Author: T.E.LAWRENCE.
Title: The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by T.E.Shaw (i.e. Colonel T.E.Lawrence).
Description: Oxford University Press, London, 1935. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. The second English edition, and first UK trade issue, printed from the sheets of the 1932 US edition. Tall 8vo. 327pp. Blue buckram lettered in gold at the spine and with a gilt-stamped decoration to the upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Several tiny fractions of fading to the buckram where the dust wrapper is defective, and the fore edges of two leaves slightly nicked and creased where they have been mis-cut. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked with half a dozen small portions of edge loss from the spine ends, corner tips and top edge. Contemporary gift inscription from noted Cambridge and Worcester cricketer Gilbert Ashton neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Lawrence was persuaded to undertake this new translation of Homer by Bruce Rodgers; he wrote it during his free time whilst serving in the ranks, and it was first published in 1932 in a limited edition of 530 copies. A US edition was issued the same year, and this English edition is produced from those trade US sheets. O'Brien A144. Very Good/Good.

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