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Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1929-35
(new 26 April)
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 1928
(updated 26 April)
Other work in progress
Future distribution arrangements
Archive of earlier postings
T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and
Charlotte Shaw, 1929-35
26 April
This final volume of the
Lawrence-Shaw correspondence contains many more letters than the two
'India' volumes, though most of them are shorter. Like its predecessors,
the volume will be one of the prime biographical sources for the period.
The
texts of the 1929-35 letters are almost all in proof. Our remaining task
is researching collateral material and endnotes. If all goes well, we
will finish that by the end of 2008 and publish early in 2009. We will
post progress updates here from time to time.
Subscriptions
The subscription period for the
1929-35 volume will run from late June until the end of September 2008.
We will announce the subscription price when we have the final costs for
the 1928 volume currently in production. We will hold the subscription
price as close as possible to that of the previous volume, set four
years ago. The subscription offer will go to everyone who has bought the
1928 Lawrence-Shaw letters from us, so if you meanwhile move house or
change e-mail address, please let us know.
T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and
Charlotte Shaw, 1928
Update 26 April
We are confident that we will have
a replacement printer by the time the indexing and final proof-reading
are complete. However, it is still too soon to know when the finished
books will be ready for dispatch.
Previous posting
In mid-April the firm that was to print this volume closed. Final proofreading and indexing
are continuing as planned, but changing printers may add about a
fortnight to the production time.
We
will announce the publication schedule once new arrangements are in
place. Our best guess, at present, is that the cloth issue will be
completed at some point during July.
prospectus |
specification | online shop
Other work in progress
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Portraits for Seven
Pillars of Wisdom (220 copies), has been much appreciated
by customers who bought the Library Edition of Seven Pillars of
Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text. We are currently out of stock, but
expect to receive more copies from the binders in 2-3 weeks.
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We have just typeset
The Mint for a paperback reprint to be
published by our J.
and N. Wilson imprint. This is the 1955 (unexpurgated text), which is currently out of print. I
am writing a short
introduction.
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The
promised Castle Hill Press edition of The Mint is also advancing.
This will use Lawrence's 1928 text rather than the revised version
published in 1955. The 1928 text has the same literary status as the
1922 text of Seven Pillars. It shows the book as originally
written, before Lawrence took into account any readers'
comments. The Castle Hill
Press edition will include an appendix of passages from Lawrence's
letters that refer to his life in the RAF.
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We
are getting production estimates for Lawrence's 1914 Military Report on the Sinai Peninsular. As this is a highly
specialised work we do not plan to print many copies; but it belongs in
our edition of the T.E. Lawrence canon. The book is already typeset. As it contains countless numerals and Arabic place-names it needs
careful checking.
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In
2009 we plan to publish at least two further titles, possibly three. These
are:
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T. E.
Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1929-35.
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T. E. Lawrence, The Mint. More
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T. E.
Lawrence, Correspondence with E.M. Forster and others
We
are also working on Lawrence's Letters from Carchemish, but it is too soon to know when this will be ready.
Future distribution arrangements
We
expect the Library Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete
1922 Text to go out-of-print this year. That will bring to an
end our weekly overseas shipments.
Afterwards, we intend to organise our time around the needs of editorial
and pre-press work. We will often be out of the office, so we must make
different arrangements for processing orders.
Subscriptions and other pre-publication orders
We
will continue to accept subscriptions and direct advance orders for new
publications. It is relatively simple to send these out on publication.
New subscribers placing multi-volume orders
We
will continue offering discounts for direct multi-volume orders from new
subscribers, but these orders may have to wait for a grouped shipment.
Single-copy orders for Letters series volumes
Single copies of T.E. Lawrence Letters series volumes will be
available from Library Agents and a small number of specialist
booksellers.
Other editions
At times when we are able to ship books efficiently we will list in the
online shop the additional titles not available through booksellers.
Two recent photos:
Jeremy Wilson at the
opening of Lawrence of Arabia
and the Light Horse Canberra, December 2007
Jeremy Wilson,
speaking about 'Victoria Ocampo, Lawrence's most extraordinary
biographer' at the T.E. Lawrence Symposium, Huntington Library, 6
October 2007 (photo. Barbara Pruett).
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