A49 T.E. LAWRENCE TO HIS BIOGRAPHER 1938

a. First edition:

[in brown:] T. E. Lawrence | TO HIS BIOGRAPHER, | Robert Graves | INFORMATION ABOUT HIMSELF, IN THE FORM | OF LETTERS, NOTES AND ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, | EDITED WITH A CRITICAL COMMENTARY. : [in brown: cut of crossed rifles, flags, swords, scimitar and sabre, with leaves] | NEW YORK | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. | MCMXXXVIII

Collation: [1]8+2 [2] – [10]8 [11]10 [12]8 100 leaves.

one leaf, verso blank, on the recto of which: This edition | is limited to 1,000 numbered and | signed copies for sale, of which 500 copies | are printed for the United

States. | This is number - - - [number written in by hand] | [signature of Graves]; p.[i] T. E. Lawrence | TO HIS BIOGRAPHER, | ROBERT GRAVES; p.[ii] blank; [frontispiece, back blank]; p.[iii] title-page tipped in; p.[iv] printer’s, designer’s, copyright, rights reservation and edition notices; p.[v] PUBLISHER’S NOTE; p.[vi] blank; pp.vii–viii FOREWORD; p.ix CONTENTS; p.[x] blank; p.[1] PART 1 1920–1926; p.[2] blank; pp.3–39 text; p.[40] blank; p.[41] PART II | 1927; p.[42] blank; pp.43–144 text; p.[145] PART III | 1928–1935; p.[146] blank; pp.l47–187 text; p.[188] blank.

22.7 × 15.2 cm. Bulk: 1.7/2.3 cm. Cream laid paper; top edge only trimmed and gilt. Cream laid endpapers. Bound in buff cloth; back blank; front blind-stamped: T. E. LAWRENCE | TO HIS BIOGRAPHER | ROBERT GRAVES; spine stamped: [triple light-heavy-light rule of brown, gold, brown] | triple rule as above] | [triple rule as above] | [brown light rule] | [double heavy gold rule] [solid brown rectangular box, inside which next 8 ll.:] T. E. | LAWRENCE | TO HIS | BIOGRAPHER | ROBERT | GRAVES | DOUBLEDAY | DORAN | [two heavy gold rules] | [brown light rule] | [eleven triple rules as at top]

Price: $20.00 (the set). Number of copies: 500. Published 2 December 1938 in a buff dust-jacket printed in black, brown and green and in cardboard slipcase covered in grayish-brown paper with label printed in black and brown covering entire front and back.

Notes: Issued with Liddell Hart’s book of the same title. The book was designed by A.P. Tedesco.

As reported by London bookseller Peter Harrington in October 2011, the publisher issued an unknown number of copies of the Graves and Liddell Hart volunes bound as one in the publisher's blue morocco presentation binding by The French Binders (Garden City, N. Y.). Each volume is an out-of-series copy from a limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies, signed by Graves and Liddell Hart on their respective limitation leaves.

Reference: O’Brien A214.

A49b. First English issue ([1939]):

[in brown:] T. E. Lawrence | TO HIS BIOGRAPHER, | Robert Graves | INFORMATION ABOUT HIMSELF, IN THE FORM | OF LETTERS, NOTES AND ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, | EDITED WITH A CRITICAL COMMENTARY. | [in brown: cut of crossed rifles, flags, swords, scimitar and sabre, with leaves] | FABER AND FABER LIMITED | 24 Russell Square | London

Collation as A49a.

one leaf, recto blank, on the verso of which: This edition | is limited to 1,000 numbered and | signed copies for sale, of which 500 copies | are printed for Great Britain. | This is number [number written in by hand] | [signature of Graves]; pp.[i] – [ii] as A49a; p.[iii] title-page tipped in; p.[ivl First published in December Mcnxxxviii | by Faber and Faber Limited | 24 Russell Square, London, W.C. | Printed in the United States of America | All Rights Resered | DESIGNED BY A.P. TEDESCO | CL | The Publishers are grateful to Messrs. | Jonathan Cape, Ltd. for permission to | include copyright material.; remainder as A49a.

Size, bulk, and paper as A49a . Bound in red cloth; back blank; front stamped with solid grey rectangular box stamped in gold: [three successivly smaller rectangular light rule boxes, inside which:] T.E. LAWRENCE | to his biographer | ROBERT GRAVES; spine stamped with solid grey rectangular box inside which: [three light rules] | T.E. | LAWRENCE | to his| biographer | ROBERT | GRAVES | [light rule] | Faber and | Faber | [three light rules]

Price: 5 gns. Number of copies: 500. Published 12 January 1939 in a wrapper made by Transmatic, being a cellophane wrapper with paper flaps, front and back. The cellophane is often perished. Issued in a box covered in light grey-green cloth with Liddell Hart’s book.

A49c. Second English edition ([1963]):

T.E. Lawrence | TO HIS BIOGRAPHERS | Robert Graves | AND | Liddell Hart | [publisher’s emblem] | CASSELL ∙ LONDON

Collation: [A]8B–P16, 232 leaves.

p.[i] T.E. Lawrence | TO HIS BIOGRAPHERS | ROBERT GRAVES | AND LIDDELL HART; p.[ii] blank; | frontispiece, back blank]; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, acknowledgement and printer’s notices; p.[v] T.E. Lawrence | TO HIS BIOGRAPHER | ROBERT GRAVES | Information about himself, in the form of letters, notes and answers to | questions, edited with a critical commentary.; p.[vi] PUBLISHER’S NOTE; pp.vii–viii FOREWORD; p.ix CONTENTS; p.[x] blank; p.[1] PART I | 1920–1926; p.[2] blank; pp.3–39 text; p.[40] blank; p. [41] PART II | 1927; p.[42] blank; pp.43–144 text; p.[145] PART III | 1928–1935; p.[146] blank; pp. 147–187 text; p. [188] blank; p.[i] T.E. Lawrence | TO HIS BIOGRAPHER | LIDDELL HART | Information about himself, in the form of letters, notes, answers to | questions and conversations; p.[ii] PUBLISHER’S NOTE; pp.iii–iv FOREWORD; pp.[1] 2–233 text; p. [234] blank; pp.235–260 INDEX; pp.[261]–[262] blank.

21.5 × 13.8 cm. Bulk: 3.1/3.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in dark beige cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [at top of spine, facing front:] T.E. LAWRENCE | [remainder across spine:] TO HIS | BIOGRAPHERS | ROBERT | GRAVES | & | LIDDELL | HART | CASSELL

Price: 42s. Number of copies: 2,062. Published 7 March 1963 in white dust-jacket printed in black and yellowish grey-green.

Notes: Impressions: 2nd, May 1963 (1,000 copies). Printed in Great Britain.

In the dust-jacket of the first impression the text on the front flap continues to the back flap after the line “analysis, but cast a deliberate veil over”. There are no blurbs on the back flap.

Greenwood Press issued a photographic reprint of this edition in 1976. For a bibliographic description see O’Brien A218.

A49d. Second edition, American issue (1963):

T. E. Lawrence | TO HIS BIOGRAPHERS | Robert Graves | AND | Liddell Hart | [Cassell publisher’s emblem] | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 1963

Collation as A49c.

Remainder as A49c, except lacks fontispiece and p.[vi] has acknowledgement, LC card, copyright, rights reservation and printing notices.

20.8 × 14.1 cm. Bulk: 3.1/3.7 cm. White wove paper; top and bottom edges trimmed; fore-edges untrimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in rust cloth; front and back blank; quarter cloth spine in rose buff, printed in two rows, top to bottom: [in black:] T. E. LAWRENCE [in rose buff:] TO HIS BIOGRAPHERS | [in black:] Robert Graves & B.H. Liddell Hart [in rose buff:] DOUBLEDAY

Price: $6.50. Number of copies: 3,500. Published 16 August 1963 in white dust-jacket printed in black, orange, green and beige.

Notes: Impressions: 2nd, 1963 (2,500 copies); p.[iv] has ‘Johnathan’ for ‘Jonathan’ in first impression. Printed in the U.S.

Reference: O’Brien A217