Published by Jonathan Cape, 1938
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1938. First Edition. 896 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white plates and maps. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine.
Published by London : World Books, 1941
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1941. New Edition. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Cream cloth with brown lettering. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked. Scuff to front endpaper. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to spine ends. Heavy tanning to spine and board edges.
Published by Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., New York, 1939
Seller: Chester Creek Bookstore, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. First Edition. The cover is slightly dull. Has fold-out maps.
Language: English
Published by JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1938
Seller: WESSEX, GREAT TORRINGTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SOUND BINDING. NO INSCRIPTIONS. VERY GOOD BAR, MINOR SIGNS OF AGE AND USAGE. LIGHT BUMPING TO CORNERS. INTERESTINGLY THERE ARE TWO PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAMES TO FIRST FREE ENDPAPER ONE OF WHOM IS R H C DAVIS THE OXFORD SCHOLAR. ( THE THREE INITITAILS TOGETHER WITH "OXFORD" BELOW MAKE IT UNLIKELY TO BE ANOTHER DAVIS) DAVIS WROTE ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF CAIRO. HE WAS A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, WHO WAS AWARDED THE CROIX DE GUERRE DURING WWII. PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS.
Hardcover. folding maps, b&w photos (illustrator). 1st edition. pp. 896. Royal 8vo. Bound in usual Cape brown buckram with gift inscription on second blank leaf. Corners of boards slightly bumped; spine ends slightly crumpled. Else in very clean, tight - overall near fine condition. No dust jacket. From O'Brien p. 170: 'E. M. Forster first attempted editing the letters for publication but gave up the effort. It was then undertaken by Garnett. This edition.is the major collection, rivalled and supplemented only by the HOME LETTERS OF T. E. LAWRENCE AND HIS BROTHERS (1954).' However, as Clements points out (Clements p. 35) '.to gain the utmost value the work should be used with LETTERS TO T. E. LAWRENCE.' This is the first edition, first state, with the word 'Baltic' on p. 182. (O'Brien A202).
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. A good copy in original cloth. Still the most important collection of TE Lawrence correspondence. 896pp O'Brien A202. Still one of the best sources for information on TE.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third Impression. A good copy in original cloth. Still the most important collection of TE Lawrence correspondence. 896pp O'Brien A202. Still one of the best sources for information on TE.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co.
First Edition
Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. Owner's name and address on front pastedown. (World War 1, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Personal Correspondence).
Published by London, Spring Books, 1964. 2nd Edition., 1964
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Large octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG gold pictorial dj. Foreward by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Lawrence of Arabia died in the 1930's, and his fascinating personality has been portrayed on screen by Omar Shariff. Here his intellectual developmnent, the growth of his mind and spirit is recorded week by week and the details of his life documented. 896 pp. including index. Book.
Published by World Books, London, 1941
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. 8vo. 384 pp. Reprint Society edition. Spine is toned, minor edgewear, else a very nice copy.
Language: English
Published by Doubleday Doran & Company, New York, 1939
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. A vg clean copy of the first edition, first state, of this invaluable series of letters. First US edition. 896pp.
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, UK, 1938
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Includes 16*b/w photographs and 4*maps. 896pp. Corners of DJ has damp staining. Rubbing to edges of DJ. Nick to upper rear DJ edge. Rubbing to head and foot of DJ spine. DJ price clipped.
Published by World Books / Reprint Society, London, 1941
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Book Club. 8vo. original oatmeal cloth (a little rubbed & marked, upper board slightly bowed; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 384, with a map and diagram. A very good copy.
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1938
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy of the first edition no d/w. This is the first printing with "Baltic" on page 182, later corrected to 'Balkan" and the letter signed "T.E.L" later corrected to 'T.E.S" on page 495. This is still the most important collection of T.E. Lawrence correspondence. 896pp. O'Brien A202. This copy belonged to Tony Chance and there is a signed bookplate to inside of front board from David Garnett to Tony Chance. Still one of the best sources of information on T.E. compiled soon after TE's death by David Garnett.
Published by Spring Books, 1964
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Spring Books, 1964. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 896pp. Pages yellowed, d/j a little rubbed and creased. A fair copy. /1.1uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1938
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy of the first edition, no d/w. It has been rebound in a facsimile Jonathan Cape binding, better quality than the original and with headbands. A handsome and unusual copy. This is the first printing with "Baltic" on page 182, later corrected to 'Balkan" and the letter signed "T.E.L" later corrected to 'T.E.S" on page 495. This is still the most important collection of T.E. Lawrence correspondence. 896pp. O'Brien A202. Still one of the best sources of information on T.E. compiled soon after T.E.'s death by David Garnett. Signed by Editor.
Published by Spring Books, London, 1964
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. New Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original brown boards gilt (paperstock tanning) in dustwrapper (rubbed & nicked, crease to upper flap); pp. 896, with a frontispeice. Heavy item (1.3kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.
Published by World Books / Reprint Society, London, 1941
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Book Club. VG+/VG-. 8vo. original oatmeal cloth (a little rubbed) in dustwrapper (frayed with chipped at spine ends, a little marked and toned); pp. 384, with a map and diagram. A very good copy in a worn dustwrapper.
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1938
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Jonathan Cape, 1938, first edition. Hardback, 8vo, 896pp, folding maps, illust. Owner name/date, endpapers and edges slightly spotted. Original light brown cloth, rear board damp affected. A fair copy. /1.3uk.
Published by Cape, 1938, 1938
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edition. Hardcover. Excellent brown buckram, binding tight, all pages and illustration and foldout maps in very clean condition. The dustjacket is browned, with a piece of loss at the top edge of the spine and some corner and panel-edge wear. A good working copy of the first collection of Lawrence's letters.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1951
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Second Impression. F-/VG+. 8vo. original red cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to FFE, slight leaf edge spotting) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, backstrip toned, a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. 328, with frontispiece portrait. A very good copy.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1938
Seller: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. 896 pp. Frontis., illus., ports., maps and folding maps. The first state of the first edition. Lacking dust jacket. Very nice square tan cloth boards do show slightest shelf wear at head & tail and a tiny nick in rear joint; otherwise, the joints are strong, the binding as a whole is altogether firm, the hinges also without stress. Former owner's name neatly on endpaper. Text block sound as a drum, clean as a whistle. A superior copy.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1938
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Second Impression. 8vo. original brown cloth gilt, tail edge uncut (spine sunned, a little rubbed; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 896, with 16 illustrations & 4 maps. Heavy item (1.5kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.
Published by World Books, London, 1941
Seller: Carrick-White Ltd., West Looe Cornwall, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Selected letters from Lawrence of Arabia to various famous people and friends and relatives in the years 1909 to 1935 -- from archaeology, via WW1 and the Arab Revolt, to speedboats. Cream cloth boards with dark-brown lettering to spine, and with slight foxing to spine. 384 pages incl. index & names of recipients with cross-refs. to correspondence. Book tight and clean. .
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1938
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Two sumptuously bound volumes of the David Garnett edition of the "Letters of T.E. Lawrence", specially bound for the partners in the Jonathan Cape company. Probably the only two so bound, in fine near identical half leather bindings, Jonathan Cape's copy in scarlet leather and Wren Howard's in brown leather. Cape's copy is signed by Jonathan Cape and Wren Howard has a note from his widow giving provenance to the copy laid in. Both volumes in fine condition. These two copies surely deserve to be kept together to mark the triumvirate that meant so much to this publishing House, Jonathan Cape the eponymous partner, Wren Howard and of course T.E. Lawrence to whom much of the early success of the company rested. Still the most important collection of T.E. Lawrence correspondence. O'Brien A202. Remains one of the best sources for information on T.E. and his life. 896pp each volume. Signed by Publisher.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). The third impression of this impressive collection of the correspondence of T. E. Lawrence, illustrated throughout. David Garnett's fascinating publication of the correspondences of British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia and renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt. The letters included date from between 1906 to 1935.The third impression of this work, published one month after the first impression.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, fifteen plates, and four maps, two of which are folding. Collated, complete.With the illustrated bookplate L. H. Griffiths to the front free endpaper In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, exceptionally lovely, with shelf wear to back strip head and tail. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with a small spot to contents page. Near Fine. book.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this important collection of the letters of Thomas Edward Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia. The first edition.Illustrated with fifteen plates and four maps, two of which are folding. Collated complete. Comprising an important collection of correspondence of reputable British Army officer, diplomat and archaeologist Thomas Edward Lawrence. Known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign, Lawrence fought against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War.The variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia.Edited by David Garnett, an English writer and publisher. In publisher's original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1938
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Hardcover; large 8vo; 896 pages. First edition. Brown cloth with gilt on spine, rubbed and bumped corners/headcaps. Bright and clean interior. Two folding maps. Many plates throughout. Small brown mark on fore-edge. Paper jacket with black and red titles. Quite soiled, sunned, and rubbed, chipping to edges and especially hinge edge and spine. Held together with tape to edges of spine. VG-/P. Book.
Published by Jonathan Cape London, 1938
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. - First Edition - Corners and spine ends bumped - Covers rubbed w/ some marks and spotting - Spine faded and marked w/ circular stain near tail - Edges of text block toned w/ small stain near top corner - Endpapers toned w/ previous owner's name and date in ink to front free endpaper - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - Lacking dustwrapper - 896 pages.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1938
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. DJ price clipped, tanned, rubbed and chipped with some splitting and tearing to spine, now in protective cover. Related newspaper article pasted to ffep. A little shaken, a few spots and small stains to closed edges, contents clean and tidy. Size: 8vo.