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THE LIFE OF CHARLES M. DOUGHTY
[Doughty, Charles; Arabia]; Hogarth D. G
Published by Garden City Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1929
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First edition, issue for America printed in England at the Oxford University Press. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the late author's son William D. Hogarth (who authored the introductory note to this volume) in the year of publication to noted American wood-engraver, illustrator and type and book designer Rudolph Ruzicka. Ruzicka's very small and elegant bookplate is also found on the front pastedown. With a frontispiece portrait from the Simson bronze medallion, nine plates of portraits, sketches, letters, etc. and a fold-out map. 4to, in the publisher's original brown cloth with a hand-printed paper label on the spine (the binding is typically unlabeled). viii, [4], 216 pp. A very nice copy of this elusive work, the text quite fine, the cloth with just a hint of wear to the extremities. A SCARCE WORK OF INTEREST TO BOTH DOUGHTY AND T. E. LAWRENCE COLLECTORS. The author David G. Hogarth (who died before the book came to publication) was a noted archaeologist and scholar associated with both Lawrence and Doughty. Hogarth was close with T. E. Lawrence and worked with Lawrence to plan the Arab Revolt. He introduced Lawrence to Doughty, and Lawrence wrote the famous introduction to the 1921 edition of Doughty's TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA. Hogarth's son William, who has penned the presentation inscription in this copy, made the final revisions needed to his father's long-compiled manuscripts after the elder Hogarth passed in 1927. With the help of Mrs. Doughty, Edward Garnett and Sydney Cockerell he was finally able to finish his father's labor of love and bring the work to publication. Seller Inventory # 29938
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Title: THE LIFE OF CHARLES M. DOUGHTY
Publisher: Garden City Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1929
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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THE LIFE OF CHARLES M. DOUGHTY
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Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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First edition. With a frontispiece portrait from the Simson bronze medallion, nine plates of portraits, sketches, letters, etc. and a fold-out map. 4to, in the publisher's original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in the rare printed dustjacket. viii, [4], 216 pp. A very pleasing copy of this elusive work, the text quite fine, the cloth also in excellent condition with virtually none of the usual fading, the rare dustjacket complete and with only minor rubbing to the extremities. An unusually fine survival. A SCARCE WORK OF INTEREST TO BOTH DOUGHTY AND T. E. LAWRENCE COLLECTORS. The author David G. Hogarth (who died before the book came to publication) was the noted archaeologist and scholar associated with both Lawrence and Doughty. He led the Carchemish archeological work in Syria where he employed Lawrence and was also professionally associated with Sir Mark Sykes. Professor Hogarth was appointed the acting director of the Arab Bureau for a time during 1916 when Sir Sykes went back to London. Close with T. E. Lawrence, he worked with Lawrence to plan the great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks and Germans. Hogarth introduced Lawrence to Doughty, and Lawrence wrote the famous introduction to the 1921 edition of Doughty's TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA. T.E. Lawrence in his introduction to the 1921 edition describes this 'not like other books.a bible of its kind'. In referring to Doughty's own impressions of his effort, Lawrence states: '[H]e calls his book the seeing of a hungry man, the telling of a most weary man." ARABIA DESERTA is one of the best-known classics of exploration and travel. Few writers of any genre have worked such magic or mischief on the English language as Doughty. He disapproved of Victorian prose style, and mingled his own with Chaucerian and Elizabethan English and Arabic. But whatever the style, the result is perhaps the finest book on Arabia ever written. Another Arabist, T.E. Lawrence, speaks on Doughty: "I have talked the book over with many travellers, and we are agreed that here you have all the desert, its hills and plains, the lava fields, the villages, the tents, the men and animals. They are told of the life, with words and phrases fitted to them so perfectly that one cannot dissociate them in memory. It is the true Arabia, the land with its smells and dirt, as well as its nobility and freedom. There is no sentiment, nothing merely picturesque, that most common failing of oriental travel-books. Doughty's completeness is devastating. There is nothing we would take away, little we could add. He took all Arabia for his province, and has left to his successors only the poor part of specialists. We may write books on parts of the desert or some of the history of it; but there can never be another picture of the whole, in our time, because here it is all said." (- from the Introduction). Hogarth's son William, made the final revisions needed to his father's long-compiled manuscripts after the elder Hogarth passed in 1927. With the help of Mrs. Doughty, Edward Garnett and Sydney Cockerell he was finally able to finish his father's labor of love and bring the work to publication. Seller Inventory # 33452
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