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183. LAWRENCE, D.H. Autograph letter signed (d.h.l) to else Jaffe. Hotel Löwen, Lichtenthal [Germany] . 8vo., 4 pages on lined paper. fine.
£1,995
An excellent long letter to his sister-in-law, else Jaffe, complaining about his wife frieda, whose fiftieth birthday had just been celebrated (“they all seemed very happy and we all kept it up very bravely. but alas, next day frieda was in one of the worst moods i have ever seen her in!”) & her mother (“it is terrible to be old, one becomes a bottle of old, but never mellow lies - lies, lies, lies!”) and fulminating especially against censorship in england, where a month earlier, an exhibition of his paintings at the Warren gallery had been raided by the police and thirteen pictures condemned as obscene and confiscated (“you hear the pictures are to be returned to me, on condition they are never shown again in england, but sent away to me on the continent, that they may never pollute that island of lily-livered angels again. What hypocrisy & poltroonery, & how i detest & despise my england. i had rather be a german or anything than belong to such a nation of craven, cowardly hypocrites. my curse on them! they will burn my four picture books, will they? so it is decreed. but they shall burn through the thread of their own existence as a nation, at the same time, delenda est cartago! [ “carthage must be destroyed” a quotation from cato the elder] - but she will destroy herself, amply…””
first AmericAn edition, lArge-pAper issue of REVOLT IN THE DESERT
184. LAWRENCE, T. E. revolt in the desert. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927.
£998
4to. original blue buckram, spine with gilt leather lettering-piece, top edge gilt, others uncut; pp. xx, 335, colour-printed collotype frontispiece and 10 colour-printed collotype plates retaining original tissue guards, 8 mounted monochrome plates, one folding map printed in red and black. spine a little sunned and rubbed on extremities, label slightly chipped, otherwise a very good copy.
first American edition, no. 66 of 250 large-paper copies. Revolt in the Desert was an abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom prepared by lawrence to defray some of the significant expenses incurred by the production of the latter book (circa £13,000). the American limited, large- paper issue of Revolt in the Desert contains a frontispiece and 10 plates printed in colour (those in the trade issue were all monochrome), which include 3 plates not present in the American trade issue. first published in march 1927, the work enjoyed great success in both britain and America and by may 1927 sufficient copies had been sold to pay off the costs of Seven Pillars, and for lawrence to exercise his contractual right to halt the printing of further impressions of the work.
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from the library of sidney J miller with his bookplate. O’Brien A105.
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