Henry Williamson Published Anonymously T E Lawrence Interest (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped vignette to the upper board. Tip of one corner knocked and the cloth at the backstrip and board margins a little tanned. Some spotting to the endpapers and occasional text leaf margins. Quite a bright copy, lacking the dust wrapper. A roman à clef of the thirties featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson ('Cahnnerson'), D. H. Lawrence ('David Torrence'), Siegfried Sassoon ('Sherston Savage'), Aldous Huxley ('Adolf Stucley'), T. S. Eliot ('P. S. Etiol)', John Galsworthy ('Holsworthy'), H. G. Wells ('Springs') and J. B. Priestley ('P. B. Bradford' - Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson"). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Edges and endpapers spotted and with a little further spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional leaves throughout. A good copy in spotted, toned, torn and nicked price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel join and, an inch of loss from the head of the front panel and several smaller areas of loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J. B. Priestley. (Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a tiny area of spotting to the fore edge. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good indeed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel fold, considerably tanned at the spine panel, and with some nicking and several slivers of edge-loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J. B. Priestley. (Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").…