Lawrence, Collection of 6 works, together with 8 photographs, from the library of Lt.Col. Pierce Joyce

LAWRENCE, T.E.

Collection of 6 works, together with 8 photographs, from the library of Lt.Col. Pierce Joyce:

(i) Lawrence, T.E. Revolt in the Desert. Jonathan Cape, 1927, first trade edition, plates, typed receipt from Mackenzie & Mackenzie, proprietors of 'The Bookshop, Baghdad' tipped in at the beginning ("'Revolt in the Desert' | Received in Baghdad on March 5th, 1927 | Sold to Col Joyce on March 7th, 1927... "), original brown buckram, [O'Brien A102], offsetting to endpapers; Secret Dispatches from Arabia...foreword by A.W. Lawrence.The Golden Cockerel Press, [1939], limited to 1,000 copies on mould-made paper (of which this is one of 970 bound in quarter Niger morocco), white linen boards, top edge gilt [O'Brien A226], some spotting and staining; Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. Jonathan Cape, 1935, third edition (first edition printed for general circulation), plates, original brown buckram, [O'Brien A042], some spotting and staining to text and covers; Oriental Assembly.Williams and Norgate, 1939, first edition, photographs, original brown buckram, top edge blue, compliments slip of A.W. Lawrence affixed to front endpaper, [O'Brien A221]; The Letters... edited by David Garnett. Jonathan Cape, 1938, first edition, photographs and drawings, original brown buckram, with Lt.Col. Joyce's ownership signature dated 1938 on front endpaper, compliments slip of the Lawrence Trustees affixed to same leaf, [O'Brien A202]--Thomas, Lowell. With Lawrence in Arabia. Hutchinson & Co., [1925], first English edition,illustrations, original red cloth, Lt.Col. Joyce's ownership in pencil on front endpaper ("Joyce | Baghdad"),[O'Brien E012]; 8vo (6) 

(ii) Collection of eight vintage silver prints, apparently unpublished, showing Joyce with Feisal, Feisal's brother Abdullah (who became the King of Jordan), and others (one possibly Gertrude Bell), various sizes (90 x 140mm, 78 x 105mm, etc), [c.1916-20]

For Lt.Col. Pierce Joyce, see also lots 17 and 19.

PROVENANCE:

Lieutenant Col. Pierce Charles Joyce (1878-1965), thence by descent

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