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Second Wilson edition, signed by the editors Jeremy and Nicole Wilson on the half-title, number 587 of 1,225 copies. This edition is based on the legendarily unprocurable Oxford Times edition, of which just eight copies were printed. Spearheaded by Lawrence's biographer and founder of the Castle Hill Press, Jeremy Wilson (19442017), the edition presents the first version of Lawrence's masterpiece in its most readable form. It contains a scholarly introduction by Wilson; the text has been revised, punctuation reviewed, and Arabic names have been corrected. An index has been added by Hazel Bell, two-time winner of the Wheatley Medal of the Society of Indexers. The maps decorating both endpapers are reproductions of those that Lawrence commissioned for the 1926 subscribers' edition. "If Seven Pillars interests you as history, or travel literature or autobiography, you should read the Oxford text. It is a third longer than the subscribers' abridgement and contains all kinds of interesting things you will not find there" (p. xxv). Octavo. Original moderate yellowish brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered direct, map endpapers, top edge gilt, dark green cloth bookmarker. With glassine jacket. With 8 half-tone plates from photographs. A fine copy.

First Trade Edition; regular issue; very minor scattered foxing; bound in full red crushed morocco. While the binding isn't apparently 'signed' (terminology indicating credit, usually with a gilt stamp), it is highly professional: all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; raised bands; gilt titling, rules and decorations; fine in a custom cloth slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Full leather. First edition. This is the first and limited edition of the first version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom intended for general publication. It was prepared in autumn 1922 by T. E. Lawrence and his literary mentor and friend, Edward Garnett, abridged from the 1922 'Oxford' text. Fittingly, it was the final act of outstanding editorial scholarship and fine press publication by Lawrence's official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), that rescued this text from oblivion.This copy is hand-numbered "19" by Wilson on the limitation page and signed by Wilson at the end of the Introduction. Of a total edition of 227 numbered copies, only 45 were bound thus for subscribers, in full tan-orange goatskin (evoking desert sand) with raised spine bands, deep green morocco spine labels, double blind rule front cover border, head and foot bands, all edges gilt, folding map, facsimiles of original holograph and edited drafts, and frontispiece photograph of "T. E. Lawrence, Wejh, 1917".The strikingly beautiful "sleeping dagger" indigo endpapers bear special note; according to Wilson: "Among the designs I suggested for War in the Desert was a photograph of Lawrence's dagger and belt, lying on the ground, Our printer came back with this, to my surprise converted into a night-time image ("During the day he'd have been wearing it".)" The volume is housed in the publisher's matching tan-orange cloth, velvet-lined slipcase. Condition is flawless, as-new.Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the story of T. E. Lawrence's (1888-1935) remarkable odyssey as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." The saga of how Seven Pillars was written and published is tortuous.Lawrence nearly completed a massive first draft in 1919, only to lose it when his briefcase was mislaid at a train station. This first draft was never recovered. At a fever pitch, Lawrence wrote a new 400,000 word draft in 1920. Lawrence followed this punishing burst of writing with an equally brutal editing process. In 1922, a 335,000 word version was carefully circulated to select friends and literary critics - the famous "Oxford Text". George Bernard Shaw called it "a masterpiece".In the autumn of 1922, Lawrence and Garnett prepared the abridgement published here. "Between them, they extracted from the many-sided complexities of Seven Pillars a richly observed travel book combined with a fast-moving adventure-story." Lawrence thought well of it. Nonetheless, on Shaw's advice, Lawrence canceled the abridgement "at a very late stage, when the completed draft was about to go to the publishers."It is difficult to understate the consequences for Lawrence; undoubtedly the book would have brought him financial security and acclaim. Instead, not until 1926 was a different, edited and abridged "Subscribers' Edition" produced a lavish edition of fewer than 200 copies that cost Lawrence far more than he made. To recover the loss, Lawrence finally authorized an edition for the general public - but one even further abridged and titled Revolt in the Desert. Only in the summer of 1935, in the weeks following Lawrence's death, was the Subscribers' Edition text finally published for circulation to the general public.However, the fuller "Oxford Text" - a third longer than the shortened text which became so famous - would not be republished until 1997.And this first abridged version, War in the Desert the first version prepared for the public and very nearly published in 1923 remained unknown for more than 90 years. The text was used as bank security for financing for the 1926 Subscriber's Edition and then subsequently held by Cape as security against advance royalties until the Revolt in the Desert abridgement was delivered. Nonetheless, it remained virtually unknown until this magnificent, long-overdue edition.

Full leather. First edition. This is the first and limited edition of the first version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom intended for general publication. It was prepared in autumn 1922 by T. E. Lawrence and his literary mentor and friend, Edward Garnett, abridged from the 1922 'Oxford' text. Fittingly, it was the final act of outstanding editorial scholarship and fine press publication by Lawrence's official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017) that rescued this text from oblivion.This copy is hand-numbered "4" by Wilson on the limitation page and signed by Wilson at the end of the Introduction. Of a total edition of 227 numbered copies, only 45 were bound thus for subscribers, in full tan-orange goatskin (evoking desert sand) with raised spine bands, deep green morocco spine labels, double blind rule front cover border, head and foot bands, all edges gilt, folding map, facsimiles of original holograph and edited drafts, and frontispiece photograph of "T. E. Lawrence, Wejh, 1917".The strikingly beautiful "sleeping dagger" indigo endpapers bear special note; according to Wilson: "Among the designs I suggested for War in the Desert was a photograph of Lawrence's dagger and belt, lying on the ground. Our printer came back with this, to my surprise converted into a night-time image ("During the day he'd have been wearing it".)" The volume is housed in the publisher's matching tan-orange cloth, velvet-lined slipcase. Condition is flawless, as-new.Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the story of T. E. Lawrence's (1888-1935) remarkable odyssey as instigator, organizer, hero, and tragic figure of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, which he began as an eccentric junior intelligence officer and ended as "Lawrence of Arabia." The saga of how Seven Pillars was written and published is tortuous.Lawrence nearly completed a massive first draft in 1919, only to lose it when his briefcase was mislaid at a train station. This first draft was never recovered. At a fever pitch, Lawrence wrote a new 400,000-word draft in 1920. Lawrence followed this punishing burst of writing with equally brutal editing. In 1922, a 335,000 word version was circulated to select friends and literary critics - the famous "Oxford Text". George Bernard Shaw called it "a masterpiece".In the autumn of 1922, Lawrence and Garnett prepared the abridgement published here. "Between them, they extracted from the many-sided complexities of Seven Pillars a richly observed travel book combined with a fast-moving adventure-story." Lawrence thought well of it. Nonetheless, on Shaw's advice, Lawrence canceled the abridgement "at a very late stage, when the completed draft was about to go to the publishers."It is difficult to understate the consequences for Lawrence; undoubtedly the book would have brought him financial security and acclaim. Instead, not until 1926 was a different, edited and abridged "Subscribers' Edition" produced a lavish edition of fewer than 200 copies that cost Lawrence far more than he made. To recover the loss, Lawrence finally authorized an edition for the general public - but one even further abridged and titled Revolt in the Desert. Only in the summer of 1935, in the weeks following Lawrence's death, was the Subscribers' Edition text finally published for circulation to the general public.However, the fuller "Oxford Text" - a third longer than the shortened text which became so famous - would not be republished until 1997.And this first abridged version, War in the Desert the first version prepared for the public and very nearly published in 1923 remained unknown for more than 90 years. The text was used as bank security for financing for the 1926 Subscriber's Edition and then subsequently held by Cape as security against advance royalties until the Revolt in the Desert abridgement was delivered. Nonetheless, it remained virtually unknown until this magnificent, long-overdue edition.

First edition for general circulation, trade issue. Quarto. 672 pages. Various illustrators, chief among them being Eric Kennington. Preface by A.W. Lawrence. Loosely inserted is the appeal for the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial (folded sheet). Publisher's variant binding of full dark brown calf with gilt crossed scimitars on front and rear covers as with the usual cloth binding.Loosely inserted is an Autograph Letter Signed by A.W. Lawrence (the author's brother) and dated 12 March 27 with the Talbot Road address: about 100 words to Mrs B.M.D. Marr, including ''My brother, T.E. Lawrence, is at present in India & I am dealing with his correspondence. my copy of [The Revolt in the Desert] is likely to be on loan for a long time to come. It contains, I believe, most of what is now publishable; some personal remarks found in the larger book have been excluded as they cannot be made public during the life-time of the people mentioned. I may add that my brother is personally responsible for this abridgement.'' Also loosely inserted is the announcement (folded sheet) for the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial in which Winston Churchill was involved.Letter: folded once; very good in the original hand-addressed envelope. Memorial insert: some spotting; very good. Book: some rubbing to spine and corners of covers. Very good. Rare variant.

Third English and first published edition, fifth impression, Cambridge issue. INSCRIBED, 'To my old friend The Rev E. W. Cox in loving memory of the author [.] S Lawrence Jan. 1. 1936', by Lawrence's mother, Sarah (1861-1959) to the clergyman and schoolmaster E. W. Cox, who was a friend and neighbour of the Lawrence family, and who taught Lawrence and his three eldest brothers at Oxford High School. Quarto (257 x 190mm), pp. 672; frontispiece and 47 photogravure plates by John Swain & Son after Augustus John, Eric Kennington, Lawrence, and others, 4 folding maps printed by The Chiswick Press, Ltd in red and black and bound to throw clear, 7 illustrations in the text of which 3 full-page; some variable, generally light spotting; original brown buckram gilt by A. W. Bain & Co., Ltd, upper board blocked in gilt with text and crossed sword design, spine lettered gilt, top edges brown, others uncut, original beige dust wrapper lettered in black, not price-clipped; spine and wrappers slightly marked, extremities slightly rubbed and creased, short tears and chips at edges, otherwise a very good copy of the uncommon dust wrapper. Custom-built slipcase. Seven Pillars of Wisdom was first printed in 1922 in an edition of eight copies for Lawrence's use, of which only six survive. It was followed by the 'Subscriber's' or 'Cranwell' edition in 1926, published privately in an edition of c. 211 copies and, as Lawrence wrote to the bookseller Henry Sotheran Ltd on 24 April 1925, 'this thing is being given only to my friends and their friends. No copies are for sale.' Finally, after Lawrence's death in May 1935, it was published in a trade edition by Jonathan Cape in July 1935. Such was the book's popularity that the first impression of 60,000 copies was quickly exhausted and second, third and fourth impressions were printed in August 1935, and then this fifth impression in September 1935. Due to high demand, the fifth and sixth impressions were printed at the Alden Press, Oxford and the University Press, Cambridge (as here). The recipient of this copy contributed a memoir of T. E. Lawrence as a schoolboy to T.E. Lawrence by his Friends, and a memoir of Lawrence's brother Frank to The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brothers, and remained in contact with Sarah Lawrence until her death in 1959. O'Brien A042.

LIMITED EDITION. 'No. 84' of 80 sets (of 752), numbered 21-100, in full-goatskin, and issued in an off-white cloth-bound slipcase. Three volumes, numbered in Volume II. Spine height: 28.8cm. Trimmed page size 282 x 200mm. Vol. I: Introduction and Books I-V, 456 pages. Vol. II: Books VI-X, editorial notes, 456 pages. Typeset by Castle Hill Press in Caslon, Lawrence's preferred typeface. Printed by Cambridge University Press on 80g.s.m. Supreme Bookwove, a high-quality acid-free off-white book paper, and bound by The Fine Bindery in full Oxford-blue Harmatan goatskin. Hand-marbled endpapers by Ann Muir, using an unusual double-marbling process. Bound in full Oxford-blue goatskin, head and tail bands. Vol. III: Illustrations and parallel text of the introductory book. Illustrations, 152 pages: Part I (in colour) The Seven Pillars Portraits. Part II a selection from Lawrence's collection of war photographs. Printed by the Burlington Press, bound in quarter blue goatskin with off-white cloth sides, bound with: Parallel text of the introductory book: An 88-page parallel text showing two versions of the Introductory Book of Seven Pillars. The left-hand pages reproduce Lawrence's revised text as sent to Bernard and Charlotte Shaw on 27 September 1924, and right-hand pages show the final text of the subscribers' abridgement. The parallel text displays exactly what changes were made as a result of advice from Bernard Shaw and others, and settles once and for all the argument about the possible scale of Shaw's alterations to Seven Pillars. Portfolio of proof portraits: the three volumes are accompanied by a cloth-bound portfolio of proofs of the Seven Pillars portraits, interleaved with Japanese paper. A set in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase and with Fine bindings. 2 volumes, folio (282 x 196mm), pp. I: [i]-[xxii], [1]-433, [1 (blank)]; II: [10 (preliminaries)], [435]-879, [1 (acknowledgements)]; original full Oxford-blue crushed morocco by The Fine Bindery, spines divided into compartments by raised bands, gilt-lettered directly in 2 and at the foot of the spine, turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Second edition, no. 84 of 80 sets in full goatskin, from an edition of 752. [ With, as issued:] T.E. LAWRENCE. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Illustrations. Fordingbridge: The Burlington Press for Castle Hill Press, 1997. Pp. [6 (half-title, frontispiece, title, colophon, contents, list of illustrations)], [2 (list of photographs)]; 21 colour-printed plates with illustrations recto-and-verso after Augustus John, Eric Kennington, William Roberts, et al., one double-page, and 52 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and-verso (acknowledgements on final verso). First edition thus. [Bound with, as issued:] T.E. LAWRENCE. Introduction to Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The Text of the Sample Proof of Chapters I-VIII as Circulated by Lawrence in September 1924 together with the Equivalent Text from the 1926 Edition, Showing the Amendments Made on the Advice of Bernard Shaw and Others. Fordingbridge: The Burlington Press for Castle Hill Press, 1997. Pp. [2 (blank l.)], [6 (half-title, verso blank, title, colophon, contents, preface)], 81, [1 (blank)]. 2 works bound in one volume, folio (282 x 200mm). Original dark-blue crushed morocco backed buckram by The Fine Bindery, top edges gilt, photographic endpapers. First edition, no. 31 of 80 copies, signed and numbered by the editor. [And, as issued with the de luxe sets:] Illustrations to Seven Pillars of Wisdom. [Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 1997]. Title-leaf, 2 folding colour-printed maps, 40 proof portraits after John, Kennington, Roberts, et al. printed by Hostench, each numbered in pencil on the verso and interleaved with tissue guards, and printed note with Castle Hill Press letterhead about the maps, slipcase, and proof portraits; all loose as issued in cloth portfolio. Each proof portrait number 84 of 250. Second (first published) edition of the 1922 text, set no. 84.

First trade edition (a limited subscriber's edition had appeared in 1926). 54 plates, 4 folding maps. 4to., rull russet deep-grained morocco by Denise Lubett, signed on the lower turn in with monogram and dated 1954, with cream morocco onlays across both covers forming the Arabic word 'Aurans', olive green morocco doublures tooled in gilt with other Arabic versions of T.E. Lawrence's name, all edges gilt, housed in the original russet morocco backed with light brown cloth chemise and slipcase. Very good. A couple of small marks on the upper side consistent with variations in the leather. Lubett's sumptuous binding of TE Lawrence's epic masterpiece was exhibited at 'The art of the book William Morris and after 1892-1977' in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1978,Âno. 163. The Arabic across the covers spells out Aurans - an Arabic name for TE Lawrence. Denise Lubett (1922-2015) was an American born in Paris. She discovered bookbinding walking past a binder's workshop in Paris where she settled after working with the Free French during the War. Her marriage brought her to London where she trained briefly at Camberwell School of Art and London College of Printing but she was in the main self-taught. She set up her own bindery in 1966 and she was elected a Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders in 1971. Lubett's designs tend to be animated, inventive and striking in the choices and boldness of her colour onlays. In the chapter she wrote for the book "A Bookbinder's Florilegium' she described her personal binding credo, apparent here, when she said that "great purity of style and design usually bring forth great beauty". Sold at the Wardington Library English Literature Sale, 13th July 2006 at Sotheby's.

A first edition, first printing, published by Cape in 1935 - first trade edition. A near fine book in very good (or better) supplied dust wrapper. PRESENTATION COPY FROM LAWRENCE'S GREAT FRIEND, THE WRITER AND ONE OF THE VERY FEW EARLY READERS OF 'SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM', E M FORSTER: 'T. H. M from E. M. F in memory of Clouds Hill, July 1935'. This work was published on July 30th, 1935, two months after the death of T. E. Lawrence and E M Forster has inscribed it to their mutual friend 'T.H.M' either on, or the day after, publication day and this was followed by Forster's review of this first trade edition which appeared in 'The Listener' magazine on July 31st 1935. The simple, humble inscription in this copy, 'T. H. M from E. M. F in memory of Clouds Hill, July 1935' can be interpreted with much greater depth. Lawrence had purchased his Clouds Hill home whilst stationed at the nearby Bovington Camp. The recipient is Lance Corporal Thomas Henderson Middleton, who served with Lawrence in the Tank Corps, whom Forster would have met during one of his stays at Clouds Hill. Lawrence remembers (in a letter to Bernard and Charlotte Shaw) a group of people in the cottage at one time with Middleton as fighting on the big leather sofa at Clouds Hill with Pat Knowles. Forster's own relationship with Middleton was mentioned in a letter dated 10 December 1925 from Lawrence to E. Palmer: "I went down to Cambridge last Sunday, and there E. M. F. sat, large as life. We talked about you and Middleton, and the world generally. M. writes more letters to him than you do. Then M. always was talkative". It can be traced further through Forster's own correspondence; a letter to Lawrence dated 15 October 1927 indicates the pair's acquaintance: 'I write in bed, it is Edinburgh and the not very early morning. I got here last night, after lecturing to the English Association at Middlesbrough and Darlington. Does Middleton come from Middlesbrough or is that a dream?'. The following year, Forster stayed with Middleton, again writing to Lawrence: 'I stopped a night 10 days ago with Middleton in Barracks at Scarborough. He took a great deal of trouble to make me comfortable - succeeded of course, but that is another and an easier matter'. Forster has inscribed this copy to 'T.H.M from E.M.F' in the same way that Lawrence inscribed his copy: 'E. M. F from T. E. S'. This strong familiarity is clearly evident, along with the importance of their time spent at Clouds Hill with Lawrence, as Forster has considered it remarkable enough to present a copy to this person on this, the publication day, of the first publicly available copy of Lawrence's magnum opus. We are certainly not aware that E. M. Forster took the trouble to present copies of this work to anybody else. Forster would also contribute a chapter to 'T. E. Lawrence by his friends' in the 'Post-War general views'. Forster's final words in this chapter were: 'I do not want to sum T.E up. These are only a few notes, to be added to the common stock. I will finish them by recording that his was pleased by what I wrote to him about the Mint, and that he was also pleased when I helped to sell the proofs of the Seven Pillars for the benefit of another friend of his, to whom he had given them. All these are scraps. The real framework, the place where his spirit will never cease to haunt, is Clouds Hill, and the gay motto over its doorway is the one beneath which I see him at rest.' His final letter to T. E. Lawrence, dated 4th May 1935, is particularly poignant: 'Dear T. E. When would it be possible for you to have me to stop for a few days at Clouds Hill? Would about May the 20th be any good? Yours ever EMF' T. E. Lawrence died from injuries received on May 13th. ASSOCIATION COPIES OF THIS, THE 1935 FIRST TRADE EDITION, ARE VERY SCARCE INDEED AND THIS, FROM HIS CLOSE FRIEND, E. M. FORSTER IS EXCEPTIONAL.