31 résultats
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 26 plates on 23 and 4 maps in red and black, neat contemporary signature on half-title; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Higginson A26a; O'Brien E030.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in ivory linen boards, blue Niger morocco back by SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, back with raised bands, compartments lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in the publisher's fragile card slip-case, the latter mildly worn at extremities. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Collects five essays by Lawrence, including reviews of works by D.H. Lawrence, Wells and Flecker, his Criticism of Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter and A Review of the Works of Walter Savage Landor. O'Brien A229.
Roy. 8vo., First US Trade Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 47 plates by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts and others, 6 illustrations in the text and 4 folding maps coloured in outline; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, pictorial gilt from original board preserved and mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The first publicly available US edition of this literary classic, following private publication in 1926 and the limited edition of 1935. Winston Churchill believed that it 'ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language'. The work forms the basis of David Lean's multiple Oscar-winning feature film 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. Enser, p.191; O'Brien A42.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 47 plates by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts and others, 6 illustrations in the text and 4 folding maps, endpapers faintly spotted; original decorative brown buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, brown top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The first publicly available edition of this literary classic, following private publication in 1926 and the limited edition of 1935. Winston Churchill believed that it 'ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language'. The work also formed the basis of David Lean's multiple Oscar-winning feature film 'Lawrence of Arabia' starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. Enser, p.191; O'Brien A042.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and plates; elegantly bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border stopped with roundels at corners, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, gilt doublures, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, a crisp, elegant set ideal as a gift or for presentation. The set comprises Vol.I: 1889-1914 (1958); Vol. II: 1914-1926 (1961). SCARCE.
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition thus, with fine portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates (a number in collotype and a number folding), illustrations, maps and plans in the text and large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at end of first volume, neat contemporary signature on half-title of first volume, small sticker on front paste-downs; original dark green cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt and framed in blind, gilt backs, gilt tops, black endpapers, uncut, a sharp, bright, crisp, near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers moderately sunned at backstrips. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. With the trade ticket of WH Smith of Bournemouth on front paste-down. 'Lawrence had long admired Doughty's classic and was instrumental in getting the second English edition published by the fledgling firm of Jonathan Cape in conjunction with the Medici Society' (paraphrased from O'Brien). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPERS. O'Brien A013.