Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence (T.E.). Liddell Hart (Sir Basil Henry) and Storrs (Sir Ronald)   Corvinus Press,  1936 First Edition One of 128 numbered copies on Barcham Green “Medway”  4to Original half light brown cloth, textured paper sides, gilt rules and gilt Corvinus device on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe Fine copy in rather soiled, nondescript card slipcase. Presentation Copy, inscribed on the front free end-paper “To Bertram Rota who knew T.E. from the printer of this book. Carlow. July 9th 1936”  According to a memoir by Viscount Carlow published in On Collecting Books and Printing them too, Reading Room Press 2013, the spine and corners of the book are of “a buff Chinese canvas which had been used to decorate the walls of the Academy during the Chinese exhibition of 1935.” 

Price: £2500