31 résultats
4to., First Edition, with title in red and black; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy. O'Brien A173
4to., First Edition, with title in red and black, contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy in mildly age-soiled dustwrapper. O'Brien A173.
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.
8vo., Fourth Edition thus, Third Impression, with fine portrait frontispiece, numerous plates (a number in collotype and a number folding with original tissue guards present), illustrations, maps and plans in the text and large folding coloured map mounted on cloth, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original navy cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. '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). The single-volume, thin paper edition was first published in March 1926; this third impression appeared in the September. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. O'Brien A015.
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and 30 plates, half-title lightly spotted; original pale blue cloth, sides framed in black, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, clean, firm copy. With a personal bookplate on front free endpaper
8vo., Eighteenth Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp, copy. Thomas's account - arguably the best after Lawrence's own - was first published in the UK in 1925, a year after the US edition. O'Brien E013 (recording the twelfth to twenty-fourth editions).
