Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £200 |
MISCELLANY, 20TH-CENTURY - T. E. LAWRENCE (1888-1935, "Lawrence of Arabia"). The Mint. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 4to (253 x 195mm). Half title, title printed in red and black. Original dark blue pigskin backed cloth boards, spine gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some erosion to head and foot of spine, without the slipcase). FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 620 OF 2,000 COPIES. O'Brien T. E. Lawrence. A Bibliography A172. With c.50 other miscellaneous books including F. Hadland Davis' Myths & Legends of Japan (London, 1912, 32 coloured plates by Evelyn Paul, original pictorial cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION, the title stamped "Review"), Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield (London, 1934, original cloth, rather worn, inner hinges broken, some staining, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Esquire's Handbook for Hosts (New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1949, coloured illustrations by L. J. Allen, original pictorial cloth, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Peter Noble's The Fabulous Orson Welles (London, 1956, plates, original pink cloth, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "For Valerie and Eddie, with good wishes from Peter Noble, 1957"), Peter Fletcher's Emotional Conflict (London, 1958, original coloured paper boards, without the dust-jacket [?as issued], FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Hot from the Press, for Valerie and Eddie with warm affection from Peter Fletcher, Nov. 11. 1958"), Lincoln Williams' Tomorrow Will Be Sober (London, 1960, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Hugh J. Klare's Anatomy of Prison (London, 1960, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), James Hemming's Problems of Adolescent Girls (London, 1960, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Nell Dunn's Up the Junction (London, 1963, illustrations by Susan Benson, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Ludovic Kennedy's The Trial of Stephen Ward (London, 1964, plates, original cloth, yellow dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall (London, 1969, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). Please note that only a small part of the lot is illustrated. (c.50)