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The Mint, 1928 text
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
Translation
The Forest Giant
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T. E. Lawrence Letters series
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
Correspondence with E. M. Forster and F.L. Lucas
Correspondence with Henry Williamson
28 August 2010
Castle Hill Press News
by Jeremy Wilson
Updated 28 August 2010Most links from this page open in a new window
CONTENTS
We now supply
bookshops
T. E. Lawrence, The Mint
Jeremy Wilson's blog
T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
Trade paperback editions, 2010
We now supply bookshops
After an interval of several years, on 1 September 2010 we will begin listing the Castle Hill Press books currently in print on Nielsen BookData. This will enable booksellers all over the world to supply our books to their customers.
So far as possible, we will encourage booksellers to order through Gardners Books, a major British book wholesaler.
A new Recommended retail price
To supply the trade, we need nominal "Recommended Retail Prices" (RRPs). These have to be higher than our former direct-sale prices because they include a retailer's profit margin. There is nothing to oblige a bookseller to charge the RRP. We do not print prices in our books. Some retailers may add a handling charge. Others may offer a discount. If we hear of genuine discounts we will match them in our online shop.
Free postage, packing and insurance from our online shop
To reduce the impact of higher prices on our direct customers, we will now offer free postage, packing and insurance for books ordered from our online shop.
ISBNs and prices
We are gradually adding ISBN and price information to the book-specification pages on this site. These pages also contain the majority of photographs.
Subscribers and direct customers
As at present, our regular direct customers will be able to subscribe to forthcoming publications before details are announced to the public. We will circulate subscription information by email, so it is particularly important that you tell us if your email address changes.
T. E. Lawrence, 'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life
Large-format edition
Update 31 May
'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life - large-format edition - some full goatskin (top) and quarter-goatskin (bottom) copies shortly before shipping. At the left of the top shelf is a set of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text (1997) illustrating the matching design of the Mint binding. To the left on the lower shelf are copies of Military Guide to the Sinai Peninsula and Towards 'An English Fourth', illustrating the similar binding design of the quarter-goatskin copies. We rarely have more than a few bound copies of any title in stock. (Click image to enlarge in a new window.)
1928 Text of The Mint
The large-format and Library Editions will be our only printings of the 1928 text of The Mint. There will be no corresponding trade hardback, as there was with the Library Edition of the 1922 Seven Pillars.
Above: Full-goatskin copies of the large-format edition (2009) and Library Edition (2010) of The Mint and Later Writings about Service Life
Related links
- Large-format edition prospectus
- Large-format edition specification
- Library Edition prospectus
- Library Edition specification
- Library Edition introduction
Jeremy Wilson's blog
There will be fewer updates to this page because news items and comment are now posted on the blog (linked from the top navigation on this site). The blog also contains postings that would previously have gone to the T.E. Lawrence Studies List.
The blog URL is:
http://blog.castlehillpress.com/chpblog/
We will continue to post here notes on plans and progress.
Note also the parallel blog containing selected postings from the million-word archive of the T.E. Lawrence Studies List. Most of the material chosen is as interesting today as it was when first posted. It includes comment by experts such as the late H.St.J.B. Armitage. The URL is:
http://www.blog2.telstudies.org/
Both blogs have RSS feeds.
Further plans for 2010
Updated 20 April
We are working on Lawrence's Correspondence with E. M. Forster [and others], which will be Volume V of the T. E. Lawrence Letters series.Next in line The 200 Class R.A.F. Seaplane Tender. Our edition will include not only Lawrence's handbook, but also a selection of documents and correspondence about his work on RAF speed-boats.
We are also assembling Letters from Carchemish. This is a complicated project, which we do not expect to complete in time for publication in 2010. The collateral material available will enable us to present Lawrence's letters in the context of fuller information about the excavations. As a result, the book will provide a vivid picture of this pre-WWI archaeological expedition, so different from the kind of archaeology practised today.
T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
We are working on an abridged two-volume print-on-demand trade paperback (a future trade abridgement was announced when we invited subscriptions to Vol. I of the fine-press edition). The abridged edition will be called T.E. Lawrence, Selected Letters to Bernard and Charlotte Shaw. It will be published by J. and N. Wilson. Both volumes will be published in 2010. There will be less editorial matter, and we are saving some space by re-setting the text. Most of Lawrence's letters will be retained.
Trade paperback editions
We plan to issue these titles during 2010-11 under our J. and N. Wilson imprint.Jeremy Wilson, T. E. Lawrence, A Short Biography with Letters
- New edition with amendments and a selection of passages from Lawrence's letters.
T. E. Lawrence, The Mint
- New edition, type reset. New introduction by Jeremy Wilson
- This is the 1955 unexpurgated text, reset as a readable paperback
T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 'Oxford' Text
- 2 vols. New introduction by Jeremy Wilson
- This will use the typesetting of the 2004 trade hardback, including the award-winning index. The edition is an interim measure: in the medium term we will print a one-volume trade paperback, but it will be in a smaller format, with smaller type. This larger-format 2-volume paperback may remain popular with people who prefer larger type.
T. E. Lawrence, Selected Letters to Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1927
T. E. Lawrence, Selected Letters to Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1928-1935
- Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson
- See note under Trade abridgement above
NEWS
For progress reports on our current projects, please check our News page.
For more general comments about our projects, publishing and T.E. Lawrence see Jeremy Wilson's blog.
Prices
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Customer feedback
Some comments from the customer feedback page on our old website:
. . . I couldn't be more pleased. The attention to detail, and conception of this edition, are wonderful . . .
I cannot praise too highly the quality of the production, with exceptional clarity and beauty of print, the erudition of editing, and the excellent on-line service. Important correspondence in beautiful books - the perfect combination.
. . .Excellence in research and editing, and magnificently produced books in superb bindings. Last but not least, efficient and friendly service, with books posted in rock solid packaging.
. . . These books are a pleasure to own and read . . .
. . . a quite invaluable job in publishing (very beautifully . . .) many of the writings of TEL which hitherto have been available only in manuscript form in museums, libraries or private collections, or in out-of-print books which are very hard to obtain.An excellent set of publications that are beautifully edited and produced. A wonderful addition to my library and to any library.