Sir John Suckling. A Ballad Upon a Wedding. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition hardcover in near fine condition with DJ in fair condition (faded and some chips and closed tears); #93 of 375 copies
Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small 8vo; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (195 x 132 mm); [4] (2), 9, (4) pp., 8 engravings by Eric Ravilious. 1/4 cream buckram with brown batik paper over boards. Square and firmly bound, gilt title. Double dust jacket, the exterior one toned on edges and with some rubbing but in very good condition with light pencil inscription on the flap, the interior one with very light toning and in near fine condition. Copy 49 of 375, numbered on colophon. [Chanticleer 29]. A humorous and erotic poem that "celebrates the union of John Lord Lovelace and Lady Anne Wentworth on 11 July 1638", this edition includes an engraving of music notation.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Sir John Suckling. A Ballad Upon a Wedding. The Golden Cockerel Press, Great Britain, 1927.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/4 cream cloth & brown batik paper over boards, gilt spine title, edges untrimmed, & limited edition; A very good copy in a good toned DUST JACKET with chip at head of spine; 9 pages. Size: 5"x7.5"
Seller: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: 13 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 342 of 375 printed by Robert Gibbings in 11pt. Caslon O.F. type on Kelmscott hand-made paper. The text taken form 1648 edition of the "Fragments Aurea." CHANTICLEER 49. Bright, very fresh copy. Book plate inside front cover designed by Rockwell Kent in 1928 for Iphigene Ochs and Arthur Hays Sulzbereger. Iphigene Ochs was the daughter of Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times. Her husband, Arthur Sulzberger, worked at the Times, and became publisher after his father-in-law's death in 1935. Orig. quarter white buckram spine and batik boards. Fine in very good illustrated dust wrapper with a few nicks
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.