T.E. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brothers.

Name: T.E. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brothers.
Price: 1500 GBP
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Author: LAWRENCE

by LAWRENCE

£1,500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Presentation Copy by a close Acquaintance of the Lawrences LAWRENCE, T.E. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brothers. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1954. 8vo. Original cloth with dust wrapper (not price-clipped, but a bit worn and spotted); pp. xvi, 730, [1], plates in photogravure and a few illustrations in the text; a good copy with important and informative provenance. First edition, with introduction by Winston Churchill. “This collection of letters, edited by [T.E. Lawrence’s] brother M.R. Lawrence, supplements the David Garnett collection of 1938. The letters included here for the most part cover his early years; fully two thirds of those included are from before the war. The two collections provide a remarkable picture of the range and scope of Lawrence’s letter-writing from his youth to the end of his life. The letters of his brothers Frank and Will, both of whom died in the First World War, are also included. The whole reflects what was a truly remarkable family. This collection is a primary source for the pre-war correspondence of Lawrence” (O’Brien, Bibliography , pp. 167-168). Together with : A two-page autograph letter by John Gideon Wilson, eminent British bookseller at Bumpus on their printed stationery, signed and dated 1954 to one Kathleen Steel of Wool in Dorset about this publication, members of the family of T. E. Lawrence, and Richard Aldington's imminent publication of the 'slanderous' book Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry , which came out t

Binding: Hardcover

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