Castle Hill Press

 

CATALOGUE



Works

The Mint, 1928 text

• Large-format 2009
• Library Edition 2010

Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula

• First public edition, 2008

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Translation

The Forest Giant

• Parallel French/English text, hardback, 2004
• English text, paperback, 2011

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Letters

T. E. Lawrence Letters series

• Series prospectus
• Series list

Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw

• Vols I-IV 1922-1935

Correspondence with E. M. Forster and F.L. Lucas

• Vol. V. Prospectus

Correspondence with Henry Williamson

• Vol. IX, 1927-1935

See our full catalogue

 

What's on the shelf?

From left to right:

 

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (First English trade edition, London, Jonathan Cape, 1935). The first printing was 60,000 copies.

• We included this well-known edition on the shelf to show the size of our tall-format editions.

T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text (Castle Hill Press, 1997). Total edition 752 sets.

• The two text volumes in full goatskin, one of 80 sets thus. Accompanied by a volume containing the illustrations and a parallel text of the Introductory book, and a portfolio containing a set of proof portraits. More >>
•  Another set, with the text volumes in quarter cloth, one of 650 thus, accompanied by the volume of illustrations. More >>

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, parallel text of the Introductory Book (Castle Hill press, 1997). Total edition 102 copies (of which 80 were bound with the book of illustrations).

• One of the three supplementary volumes that accompanied the twenty 'extra special' sets of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text. More >>

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Parallel 1922 and 1926 Texts  (Castle Hill Press, 1997). Total edition 37 sets.

• Two supplementary volumes that accompanied the twenty 'extra special' sets of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text. More >>

Illustrations to T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Parallel 1922 and 1926 Texts (Castle Hill Press, printed in 1997).

• One of 45 copies subsequently bound in quarter-goatskin.

The Seven Pillars Portraits.

• One of 220 copies, printed in 1997 but bound in 2008. More >>

 

Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biography (London. Heinemann, 1989)

• Included here to show the size of our smaller-format editions. The biography was the first book typeset by Jeremy Wilson. The first Castle Hill Press publication (not shown) was a limited issue in two volumes, accompanied by a memoir called Authorised Biographer. More >>

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text (One-volume Library Edition, Castle Hill Press 2003). Total edition 1,225 copies.

•  One of 45 copies in full goatskin More >>
• One of 180 copies in quarter-goatskin More >>
• One of 1,000 copies in cloth More >>

Adrien Le Corbeau | T. E. Lawrence, Le Gigantesque | The Forest Giant parallel French and English text (Castle Hill Press, 2004). Total edition 352 copies.

• One of 45 copies bound in full goatskin More >>
• One of 250 copies bound in quarter-cloth More >>

 

T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw (Castle Hill Press, 2000, 2003, 2008). Total edition 475 four-volume sets (reduced from 702 sets in Vol. IV).

• Vol. I, designer binding, one of 15 copies More >>
• Vols I-III, full-goatskin binding, one of 40 sets More >>
• Vol. I, quarter-goatskin binding, one of 45 copies More >>
• Vols 1-III, cloth, in dust jackets, one of 225 sets More >>

T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Henry Williamson (Castle Hill Press, 2000) Total edition 702 copies (but fewer produced).

• Quarter goatskin binding, one of 45 copies, of an edition of 702 copies More >>
• Cloth, in dust jacket, one of 600 copies (but fewer produced) More >>

T. E. Lawrence, Letters to E. T. Leeds, ed., Jeremy Wilson (Andoversford, Whittington Press, 1988). Total edition 750 copies.

• Full goatskin, one of 80 copies. This was the book which determined the spine height and titling of our T.E. Lawrence Letters series.

 

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Customer feedback

Some comments from the customer feedback page on our old website:

. . . I couldn't be more pleased. The attention to detail, and conception of this edition, are wonderful . . .

I cannot praise too highly the quality of the production, with exceptional clarity and beauty of print, the erudition of editing, and the excellent on-line service. Important correspondence in beautiful books - the perfect combination.

. . .Excellence in research and editing, and magnificently produced books in superb bindings. Last but not least, efficient and friendly service, with books posted in rock solid packaging.  

. . . These books are a pleasure to own and read . . .

. . . a quite invaluable job in publishing (very beautifully . . .) many of the writings of TEL which hitherto have been available only in manuscript form in museums, libraries or private collections, or in out-of-print books which are very hard to obtain.

An excellent set of publications that are beautifully edited and produced. A wonderful addition to my library and to any library.