BENOIST-MECHIN (Jacques Gabriel Paul Michel)

Lawrence d'Arabie, ou le rêve fracassé

Swiss editions

(see below for French editions and translations)

Lawrence d'Arabie, ou le rêve fracassé.

Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre.

Edition originale ... achevé d'imprimer ... le 30 octobre 1961 ... Il a été tiré … huit mille exemplaires numérotés de 1 … 8000 ... Trente exemplaires numérotés de I … XXX ... Un tirage a été réalisé simultanément pour les Editions Clairefontaine ... Edition hors commerce réservée aux membres de la Guilde du Livre. Volume No 391.Exemplaire No. (p. 286).

21.9cm.286,[2]p.Frontis., 7 plates, fold. map; chronology (pp. 201-51), bibl. (pp. 267-77).

Grey unglazed cloth (79.l.gy.y Br); black lettering; circular photograph printed in black laid on to front cover; black head and tail bands.

Issued without d.j.

1st Swiss ed., book club issue.

Erratum slip tipped in (referring to p. 209, where the error is not present).

6 titles 'Du même auteur' (p. 4).

O'Brien: Not listed.

Bodleian Library shelfmark: [Checking copies held]

Ref: B0140.ch1

[Reprinted:]

©1961 (t.v.)

Edition hors commerce réservée aux membres de la Guilde du Livre. Volume No 391 (p. 286).

Circular photograph printed in brown laid on to front cover; black head and tail bands.

Issued without d.j.

1st Swiss ed, reprinted.

6 titles 'Du même auteur' (p. 4).

O'Brien: Not listed.

Bodleian Library shelfmark: [Checking copies held]

Ref: B0140.ch1(2)

[Trade issue:]

Lawrence d'Arabie, ou le rêve fracassê.

Lausanne, Editions Clairefontaine.

Achevê d'imprimer ... le 30 octobre 1961 (p. 286).

21.3cm.[4],286,[6]p. Frontis., 7 plates, fold. map; chronology (pp. 201-51), bibl. (pp. 267-77).

Illus. wrappers with flaps printed in black, blue and yellow.

1st Swiss trade ed.

Erratum slip tipped in (referring to p. 209).

5 titles 'Du même auteur' (p. 4).

O'Brien: E245 and note

Bodleian Library shelfmark: [Checking copies held]

Ref: B0140.ch1a

[Reprinted:]

©1961 (t.v.)

Achevé d'imprimer ... [no date given] (p. 286).

286,[2]p.

1st Swiss trade ed., reprinted.

5 titles 'Du même auteur' (p. 4).

O'Brien: E245 and note.

Bodleian Library shelfmark: [Checking copies held]

Ref: B0140.ch1a(2)

[Reprinted:]

©1961 (t.v.)

Imprimé sur les presses ... (p. 286).

1st Swiss trade ed., reprinted.

6 titles 'Du même auteur' (p. 4).

O'Brien: E245 and note

Bodleian Library shelfmark: [Checking copies held]

Ref: B0140.ch1a(3)

[Second Swiss ed, revised:]

Lawrence d'Arabie, ou le rêve fracassé.

Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre.

©1961 (t.v.)

Imprimé sur les presses ... Volume No 391 (p. 286).

21.8cm.286,[2]p. Frontis., 8 plates (one a section title), fold. map; chronology

(pp. 203-53), bibl. (pp. 269-79).

Grey unglazed cloth (79.l.gy.y Br); black lettering; circular photograph printed in brown laid on to front cover; black head and tail bands.

Issued without d.j.

2nd Swiss ed., book club issue, revised text. Lacks the Avant-propos present in the 1st ed. Reset and repaginated, with new section titles.

11 titles 'Du même auteur' (p. 4).

O'Brien: Not listed

Bodleian Library shelfmark: [Checking copies held]

Ref: B0140.ch2

[Trade issue:]

Lawrence d'Arabie, ou le rêve fracassé.

Lausanne, Editions Clairefontaine.

©1961 (t.v.)

Illus. wrappers printed in black, blue and (predominantly) yellow.

2nd Swiss ed., trade issue.

O'Brien: Not listed

Bodleian Library shelfmark: [Checking copies held]

Ref: B0140.ch2a

French edition:

Lawrence d'Arabie, ou le rêve fracassé, (1888-1935)

N.p., Librairie Académique Perrin.

Achevé d'imprimer le 22 mars 1979 (p. 415).

(Le rêve le plus long de l'histoire, VII).

ISBN 2-262-00141-3.

20.7cm. 416p.Illus. (photos., ports.), maps in text, bibl. (pp. 383-390), indexes.

Simulated red leather; gilt lettering on spine and front cover; red and yellow head and tail bands; yellow place ribbon; coloured illus. end-papers.

Issued in transparent d.j. with coloured illus. underlay over front cover, with flap.

1st French ed., revised from the 2nd Swiss ed., with additional materials, but lacking the original extensive chronology.

O'Brien: Not listed.

Bodleian Library shelfmark: 24564 e.135

Ref: B0140.fr1

[Reprinted:]

Achevé d'imprimer le 15 décembre 1980 (p. 415).

O'Brien: Not listed.

Bodleian Library shelfmark: M92.F03311

Ref: B0140.fr1(2)

[photo-litho reprint, reissued under modified imprint]

Paris, Perrin

© 1995 pour la présente édition (t.v.)

20.6cm.

limp boards covered in glossy paper, predominantly black, with detail from portrait of Lawrence by James McBey on front.

O'Brien: Not listed.

Bodleian Library shelfmark: 

Copy examined@ AC.

Ref: B0140.fr 2

Translations:

Lawrence d'Arabia, o il sogno infranto [Italian]

Lawrence von Arabien, der entschwundene Traum [German]

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