Tall 8vo. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered in gilt, corners bumped, minor shelf-wear with several further marks. Internally crisp and clean, with fore and bottom edges uncut. From the family library of Henry Williamson, recently dispersed.

The first edition of Henry Williamson's (1895-1977) memoir of his friendship between T. E. Lawrence. Williamson's book Tarka the Otter attracted the attention of Lawrence, whose letter of praise started a correspondence between the two. Indeed, Lawrence's fatal motorcycle crash in 1935 occurred as he was returning from a trip to the post office to send a telegram to Williamson. The Henry Williamson Society produced a facsimile reprint, limited to 500 copies, in 1988 to mark the centenary of Lawrence's birth.

The ‘Shallonford’ misprint to the final leaf is uncorrected here. The proofs annotated by Williamson did not include the typo and no-one caught the error until after printing was complete. In his own copy, he merely corrected it in pen, though it remains uncorrected Faber's second impression and subsequently in the 1988 facsimile edition.