Adrien Corbeau T E Lawrence (15 results)

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Miller Parker, Agnes (illustrator). Hard cover, no jacket, in very good condition for its age. Translation undertaken by T.E. Lawrence, who wished to remain anonymous. General shelf and handling wear, including fading and minor blemishes to boards, bumping to corners. Roughcut pageblock is tanned and foxed; tanning and light foxing to endpapers and spotting throughout. Within, pages are tightly bound, content clear and bright. Punctuated throughout with B/W illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. CN.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good+/Good. Woodcuts (illustrator). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Good+/Good. 1936. . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 8vo., 159 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, toned, endpapers toning .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Translated from the French by Lawrence credited under pseudonym J.H. Ross. Bound in publisher's original quarter yellow cloth with green boards. Illustrated frontispiece. Sunning to spine, rubbing to corners, bump to outside edge of front cover. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. 158 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Agnes Miller Parker (illustrator). Illustrated Edition. Green cloth with gilt to spine. Original illustrated dust jacket unclipped, 5s. net price intact, mylar protected. Woodcut to frontis. Uncut side edge. First published 1924. New illustrated edition, type reset, 1935. Damp stain to cloth top edge front, spine and rear. Jacket sunned, slightly chipped, soiled with a few small stains. Light spotting to half title, title and occasional top edge. Otherwise inside clean and square. Engravings are sharp. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Quarter green cloth and paper covered boards in excellent condition, contents clean, number 153 from a total edition of 352, housed in a black card slipcase Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title by Charlotte F. Shaw (the wife of George Bernard Shaw, and a close friend and correspondent of Lawrence's) to that doyen of booksellers, J.G. Wilson of Bumpus who assisted TE with the subscribers for the '26 SP: "J.G. Wilson from Charlotte F. Shaw, 13 March 1929" In original quarter yellow cloth with green boards, backstrip with printed label, a touch of wear to one corner, edges rough trimmed, dustjacket with darkened backstrip panel frayed at either end with some loss at foot, a little chipping to corners. Lawrence's very free translation of 'Le Gigantesque' was taken on to fill his time following expulsion from the RAF, but became a burden: he complained to Cape that 'at last this foul work' was 'complete. Please [.] get it off my suffering chest before I burst'. (O'Brien A094). Presentation Copy Signed By Ch.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. First Issue with L.H. instead of J.H. Ross as translator. 8vo, olive brown buckram spine w/tan pictorial paper boards, gilt, pp.139, red top stain, spine gilt dull as usual. A very good Copy. Translated from French by T.E. La wrence.

Second English Edition and New Illustrated Edition, type reset of the book first published in 1924. Publisher's leaf green linen with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to the dust-jacket illustrated with a wood engraving by Agnes Miller Parker, who illustrates the text with a further eight engravings. Small Octavo. 19 x 13.5 cm: [A]8 B-K8, 80 leaves, pp. [1-4] 5-160. Contains a new Publisher's Note and dedication omitted from the first edition. Translated from the French by T.E. Lawrence writing as J.H. Ross A book in Very Good condition with offsetting to endpapers, spotting to the prelims and untrimmed fore-edge, with a Very Good dust-jacket with a few short tears and slight dust-soiling, but which is not price-clipped (showing '5s net'). [O'Brien A095].

From the Library of Jeremy Wilson with his bookplate to the front pastedown, and ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. With the National Portrait Gallery compliments slip laid in, identifying this book as being that which was exhibited with Cat, no. 7A11 at the T.E. Lawrence Exhibition held in 1988. First English Edition. Publisher's original quarter yellow linen, printed paper label, light green boards with the illustrated dust-jacket. Octavo, pp. [1-6]7[8]9-158[159-160]. A Very Good copy, almost fine but for some show through from old tape reinforcements on the inside of the jacket and tape stains on the endpapers; dust-jacket not price-clipped (showing '6s net'). O'Brien.

Translated from the French by J. H. Ross [T. E. Lawrence]. Illustrated with Woodcuts by Agnes Miller Parker. Pp. 160(last blank), frontispiece, plus 8 plates; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle soiled, edges lightly worn, bottom fore-corners slightly bruised; fore and bottom edges uncut; the text block faintly browned, scattered light foxing; Jonathan Cape, London, 1935. Second U.K. edition. O'Brien A095. *Lacking the dust wrapper. 'By his own request Lawrence was given the French work Le Gigantesque to translate soon after his expulsion from the R.A.F. and re-enlistment in the Tank Corps in 1923. He appears to have been motivated both by a need for funds and by the wish to fill his free time.' [O'Brien p. 74]. In 1935, Cape published this edition, with illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. It contains a new publisher's note and the author's dedication to Professor Simon Dupley, which Lawrence had included in his translation but which, at his own suggestion, had been omitted from the 1924 edition. Adrien Le Corbeau was a pseudonym of Romanian writer Rudolf Bernhardt (1886-1932).

First edition, limited issue, number 57 of 352 copies, one of 45 bound in quarter goatskin. This is a French/English parallel version of Lawrence's translation of Le Gigantesque (1922), first published in 1924 and one of two translated works he produced. It is also the only example of Lawrence's translations from French. Lawrence took on this translation commission from Cape just after having enlisted in the Tank Corps. He denigrated both the novel itself and his work on it, sending his finished draft to the publishers accompanied by a note: "At last this foul work: complete. Damn Adrien le Corbeau and his rhetoric. The book is a magnificent idea, ruined by jejune bombast. My version is better than his: but dishonest here and there: but my stomach turned. Couldn't help it" (p. xi). This edition comes with a foreword by the editor Jeremy Wilson, the authorized biographer of T. E. Lawrence, and Le Corbeau's dedication to Professor Simon Duplay of the Académie de Médecine. It also contains a number of facsimiles and photographs of the original manuscripts, not present in any other rendition. The French text was typeset from the copy that Le Corbeau gave to Charles Fasquelle, son of his publisher, and the English text was scanned from the copy owned by Jock Chambers, one of Lawrence's close friends from his service. This copy is one of 45 in quarter crushed morocco, with a further 15 in an inlaid binding, 40 bound in quarter morocco, and 250 bound in cloth. Two copies were reserved for the publisher. Octavo. Frontispiece of facsimile letter, 10 plates, illustrations in the text. Original brown quarter morocco, spine gilt-lettered direct, brown cloth covers, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Housed in original brown cloth slipcase. A fine copy.