T.E. Lawrence to His Biographers, Liddell Hart & Robert Graves

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LIMITED EDITION. First UK Edition, limited to 500 copies, this hand numbered '120'. Two volumes: Volume 1 is SIGNED by Liddell Hart, Volume 2 is SIGNED by Robert Graves. Octavo. pp. x, 236 and pp. x, 188. Bound in the original publisher's cloth bindings, with lettering pieces to spines and front boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. In the original grey cloth slipcase. Some very minor fading to the spines but a most superior set in the less than common original slipcase. Both volumes in Near Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase. The Liddell Hart volume has the bookplate of Michael Newton to the front pastedown and a letter to his son George on the latter's first birthday First British edition, no. 120 of 1,000 numbered sets signed by Graves and Liddell Hart, of which 500 sets were for Great Britain and the remaining 500 for America. 'These volumes [.] are remarkable documents showing Lawrence's intimate work with two of his biographers. The letters, manuscript commentary and corrections, reveal the nature of information Lawrence supplied and the interpretation he allowed the authors to derive from it. These volumes expose a process of biographical writing that is rarely documented' (O'Brien). The set was printed in the United States, and Higginson and Williams state that the Graves volume was first published in the United States in December 1938, and that the British edition of the volume was first published on 12 January 1939 (despite the statement on the verso of the title-page that it was first published during December 1938 in Great Britain). Nonetheless, a set is known with ownership inscriptions dated 1938, which indicates that the British edition was, in fact, published in late 1938. O'Brien A210 and A211. N° de ref. del artículo 101198

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