Lawrence Edited Jeremy Nicole Wilson (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Limited Edition. A fine copy bound in grey boards with oatmeal cloth spine and leather title label contained in original matched cloth slipcase. An attractive edition bound by the Fine Press Bindery. A copy of this very limited edition that only runs to 227 copies. This volume unnumbered. Contains the letters and reports that relate to Lawrence's work on RAF boats between 1931 and 1935. There are letters (a number previously unpublished) to Flight Lieutenant W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood, and to others involved in the development of RAF boats. Reports include Lawrence's Notes on Handling the RAF 200 Class Seaplane Tender, and his previously unpublished log of maintenance work at Bridlington during the winter of 1934-5. This was the last substantial written task he completed before his death. The volume is a splendid production, one of the finest from the Castle Hill Press and packed with information regarding TE's time in the RAF. An invaluable research tool and fascinating read. Indicates beyond doubt the huge significance to TE of his work on boats, probably equal in importance and satisfaction to TE personally as his time in the desert in WW1. 410pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Limited Edition. A fine copy bound in grey boards with oatmeal cloth spine and leather title label contained in original matched cloth slipcase. An attractive edition bound by the Fine Press Bindery. A copy of this very limited edition that only runs to 227 copies, Number 167. Contains the letters and reports that relate to Lawrence's work on RAF boats between 1931 and 1935. There are letters (a number previously unpublished) to Flight Lieutenant W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood, and to others involved in the development of RAF boats. Reports include Lawrence's Notes on Handling the RAF 200 Class Seaplane Tender, and his previously unpublished log of maintenance work at Bridlington during the winter of 1934-5. This was the last substantial written task he completed before his death. The volume is a splendid production, one of the finest from the Castle Hill Press and packed with information regarding TE's time in the RAF. An invaluable research tool and fascinating read. Indicates beyond doubt the huge significance to TE of his work on boats, probably equal in importance and satisfaction to TE personally as his time in the desert in WW1. 410pp.

Hardcover. First and limited edition. This is the subscriber's limited first edition of T. E. Lawrence's Correspondence with the Political Elite, spanning 1922-1935. This volume is a vital and much-anticipated installment in the T. E. Lawrence Letters series published by Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence headed by Lawrence's official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017). The edition is limited to a total of 427 copies. This copy features the publisher's quarter white linen over gray-paper covered boards, the spine featuring a dark gray Morocco goatskin spine label gilt-stamped with author and title. The contents are bound with yellow silk head and tail bands and feature dark gray-stained top edges, illustrated endpapers, and a tipped-on frontispiece illustration of Lionel Curtis by Augustus John. This copy is hand-numbered "231" on the limitation page. Condition is fine, the binding and contents pristine. T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) achieved fame from his remarkable odyssey as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer, ended as "Lawrence of Arabia," and recounted in his magnum opus, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.But Lawrence's literary and intellectual reach far exceeded the world and words ofSeven Pillars of Wisdom and included engaging facility as a prolific correspondent.From the publisher: "Many of T.E. Lawrence's contemporaries found it incomprehensible that, while serving in the ranks as Aircraftman T. E. Shaw, he should remain on friendly terms with members of the political elite, some of whom he had known while advising Winston Churchill in the Colonial Office. There was surely a contradiction between these continuing relationships and his rejection of social status." Among the letters published herein are ten from Lawrence to his friend and admirer Winston Churchill, spanning 1922-1935, as well as Lawrence's inscription in Churchill's copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a 1927 letter from Churchill to Lawrence, and correspondence with Eddie Marsh, Churchill's longtime private secretary. Churchill said of his friend: "Lawrence had a full measure of the versatility of geniusHe was a savant as well as a soldier.He was an archaeologist as well as a man of action.He was an accomplished scholar as well as an Arab partisan. He was a mechanic as well as a philosopher.His background of somber experience and reflection only seemed to set forth more brightly the charm and gaiety of his companionship, and the generous majesty of his nature."(Great Contemporaries, p.166) Much of Lawrence's polymath genius scintillates in this correspondence volume. "The correspondents (in alphabetical order) are Nancy Astor, Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton; John Buchan, writer and Unionist MP for the Combined Scottish Universities; Winston Churchill and his Private Secretary Edward Marsh; Lionel Curtis, Fellow of All Souls, editor of the Round Table, and one of the founding organisers of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; Geoffrey Dawson, Fellow of All Souls and Editor of The Times; Lord Lothian, Cabinet Minister; and Ernest Thurtle, the Labour MP for Shoreditch who was responsible, with Lawrence's help, for the abolition of the death penalty for cowardice in the British Army. There are strong contrasts here, for example between the light-hearted letters to Nancy Astor (reminiscent in tone to those he had written to E.T. Leeds before the war), and the deeply introspective letters to Lionel Curtis. Here are his letters to Winston Churchill, his former chief at the Colonial Office, together with less formal letters to Eddie Marsh. The letters to Ernest Thurtle hint at his experience manipulating the political machine. Given the circumstances and the personalities involved, the collection is extraordinary - as are the public tributes paid to Lawrence after his death.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 340, VIIpp. Deluxe issue. A fine, fresh copy in the publisher's full grey crushed goatskin morocco, this being copy number 3 of just 50 copies bound thus (of a total limitation of 277 copies, including 27 copies hors commerce). In the publisher's blue cloth and navy velvet-lined slipcase, fine. All edges gilt, silk ribbon, gilt spine title, and marbled endpapers. SIGNED by Jeremy Wilson below his printed name at the close of the Introduction. Lawrence was preparing to publish "The Mint" in 1936, when he unexpectedly died in a motorcycle accident. That version was indeed published in New York in a very limited run of 50 copies for the purposes of securing copyright; it has remained a true rarity of 20th century book collecting. Though a slightly edited version was published in 1955, this represents the true original text, taken unedited from the original manuscript, which publisher Jeremy Wilson had access to in order make this beautiful book. The editors also added and meticulously organized a significant grouping of various writings, mostly from personal journals, containing Lawrence's reflections and experiences as a serviceman in the RAF. Scarce in this handsome binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 419, XVpp. Deluxe issue. A fine, fresh copy in the publisher's full deep blue crushed goatskin morocco, this being number 19 of just 40 copies boung thus, of a total of 377 limited copies (32 of which were hors commerce). All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In the publisher's deep blue cloth slipcase, fine. Among the writers whose correspondence with Lawrence is thoughtfully presented here for the first time are such figures as Cecil Day-Lewis, H. G. Wells, W. B Yeats, Edmund Blunden, Noel Coward, H. M. Tomlinson, and Siegfried Sassoon, among others.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 302, XIVpp. Deluxe issue. A fine, lovely copy in the publisher's full red crushed goatskin morocco, number 29 of just 40 copies bound thus (another 150 copies were bound in quarter morocco, and another 37 were hors commerce). All edges gilt, silk ribbon, gilt spine title, and marbled endpapers. SIGNED by Jeremy Wilson below his printed name at the close of the Foreword. In the publisher's red cloth and suede-lined slipcase, fine. This volume represents the first collected publication, in full, of Lawrence's correspondence with Edward Garnett, the English writer and critic, whose opinion Lawrence desperately sought on his working manuscript for "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Lawrence's correspondence with Edward's son David, who had himself become a very influential British publisher, is also included herein.

Quarter goatskin. Limited "Library Edition". This Castle Hill Press limited edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence's later writings about service life. Of a total edition of 475, 180 copies were bound thus for subscribers, in quarter navy goatskin with raised spine bands and blind ruled compartments and transitions over blue cloth boards with navy ribbon marker, head and foot bands, and gilt top edge. Illustrated, gray endpapers feature an R.A.F. flying boat and the contents contain 22 photographs. This is an as-new, unread copy, both the binding and contents pristine, the limitation number "167" inked by the publisher on the title page verso. The book is housed in a publisher-supplied cardstock slipcase.The Mint is T. E. Lawrence's unstintingly candid portrait about life in Royal Air Force ranks. "I set out to give a picture of the R.A.F., and my picture might be impressive and clever if I showed only the shadow of it. but I was not making a work of art, but a portrait." T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This time defined Lawrence with indelible experience and celebrity which he would spend the rest of his famously short life struggling to reconcile and reject, to recount and repress.Lawrence told the tale of this time in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a work with a tortuous writing, editing, and publishing history culminating in posthumous publication. Perhaps equally tortuous is the tale of how this story about the R.A.F. was written and published. In a state of nervous exhaustion following the First World War, his work on the post-war settlement, and writing and re-writing Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John Hume Ross. He swiftly concluded "there is grand stuff here, and if I could write it." so he began making notes "scribbled at night, between last post and lights out, in bed."In January 1923 his identity became public and he was discharged from the R.A.F., but allowed to re-enlist two and a half years later, this time using the surname "Shaw", under which he had meanwhile served in the Tank Corps. On re-enlistment, he resumed making notes. In 1927, while serving in Karachi, Lawrence arranged these notes into a manuscript which he circulated to a small number of people, including Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard. As with Seven Pillars of Wisdom, publishers were eager, but Lawrence resisted, in part due to Trenchard's concerns.A saga followed in which efforts were made to control publication via uncirculated copyright editions in both the U.S. and Britain; the book remained unavailable to the public. Lawrence made revisions in the last months of his life with a possible view to publication in a private edition (as he had done with the 1926 Subscriber's Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom), but the work remained unpublished until 1955, after the death of an officer described unfavorably in the text. Even then, the British edition blanked out objectionable words and substituted name changes to avoid libel.In 2009 Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence, published the most comprehensive edition of The Mint to date, containing the full 1928 text of The Mint together with a selection of Lawrence's later writings about service life. "The narrative of Lawrence's RAF years therefore begins in 1922 and ends with his retirement in February 1935. The result is a far more interesting version of Lawrence's second book." In 2010, Castle Hill Press published this "Library Edition" containing the 1928 text and "a slightly shortened selection of Lawrence's later writings about service life." For reference to the original publication of The Mint see O'Brien A166.

Quarter goatskin. Limited Edition. This Castle Hill Press limited edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence's later writings about service life. Of a total edition of 475, 180 copies were bound thus for subscribers, in quarter navy goatskin with raised spine bands, blind bordered compartments, and blind rule transitions over blue cloth boards with navy ribbon marker, head and foot bands, gilt top edge and housed in a matching blue cloth slipcase lined with blue paper. The illustrated, gray endpapers feature an R.A.F. flying boat and the contents contain 22 photographs. This is a pristine, as-new, unread copy, the book flawless, the slipcase with only slight shelf scuffing to the bottom edge.The Mint is T. E. Lawrence's unstintingly candid portrait about life in Royal Air Force ranks. "I set out to give a picture of the R.A.F., and my picture might be impressive and clever if I showed only the shadow of it. but I was not making a work of art, but a portrait." T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This time defined Lawrence with indelible experience and celebrity which he would spend the rest of his famously short life struggling to reconcile and reject, to recount and repress.Lawrence told the tale of this time in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a work with a tortuous writing, editing, and publishing history culminating in posthumous publication. Perhaps equally tortuous is the tale of how this story about the R.A.F. was written and published. In a state of nervous exhaustion following the First World War, his work on the post-war settlement, and writing and re-writing Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John Hume Ross. He swiftly concluded "there is grand stuff here, and if I could write it." so he began making notes "scribbled at night, between last post and lights out, in bed."In January 1923 his identity became public and he was discharged from the R.A.F., but allowed to re-enlist two and a half years later, this time using the surname "Shaw", under which he had meanwhile served in the Tank Corps. On re-enlistment, he resumed making notes. In 1927, while serving in Karachi, Lawrence arranged these notes into a manuscript which he circulated to a small number of people, including Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard. As with Seven Pillars of Wisdom, publishers were eager, but Lawrence resisted, in part due to Trenchard's concerns A saga followed in which efforts were made to control publication via uncirculated copyright editions in both the U.S. and Britain; the book remained unavailable to the public. Lawrence made revisions in the last months of his life with a possible view to publication in a private edition (as he had done with the 1926 Subscriber's Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom), but the work remained unpublished until 1955, after the death of an officer described unfavorably in the text. Even then, the British edition blanked out objectionable words and substituted name changes to avoid libel.In 2008 Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence, published the most comprehensive edition of The Mint to date, containing the full 1928 text of The Mint together with a selection of Lawrence's later writings about service life. "The narrative of Lawrence's RAF years therefore begins in 1922 and ends with his retirement in February 1935. The result is a far more interesting version of Lawrence's second book." In 2010, Castle Hill Press published this "Library Edition" containing the 1928 text and "a slightly shortened selection of Lawrence's later writings about service life."For reference to the original publication of The Mint see O'Brien A166.

Quarter goatskin. Limited Edition. This Castle Hill Press limited edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with significant "Later Writings about Service Life" and additional unpublished material. Of a total edition of 277, 200 copies were bound thus for subscribers, in quarter blue-gray goatskin with blue cloth boards and accompanying blue cloth slipcase, with illustrated endpapers, head and foot bands, gray satin ribbon marker, and printed on gray (pages 3-134) and white (pages 135-340) paper, denoting respectively the original text of The Mint and later writings about service life. The limitation page is hand-numbered "83" and the publisher's Introduction is hand-signed. The slipcase is lined in dark blue felt.The Mint is T. E. Lawrence's unstintingly candid portrait about life in Royal Air Force ranks. "I set out to give a picture of the R.A.F., and my picture might be impressive and clever if I showed only the shadow of it. but I was not making a work of art, but a portrait." T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) found fame as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." This time defined Lawrence with indelible experience and celebrity which he would spend the rest of his famously short life struggling to reconcile and reject, to recount and repress.Lawrence told the tale of this time in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a work with a tortuous writing, editing, and publishing history culminating in posthumous publication. Perhaps equally tortuous is the tale of how this story about the R.A.F. was written and published. In a state of nervous exhaustion following the First World War, his work on the post-war settlement, and writing and re-writing Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John Hume Ross. He swiftly concluded "there is grand stuff here, and if I could write it." so he began making notes "scribbled at night, between last post and lights out, in bed."In January 1923 his identity became public and he was discharged from the R.A.F., but allowed to re-enlist two and a half years later, this time using the surname "Shaw", under which he had meanwhile served in the Tank Corps. On re-enlistment, he resumed making notes. In 1927, while serving in Karachi, Lawrence arranged these notes into a manuscript which he circulated to a small number of people, including Air Marshal Hugh Trenchard. As with Seven Pillars of Wisdom, publishers were eager, but Lawrence resisted, in part due to Trenchard's concerns.A saga followed in which efforts were made to control publication via uncirculated copyright editions in both the U.S. and Britain; the book remained unavailable to the public. Lawrence made revisions in the last months of his life with a possible view to publication in a private edition (as he had done with the 1926 Subscriber's Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom), but the work remained unpublished until 1955, after the death of an officer described unfavorably in the text. Even then, the British edition blanked out objectionable words and substituted name changes to avoid libel.This beautiful limited edition of The Mint is the most comprehensive and elaborate yet published. The edition "contains the full 1928 text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence's later writings about his life in the ranks. The narrative of Lawrence's RAF years therefore begins in 1922 and ends with his retirement in February 1935. The result is a far more interesting version of Lawrence's second book." This copy is in fine condition in a fine slipcase. The book is pristine apart from a small bump to the lower rear corner and a corresponding bump to the lower rear corner of the slipcase.For reference to the original publication of The Mint see O'Brien A166.

Quarter goatskin. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Boats for the R.A.F. is the publisher's second volume about Lawrence's service life, bringing together reports and correspondence about his work helping develop high-speed motor boats. The volume is a companion to 'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life. Much of its content is previously unpublished. Of a total edition of 227 copies bound variously in full goatskin, quarter goatskin, or cloth, this is copy number 71. This copy features a quarter blue-gray goatskin binding over blue cloth sides. The contents are bound with illustrated endpapers, fold-out illustrations, and head and foot bands. The limitation statement is hand-numbered and the editor's introduction is hand-signed. The book is housed in the publisher's matching blue cloth slipcase. Condition is very good plus. The binding is square, tight, clean, and unfaded with sharp corners. We note only a hint of scuffing to the corners and cloth sides, doubtless a result of contact with the slipcase. The contents would be pristine but for a barely discernible hint of light spotting, confined to the otherwise bright page edges. The publisher's rigid cloth slipcase is covered in the same cloth as the binding and lined with darker blue paper. The slipcase has fortunately done its job protecting the book within, but suffered for its labor; the slipcase is fully intact but the edges of the slipcase opening show some discoloration at points.Lawrence's literary and intellectual reach far exceeded the world and words ofSeven Pillars of Wisdom. To the point, Lawrence's friend and admirer Winston Churchill said:"Lawrence had a full measure of the versatility of geniusHe was a savant as well as a soldier.He was an archaeologist as well as a man of action.He was an accomplished scholar as well as an Arab partisan. He was a mechanic as well as a philosopher.His background of somber experience and reflection only seemed to set forth more brightly the charm and gaiety of his companionship, and the generous majesty of his nature."(Great Contemporaries, p. 139) Consonant with his versatile genius, Lawrence's published works span crusader castles and ancient Greek translation to technical manuals on high speed boats. This volume contains the letters and reports relating to Lawrence's work on RAF boats between 1931 and 1935.In a state of nervous exhaustion following the First World War, his work on the post-war settlement, and writing and re-writing Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John Hume Ross. In January 1923 his identity became public and he was discharged from the R.A.F., but allowed to re-enlist two and a half years later, this time using the surname "Shaw", under which he had meanwhile served in the Tank Corps. He remained in the R.A.F. until 1935.From the spring of 1931 until the end of his R.A.F. enlistment in February 1935, Lawrence was part of a small team that developed and perfected the new types of RAF boat. He worked on seaplane tenders and armoured target boats, general-purpose workboats, refueling dinghies, bomb-loading dinghies and experimental craft. This account from Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence, is by far the most detailed yet published.