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Auction archive: Lot number 251

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). LETTERS-- From a Letter of T.E. Lawrence . [S.l.]: Giovanni Mardersteig Officina Verona for the Double Crown Club, 1959. 8° (200 x 128mm). Printer's device in red on colophon. Original printed wrappers (extremitie...

Auction 15.11.2006
15 Nov 2006
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,529 - US$2,293
Price realised:
£1,140
ca. US$2,178
Auction archive: Lot number 251

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). LETTERS-- From a Letter of T.E. Lawrence . [S.l.]: Giovanni Mardersteig Officina Verona for the Double Crown Club, 1959. 8° (200 x 128mm). Printer's device in red on colophon. Original printed wrappers (extremitie...

Auction 15.11.2006
15 Nov 2006
Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,529 - US$2,293
Price realised:
£1,140
ca. US$2,178
Beschreibung:

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). LETTERS-- From a Letter of T.E. Lawrence . [S.l.]: Giovanni Mardersteig Officina Verona for the Double Crown Club, 1959. 8° (200 x 128mm). Printer's device in red on colophon. Original printed wrappers (extremities faded). ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 70 TO 75 COPIES, privately printed as a keepsake. An extract from a letter to his mother of September 1910 discussing a French edition of Antoine de la Sale's Petit Jehan de Saintré . O'Brien A249. T.E. LAWRENCE. T.E.L. Five Hitherto Unpublished Letters , edited by Sir Michael Newton. [S.l.]: Axminster Printing Co. [for Sir Michael Newton], 1975. 4° (172 x 140mm). Full-page facsimile. Original printed wrappers. Provenance : 'To Sidney from George' (inscription). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 30 COPIES. Five letters from to R.V. Buxton, dated 4 December 1923 to 19 March 1929. The introduction is a letter from Sir Harry Michael Rex Newton to his son George Peter Howgill Newton, and the work contains a bibliography of works by Lawrence in Newton's collection. O'Brien A261. T.E. LAWRENCE. Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922-1926 , edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Fordingbridge: Cambridge University Press for Castle Hill Press, 2000. Volume I (only, of 3), 8° (282 x 174mm). Portrait frontispiece after Augustus John and 16 full-page facsimiles. Original green crushed morocco, upper board blind tooled, spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges, slipcase. LIMITED TO 702 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 40 BOUND IN MOROCCO. Correspondence to and from Lawrence and the Shaws from 1922 to 1926; volume I of the Castle Hill Press edition of Lawrence's Letters . T.E. LAWRENCE. Correspondence with Henry Williamson. Edited by Peter Wilson With a Prologue and Epilogue by Anne Williamson and a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson . Fordingbridge: The Burlington Press for Castle Hill Press, 2000. 8° (283 x 172mm). Portrait frontispiece after Powys Evans and 16 full-page facsimiles. Original tan crushed morocco gilt by The Fine Bindery, gilt edges, slipcase. LIMITED TO 702 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 18 OF 40 BOUND IN MOROCCO. Correspondence to and from Lawrence and Williamson from 1928 to 1935; volume IX of the Castle Hill Press edition of Lawrence's Letters . T.E. LAWRENCE. Four Letters from T.E. Shaw to Viscount Carlow , edited by P.W. Nash. London: The Strawberry Press, 1998. 8° (239 x 160mm). Title with Corvinus Press device in dark red, colophon with press device in dark red. Original printed wrappers. NUMBER 9 OF 60 COPIES. A selection, edited and annotated by Nash, of these letters to Carlow dating from 1934 to 1935; privately printed as a keepsake. Together with: Lawrence's visiting card bearing the text 'Mr E. Lawrence. All Souls College, Oxford.' ( Exhibited : National Portrait Gallery, London, T.E. Lawrence, 1988, no. 187); a printed postcard bearing the text 'To tell you that in future I shall write very few letters. T.E.S.' (O'Brien A161, 'sent to friends and correspondents after Lawrence retired from the RAF in 1935'); A.W. Lawrence's broadsheet 'Letters of T.E. Lawrence (T.E. Shaw)', incipit: 'Mr. A.W. Lawrence asks all who possess letters from his brother ...' ([s.l.: 1935]); 3 copies of David Garnett's edition of The Letters (including the first edition, first state and first American edition, in dustwrapper); The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brother (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954, dustwrapper, first edition); Letters to T.E. Lawrence (London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, dustwrapper, first edition), with an uncorrected proof copy; 3 copies of Malcolm Brown's edition of The Letters (including the first edition and first American edition, in dustwrappers). (17)

Auction archive: Lot number 251
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
15 November 2006, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). LETTERS-- From a Letter of T.E. Lawrence . [S.l.]: Giovanni Mardersteig Officina Verona for the Double Crown Club, 1959. 8° (200 x 128mm). Printer's device in red on colophon. Original printed wrappers (extremities faded). ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 70 TO 75 COPIES, privately printed as a keepsake. An extract from a letter to his mother of September 1910 discussing a French edition of Antoine de la Sale's Petit Jehan de Saintré . O'Brien A249. T.E. LAWRENCE. T.E.L. Five Hitherto Unpublished Letters , edited by Sir Michael Newton. [S.l.]: Axminster Printing Co. [for Sir Michael Newton], 1975. 4° (172 x 140mm). Full-page facsimile. Original printed wrappers. Provenance : 'To Sidney from George' (inscription). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 30 COPIES. Five letters from to R.V. Buxton, dated 4 December 1923 to 19 March 1929. The introduction is a letter from Sir Harry Michael Rex Newton to his son George Peter Howgill Newton, and the work contains a bibliography of works by Lawrence in Newton's collection. O'Brien A261. T.E. LAWRENCE. Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1922-1926 , edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Fordingbridge: Cambridge University Press for Castle Hill Press, 2000. Volume I (only, of 3), 8° (282 x 174mm). Portrait frontispiece after Augustus John and 16 full-page facsimiles. Original green crushed morocco, upper board blind tooled, spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges, slipcase. LIMITED TO 702 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 40 BOUND IN MOROCCO. Correspondence to and from Lawrence and the Shaws from 1922 to 1926; volume I of the Castle Hill Press edition of Lawrence's Letters . T.E. LAWRENCE. Correspondence with Henry Williamson. Edited by Peter Wilson With a Prologue and Epilogue by Anne Williamson and a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson . Fordingbridge: The Burlington Press for Castle Hill Press, 2000. 8° (283 x 172mm). Portrait frontispiece after Powys Evans and 16 full-page facsimiles. Original tan crushed morocco gilt by The Fine Bindery, gilt edges, slipcase. LIMITED TO 702 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 18 OF 40 BOUND IN MOROCCO. Correspondence to and from Lawrence and Williamson from 1928 to 1935; volume IX of the Castle Hill Press edition of Lawrence's Letters . T.E. LAWRENCE. Four Letters from T.E. Shaw to Viscount Carlow , edited by P.W. Nash. London: The Strawberry Press, 1998. 8° (239 x 160mm). Title with Corvinus Press device in dark red, colophon with press device in dark red. Original printed wrappers. NUMBER 9 OF 60 COPIES. A selection, edited and annotated by Nash, of these letters to Carlow dating from 1934 to 1935; privately printed as a keepsake. Together with: Lawrence's visiting card bearing the text 'Mr E. Lawrence. All Souls College, Oxford.' ( Exhibited : National Portrait Gallery, London, T.E. Lawrence, 1988, no. 187); a printed postcard bearing the text 'To tell you that in future I shall write very few letters. T.E.S.' (O'Brien A161, 'sent to friends and correspondents after Lawrence retired from the RAF in 1935'); A.W. Lawrence's broadsheet 'Letters of T.E. Lawrence (T.E. Shaw)', incipit: 'Mr. A.W. Lawrence asks all who possess letters from his brother ...' ([s.l.: 1935]); 3 copies of David Garnett's edition of The Letters (including the first edition, first state and first American edition, in dustwrapper); The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and his Brother (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954, dustwrapper, first edition); Letters to T.E. Lawrence (London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, dustwrapper, first edition), with an uncorrected proof copy; 3 copies of Malcolm Brown's edition of The Letters (including the first edition and first American edition, in dustwrappers). (17)

Auction archive: Lot number 251
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
15 November 2006, London, King Street
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