The Golden Reign - The story of my friendship with Lawrence of Arabia. by Smith, Clare Sydney

London, UK: Cassell, 1978. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 190pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Slightly cocked. Pages starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some light shelf wear, price clipped. 8vo. The author, whose husband Lawrence served under, narrates, in loving detail, little-known aspects of Lawrence's character. His love of music and the classics and, above all, his intense self-sufficiency were very different from the daring adventurer the world knew.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Cassell, 1978. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Third edition hardback, 1978, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

London, UK: Cassell, 1978. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 190pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Neat, clean and crisp throughout, barring a previous price mark on the title page. Dust jacker as new, and now protected in a Mylar wrapper which is not adhered to the volume or dust jacket. The author, whose husband Lawrence served under, narrates, in loving detail, little-known aspects of Lawrence's character. His love of music and the classics and, above all, his intense self-sufficiency were very different from the daring adventurer the world knew. A very nice copy.

Cassell, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1949. Pocket Edition. 190 pages. Patterned dust jacket with black lettering over patterned cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners. Unclipped dust jacket in protective plastic cover. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Minor soiling to DJ.

Cassell, 1978. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Edition, First Thus. Landscape. A fine new copy, a superb private press reissue with new material and illustrations of the book first published in 1940. This account tells in a moving manner of the friendship of T.E. Lawrence with the wife of the commander of the RAF station where he was in the late 1920s early 1930s. It shows a rather different aspect to the character of T.E. than the popular image. If you are interested in T.E. and have not read this volume be prepared for a pleasurable read, full of insight into T.E. A significant new introduction by Lawrence scholar Malcolm Brown and many previously unpublished photographs which add considerably to the value of this edition. The edition is limited to 500 copies and includes around 45 photographs printed from vintage prints in high quality, many, as indicated above, have not been published before. Those who know the Fleece Press titles will realise the quality that this volume… Read More

cassell and co london 1940. first edition 252pp ills.VG (sl.rubbed,mod.stained and sunned,sl.bumps to extrems.,eps sl.stained,owner's stamp to title-page,v.sl.foxing to contents and sl.soiled edges,sl.cocked and bowed w.sl.shaky spine) in VG- d/w (rubbed and stained and sunned,bumps and wear to extrems.w.some minor closed tears,price-clipped)

LONDON: CASSELL & CO. LTD. WELL BOUND IN QUARTER GREEN LEATHER, WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES TO SPINE, THIS DATED 1940 FIRST EDITION IS VG. V11/252pp WITH 34 CHAPTERS AND 24 PHOTOS (25 CLAIMED, BUT ONE OF AREA AROUND PLYMOUTH HOE CALLED "MOUNT BATTERN" DELETED BY WAR-TIME CENSOR). FRONTIS HAS LAWRENCE WITH RED SETTER, FOREWORD BY LAWRENCE'S MOTHER. THE TEXT COVERS THE WAR-TIME PERIOD, WHEN LAWRENCE, THEN AIRCRAFTSMAN SHAW, SPENT IN PLYMOUTH WORKING AS A RAF CLERK AND PERFECTING HIS DESIGN OF SPEED BOATS, LATER TO BECOME AIR-SEA RESCUE LAUNCHES. "NED" AS HIS MOTHER CALLS HIM, WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF SYDNEY SMITH THE AUTHOR'S HUSBAND. NEW UNMARKED ENDPAPERS, SEVERAL VERY SCATTERED FOXING SPOTS; OTHERWISE VG . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1940.