T E Lawrence Introduction By (37 results)
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition edition. 704 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by Newburyport Press, Inc., Newburyport, MA 1963
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Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980
Contact seller5-star sellerHC. 220pp This book, begins as a pleasant and gently persuasive reminiscence of Essex County, suddenly deepens and broadens into a remarkably clear and authoritative reconstruction of the way things were hereabouts, from the time of the first settlers, to the cataclysmic introduction of the hot top clover leaf. CONDITION NOTE --… EX-LIB WITH USUAL MARKINGS - SOILING EDGES OF BOOK BLOCK. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) - EX-LIB SEE NOTE. B&W illustrations (illustrator).
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition edition. 704 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by Dover, New York 1979
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Seller: Irving Book Company, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.Irving Book Company
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Good only. Spine cocked. Reprint. 8vo. Original glossy blue pictorial wrappers. 696 pp. From the library of Univ. of Dallas Classics Professor Karl Maurer; a stray pencil note or two.
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 210 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 6 X 8 inches high. Paperback. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to covers, text & illustrations are very clean, binding is tight, text in German. Travel. STK.
Language: English
Published by The Pennsylvania State University Pess, University Park 1968
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Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 175 Pp. Beige And Orange Cloth Lettered In Black. First Printing, Previously Unpublished In Book Form. Near Fine Book, No Marks, In Very Good Dust Jacket With Wear, Dust, Small Tears And Losses At Corners. From The Library Of U. S. Mideast Diplomat J…ohn S. Habib Although Not Marked As Such.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. New Illustrated Edition. 256 pp.
Published by The Folio Society
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Book in slipcase. Slipcase Very Good. (middle east, WWI, lawrence of arabia).
More imagesPublished by Folio Society 1986
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Seller: Bailgate Books Ltd, Doncaster, , United KingdomBailgate Books Ltd
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. First Edition with this introduction. Size: 9.5" x 7" approx. Contains black and white plates. Slip case as opposed to dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventor…y No: 08418051026. All our books are sent by tracked mail.
Published by The Folio Society
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: As New. Like New condition. Slipcase Very Good. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his signature on his personalized bookplate on front endpage verso. (World War 1, Arabian Peninsula, Military Campaigns).
Language: English
Published by The Heritage Press, New York City 1953
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Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Xxi, 453 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Brown, Illustrated Endpapers. Reprint Of The Limited Editions Club Issue. Fine In Lightly Used Dust Jacket, Some Browning, In Slipcase With Some Wear And Browning. Mapsplates, Illustrations In Text (illustrator).
Published by Folio Society, London 1989
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Seller: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, , United KingdomRiley Books
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Hard Back. Condition: Fine. No Jacket Issued. Third Impression. A fine book in a fine slipcase. Size: 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". Edward Bawden (illustrator). Book.
Published by THE FOLIO SOCIETY - LONDON 1986
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Seller: Bishops Green Books, Newbury, BERKS, United KingdomBishops Green Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A dessert scene, landscape silhouette design, on a beautiful tan cloth covered hardback book, with gilt title impressions running across the top half of the spine, set within a blocked brown box. Comes with a cream coloured box, slipcase. This wonderful book is i…n excellent condition, looks like its hardly been used or read. Normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. Personal printed label on inside board map, on top left corner, measuring 6cms x 3cms and opposite page (first page, continuing map from inside board) in top right corner is an imprint of the same person's name in circular stamp, measuring 4cms in diameter. 326 pages, all intact, good tight binding, all pages, text, maps and illustrations are in excellent condition, clean, and readable order. Set in 11 point Bembo spaced one point by Deltatype, Ellesmere Port and printed by The Bath Press on Wentworth Opaque Paper. Bound by The Bath Press in Ernstmeir Buchleinen Mattleinen Cloth printed with a sketch by Edward Bawden. Another fantastic book from The Folio Society.
More imagesPublished by Heritage Press, New York 1953
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Seller: A Few Books More. . ., Billings, MT, U.S.A.A Few Books More. . .
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. sm 4 to, 453 pp including Glossary. Bound in linen cloth with Egyptian style decoration, very attractive. All edges dark brown, matching inc of decorations. Decorated end papers, Attractive area map doubles as title page. Interior is clean, no marks, light to moderate use. In publisher's sturdy V…ery Good undecorated slipcase. S/c is worn on one corner and along two inches of the open side, and a few small spots--origin unknown. (see photo) Weight 3.40 pounds. Illustrations by Edy Legrand. (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Folio, London 1986
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- First Edition
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United KingdomRichard Booth's Bookshop
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HardBack. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st Edition Thus, Folio 1986. Frontispiece and many illustrations, double map endpapers. Appears unopened and unread, good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or ownership marks of any kind, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Beautifully…bound in bright gilt lettered yellow ochre pictorial cloth. Housed and protected in such great condition by original beige slipcase, small gentle crease to unseen shelf edge. Great shelf presence. A good addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike.
Published by Folio Society, London 2007
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Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, CanadaB-Line Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Eighth Printing. Still stiff to open, in sturdy brown slipcase. Bound with the new design of 2006. ; 326 pages. Illustrated by Edward Bawden (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London 1936
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- First Edition
Seller: The Bookmonger, Nottingham, , United KingdomThe Bookmonger
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A "new and definitive edition", for the first time in two volumes, of this work first published in 1888, described in Lawrence's fulsome introduction as "a bible of its kind". Pages are 674, 676, with foldout maps at the end of each volume and 9 plates in volume 1 (as listed). In the… publishers brown cloth binding, minor wear and marking externally, inside very clean and sound, the maps good.
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Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, , United KingdomRickaro Books BA PBFA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. First Limited Numbered Edition. This is the edition with cloth spine cloth and boards covered with wood effect. This is is one of the 320 copies, in card slipcase as issued. This copy is an out of series copy marked "office copy not for sale" in the number space and on… the ht a small Castle Hill Press stamp, otherwise fine. Parallel French and English texts of Lawrence's first published translation, The Forest Giant. Several critics have argued that his version is much better than the original. In this edition, readers with a command of both languages can assess Lawrence's work for themselves. With a Foreword by the TE Lawrence scholar Jeremy Wilson. A fine interesting copy.
Language: English
Published by Dodd, Mead And Company, New York Usa 1926
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- First Edition
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Illustrated Edition. Xviii, 346 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt And Also Stamped In Red, Illustrated Endpapers And 28 Plates. Second Printing, 1926, Of This First Illustrated Edition, American Issue With Lane/Dodd Title Page And Dodd/Mead On Spine. Near Fine, No Marks.
Published by Boni & Liveright, Inc.: NY; Jonathan Cape & the Medici Society Ltd.: London
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Seller: Berry Hill Book Shop, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.Berry Hill Book Shop
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. (1923); Very Good Plus/no djs, 2 volumes complete: 623 & 690pp., black cloth hardcovers, gold lettering almost totally faded off backstrips, complete with folding maps & plans & containing large fold-out map in rear packet of volume 1, bindings tight, text unmarked, extra postage for I…nternational shipping.
More imagesPublished by The Folio Society, London .UK 2008
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Seller: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, United Kingdompowellbooks Somerset UK.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase Very Good. 3rd Edition. Revolt in the Desert was first published by Johnathan Cape in 1927. This Folio Society Edition was first published in 1986, this Folio Edition is a Ninth printing 2008 The boards and text block and slip case are all square, tight and clean.…Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only. This book is photographed in the box it is sent as proof against in-transit damage. Photgraphs by T.E.Lawrence and others. Sketches by Edward Bawden (illustrator).
Published by Boni and Liveright, New York 1921
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- First Edition
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.Meir Turner
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Thin-paper Edition in One Volume. Complete and unabridged. One inch tear in bottom of title page. Frontispiece of author. Pristine folded map in pocket. Top two millimeters of outer spine strip are frayed.
Published by E-203
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Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.Last Exit Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Hardcover. 8vo. Boni & Liveright, New York. 623 pgs + 690 pgs + folding map. No Date. Thin paper edition. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear prese…nt to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Travels in Arabia Deserta, originally published in 1888, is a two-volume set which describes English poet Charles Doughty's extensive travels through the Arabian deserts and the discoveries he made there. The work became well-regarded for its beautiful prose as well as its extensiveness, which made it a benchmark of ambitious travel writing in the early 20th century. Written in the style of the King James Bible, the text is extravagant and creative. In the 1920's, it was discovered by British Army Officer T. E. Lawrence, who spurred the book's republication, this time with an introduction from Lawrence. The Lawrence introduction , as well as accounts of Doughty's treks to Mecca, Ammon and Moab, the Mountain of Edom, Arabia, the Passage of the Harra, Teyma, and more. He also describes nomad life in the desert and ancient stories, peoples, and myths connected with his travels. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by London John Lane, The Bodley Head 1927 1927
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Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United KingdomOJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA
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From the library of Clement Attlee (British Prime Minister 1945-1954) and bearing his bookplate of the front paste-down. The Week-End Library Edition. Publisher's deep red buckram with gilt lettering to the spine and front board and gilt decoration to the spine, top edge stained deep red. Clear, removable, archival protective co…ver fitted to the book. 16mo. pp.xvi, 326, [8] advertisements. A book in Very Good condition. The University of York Library (Morrell Library) houses 'The Attlee Collection' comprising of books donated to the Library by former Prime Minister Clement Attlee. He donated works to the newly founded University of York in the early 1960s; many of these works relate to the independence of India and Pakistan and demonstrate the extent of Attlee's involvement with this historic event. The website for this library shows an example of Attlee's library bookplate.
More imagesPublished by Jonathan Cape 1949
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Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United KingdomPaperworks
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Volume I only [of 2].1949 reprint of 1936 New and Definitive edition. With introduction by T.E. Lawrence. Brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, unclipped dustjacket. 9 plates, 2 folding, with in-text vignettes, large folding map to back. Press cutting about the author laid…in. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library book with sticker to front pastedown, catalogue number to spine. Dj has been reinforced with paper to the back. Grubby to front, spine darkened. Pencil name to ffep. Size: 10 x 8 inches / 26 x 20 cm. 674 pages. Weight: 1.7kg. Heavy volume - there may be extra postage for International shipping.
Published by The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, 2004
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Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, , United KingdomBertram Rota Ltd
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First Edition thus. "Newly illustrated by vintage photographs" One of 500 copies, set in Miller Display Oblong 4to Fine copy, as new, in slipcase. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Simon Lawrence to Ian and Valerie Rogerson Rogerson 57 Blue blind-stamped cloth ("T.E.S."), spine with printed label, by Smith Settle.
More imagesPublished by Jonathan Cape. London 1943
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Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, , United KingdomAddyman Books
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Jonathan Cape. 1943. Reprint. New and Definitive Edition. 4to hardbacks with DW. TWO VOLUME SET. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Both boards are bumped to corners with head and tail of spines lightly crumpled, minor marks to upper board of volume 1. Pages are browned with edges uncut apart from top edge. A lovely set…in wrappers that are chipped, creased and worn. Volume 1 wrapper has small closed tears to extremties with a larger closed tear to rear spine joint. Volume two has a small portion lacking from a large closed tear to top of rear panel.
More imagesPublished by Castle Hill Press, Salisbury 2015
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- First Edition
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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 publ…ishers 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.".
More imagesPublished by Castle Hill Press, Fordingbridge, Hampshire 2000
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- First Edition
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. This four-volume set publishes T. E. Lawrence's correspondence with George Bernard and Charlotte Shaw between 1922 and 1935. Hailed by Lawrence scholars, "publication of four expertly edited volumes of Lawrence's correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw has. dramatically enriched our knowledge of what Lawrence w…as thinking and doing from 1922 to 1935, and also arouses, in any objective reader, considerable sympathy for him." These comprise the first volumes in the T. E. Lawrence Letters series published by Castle Hill Press, once 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).This set features quarter oatmeal cloth bindings over green paper-covered boards with deep green Morocco spine panels stamped in gilt with author, title, and volume number. The contents are bound with white and green silk head and tail bands, green-stained top edges, and tan endpapers. This set is hand-numbered "347" on the Volume IV limitation statement. We acquired this set directly from the publisher. Condition is as new, the bindings and contents pristine. Published between 2000 and 2009, these four volumes are the only complete publication of these letters. Castle Hill Press originally planned to issue 702 sets, but ultimately issued only 475, explaining disparity between the limitation statements in the first and final volumes. Limitation numbers appear only in the fourth and final volume issued to original subscribers. Of the 475 sets, the publisher informed us "150 sets were bound in quarter cloth."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."Lawrence spent the rest of his famously short life struggling at turns to reconcile, recount, and repress his indelible experience and celebrity. Lawrence first met George Bernard (1856-1950) and Charlotte Payne-Townshend Shaw (1857-1943) in March 1922. Lawrence was 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. Thereafter, the Shaws played an integral role in Lawrence's literary and personal life. In George Bernard Shaw - "the unorthodox, testy, argumentative agent provocateur and gadfly of British life and conventions" - perhaps Lawrence recognized someone whose persona had overtaken the man. In Charlotte Shaw, Lawrence found "a kind of alternate mother figure" and a lifelong correspondent and confidante. Suggesting the complex importance of the Shaws to Lawrence, by early 1923 Lawrence had enlisted in the Army under the name "Thomas Edward Shaw." He used, and published under, this assumed surname until his death. With her revulsion toward physical intimacy, Charlotte was perhaps uniquely suited to understand Lawrence's complex feelings of mortification over the infamous incident at Deraa. "Lawrence was more frank about himself with her than with anyone else." For her part, "there was much about herself that Charlotte hid from her husband, including the sheer volume and intimacy of her correspondence with Lawrence. which shocked the normally imperturbable Shaw when he discovered it after her death." (Korda, p.657) Wilson states that Charlotte "preserved almost all the letters she had received [from Lawrence] - over 300, some very long" and she recovered several she had written to Lawrence. "The correspondence adds up to almost twice the total length of his letters to any other recipient. Lawrence's correspondence with the Shaws between 1922 and 1935 is the most significant series of his post-war letters to survive. It covers an extraordinary variety of topics and, for much of the time, the letters were so frequent that they provide something akin to a diary." First, limited, and hand-.
