GARNETT, David [ed.] The Letters of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia. London: Jonathan Cape. 1938. Large 8vo. First edition, first printing, the first issue with both issue points present. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. Bottom edge untrimmed. Topstain. Frontispiece of Lawrence, Hogarth, and Alan Dawnay at Cairo, numerous photographic plates, plus four maps including two from sketches by Lawrence. A sharp example, the cloth clean and bright with small bump to corner, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges a trifle spotted and even more sporadically to endpapers, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and very sharp, small closed tears to front panel top edge, trivial bumps, but clean and sharp overall.
A thorough record of Lawrence’s life and career, from his schoolboy days to his death in 1935, told almost entirely in his own words, via the great many letters to his friends and associates, of whom there were hundreds. A quite remarkable undertaking by the editor, David Garnett, who was given great freedom and access to portray T. E. L.’s week-by-week development. Uncommon in such sharp condition.
GARNETT, David [ed.] The Letters of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia. London: Jonathan Cape. 1938. Large 8vo. First edition, first printing, the first issue with both issue points present. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. Bottom edge untrimmed. Topstain. Frontispiece of Lawrence, Hogarth, and Alan Dawnay at Cairo, numerous photographic plates, plus four maps including two from sketches by Lawrence. A sharp example, the cloth clean and bright with small bump to corner, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges a trifle spotted and even more sporadically to endpapers, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and very sharp, small closed tears to front panel top edge, trivial bumps, but clean and sharp overall.
A thorough record of Lawrence’s life and career, from his schoolboy days to his death in 1935, told almost entirely in his own words, via the great many letters to his friends and associates, of whom there were hundreds. A quite remarkable undertaking by the editor, David Garnett, who was given great freedom and access to portray T. E. L.’s week-by-week development. Uncommon in such sharp condition.
