lawrence henry williamson (14 Ergebnisse)

paperback, 8vo, x,134pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine not creased, Very Good condition. ISBN: 1873507054.

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 A light-hearted narrative linking six short stories (mostly hitherto unpublished in bookform), whilst a postscript laments the sudden death of T. E. Lawrence and reproduces the 'last telegram'.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').

HardBack. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st Edition, Faber 1961. Internally very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, light sporadic foxing limited to endpapers, else clear, printed with wide margins on thick creamy, deckle edge attractively untrimmed paper. Bound in dusted and smudged gilt lettered brown cloth with straining near lower joint, rolled to corners, chipped to spine with small surface loss 1cm to head and light fraying to tail. Vignette owl illustration to final leaf. Lovely internally, reduced due to binding. The volume in hand is of double interest, as it details the correspondence and friendship between two writers of renown, T E Lawrence and Henry Williamson. The two were introduced by critic and reader for Cape, Edward Garnett, who also established D H Lawrence, E M Forster and Conrad. Garnett sent a copy of Williamsons Tarka the Otter to paradoxical and hypnotic T E Lawrence, and he replied at length from his RAF stationing in India, that the book; has kept me sizzling with joy for three weeks. The best thing Ive met for ever so long. We currently have very many T E Lawrence volumes in the Literature Department, bought from the same collector, please inquire or check our listings.

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. A very good copy in d/w of the first US edition. This copy came from the library of Henry Williamson, the bookplate of Richard Calvert Williamson. In original green cloth with impressed falcon to front board. An interesting novel based on a number of real characters known to Williamson. An anonymously published roman à clef of English literary life and circles in the thirties. Based on a trip to the USA made by Williamson it shows an interesting picture of America in the 1930s. T.E.Lawrence appears as 'G.B.Everest' ("my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson writing in 'Genius of Friendship'), C.R.W.Nevinson (who threatened to sue) as 'Cahnnerson', D.H.Lawrence as 'David Torrence', Siegfried Sassoon as 'Sherston Savage', Aldous Huxley as 'Adolf Stucley', T.S.Eliot as 'P.S.Etiol', John Galsworthy as 'Holsworthy', H.G.Wells as 'Springs', Thomas Washington Metcalfe as 'Thomas Volstead Wrink' and J.B.Priestley as 'P.B.Bradford'. This is a nice copy with good connections.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. A fine as new copy of this important collection of the correspondence of T.E. Lawrence. Scholarly prepared by the Castle Hill Press it is a handsome volume. A numbered copy of the cloth subscribers edition in fine d/w. This being No 158. 219pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. A fine clean copy of this important collection of the correspondence of T.E. Lawrence. In quarter leather and gilt titlie to spine. In card slipcase as issued. Portrait frontis of Henry Williamson by Powys Evans. 219pp. Copy number 83. A fine new copy of this important collection of the correspondence of T.E. Lawrence. Scholarly, prepared by the Castle Hill Press it is a handsome volume. Typeset in Garamond by Castle Hill Press. Printed by The Burlington Press on 100 g.s.m. Supreme Bookwove, a high-quality acid-free paper. A much sought after copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 78pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The top edge and the front free endpaper and pastedown very lightly spotted. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and the margins of the front panel, with a single tiny fraction of loss and a strip of darkening to the head of the front panel. An account of the friendship between Williamson and Lawrence which began in the summer of 1929 when Edward Garnett sent T.E.L. a copy of 'Tarka the Otter' to review, and lasted until May 1935 with Lawrence's fatal motorcycle accident returning home after sending a telegram to Williamson. 2,000 copies were printed.

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.

First edition, first impression, of Williamson's memoir recording his friendship with T. E. Lawrence, both of whom had served in the First World War. Williamson recalls first becoming interested in Lawrence when he read Revolt in the Desert, serialised in the Daily Telegraph (15 December 1926-10 January 1927). As they both were veterans of the First World War (Williamson published his account The Patriot's Progress in 1930), both solitary, and both desiring friendship, it is perhaps unsurprising that one would write to the other. Through the critic Edward Garnett, Williamson first sent a proof copy of his new manuscript, Tarka the Otter, to Lawrence in Karachi in 1928. Lawrence's response was published in Men in Print (1940), where he praises Williamson's work and offers suggestions for its improvement. From there a friendship blossomed, and this volume contains many quotes and extracts from their correspondence. Lawrence was even on the way to post a letter to Williamson when he died. O'Brien E146. Octavo. Original dark orange buckram, spine gilt-lettered direct, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Head of spine slightly bumped, endpapers foxed, small stain at head of pp. 24-5; jacket not price clipped, spine and head of panels sunned, small hole to spine, some nicks, chips and closed tears: a very good copy in good dust jacket.

From the Henry Williamson papers. The present text does not feature in Williamson's 1941 memoir of Lawrence 'Genius of Friendship', and appears to be unpublished. (According to Williamson's entry in the Oxford DNB, the publication in 1927 of 'Tarka the Otter' 'attracted the attention of T. E. Lawrence, whose letter of praise started a correspondence and friendship between the two. Indeed, Lawrence's fatal motorcycle crash on 14 May 1935 occurred as he was returning from a trip to the post office to send a telegram to Williamson'.) Eighteen lines of typewritten text, single-spaced, on one side of a 20 x 17 cm piece of laid Partridge & Cooper Ledger paper cut from the lower part of a leaf. Lightly aged and spotted, with one punch hole in margin. Two folds. Autograph emendation of the word 'jerk' to 'turn'. Two paragraphs, the first (and shorter) reading: 'There are several characteristic gestures of his that I can see vividly. One of them, his expression and action in turning his head upon a speaker when an idea has taken sudden root in his head from what has been said. He would turn his head sideways at an angle of 15º, give the person a quick glance and then frown, and as it were, set his eyes upon the other person's eyes with a swift jerk, as though to strike a line through the other's brain, to clear a way through thought-confusion to sky-clarity beyond.' The second paragraph discusses 'the hidden springs of his tact', 'difficult to convey in a screen version of his life', with reference to 'a George Arliss film'. Ends: 'The real thing, indeed, as Lawrence knew and used it, is terrifically better theatre. It is the basis of all religion.'.