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Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Two Volumes. Vol. I. [ix], 187 pp. Frontispiece. No. 460 of 500 copies, signed by Robert Graves. / Vol. II. [viii], 233 pp. Frontispiece. No. 460 of 500 copies, signed by Lidell Hart. Hardcover bindings, gilt lettered spine labels, light surface wear, overall very good condition. (97407).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition hardback book (233 pages)T.E.LAWRENCE TO HIS BIOGRAPHER, LIDDELL HART. Information About Himself, in the Form of Letters, Notes, Answers to Questions and Conversations. Published in 1938 by Doubleday, Doran and Company in a limited edition of 1,000 copies of which 500 are printed for the United States. This is number 390 - signed by Liddell Hart under statement of limitation. Boards show moderate rubbing/scuffing with browning on endpapers and spine - frontispiece portrait of Lawrence is loose from binding. Bookseller since 1995 (ULTV-L-Bottom) rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$419.72 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION. First US Edition, stated 'FIRST EDITION' on copyright page, limited to 500 copies, this hand-numbered '50' in each volume. Two volumes, SIGNED by Liddell Hart, and Robert Graves respectively. Octavo. pp. x, 236 and pp. x, 188. Bound in the original publisher's cloth bindings, with lettering pieces and gilt decorative bands to spines and impressed lettering to front boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeves fitted to the dust-jackets. Both volumes are in Very Good condition indeed. Good dust-jackets with spine darkening and minor blemishes, but which are not price-clipped (showing 'Price, $20 the set'). Lacking the slipcase. NOT FOR SALE First US edition, no. 50 of 1,000 numbered sets signed by Graves and Liddell Hart, of which 500 sets were for Great Britain and the remaining 500 for America. 'These volumes [.] are remarkable documents showing Lawrence's intimate work with two of his biographers. The letters, manuscript commentary and corrections, reveal the nature of information Lawrence supplied and the interpretation he allowed the authors to derive from it. These volumes expose a process of biographical writing that is rarely documented' (O'Brien). The set was printed in the United States, and Higginson and Williams state that the Graves volume was first published in the United States in December 1938, and that the British edition of the volume was first published on 12 January 1939 (despite the statement on the verso of the title-page that it was first published during December 1938 in Great Britain). O'Brien A214 and A215
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition. Two volumes. "This edition is limited to 1000 numbered and Signed copies for sale, of which 500 copies are printed for the United States." This is number 250 SIGNED by GRAVES and HART, each in their respective volume. Original gray cloth bindings, with gilt, red, and blind-stamped titles and decorations. Top edges gilt. Both volumes are FINE (no names, bookplates, remainder marks, or writing of any kind, etc.), with NEAR FINE+ dust jackets, each with the "Price, $20 the set" intact. Housed in FINE publisher's slipcase. As New.
Seller: Agathon Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First American editions, each no. 429 one of 500 copies signed by Graves and Liddell-Hart. Frontispiece in each volume. viii, [ii], 187; viii, [ii], 233 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. O'Brien A214 & A215 Original cloth. Very good set, toning to spines Frontispiece in each volume. viii, [ii], 187; viii, [ii], 233 pp. 2 vols. 8vo First American editions, each no. 429 one of 500 copies signed by Graves and Liddell-Hart.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First American editions, each no. 149 of 500 copies printed (total edition of 1000), signed by Graves and Hart. Frontispieces. 188; 234pp. 2 vols. 8vo. "These volumes.are remarkable documents showing Lawrence's intimate work with two of his biographers. The letters, manuscript commentary and corrections, reveal the nature of information Lawrence supplies and the interpretation he allowed the authors to derive from it. These volumes expose a process of biographical writing that is rarely documented" (O'Brien). Signed limited first American edition of Lawrence's collected letters to two of his biographers. Both are number 76 of only 500 copies printed (out of a total of 1000) and are signed by Robert Graves and Liddell Hart. Preceded the same year by the first English edition. O'Brien A214, A215 original cream cloth, top edges gilt, uncut. Fine in dust jackets and slipcase Fine copies Frontispieces. 188; 234pp. 2 vols. 8vo First American editions, each no. 149 of 500 copies printed (total edition of 1000), signed by Graves and Hart.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$812.50 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 1000 copies of which 500 copies are printed for the United States, this set no. 235, 2 volumes, 8vo; frontispieces, title pages printed in brown and black; original cloth in buff decorative dust jackets, t.e.g., matching board slipcase; jackets rather unevenly toned, old tape repair to slipcase, else a near fine, unopened set. Signed by both Graves and Hart. Higginson & Williams A49a.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This two volume set of Lawrence's letters to his two biographers is limited to 500 sets for sale in the US . Original slipcase is present with some signs of wear toning. The Robert Graves volume is signed by Graves; The Liddell Hart volume is signed by Hart. Both volumes are Near Fine, top edges gilt, with a previous owner's name penciled on the front pastedown in Very Good plus dust jackets with age darkening to the spines; offsetting to the front panel of the Hart volume and to the rear panel of the Graves volume. The letters from Lawrence to Graves and Hart concern both private matters and question-and-answer aspects about Lawrence's Middle East campaign and his mammoth survey of the subject, the famous Seven Pillars. The Graves book attempts comments on Lawrence's "chameleon-like character". Lawrence himself offers, in many playfully profound passages, a sometimes stunning self-analysis, but generally he seems to "love" his legend- and he was a legend then just as much as he is now. He says: "I'd wish every man to be an everlasting question mark". The Hart book is more factual, brimming with blueprint recapitulations of the battles and machinations, both political and military, behind the Arab Revolt. No, neither book solves the enigma of the Mystery Man of Mecca, but almost every page offers entertaining and endless "clues".
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.