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TE Lawrence
Jun. 25th, 2014 09:45 pm Had a good day in the bookshop today. It's Dorchester market day on Wednesday and that always brings more people down our end of South Street. It was also the best kind of weather, nice and sunny, but not too hot.
It was also a good day because Richard found a copy of this book:
It/s a tatty copy and worthless in itself even though it is a first edition. However, it's signed by the author, who is better known as Lawrence of Arabia...
What that makes it worth is anyone's guess. Lawrence was a prolific letter writer, so there may well be enough copies of his signature around to satisfy all the collectors. (It's possible that the signature isn't genuine, but it certainly bears a resemblance to examples I managed to find on the web)
There are examples for sale on the web for fairly silly money, but they're usually attached to books in much better condition. And. of course, that's the asking price, not the selling price.
Still, it's rather an exciting find and we've left the book in the care of the local auction house who are going to do a bit of research for us.
It was also a good day because Richard found a copy of this book:
It/s a tatty copy and worthless in itself even though it is a first edition. However, it's signed by the author, who is better known as Lawrence of Arabia...
What that makes it worth is anyone's guess. Lawrence was a prolific letter writer, so there may well be enough copies of his signature around to satisfy all the collectors. (It's possible that the signature isn't genuine, but it certainly bears a resemblance to examples I managed to find on the web)
There are examples for sale on the web for fairly silly money, but they're usually attached to books in much better condition. And. of course, that's the asking price, not the selling price.
Still, it's rather an exciting find and we've left the book in the care of the local auction house who are going to do a bit of research for us.
