T. E. LAWRENCE TO HIS BIOGRAPHERS - Robert Graves and B. H. Liddell Hart by Lawrence, T. E - 1963

Cassell, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1963. Second edition. 260 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.

London: Cassell, [1963]. New Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); original cloth in olive pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; ix,[1],187,iv,260pp. Frontispiece. Rear jacket panel a bit dust-soiled, upper flap price-clipping has cause a very slight paper flaw not affecting text; front hinge starting to crack, else interior near fine. Very Good overall. Collection of Lawrence's letters to his biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart.

London: Cassell, 1963. Due parti in un tomo di IX-187 (T.E. Lawrence to his Biographer Robert Graves) pp. + IV-260 (T.E. Lawrence to his Biographer Liddell Hart) pp., tela editoriale con sovracoperta illustrata. Dimensioni: 14,5x22 cm. Minime tracce d’uso alla sovracoperta, per il resto ottime condizioni. Un disegno di T.E. Lawrence in antiporta. In lingua inglese.

London: Cassell, 1963. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Cassell, 1963 (second edition)/ 1963 [first thus]/ 1938. Octavo, x, 260 pages plus frontispiece. Brown cloth; front endpapers slightly marked; ownership stamp and details; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed.

London: Cassell, 1963. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Cassell, 1963 (second edition)/ 1963 [first thus]/ 1938. Octavo, x, 260 pages plus frontispiece. Brown cloth; an excellent copy with the very slightly creased and rubbed dustwrapper. A relevant newspaper cutting is loosely inserted.

New York: Doubleday, 1938. Hardcover. VG Both covers have general wear. Bookblocks have age toning. 2 Volume Set. Tan cloth boards with red title block on spine. Both volumes numbered 3 of 1000, signed by authors`. This edition is limited to 1,000 numbered and signed copies for sale, of which 500 copies are printed for the United States.

Doubleday, Doran, 1938-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Signed limited edition. Two Volume set. One volume signed by Robert Graves, the other volume signed by Liddell Hart. Both volumes are #420 of 1,000 copies limited edition. Previous owner was the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation as per stamp and book plate, in each volume, on front free page, stamp on the title page, and Hillel Foundation Library pocket, etc. in rear of books. Almost all of the Liddell volumes have pages still uncut. Approx. the final 1/4 of the Graves vol. the pages are still uncut. Both volumes have sunning to the spines and cover edges. 187 and 233 pages.

London: Faber & Faber, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Signed by Liddell Hart & Robert Graves. First Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One thousand sets were issued, 500 for the UK market and 500 for the USA market. This set is the UK edition and with matched numbers. The red cloth of the Graves volume is slightly faded. Otherwise in very good condition and in the original grey slipcase as issued. A significant collection of letters to Robert Graves and Liddell Hart when they were preparing their own biographies of Lawrence. "The volumes are remarkable documents showing Lawrence's intimate work with two of his biographers. The letters, manuscript commentary and corrections, reveal the nature of information Lawrence supplied and the interpretation he allowed the authors to derive from it. These volumes expose a process of biographical writing that is rarely documented" O'Brien 210 & 211. 187pp + 283pp..

New York:: Doubleday Doran,, 1938.. First Printing of the First Edition. This two volume set of Lawrence's letters to his two biographers is limited to 500 sets for sale in the US. Original slipcase is present with some signs of wear toning. The Robert Graves volume is signed by Graves; The Liddell Hart volume is signed by Hart. Both volumes are Near Fine, top edges gilt, with a previous owner's name penciled on the front pastedown in Very Good plus dust jackets with age darkening to the spines; offsetting to the front panel of the Hart volume and to the rear panel of the Graves volume. The letters from Lawrence to Graves and Hart concern both private matters and question-and-answer aspects about Lawrence's Middle East campaign and his mammoth survey of the subject, the famous Seven Pillars. The Graves book attempts comments on Lawrence's "chameleon-like character". Lawrence himself offers, in many playfully profound passages, a sometimes stunning self-analysis, but generally he seems to "love"… Read More