Henry williamson t e lawrence interest (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped vignette to the upper board. Tip of one corner knocked and the cloth at the backstrip and board margins a little tanned. Some spotting to the endpapers and occasional text leaf margins. Quite a bright copy, lacking the dust wrapper. A roman à clef of the thirties featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson ('Cahnnerson'), D. H. Lawrence ('David Torrence'), Siegfried Sassoon ('Sherston Savage'), Aldous Huxley ('Adolf Stucley'), T. S. Eliot ('P. S. Etiol)', John Galsworthy ('Holsworthy'), H. G. Wells ('Springs') and J. B. Priestley ('P. B. Bradford' - Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (never reprinted). 8vo. 317pp. Green buckram, gilt lettered at the spine. Buckram quite tanned at spine with some general fading to upper and lower boards. Binding cocked. Internally an extremely crisp and bright copy of a volume which is usually prone to quite disastrous fox spotting. No dust wrapper. A light-hearted narrative linking six short stories (mostly hitherto unpublished in bookform), whilst a postscript laments the sudden death of T. E. Lawrence and reproduces the 'last telegram'. (Lawrence appears in the text as 'G. B. Everest', a thinly-vailed portrait that Williamson had first created for his anonymous novel 'The Gold Falcon').…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Edges and endpapers spotted and with a little further spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional leaves throughout. A good copy in spotted, toned, torn and nicked price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel join and, an inch of loss from the head of the front panel and several smaller areas of loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J. B. Priestley. (Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a tiny area of spotting to the fore edge. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good indeed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel fold, considerably tanned at the spine panel, and with some nicking and several slivers of edge-loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J. B. Priestley. (Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (never reprinted). 8vo. 317pp. Green buckram lettered in gold at the spine. The buckram faded at the backstrip and board extremities as is so often the case. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, and with just a tiny hint of edgewear. A light-hearted narrative linking six short stories (mostly hitherto unpublished in bookform), whilst a postscript laments the sudden death of T. E. Lawrence and reproduces the 'last telegram'. (Lawrence appears in the text as 'G. B. Everest', a thinly-vailed portrait that Williamson had first created for his anonymous novel 'The Gold Falcon').…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #457) printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter in Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Small 4to. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter blue Niger with cream linen boards, gilt lettered at the spine with five raised bands. Top edge gilt. A light scattering of spotting to the upper board, and the Niger quite faded at the backstrip. Armorial bookplate of Sir Michael Oppenheimer and Lady Oppenheimer to the front pastedown. A very good copy. Contains five essays by Lawrence, including reviews of works D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells and James Elroy Flecker, plus his noteworthy 'Criticism of Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter, with some remarks on the style of Doughty's Arabia Deserta', (Lawrence's suggested alterations were subsequently incorporated by Williamson into the text of the fourth edition of 'Tarka'). O'Brien A229.…