![]() ![]() "Seven Pillars, for all its unevenness of interest and quality, and its frequent straining for effect, is a great and memorable work. ![]() Third (but second complete) Edition overall, the first commercially available, preceded by the incomplete Oxford Times Edition of 1922 (eight copies only were printed and now unobtainable) and the rare privately printed Cranwell Subscriber's Edition of 1926 (limited to 211 copies, with only 170 copies complete). An excellent copy, top grain rubbed at spine ends, light fading and occasional spotting to cloth, otherwise virtually pristine and apparently unread (many pages unopened). Publisher's original quarter tan pigskin over brown buckram boards, spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt with others uncut, Cockerell marbled endpapers with gilt-stamped motto on upper board: "The sword also means cleanness & death." Without the card slipcase and the plain-paper dust jacket, usually discarded. Thick, square 8vo: 672pp, with 54 plates (many in color and including 3 not in in the 1926 subscriber's edition and a number not in the cheaper ordinary trade edition bound in cloth) by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts, and others and 4 folding maps. 363 of 750 copies) of one of the indisputable classics of twentieth century English literature. First Trade Edition (hand-numbered limited issue, no. ![]()
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