LAWRENCE, T.E. | Collection of copies of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", "The Odyssey", "Crusader Castles", etc.

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LAWRENCE, T.E.

Collection of editions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Odyssey, Crusader Castles, The Diary of T.E. Lawrence, etc., comprising:

i) Collection of English and foreign editions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, including:

the fourth impression of the third English (first trade) edition, Jonathan Cape, August 1935, [O'Brien A042]; with the sixth impression, Cambridge printing, October 1935, dust-jacket; fourth English edition, World Books, Book Club issue, Reprint Society new edition, 1939, 2 volumes, dust-jacket, [A046]; another issue of same, 2 volumes, dust-jackets; fifth English (first cheap) edition, Jonathan Cape, 1940, dust-jacket, [A047]; sixth English edition, reset, Jonathan Cape, 1954, blue binding, [A048]; another impression, priced at 25s; seventh English (paperback) edition, Penguin in association with Jonathan Cape, 1987, twentieth impression, [A049]; copies of the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth English editions; Folio Society, 2000, foreword by Wilfred Thesiger, introduction by Michael Asher, illustrations and maps, original decorated khaki cloth, slipcase, [not in O'Brien]; second American edition, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935, [A054]; small format edition, 1936, [A059]; De Luxe edition, Garden City Publishing Co. Incorporated, 1938, [A060]; fourth American edition, Doubleday, 1966, dust-jacket, [A062]; another copy, binding variant; Book Club edition, Atlanta: Communications and Studies Inc., 1966, [A065]; fifth American edition, Dorset Press, 1988, facsimile of 1935 Doubleday edition, in smaller format; limited edition, one of 80 copies, Mattituck, New York: Amereon House, no date; reprint of French edition, Paris: Payot, 1982, translated by Charles Mauron, original paper covers, [A070 notes]; another printing, 1989; another printing, 1991; first Romanian edition, Bucharest, 1937, bookstamp of Lord Carlow, in case; and others; 8vo (c.33 volumes)--

ii) Collection of editions of The Odyssey, including:

second English (first trade) edition, Oxford University Press for (London:) Humphrey Milford, 1935, original blue buckram, dust-jacket, [O'Brien A144]; another issue, in brown buckram, maps on endpapers, dust-jacket; another copy, without jacket; deluxe issue, in morocco binding with T.E. Shaw facsimile signature stamped in gilt on upper cover (tipped-in: Lawrence of Arabia Memorial, 1935, [E068]), top edge gilt, decorated endpapers; second American edition (Hesperides edition), Mount Vernon, New York for Oxford University Press, 1940, one of 2500, brown cloth, [A151]; third American edition (Armed Services Edition), New York: Editions of the Armed Services Inc., 1940 [A152], wrappers; sixth American edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, dust-jacket, [A154a]; 8vo and oblong 8vo (7)--

iii) Crusader Castles. The Letters. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, 8vo, first American edition, preface by Mrs. Lawrence, ONE OF 56 COPIES PRINTED TO SECURE AMERICAN COPYRIGHT, facsimile illustrations in the text, original printed wrappers, quarter black morocco box, [O'Brien A191]--

iv) Crusader Castles. The Letters. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937, 8vo, first American edition, text of volume 1 only of the English edition, one of 56 copies printed to secure copyright (of which 50 were for sale), original cream laid stapled wrappers printed in black, [O'Brien A191], some minor soiling to wrappers--

v) Editions of The Diary of T.E. Lawrence and An Essay on Flecker, comprising:

The Diary [kept by T.E. Lawrence while travelling in Arabia in 1911]. Doubleday, Doran & Co Inc, 1937, LIMITED TO 56 COPIES TO SECURE AMERICAN COPYRIGHT (of which 50 were for sale), ink inscription inside upper cover ("Given to me by Eric Kennington 1941"), original stapled cream printed wrappers, [O'Brien A195], some slight spotting to wrappers; The Diary... Garnet, 1993, third English edition, introduction by Dr Robin Bidwell, original cloth, dust-jacket, bookplate of John E. Davis, [O'Brien A194b]; The Diary... Southampton: Hobbs for (Walton on Thames:) B. Johnston, [1990], second English edition, photographs, [O'Brien A194a]; [housed with:] An Essay on Flecker. Southampton: Hobbs for (Walton on Thames:), B. Johnston, [1990], third English edition, ONE OF 500 COPIES, introduction by Johnston and signed by him, [O'Brien A198b], these two in pale yellow pebbled paper wrappers, together in original slipcase (4 volumes in 3)