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The Mint, 1928 text
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula

Translation

The Forest Giant

Letters

T. E. Lawrence Letters series
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
Correspondence with E. M. Forster and F.L. Lucas
Correspondence with Henry Williamson

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 Page updated
 28 August 2010

 

Castle Hill Press News

by Jeremy Wilson

Updated 28 August 2010

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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 

'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.)

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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.

 

large-format and library edition 

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

  1. Large-format edition prospectus
  2. Large-format edition specification
  3. Library Edition prospectus
  4. Library Edition specification
  5. 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

Trade abridgement

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

 



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