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187. LAWRENCE, T.E. towards ‘an english fourth’. fragments and echoes of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1918-21. edited by Jeremy and nicole Wilson. Fordingbridge. Castle Hill Press. 2009.
£350
4to., original red quarter goatskin over buckram boards, lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt. A fine copy in original card slipcase.
first edition. limited edition of 227 copies, this one of 150 in quarter goatskin.
Towards ‘An English Fourth’ contains drafts and published writings that lawrence wrote between 1919 and 1921 whose content reflects the first two drafts of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. his writings during this period show a breadth of analysis unparalleled in anything he wrote before or afterwards. in essays like ‘the changing east’ and ‘evolution of a revolt’ you can see the calibre of mind that impressed contemporaries such as Winston churchill, Arnold toynbee and lionel curtis. the book contains 15 texts, each drawn from the earliest surviving source. While most of the shorter pieces have appeared elsewhere, there are two important longer drafts, not previously published in this form, including all eight chapters of the abandoned 1920 abridgment of seven pillars, published here from the manuscript and showing lawrence’s working amendments.
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188. LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward — Richard GARNETT. the twilight of the gods and other tales ... With an introduction by t.e. lawrence. London and New York: Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. for John Lane The Bodley Head Limited and Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924.
£250
8vo (238 x 150mm). original black cloth, upper board and spine blocked in gilt and orange with designs after henry keen and lettered in gilt and orange, top edges red, others uncut, endpapers with designs after keen, black dustwrapper reproducing designs on upper board and spine in orange and retaining price; pp. xviii, [2 (section-title, verso blank)], 279, [1 (blank)], [2 (publisher’s advertisement, verso blank)]; engraved frontispiece and 27 engraved plates after keen, title vignette, and head- and tailpieces after keen; extremities very slightly rubbed, dustwrapper a little chipped and creased at edges causing small losses, a few light spots, otherwise a very good and bright copy with the rare dustwrapper; provenance: bernard taylor, christmas 1924 (presentation inscription from W.h.W. on verso of front free endpaper)..
third english edition, and the first with t.e. lawrence’s introduction and henry keen’s illustrations. richard garnett (1835-1906) was the father of edward garnett (1868-1937), lawrence’s friend and literary collaborator, whose son david garnett would edit lawrence’s Letters in 1938. o’brien describes this as ‘one of lawrence’s first purely “literary” efforts’, and notes that lawrence’s introduction ‘is one work [...] not reprinted in collections of his minor writings’ (p. 72).
O’Brien A090.
189. LEAR, Edward framed and glazed mounted portrait postcard with original signature.
£298 300 x 430mm in frame.
the postcard shows a young looking lear with his signature mounted below.
190. LEES-MILNE, James. Ancestral voices. Chatto and Windus. 1975.
£298
8vo., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper designed by reynolds stone. A near fine copy.
first edition inscribed by lees-milne to bevis hillier on half-title. the first in the series of lees-milne’s diaries covering the years 1942-43 after he had been invalided out of the army and rejoined the national trust.
191. LENNON, John. in his own Write. Jonathan Cape. 1964. £148
small square 8vo. original dark blue boards, portrait of the author on front cover; illustrated with drawings by the author; a very good copy. first edition.
192. [LIMERICKS]. [LEGMAN, Gershon (compiler)]. the limerick. 1700 examples, with notes, variants, and index. Paris: Les Hautes études. 1953.
£398
8vo. original white wrappers printed in red and black, edges untrimmed; pp. xvi + 517 + colophon; a very nic, partially unopened copy with slightly chipped dust wrapper.
first edition. “this is the largest collection of limericks ever published,
erotic or otherwise. the seventeen hundred examples gathered here stem, about one-third, from some twenty printed sources dating from 1870 to 1952, most of which duplicate each other to a great extent. the rest are principally from three oral collections, made in Ann Arbor, michigan (ms. 1938-1941), in berkeley, california (1942-1947), and in new york (1941- 1952) ...” (from the note on sources at the beginning of the book). the book includes a complete list of sources, a bibliography, almost a hundred pages of notes and variants, and an excellent index.
not for the squeamish.
193. LLOYD GEORGE, David. the truth about reparations and War-debts. Garden City New York. Doubleday Doran. 1932. £98
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. first us edition.
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