LAWRENCE, T.E. | Eight Letters from TEL, one of 50 copies, 1939

From the Library of Alan Milne

LAWRENCE, T.E.

EIGHT LETTERS, EDITED BY HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER. "PRIVATELY PRINTED" [BY THE WESTMINSTER PRESS FOR H. GRANVILLE-BARKER], 1939.

8vo, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, original grey printed wrappers, yapp edges

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, limited to 50 copies (not for sale). Eight Letters contains the series of letters from Lawrence to the theatre director, author and playwright Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946), written between 1923 and 1932, of which only the second had previously been published. Granville-Barker was a subscriber to Seven Pillars of Wisdom and five of the letters contain references to that work, including (in the first letter) a request that Granville-Barker reads a copy of the Oxford edition. Copies of Eight Letters were given as Christmas gifts.

LITERATURE:

O'Brien A219; Nash and Flavell, pp. 172-174

PROVENANCE:

Bonhams, 27 March 2012, lot 207

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