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T. E. Lawrence (Thomas Edward Lawrence) | First Editions
1888 - 1935
See below our stock of T. E. Lawrence First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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The Twilight of the Gods.
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1927. [Fantasy Short Stories] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, the Week-End Library Edition. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xvi; 328 [8]. With Lawrence's introduction from the illustrated edition of 1924. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge maroon. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate..... More
Oriental Assembly.
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1939. [Travel / Adventure] FIRST EDITION, publisher's file copy edited by A.W. Lawrence, with his SIGNED notes for a later printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291. With four illustrations including frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. In publisher's brown cloth with..... More
The Mint, by 352087 A/c Ross A Day-book of the R.A.F.Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes.
London, Jonathan Cape. 1955. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Publisher's blue morocco-backed buckram morocco boards. One of 2000 copies numbered in ink. Printed on fine laid paper with marbled endpapers, deckle edges, top edge gilt. Clean within but for spotting to first and final leaves, cloth marked at fore-edge. A very..... More
The Mint, by 352087 A/c Ross A Day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE in publisher's quarter morocco. Number 1337 of 2000 copies. Printed on fine laid paper. Buckram-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. A fine copy without the card slip-case. Lawrence's 'The Mint' is a memoir of his..... More
The Mint, by 352087 A/c Ross A Day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. [History] FIRST EDITION. Small Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.206. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and RAF symbol in blind to upper board, top edge blue. Cream dust jacket featuring black and mauve titles priced at 17/6. Minor spotting to flyleaves else a...... More
Oriental Assembly.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291;[1]. With four illustrations including frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted black. Typographic dust-jacket with titles in black to spine and upper, showing printed..... More
Oriental Assembly.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291;[1]. With four illustrations including frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted black. Edges of text block toned (not to plates), trivial wear to covers..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] LIMITED ISSUE of the FIRST EDITION, published for general circulation (originally published privately in 1926). No.453 of 750 copies. Illustrated with three manuscript facsimiles and forty-seven plates including four in colour. Four folding maps. Quarter pigskin over brown buckram with crossed swords in gilt..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Attractively bound in tan half morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to contrasting burgundy and green..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt crossed scimitar motif to upper board reading..... More
The Odyssey of Homer.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935. [Classics in Translation] FIRST UK EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 327 [5]. With a dichromatic vignette title page and 'Wanderings of Odysseus' maps to front and rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt roundel illustration to upper. Top edge..... More
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