Garden City New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Limited, hand-numbered, copyright edition. Hardcover. This is the true first edition of T. E. Lawrence’s unstintingly candid portrait of life in the Royal Air Force ranks, a magnificent example of the U.S. “copyright edition”, one of just 50 copies, none of..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Finely bound, limited, hand-numbered edition. Full leather. This is the finely bound issue of the first and limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford" text. Only 80 of the 752 sets were issued thus, in full navy morocco with a supplemental Illustrations and Introduction..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Finely bound, limited, hand-numbered edition. Full leather. This is the finely bound issue of the first and limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford" text. Only 80 of the 752 sets were issued thus, in full navy morocco with a supplemental Illustrations and Introduction..... More
London: Corvinus Press, 1937. First, finely bound, limited, and hand-numbered edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly well-preserved copy of the scarce and extraordinarily beautiful 1937 Corvinus Press limited first edition of The Diary of T. E. Lawrence, which has been called “the most ambitious and handsome volume published by the..... More
The White House, Washington, D.C. 1909. Letter. This is a typed, hand-emended, and signed 16 February 1909 letter on White House stationery from President Theodore Roosevelt to his friend, Lawrence F. Abbott, editor of the weekly newspaper The Outlook. The letter, dated just 16 days from the end of Roosevelt’s..... More
Basrah: Printed by E. G. Pearson at the Times Press, Bombay, and published by the Superintendent, Government Press, Basrah, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. The Arab of Mesopotamia was published in Basrah in 1917 to inform British imperial considerations in the Middle East during and after the First World War. The..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Hardcover. This the Castle Hill Press limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford" text, one of 752 sets total and only 75 “extra-illustrated sets” issued thus, with an additional illustrations portfolio and specially-sized slipcase. This edition marked the first time that Lawrence's full text, originally..... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2009. Hand-Numbered Limited Edition. Full Leather. This Castle Hill Press limited, finely bound, hand-numbered edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with significant "Later Writings about Service Life" and additional unpublished material. Here is copy #1, the first of just 50 issued..... More
London: Nonesuch Press, 1935. Hardcover. This exquisite edition of Herodotus’ The Histories, translated by G. Rawlinson, with revisions and annotations by A. W. Lawrence, engravings by V. Le Campion, and maps by T. Poulton, was published by Nonesuch Press in 1935. This is copy 549 of 675, a massive tome..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1927. Numbered and limited issue of the first edition. Quarter leather. This is the English first, limited, and numbered edition of Revolt in the Desert - the first version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom published for the general public in Lawrence’s lifetime. This limited edition was..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. This is the elusive first edition of Gertrude Bell’s second published book, the first published under her name and her only published poetical work. Condition is exceptional, near fine. The publisher’s cloth binding is beautifully clean and unfaded, square and tight with sharp..... More
Castle Hill Press, 2016. First edition. Full leather. 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..... More
Castle Hill Press, 2016. First edition. Full leather. 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..... More
London: H. Walter Barnett, 1917. Photograph. This small collection of images includes a signed photographic portrait of General Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861-1936), the celebrated British commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Allenby signed in two lines, including his titular “General”, at an angle..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. First, limited, numbered, and finely bound edition. Quarter Leather. This is a magnificently well-preserved copy of the first limited, finely bound, and numbered edition of the inimitable Gertrude Bell's First World War despatches to the Arab Bureau in Cairo. Bell’s despatches had previously been published..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 2003. Quarter goatskin. This is the finely bound, first one-volume limited edition of the full 1922 'Oxford' text from Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence, founded by Lawrence’s official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017). ..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 2003. Quarter goatskin. This is the finely bound, first one-volume limited edition of the full 1922 'Oxford' text from Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence, founded by Lawrence’s official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017). ..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 2003. Quarter goatskin. This is the finely bound, first one-volume limited edition of the full 1922 'Oxford' text from Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence, founded by Lawrence’s official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017). ..... More
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. Numbered and limited issue of the first edition. Hardcover. Revolt in the Desert was the first and only version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom published for general availability to the public in T.E. Lawrence’s lifetime. This is copy 101 of 250 of the publisher's..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1929. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is an unexpurgated first edition, first printing of poet, soldier, scholar, and author Robert Graves’s (1895-1985) first World War autobiography. Condition is good plus, in a poor but nonetheless scarce dust jacket. The original orange-red binding is tight and..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 2003. Quarter goatskin. This is the finely bound, first one-volume limited edition of the full 1922 'Oxford' text from Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press publishers of material by and about T. E. Lawrence, founded by Lawrence’s official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017). ..... More
Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1988. First and limited edition. Full Nigerian Goatskin. This is the strikingly beautiful and scarce full Nigerian goatskin issue of the 1988 Whittington Press edition, hand-numbered copy “XLII” (42 for you non-Romans) of only 80 issued thus. This contents are printed on “a..... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2009. Hand-Numbered Limited Edition. Full Leather. This Castle Hill Press limited, finely bound, hand-numbered edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with significant "Later Writings about Service Life" and additional unpublished material. Of a total edition of 277 printed for subscribers, just..... More
Salisbury: Castle Hill Press, 2016. First and limited edition. Leather bound. This is the publisher’s full goatskin limited edition of T. E. Lawrence's Correspondence with Edward and David Garnett, an important installment in the T. E. Lawrence Letters series published by Castle Hill Press, the premier editors and fine press..... More
Melbourne & New York: George J. Hicks & Co. / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1927. First "Australasian Edition" Hardcover. This Australasian issue of Revolt in the Desert is distinguished by the unique dust jacket. Australian publisher George J. Hicks & Co obtained second printing copies from the American publisher, Doran..... More