THE FOREST GIANT: The Romance of a Tree
(Lawrence, T. E.) By Adrien Le Corbeau; "L. H. Ross," translator
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1924
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First U.S. edition. Translated from the French by Lawrence as "L. H. Ross." Small 8vo, tan paper boards stamped in red and black; gilt-stamped brown cloth spine; top edge red. Faintest of coffee (?) splashes to top edge and edges of last few blanks, tiny corner bumps, otherwise near fine in very good or better, slightly tanned dust jacket with faint stain along front flap fold, few small corner chips and tiny tears. Seller Inventory # 54972
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Title: THE FOREST GIANT: The Romance of a Tree
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Publication Date: 1924
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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The Forest Giant: The Romance of a Tree
Published by
Harper and Brothers, New York, 1924
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First Edition
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. 139 p. 20 cm. B&w frontispiece illustrations. Cloth spine and paper-covered boards. Top edge red. Bottom corners worn, dent in front fore-edge. Spotting to text block edge. Life story of a Californian pine. Translation of: Le gigantesque, roman d'un arbre. Seller Inventory # 120988
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The Forest Giant; The Romance of a Tree
Published by
Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1924
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Dave Shoots, Bookseller, Saint John, NB, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. NC (illustrator). First Edition Stated (A-Y). Original brown quarter-cloth on beige pictorial boards with red lettering. Highly-embellished translation by T.E. Lawrence ( as L.H. Ross) of what was said to be a rather pedestrian French original. Lawrence had been booted out of the RAF, and had re-enlisted in the Tank Corps. With little to occupy his superior mind, he solicited Publisher Jonathan Cape for assignments in translation. While completing final arrangements to give Lawrence Mardrus' Arabian Nights for translation, Cape give him Le Gigantesque by Le Corbeau, the life story of a Sequoia tree, with determinism as the underlying theme. Completed in about three months, it proved to be the only translation from French that he completed. By December he was involved with The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which occupied him for three years. Red top edges. 139 pp. No marks or damage. It looks as though it just slipped out of, and lost, its jacket! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 002277
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THE FOREST GIANT. The Romance of a Tree
Published by
Harper & Bros, New York, 1924
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. First Issue with L.H. instead of J.H. Ross as translator. 8vo, olive brown buckram spine w/tan pictorial paper boards, gilt, pp.139, red top stain, spine gilt dull as usual. A very good Copy. Translated from French by T.E. La wrence. Seller Inventory # 10996
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