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Daphnis and Chloe

AN EXCEPTIONAL ASSOCIATION COPY: "THIS BOOK WAS BOUND BY MCLEISH FOR COLONEL T.E. LAWRENCE… IT WAS GIVEN BY HIM TO ME AT ALL SOULS COLLEGE"

(LAWRENCE, T.E.) LONGUS. Daphnis and Chloe. London, 1893.

An exceptional association copy: the finely printed and beautifully illustrated Vale Press Daphnis and Chloe—one of only 210 copies, 200 of which were for sale, with 36 charming woodcuts in the Italian style by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, with "T.E.L."—likely in T.E. Lawrence's hand—faintly penciled in the upper right corner of the front free endpaper and a note from recipient Charles Francis Bell describing the circumstances in which Lawrence presented this copy to him. Beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by C. & C. McLeish. $15,000.

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

“I DREW THESE TIDES OF MEN INTO MY HANDS AND WROTE MY WILL ACROSS THE SKY IN STARS”

LAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London, 1935.

Limited first published edition, number 477 of 750 copies, of Lawrence's famous account of his legendary part in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, with numerous full-page illustrations, portraits and folding maps. $3600.

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