The Forest Giant; The Romance of a Tree
by LeCorbeau, Adrien
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1924 Book. Illus. by NC. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Stated (A-Y). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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!.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dave Shoots, Bookseller (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002277
- Title
- The Forest Giant; The Romance of a Tree
- Author
- LeCorbeau, Adrien
- Illustrator
- NC
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Stated (A-Y)
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- NOISBN Meditation. Nature. Philosophy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Meditations;
Terms of Sale
Dave Shoots, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Dave Shoots, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2004
Saint John, New Brunswick
About Dave Shoots, Bookseller
We have been booksellers since 2000. We deal in old and rare hardcovers, primarily non-fiction. We have about 10,000 books in four rooms of an 1820's mansion located in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
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