Lawrence t e le corbeau adrien (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hard cover, no jacket, in very good condition for its age. Translation undertaken by T.E. Lawrence, who wished to remain anonymous. General shelf and handling wear, including fading and minor blemishes to boards, bumping to corners. Roughcut pageblock is tanned and foxed; tanning and light foxing to endpapers and spotting throughout. Within, pages are tightly bound, content clear and bright. Punctuated throughout with B/W illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. CN. Miller Parker, Agnes (illustrator).…

Second English Edition and New Illustrated Edition, type reset of the book first published in 1924. Publisher's leaf green linen with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to the dust-jacket illustrated with a wood engraving by Agnes Miller Parker, who illustrates the text with a further eight engravings. Small Octavo. 19 x 13.5 cm: [A]8 B-K8, 80 leaves, pp. [1-4] 5-160. Contains a new Publisher's Note and dedication omitted from the first edition. Translated from the French by T.E. Lawrence writing as J.H. Ross A book in Very Good condition with offsetting to endpapers, spotting to the prelims and untrimmed fore-edge, with a Very Good dust-jacket with a few short tears and slight dust-soiling, but which is not price-clipped (showing '5s net'). [O'Brien A095].…

From the Library of Jeremy Wilson with his bookplate to the front pastedown, and ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. With the National Portrait Gallery compliments slip laid in, identifying this book as being that which was exhibited with Cat, no. 7A11 at the T.E. Lawrence Exhibition held in 1988. First English Edition. Publisher's original quarter yellow linen, printed paper label, light green boards with the illustrated dust-jacket. Octavo, pp. [1-6]7[8]9-158[159-160]. A Very Good copy, almost fine but for some show through from old tape reinforcements on the inside of the jacket and tape stains on the endpapers; dust-jacket not price-clipped (showing '6s net'). O'Brien.…

First edition, limited issue, number 57 of 352 copies, one of 45 bound in quarter goatskin. This is a French/English parallel version of Lawrence's translation of Le Gigantesque (1922), first published in 1924 and one of two translated works he produced. It is also the only example of Lawrence's translations from French. Lawrence took on this translation commission from Cape just after having enlisted in the Tank Corps. He denigrated both the novel itself and his work on it, sending his finished draft to the publishers accompanied by a note: "At last this foul work: complete. Damn Adrien le Corbeau and his rhetoric. The book is a magnificent idea, ruined by jejune bombast. My version is better than his: but dishonest here and there: but my stomach turned. Couldn't help it" (p. xi). This edition comes with a foreword by the editor Jeremy Wilson, the authorized biographer of T. E. Lawrence, and Le Corbeau's dedication to Professor Simon Duplay of the Académie de Médecine. It also contains a number of facsimiles and photographs of the original manuscripts, not present in any other rendition. The French text was typeset from the copy that Le Corbeau gave to Charles Fasquelle, son of his publisher, and the English text was scanned from the copy owned by Jock Chambers, one of Lawrence's close friends from his service. This copy is one of 45 in quarter crushed morocco, with a further 15 in an inlaid binding, 40 bound in quarter morocco, and 250 bound in cloth. Two copies were reserved for the publisher. Octavo. Frontispiece of facsimile letter, 10 plates, illustrations in the text. Original brown quarter morocco, spine gilt-lettered direct, brown cloth covers, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Housed in original brown cloth slipcase. A fine copy.…