IN THE T.E. LAWRENCE OEUVRE. The letters home of T.E. Lawrence and his brothers Will and Frank as they traveled the world. Both of T.E.s brothers fought and were killed in WWI. T.E. Lawrences letters date from 1916 to 1934 and come from all the locations described in his writings. With an introduction by Winston Churchill.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$506.66 + shipping
Description: First edition. 'This collection of letters, edited by [T.E. Lawrence's] brother M.R. Lawrence, supplements the David Garnett collection of 1938. The letters included here for the most part cover his early years; fully two thirds of those included are from before the war. The two collections provide a remarkable picture of the range and scope of Lawrence's letter-writing from his youth to the end of his life. The letters of his brothers Frank and Will, both of whom died in the First World War, are also included. The whole reflects what was a truly remarkable family. This collection is a primary source for the pre-war correspondence of Lawrence' (O'Brien, pp. 167-168). 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper and scarce wrap around Book Society Choice band. A very good copy.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$763.19 + shipping
Description: First edition. 'This collection of letters, edited by [T.E. Lawrence's] brother M.R. Lawrence, supplements the David Garnett collection of 1938. The letters included here for the most part cover his early years; fully two thirds of those included are from before the war. The two collections provide a remarkable picture of the range and scope of Lawrence's letter-writing from his youth to the end of his life. The letters of his brothers Frank and Will, both of whom died in the First World War, are also included. The whole reflects what was a truly remarkable family. This collection is a primary source for the pre-war correspondence of Lawrence' (O'Brien, pp. 167-168). This copy was previously in the library of the Lawrence scholar Lilith Friedman, who worked with John Mack on his biography A Prince of our Disorder (Boston, 1976) and with Lawrence's authorised biographer Jeremy Wilson for some twenty years on numerous projects, including Lawrence of Arabia, where her assistance is acknowledged with the words, 'this book would not have been completed, even now, without the years of work contributed by Dr Lilith Friedman. She has patiently and painstakingly followed up thousands of queries and has remained cheerful even when the search proved fruitless' (p. 1157). After her death it was bequeathed, with many of her books on Lawrence, to Jeremy Wilson. Octavo (229 x 153mm), pp. xvi, 731, [1 (blank)]. Title printed in red and black, text printed in Roman and Greek characters. Half-tone frontispiece and 19 half-tone plates, all but one with illustrations after T.E. Lawrence, B.H. Liddell Hart, et al. recto-and-verso. Illustrations and plans in the text, 4 full-page, and one full-page facsimile of a letter by Churchill. (A few light marks.) Original dark blue cloth by The Kemp Hall Bindery, spine lettered in gilt, black-and-red printed dustwrapper, not price-clipped. (Extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, dustwrapper slightly darkened and creased on spine, marked on lower panel, creased and darkened on spine, edges slightly creased and chipped.) A very good copy. Provenance: Dr Lilith Friedman (initials 'L.F.' on front free endpaper, occasional check-marks, apparently by Friedman, on T.E. Lawrence's letters; bequeathed to:) Jeremy Michael Wilson (1944-2017). T.E. Lawrence's letters are prefaced by Winston Churchill's 'Allocution', given at Oxford High School at the unveiling of the Memorial to Lawrence in 1936, together with a facsimile of Churchill's 1954 letter 'readily' consenting to allow the allocution to be reprinted here. Wilson discovered the background to and true origin of this letter in 'about 1969', when he met the publisher Sir Basil Blackwell, as he explained in 'Defending Lawrence' in Finest Hour (vol. 169 (2015), p. 50). Apparently the inclusion of Churchill's 1936 'Allocution' was proposed by Sarah and M.R. Lawrence, and Blackwell wrote to the prime minister requesting his permission to reprint the allocution, and also to write a prefatory note for the volume, which was intended (unbeknownst to Churchill) to counter the attacks on Lawrence in Richard Aldington's forthcoming Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry: 'Blackwell felt that if Churchill added a note introducing his 1936 speech in which he stated that his view of Lawrence was unchanged, it would help preserve his friend's reputation'. Churchill's secretary, Jane Portal, replied to Blackwell's request with the words, '"[w]ith regard to the paragraph you suggest 'introducing' the tribute; it would be most helpful if you could send a draft of what you would think suitable, with what Sir Winston said on that occasion and he can then alter it if necessary and also sign it." Blackwell was surprised, but did his best in a brief note to mimic Churchill's oratory style' and his draft was returned 'almost exactly' the same, apart from the omission of an adapted Shakespeare quote, 'typed out on Downing Street notepaper and signed by the Prime Minister. [.] Blackwell printed the letter in facsimile, leaving readers (except Blackwell!) in no doubt about its authenticity'. Cohen, Churchill, B145.1; O'Brien A246.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1218.54 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Narrow 4to. xvi + (2) + 730 + (2)pp. Bw photofrontis + 44 bw photos. Publisher's black cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Off white printed dw, black lettering + large red L on front & spine, not price clipped £3 3s net. Original white eps. Neat old signature/address on fep. Letter from J G Wilson on J & E Bumpus Ltd ( booksellers ) to signature on fep with date " 12 VII 54 " discussing the Lawrences " AW is an excellent fellow, but I never found him so open as T E - bless his memory ". Covers : slight 1cm knock front bottom corner, slight rub top of spine. Dw : 2cm closed tear top edge of spine, another rear bottom corner, rub top of spine, 2cm light mark front, slight browning & faint foxing. Contents : foxing to eps else very clean & tight. VG+/VG
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom