Title: Two Arabic Folk Tales Author: Lawrence, T.E., translator Place: [London] Publisher: [Corvinus Press] Date: [1937] Description: [18] leaves, printed on rectos only. Engraved illustration on title-page. 33.3x23 cm. (13x9"), gilt-ruled and lettered buckram, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. No. 24 of 30 copies printed on Millbourn hand-made paper in 36-point Tiemann Type. An early work from the private press founded in 1936 by George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow (1907–1944), which printed in very limited editions new work from such writers as T. E. Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis Edmund Blunden, Stefan Zweig, Walter de la Mare and H. E. Bates. A printed note after the colophon-leaf in the present work reads: "These tales were written in ink at the beginning of a diary which the author kept while travelling in Northern Arabia during 1911. There were probably an Arabic exercise." Lot Amendments Condition: Spine foot gnawed, eliminating about a half-inch triangle, and affecting the lower gutter corner of the contents as well; fading to spine and the top inch of rear cover; good to very good. Item number: 226816
Title: Two Arabic Folk Tales Author: Lawrence, T.E., translator Place: [London] Publisher: [Corvinus Press] Date: [1937] Description: [18] leaves, printed on rectos only. Engraved illustration on title-page. 33.3x23 cm. (13x9"), gilt-ruled and lettered buckram, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. No. 24 of 30 copies printed on Millbourn hand-made paper in 36-point Tiemann Type. An early work from the private press founded in 1936 by George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow (1907–1944), which printed in very limited editions new work from such writers as T. E. Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis Edmund Blunden, Stefan Zweig, Walter de la Mare and H. E. Bates. A printed note after the colophon-leaf in the present work reads: "These tales were written in ink at the beginning of a diary which the author kept while travelling in Northern Arabia during 1911. There were probably an Arabic exercise." Lot Amendments Condition: Spine foot gnawed, eliminating about a half-inch triangle, and affecting the lower gutter corner of the contents as well; fading to spine and the top inch of rear cover; good to very good. Item number: 226816
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