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HOMER. The Odyssey , translated by T.E. Lawrence. New York: The Plimpton Press for Oxford University Press, 1934. 8° (222 x 140mm). Original orange cloth blocked in black, printed maps on endpapers, top edge red, dustwrapper (dustwrapper a little marked and faded, chipped and torn with small losses). Provenance : Kenneth W. Marshall (address label in Lawrence's hand tipped onto front free endpaper). First American 'popular' edition. Probable PRESENTATION COPY FROM LAWRENCE to his friend the bookseller and publisher K.W. Marshall: tipped in is an excised address panel on brown paper, addressed in Lawrence's hand 'K.W. Marshall Esq c/o Boriswood 15 a. Harrington Road London SW.7.', and on the dustwrapper the parenthetical epithet 'Lawrence of Arabia' which follows Lawrence's name on the upper panel and on the upper flap has been neatly struck through in black ink with a broad-nibbed fountain pen, presumably by Lawrence. Loosely inserted is a note signed and dated 'B[ertram] Rota 1 April 1963' stating that, 'T.E. Lawrence first came to my bookshop in James Street because I had employed Ken Marshall there for a few months. He later told me that he had come because I had "saved the life of a young friend" of his ... [Marshall] did a temporary job well and left when it ended'. Marshall later worked for the publishers Boriswood, who published James Hanley's Boy ; when this provoked protests and the possibility of prosecution, Lawrence supported and advised Marshall. O'Brien A150. With 6 other editions of Lawrence's translation, published in London and New York, 1934-1945. (7)