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8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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.
194582986New York: Armed Services Inc c1945. Armed Services Edition; Overseas Edition. Wraps. Fair. Format is approximately 6.5 inches by 4.5 inches. 384 pages plus covers. Illustrations. Introduction by John Finley. Cover is worn torn soiled creased and cover partially reglued to spine. This is the complete book--not a digest. The prose translation by T. E. Shaw known to hundreds of thousands as Lawrence of Arabia of Homer's great Greek epic poem was first published in 1932. At Shaw's instance it appeared without any mentioned of the translator's name. Hailed by the Book-of-the-Month Club News as :one of the notable books of our time: and by the New York Herald Tribune as 'perhaps the most interesting translation of the world's most interesting book" it immediately became a best seller. Not until the tragic death of Shaw in 1935 were the publishers permitted to reveal that Lawrence of Arabia was responsible for this outstanding translation a translation which the eminent critic Dr. Henry Seidel Canby has heartily recommended 'for everybody over twelve." In all editions of the book subsequent to his death Shaw's name has appeared as translator. This special edition of The Odyssey of Homer has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher Oxford University Press New York. Overseas edition for the Armed Forces. Distributed by the Special Services division A.S.F. for the Army and by the Bureau of Naval Personnel for the Navy. U.S. Government Property. Not for sale. Published by Editions for the Armed Services Inc. a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. This overseas edition/Armed Services Edition is among the rarest if not the rarest of the posthumously published work of T. E. Lawrence/T. E. Shaw. As can be imagined although there were a large number of copies printed relatively few have survived the ravages of combat the other ravages of time the ephemeral nature of these softcover wartime editions and both intentional and inadvertent destruction. This 'fair condition' copy has literally been through the wars. It's survival over nearly eight decades rivals in some ways the survival through the oral tradition of the Odyssey of Homer until such time as it's majestic words could be captured in written form. Not only is this work of inestimable value to the serious Lawrence of Arabia collector but it is equally significant to the classical scholar and those who appreciate a rowdy good tale. Edith Hamilton whose reputation as a scholar of the ancient Greeks has no equal wrote: Homer's poetry turned to prose. "I did not know that it was possible for a translation to reproduce so closely the beauty and delightfulness of Homer. I feel that Colonel Lawrence T.E. Shaw has given the poem back to the world that has ceased to read Greek. The Translator Shaw/Lawrence wrote: "For years we were digging up a city of roughly the Odysseus period. I have handled the weapons armour utensils of those times explored their houses planned their cities. I have hunted wild boars and watched wild lions sailed the Aegean and sailed ships bent bows lived with pastoral peoples woven textiles built boats and killed many men. So I have odd knowledges that qualify me to understand the Odyssey and odd experiences that interpret it to me." Armed Services Inc paperback
198120318Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1981. Hardcover. Signed by Moser and Wilson. Limited edition of 2000 copies this being copy #869. Tan cloth cover is sunned on spine with 1/8" spot to spine else fine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Publisher's notes laid-in. Pages are clean and pristine. Slipcase is sunned with 2 spots no larger than 1/8" but in very good condition. ; 0 pages; Signed by Artist . Limited Editions Club hardcover
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).
