The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers
New York [Oxford]: Macmillan [Blackwell], 1954. First British edition. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. xvi, 732 pp. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and d/j. Minor wear to edges. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. One corner worn. Dj chipped to head and tail of spine. Minor creasing. Some staining to front. Spine lightly sunned. Inscribed by previous owner. Frontis. Illustrated with 44 b/w annotated photographs and many b/w drawings. Facsimile of a letter by Winston Churchill, dated March 4th, 1954 through which he gives his consent to Mrs. Lawrence to publish the Memorial speech delivered at Oxford in 1936. Although the title page still states "Macmillan, New York", the British publisher Blackwell is printed on the dust jacket and the tail of the spine of the binding. Printed the same year and shortly after the American edition. Minor browning to edges of pages. Else, in very good condition. g. Item #9914
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