![LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Letters ... to Bruce Rogers. [S.l.]: 'privately printed at the Press of William Edwin Rudge' [for Rogers and Rudge], 1933. 8° (207 x 141mm). Printed in brown ink. Original semi-flexible brown linen covers, titled in gilt on the spine, ORIGINAL BROWN PAPER DUSTWRAPPER (light offsetting onto endpapers, small adhesive spot on lower pastedown affecting rear free endpaper). Provenance: John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940, presentation inscription below title 'and " " [i.e. from T.E. Shaw] to J.B. 1935. If you stick this in with one of your "Odyssey" extravagances, it will fetch more on the Day! TES.'. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES. INSCRIBED TO BUCHAN BY LAWRENCE. Clements p.36; O'Brien A160.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07275_0241_000(010417).jpg?w=1)
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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). Letters ... to Bruce Rogers. [S.l.]: 'privately printed at the Press of William Edwin Rudge' [for Rogers and Rudge], 1933. 8° (207 x 141mm). Printed in brown ink. Original semi-flexible brown linen covers, titled in gilt on the spine, ORIGINAL BROWN PAPER DUSTWRAPPER (light offsetting onto endpapers, small adhesive spot on lower pastedown affecting rear free endpaper). Provenance: John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940, presentation inscription below title 'and " " [i.e. from T.E. Shaw] to J.B. 1935. If you stick this in with one of your "Odyssey" extravagances, it will fetch more on the Day! TES.'. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES. INSCRIBED TO BUCHAN BY LAWRENCE. Clements p.36; O'Brien A160.
T.E. LAWRENCE. More Letters ... to Bruce Rogers. [S.l.]: 'privately printed' [by Rogers], 1936. 8° (206 x 140mm). Printed in brown ink. Original semi-flexible brown linen covers, titled in gilt on the spine. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 300 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY with tipped-in printed slip 'Compliments of Bruce Rogers' inscribed beneath 'who wishes you a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year'. O'Brien A165.
FIRST EDITIONS, BOTH PRESENTATION COPIES, THE FIRST INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE TO BUCHAN. Lawrence had engineered a meeting with the writer and political figure John Buchan in 1925, in order to ask for Buchan's assistance in his attempts to remuster in the RAF; Buchan had interceded on Lawrence's behalf with Baldwin (then enjoying his second term of office as Prime Minister) and the two men had overcome RAF opposition to Lawrence's ambition. Lawrence's gratitude to both his benefactors was great (Baldwin was sent an imperfect copy of the 'Subscriber's' edition of Seven Pillars, via Buchan), and towards the end of his RAF career in 1934, Lawrence thanked Buchan and Baldwin thus: 'I owe the two of you more than my twelve years work (and another twelve on top of it, were I young enough) in the sheer satisfaction it has been. You have me very hopelessly in your debt: and thank you both very much for it' (letter of 20 December 1934). Buchan, in turn, held Lawrence in high esteem, as his posthumous tribute demonstrates: 'If genius be, in Emerson's phrase, a "stellar and undiminished something", whose origin is a mystery and whose essence cannot be defined, then he was the only man of genius I have ever known' (quoted in: J. Wilson Lawrence of Arabia, London: 1989, p. [939]). The majority of the 52 letters published in these two volumes relate to the printing and publication of Lawrence's translation of Homer's Odyssey (see the following lot); O'Brien states of Letters that it is 'of major importance', in relation to the translation, and that 'most of the letters [in the two volumes] are not contained in The Letters of T.E. Lawrence' (p. 119). With: Carol Kent (ed.). Emery Walker 'The Master of the Art of the Book (Austin, TX: Carol Kent, The Press at the Humanities Research Center, 1988, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES, O'Brien D0010b). (3)
T.E. LAWRENCE. More Letters ... to Bruce Rogers. [S.l.]: 'privately printed' [by Rogers], 1936. 8° (206 x 140mm). Printed in brown ink. Original semi-flexible brown linen covers, titled in gilt on the spine. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 300 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY with tipped-in printed slip 'Compliments of Bruce Rogers' inscribed beneath 'who wishes you a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year'. O'Brien A165.
FIRST EDITIONS, BOTH PRESENTATION COPIES, THE FIRST INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE TO BUCHAN. Lawrence had engineered a meeting with the writer and political figure John Buchan in 1925, in order to ask for Buchan's assistance in his attempts to remuster in the RAF; Buchan had interceded on Lawrence's behalf with Baldwin (then enjoying his second term of office as Prime Minister) and the two men had overcome RAF opposition to Lawrence's ambition. Lawrence's gratitude to both his benefactors was great (Baldwin was sent an imperfect copy of the 'Subscriber's' edition of Seven Pillars, via Buchan), and towards the end of his RAF career in 1934, Lawrence thanked Buchan and Baldwin thus: 'I owe the two of you more than my twelve years work (and another twelve on top of it, were I young enough) in the sheer satisfaction it has been. You have me very hopelessly in your debt: and thank you both very much for it' (letter of 20 December 1934). Buchan, in turn, held Lawrence in high esteem, as his posthumous tribute demonstrates: 'If genius be, in Emerson's phrase, a "stellar and undiminished something", whose origin is a mystery and whose essence cannot be defined, then he was the only man of genius I have ever known' (quoted in: J. Wilson Lawrence of Arabia, London: 1989, p. [939]). The majority of the 52 letters published in these two volumes relate to the printing and publication of Lawrence's translation of Homer's Odyssey (see the following lot); O'Brien states of Letters that it is 'of major importance', in relation to the translation, and that 'most of the letters [in the two volumes] are not contained in The Letters of T.E. Lawrence' (p. 119). With: Carol Kent (ed.). Emery Walker 'The Master of the Art of the Book (Austin, TX: Carol Kent, The Press at the Humanities Research Center, 1988, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES, O'Brien D0010b). (3)
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