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Lot 283

LAWRENCE (T.E.)
Crusader Castles, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES, 1936; Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, 1933; and other ephemera and manuscripts relating to Warwick James's chapter on music in T.E. Lawrence by His Friends, including material by A.W. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Bob Lawrence, Mrs Lawrence, Eric Kennington and others (small quantity)

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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LAWRENCE (T.E.)

Crusader Castles, 2 vol., LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES, volume 1 being one of the 75 copies issued for libraries and family (the word 'Number' omitted from colophon), volume 2 one of the 35 additional unnumbered copies, plates, 2 maps in loose pocket at end, uncut in original orange buckram and red half morocco respectively, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g. [O'Brien A188, A189], 4to, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936; Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, printed in brown, original limp brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine [O'Brien A160], Privately Printed at the Press of William Edwin Rudge, 1933; together with letters, typescripts, books and printed ephemera, mostly connected with Warwick James's contribution to TE Lawrence by his Friends, 1937, a chapter entitled 'Music - Gramophone records at Clouds Hill', including drafts of this chapter, together with autograph letters and notes written in 1936 during its preparation from A.W. Lawrence, Winifred Fontana, E.M. Forster, Bob Lawrence, Mrs Lawrence, Eric Kennington and Howard Ferguson (small quantity)

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Provenance: Warwick James.

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