Lot 439
Lawrence, T.E.
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 January 2017 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Crusader Castles. [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. First edition, 2 vols, 4to., no. 88 of 1000, 8 plates, 47 leaves of plates, 2 maps, illustrations throughout the text in vol. 2, 2 folding maps in a loose pocket, photographic frontispiece in vol. 2, bookplate of "Charles Owen Dennis" in each volume, original orange half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, cream cloth sides, top edges gilt, uncut at fore-edges and bottom, title-pages printed in red, light soiling to the cloth sides; [Idem] Secret Despatches from Arabia. [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, [1939]. First edition, 4to., no. 166 of 1000, photographic frontispiece of the author, original black quarter morocco, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, cream buckram boards, top edge gilt, uncut at fore-edges and bottom, 2 small weak marks on front & back endpapers from sellotape; [Idem] The Odyssey of Homer. London: Oxford University Press, [1935]. First English edition, 8vo., original dark blue half morocco gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, edges gilt, emblem on title-page slightly offset; Portraits for Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2008. First edition, no. 134 of 220, a collection of 42 coloured and monochrome plates (including the frontispiece), quarter cloth with paper sides