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Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 731 pages, 45 illustrations, includes letters of W. G. and F. H. Lawrence. Black cloth heavily sunned spine, light surface scratches and scuffs on the front board, binding square and firm, text clean.
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
. THE HOME LETTERS OF T. E. LAWRENCE AND HIS BROTHERS. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1954.
Price: US$97.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 731 pages in very good, clean condition; outer edges yellowed. Illustrated. Blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Corners not bumped. Grey DJ with black/red titles. Spine and edges darkened. Small tears and chips on the corners and edges. Not price clipped. VG+/GOOD+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gilt lettering on blue covers in a white dust jacket. 8vo, 731pp, 45 illustrations. First American edition. Large red "L" on the dust jacket and on the title page. Dust jacket spine sun darkened & DJ spine ends & edges torn. Not price clipped. Contents fine.
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$108.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in very good d/w. xvi,pp + 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 . These early letters add much background information. The US edition is identical to the first UK with Macmillan on the title page but in the Blackwell's UK binding and d/w.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Lg. 8vo. xvi, 732 pp. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and d/j. Minor wear to edges. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. One corner worn. Dj chipped to head and tail of spine. Minor creasing. Some staining to front. Spine lightly sunned. Inscribed by previous owner. Frontis. Illustrated with 44 b/w annotated photographs and many b/w drawings. Facsimile of a letter by Winston Churchill, dated March 4th, 1954 through which he gives his consent to Mrs. Lawrence to publish the Memorial speech delivered at Oxford in 1936. Although the title page still states "Macmillan, New York", the British publisher Blackwell is printed on the dust jacket and the tail of the spine of the binding. Printed the same year and shortly after the American edition. Minor browning to edges of pages. Else, in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
T.E. Lawrence. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence & His Brothers. The Macmillan Company, 1954.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 1st edition; light chipping to edges of dust jacket, some discoloration; dust jacket is in Brodart; minor wear to edges of cloth; no internal markings. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First printing (from British sheets). First state, with title page a cancel, in the original Blackwell dustwrapper and with the Blackwell imprint in gilt at base of spine. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xvi,731pp; illus. Light bumps to board corners; spine crown slightly pushed, still a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (with £3.3s. net at base of front flap, as issued), slightly discolored at margins and with some staining to spine panel, about VG. A selection of mostly pre-War letters, selected and edited by Lawrence's brother M.R. Lawrence; includes also letters written by brothers Frank and Will, both of whom died in WW1. Winston Churchill's "Allocution" appears as a foreword; it was originally written in 1936 as a speech at Oxford High School. O'BRIEN A247.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed copy of the first state of the first American edition. Per OBrien (A247), the binding and dust jacket are both identical to those of the first English edition, featuring the English publishers name "Blackwell" on the jacket and binding spines. The sheets are also from the British publisher, the first state of the American edition denoted by the title page (featuring the name of the U.S. publisher, "The Macmillan Company") being "tipped onto a stub of original English edition title page."Condition is near fine in a very good plus dust jacket. The navy cloth binding is unfaded, clean, square, and tight with sharp corners and bright spine gilt. We note only a few trivial blemishes and a touch of wrinkling at the spine ends. The contents are likewise clean with no previous ownership marks. A hint of spotting appears confined to the endpapers and page edges, which also show mild age-toning. Apart from a neatly price-clipped lower front flap (consonant with the English dust jacket being applied to an American first edition), the jacket is complete. The spine shows mild toning with short closed tears at the upper and lower rear joint and the upper rear flap fold and very light overall soiling. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.This collection of letters, edited by Lawrences brother, supplements the David Garnett collection (The Letters of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia) of 1938. "The letters included here for the most part cover his early years; fully two thirds of those included are from before the [First World] war 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." (OBrien)This book is notable to Churchill collectors for featuring two contributions from Winston S. Churchill - a one-page introduction from then Prime Minister Churchill dated 4 March 1954 on 10 Downing Street stationery and the four-page address given by Churchill in 1936 when he unveiled Lawrence's Memorial at Oxford. Of the address, Churchill states: "Mrs. Lawrence has sought my permission to print, as an introduction to the Home Letters of the most famous of her sons, the words which I spoke when I unveiled his Memorial at his old school in Oxford in 1936; and I readily give my consent. Eighteen years have passed since those words were spoken, but now, pondering them again, I find not one to alter. The vast perils and catastrophes of the years between have not dimmed the splendour of his fame, nor blurred the impress of his personality upon the memory of his friends. T.E. Lawrence and Winston Churchill were distinctly different in temperament, character, and the ways in which their respective brilliance shaped their time and legacy. Nonetheless, they developed a genuine and mutual affection, loyalty, and respect. After the first World War, Britain played a key role in shaping what was to become the political landscape of the modern Middle East. In 1920, Prime Minister David Lloyd George entrusted this responsibility to the brilliant, volatile, and ambitious Winston Churchill (partly at the private recommendation of T.E. Lawrence). Churchill immediately pressed Lawrence to become his political adviser and emissary to the Arabs. An initially reluctant Lawrence accepted. The resulting collaboration did much to shape the Middle East as we know it today. When Lawrence died, Churchill was among those at the small ceremony and was reportedly moved to tears. Reference: O'Brien A247, Cohen B145.2.a
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, Second State, with title page tipped in on stub, large L in red on title page, and issue statement on verso of title page. Binding and dust wrapper bear Macmillan imprint. Illustrated with twenty photographs. xvi, 731pp. 1 vols. 8vo. O'Brien A247 Original black cloth gilt, printed dust jacket. Dust jacket with some soiling and wear, fading and rubbing, but nonetheless a nice copy Illustrated with twenty photographs. xvi, 731pp. 1 vols. 8vo First American Edition, Second State, with title page tipped in on stub, large L in red on title page, and issue statement on verso of title page. Binding and dust wrapper bear Macmillan imprint.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
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.
Lawrence, T. E.. THE HOME LETTERS OF T. E. LAWRENCE AND HIS BROTHERS. Macmillan, New York, 1954.
Price: US$298.59 + shipping
Description: Pp. xvi+732(last blank), frontispiece, plus 37 plates, a few text illustrations, indices; thick med. 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised, spine a trifle faded at extremities; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a few small chips at foot of backstrip; upper hinge starting, a little light foxing; Macmillan, New York, 1954. First U.S. edition, first state, with cancel title page, and Blackwell imprint on spine and backstrip. O'Brien A247; Cohen B145.2.a; Woods B53. *Letters between T. E. Lawrence and his brothers, Will and Frank. The Introduction is Winston Churchill's Allocution on Lawrence, first delivered at the unveiling of the T. E. Lawrence Memorial at his old school in Oxford in 1936.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Lawrence, T.E.. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and His Brothers.. MacMillan, 1954.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good Plus copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with two short closed edge tears, and some light edge wear. This is essentially the British edition with the black cloth binding, British sheets with the Macmillan titlepage cancel added and jacket with the price in pounds and the UK publisher Blackwell on the spine. These letters are, in the main, a record of three lives coming to first flower in the decade before 1914; and it must be said at once that they add little that is new to our direct knowledge of T. E. Lawrence's share in the Arab Revolt, of the writing of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, or of his later years as an Aircraftman in the R.A.F. But if we ask what manner of young man made the Arabian adventure, here is perhaps the fullest answer likely now to be given. Here we see T. E. Lawrence still unstrained, eager and impish; passionately discovering new horizons of knowledge and beauty ; pouring out the tale of his discoveries to hearers of whose sympathy he was sure ; yet now and then giving a hint of that streak of austerity, of ruthlessness, that was to send him white-hot through the desert-fighting and desert king-making of the war. At eighteen "It was very difficult to make notes on [some carvings in a ruined Breton castle] because of the darkness which was intense and because I was clinging with teeth and eyelids on a ledge about four inches wide half way up the tower." These letters show us a creature of human proportions and reasonable motives, a man whose career we can follow with sympathy even if not with entire understanding. Contains 45 sepia photographs of the people and places addressed in Lawrence's correspondence.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.