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(LAWRENCE, T. E.) ROSS. A/C 352087: THE MINT, A DAY-BOOK OF THE R.A.F DEPOT BETWEEN AUGUST AND DECEMBER 1922 WITH LATER NOTES
£275.00
London Cape 1955
A first edition, first printing published by Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Quarto. Limited edition number 1496/2000 copies. Original quarter dark blue pigskin gilt over cloth. Cockerel endpapers. Top edge gilt. Pp. 206. Printed card slipcase. Rear board slightly rubbed. Foxing to the first two and last two pages else pages very bright and clean. Very minor rubbing to the spine leather. A very good to near fine, bright, clean copy in very slightly spotted, rubbed and tanned slipcase. Covers the period of his time spent as Aircraftsman John Hume Ross in the RAF from 1922.
Lawrence had always intended that ‘The Mint’ would be published in his lifetime even if it had to be on a Private Press. Critics such as E. M. Forster had read it in 1929 and there were many features that he had liked including the word picture of the drill sergeant “Stiffy” and the energy and style of parts I and II. Forster was not happy with the conclusion to the book which he felt to be insipid and trying too hard to be fair. But he much liked chapters 9 and 10 of part III, on the day of Queen Alexandra’s funeral, and Dance Night, when a soldier has his first sexual encounter but felt ‘The Mint’ unequal of ‘Seven Pillars’.
Even after his death, ‘The Mint’ would remain unpublished for another twenty years until 1955 when an officer described unfavourably by Lawrence died.
This is the unexpurgated Limited Edition and includes many words that were omitted from the unlimited trade edition (where many words were left blank such as the ‘shit’ in ‘shit-cart’ in Part One) that was published simultaneously.
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London Cape 1955
A first edition, first printing published by Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Quarto. Limited edition number 1496/2000 copies. Original quarter dark blue pigskin gilt over cloth. Cockerel endpapers. Top edge gilt. Pp. 206. Printed card slipcase. Rear board slightly rubbed. Foxing to the first two and last two pages else pages very bright and clean. Very minor rubbing to the spine leather. A very good to near fine, bright, clean copy in very slightly spotted, rubbed and tanned slipcase. Covers the period of his time spent as Aircraftsman John Hume Ross in the RAF from 1922.
Lawrence had always intended that ‘The Mint’ would be published in his lifetime even if it had to be on a Private Press. Critics such as E. M. Forster had read it in 1929 and there were many features that he had liked including the word picture of the drill sergeant “Stiffy” and the energy and style of parts I and II. Forster was not happy with the conclusion to the book which he felt to be insipid and trying too hard to be fair. But he much liked chapters 9 and 10 of part III, on the day of Queen Alexandra’s funeral, and Dance Night, when a soldier has his first sexual encounter but felt ‘The Mint’ unequal of ‘Seven Pillars’.
Even after his death, ‘The Mint’ would remain unpublished for another twenty years until 1955 when an officer described unfavourably by Lawrence died.
This is the unexpurgated Limited Edition and includes many words that were omitted from the unlimited trade edition (where many words were left blank such as the ‘shit’ in ‘shit-cart’ in Part One) that was published simultaneously.
