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T.E. Lawrence
Group of items relating to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, comprising:
(i) T.E. Lawrence. Leaves from the 1926 Subscribers Edition, [Privately Printed for Subscribers], 1926
THE SUBSCRIBERS EDITION, ONE OF 211 FULL TEXT COPIES, 4to, 12pp printed text and one colour plate, preserved in cloth flapcase with leather label, some light foxing to a few leaves
(ii) Charles Eilers. A Shy Bird: The U.S. Copyright Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Upper Denby: The Fleece Press, 2018
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 20 SPECIAL COPIES FROM A LIMIED EDITION OF 275 COPIES, housed in a drop-back box, with an original leaf from the second-state prospectus (1925) for the London Seven Pillars of 1926, 4to, 42 illustrations, original imitation vellum with leather spine label "in homage to the Doran binding of Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
(iii) T.E. Lawrence. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935
COPY NO.50 FROM A LIMITED EDITION OF 750 NUMBERED COPIES, 4to, bifolium advertisement for "Lawrence of Arabia Memorial" pasted in to front free endpaper, original pigskin-backed boards
(iv) Richard Knowles and Mark Kuritz. A Fresh Station: T.E. Lawrence writing and riding at Cranwell. Rickaro Books/Churchill Book Collector, 2019
COPY NUMBER ONE OF 250 COPIES, 8vo, modern grey morocco by the Fine Book Bindery (the only copy specially bound thus), housed in grey cloth folding case
(v) loosely preserved in endleaves of (iv): T. E. Lawrence, autograph letter, to Captain Raymond Goslett ("Dear Goslett"), discussing his new life in the RAF, his fame ("...Lowell Thomas? Curses on L.T..."), and the progress of Seven Pillars of Wisdom ("...my proofs only receive treatment on half-days and Sundays: and then usually only if it rains: for I love the road: and my bike. Consequently the book will not be ready till the new year. You and Makins each get a copy of the complete (but un-illustrated) text..."), 1 page, 8vo, [?Cranwell, Lincolnshire, August-December 1925], signature and date clipped, adhesive residue, creasing and marginal nicks
(vi) T.E. Lawrence. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935
FIRST ENGLISH TRADE EDITION, 4to, original buckram, dust-wrapper
(vii) T.E. Lawrence. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph 1922 and 1926 Texts. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2008
COPY NUMBER 16 OF 50 NUMBERED COPIES, 2 volumes, 4to, original morocco-backed cloth boards, spines lettered in gilt, top edges brown, slipcase, a fine set
This is the first time that the texts of these two texts, The Oxford Times edition, and the Subscribers' edition, have been issued as parallel texts
(viii) Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Woodcuts illustrating Col. T.E. Lawrence's book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". With Prefaces by Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence. London: Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, 1927
FIRST EDITION, PRESS REVIEW COPY, with the scarce "To the Press" label on upper wrapper, 12mo, with the 2 illustrations of Kennington's bust of Lawrence and Augustus John's portrait of King Feysel, original printed wrappers stapled as issued, staple a little rusted, wrappers slightly sunned, pin hole through top left corner, otherwise a very good copy
"In 1927 for an exhibition of the illustrations to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Leicester Galleries issued a catalogue. The preface written [by Lawrence] for the 1921 exhibition of the Kennington illustrations, with the first three paragraphs omitted, was used for this catalogue for the second exhibition. George Bernard Shaw also contributed a preface saying more about Lawrence than he did about the exhibition" (O'Brien A099).