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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Churchill Book Collector

United States
About Item: Salisbury: Castle Hill Press, 2016. First edition. Full leather. This is the first and limited edition of the first version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom intended for general publication. It was prepared in autumn 1922 by T. E. Lawrence and his literary mentor and friend, Edward Garnett, abridged from the 1922 Oxford text. Fittingly, it was the final act of outstanding editorial scholarship and fine press publication by Lawrences official biographer, Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017), that rescued this text from oblivion. This copy is hand-numbered 19 by Wilson on the limitation page and signed by Wilson at the end of the Introduction. Of a total edition of 227 numbered copies, only 45 were bound thus for subscribers, in full tan-orange goatskin (evoking desert sand) with raised spine bands, deep green morocco spine labels, double blind rule front cover border, head and foot bands, all edges gilt, folding map, facsimiles of original holograph and edited drafts, and frontispiece photograph of T.… Read More
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