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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus. 4to. Editor's introduction; memoir of E. T. Leeds by D. B. Harden. Tipped-in frontispiece, 1 full-page drawing by Lawrence, 6 Lawrence letters in facsimile, 17 b/w photographs (mostly by Lawrence); line drawings and upper cover design by Richard Kennedy. Bibliography; glossary. Full gilt stamped leather, marbled endpapers (by Colleen Gryspeerdt), t.e.g., uncut. Publisher's brown cloth and board slipcase. Fine. Number 34 of 80 numbered special copies, with additional proofs of Kennedy's illustrations housed in a separate folder.…

With a Preface by C. Day Lewis. Pp. 272, frontispiece portrait, indices; two-tone papered boards, spine blocked in blue and lettered in gilt; top edges light blue/grey; dust wrapper, lightly browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Jonathan Cape, London, 1971. First U.K. trade edition. O'Brien A258. *Lawrence's notebook, Minorities, contained his 'private anthology' of favourite poems, including examples by James Elroy Flecker, D. H. Lawrence, Edward Thomas, Laurence Housman, John Donne, William Morris and Siegfried Sassoon. 'Much of this collection, published here for the first time, was made in the crucial period between the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Lawrence's enlistment in the R.A.F. in 1922 and provides biographical evidence of far-reaching importance' [wrapper blurb]. …