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Price: US$5.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4pp prospectus with one specimen page from A Croppe Of Kisses. Printed on laid paper. Single toning spot on front cover margin, together with inscription by previous owner on other front margin. Otherwise in VG condition. Previously folded in half. Now laid flat and protected in clear archival envelope. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight of this prospectus.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.58 + shipping
Description: Sm. thin folio. 51pp. T.p. printed in red and green with large yellow cockerel, red / green / blue / initial letters. Red bleeding to e.ps., bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red morocco backed fawn cloth with Golden Cockerel in gilt to upper board, gilt lettering to sl. faded spine intruding sl. onto upper board at head, tail of spine waterstained intruding onto boards with residual black marking to upper board, t.e.g. No. 220 of a Limited Edition of 250 Copies. US$70
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Jonson, Ben. A Croppe of Kisses. Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: selected lyrics of Ben Jonson, chosen by John Wallis. Cream buckram, red morocco spine. Neat ownership signature. Covers trifle marked. Nice copy. One of 250 numbered copies.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: First Golden Cockerel edition, number 57 of 250 copies. This attractive selection of lyrics by Ben Jonson was printed to commemorate the poet's tercentenary. As noted in the bibliography of the press, Pertelote, it is "a pleasant setting" and comprises 31 poems. Pertelote 121. Quarto. Original brown morocco-backed buckram by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with publisher's device in gilt. Text printed in green, red, and blue. Some foxing and light soiling to binding, extremities slightly rubbed, light foxing to endpapers; else a clean and very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Colored title page and initial letters throughout. 49 pages. Slim 4to, 1/2 red morocco over tan cloth; boards are a bit dust-soiled and fingered; spine ends a touch worn. (London): The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. A very good(+) copy, internally fine. Limited edition - number 135 of 250 copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Jonson, Ben. A CROPPE OF KISSES. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1937.
Price: US$234.22 + shipping
Description: Selected Lyrics of Ben Jonson, chosen, with an appreciation, by John Wallis. Pp. 52(last colophon, verso blank), the title page printed in green & red and featuring a large yellow cockerel device, text with several large initials printed in red, green or blue; narrow med. 4to; qr. red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, beige canvas boards with large cockerel device in gilt at centre of upper board, cloth a trifle marked; fore-corners lightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; binder's stamp at foot of upper pastedown, the dentelles slightly offset, short closed tear to fore-edge margin pp. 37/8; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1937. One of 200 numbered copies thus bound (total edition of 250). Pertelote 121. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his label on the upper pastedown and the earlier bookplate of W. S. Adam (an Edinburgh accountant and bibliophile, according to Levine's pencilled annotation below the bookplate) on the upper free endpaper. This copy also bears the Ex Libris of The Golden Cockerel Press on the upper pastedown.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$328.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pp.50;TEG. Other edges uncut. This numbered edition limited to 250 copies. Original quarter crushed morocco, minor sunning on morocco on lower front board, original illustrated buckram boards. Bound by S&S London (Sangorski & Sutcliffe). Minor small marks. A very good copy of this rare limited edition work with beautiful typography and design by the famous Golden Cockerel Press
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
[Golden Cockerel Press]. Collection of Prospectuses. Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1937.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a collection of prospectuses for five of the books issued by the famed Golden Cockerel Press in 1937. There are six prospectuses, with two copies for one of the titles. They are held in a green folder with a stylized illustration of a cock in a cocked hat and frock coat in black and the title "The Golden Cockerel Private/ Press Books /Spring List 1937." The inside two pages of the folder are printed with an essay about the private press - what it is and isn't - and an announcement for the upcoming publication of Paradise Lost in May. The back of the folder has a notice to subscribers that most of their editions are oversubscribed upon announcement, and excerpts from positive reviews of some of their earlier publications. The prospectuses are as follows with information from the Cock-a-Hoop bibliography published by the Private Libraries Association in 1976: P118. The Book of Days by Llewlyn Powys. Four pages, printed on Batchelor laid hand-made paper, with a collotype reproduction of an etching by Elizabeth Corsellis and a specimen page. 13 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches. 4,000 copies. P120. Bligh's Voyage in the Resource. Two copies. One sheet, two pages, printed on white laid paper, with a wood engraving by Peter Barker-Mill. 12 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 5,000 copies. P121. A Croppe of Kisses by Ben Jonson. Four pages, printed on white laid paper with a Cockerel device on the front, with a specimen page and an appreciation. Inserted is the subscription form. 12 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches. 5,000 copies. P122. Ana the Runner by Patrick Miller. Four pages, printed on white wove paper. with a wood engraving by Clifford Webb on a specimen plate and a specimen page from chapter I. 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches. 7,000 copies. P123. The First Fleet with introduction and notes by Owen Rutter. Two pages, printed on white laid paper, with a wood-engraving by Peter Barker-Mill. 12 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 5,500 copies. The prospectuses are all in near fine condition, the larger ones with horizontal fold lines from mailing. The green folder holding the items is faded lightly worn and creased around the edges. There is a horizontal fold line for mailing. The folder measures 9.5 x 13.5 inches. A very nice representative collection of ephemera from this renowned 20th century private press. Very good condition. PRI/041223.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Jonson, Ben. A Croppe of Kisses. Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, full morocco bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 31 x 19cm. 48pp, [3]. Title-page printed in red, green and yellow, initials in red, blue and green. Number 14 of 50 specially bound copies, from a total edition of 250. Slight wear to extremities. Upper cover a little soiled, nice and clean inside. Nice provenance, this copy was lot 184 in the Sotheby's sale on 25th July 1949 of George Bernard Shaw's library.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$654.47 + shipping
Description: London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Small folio. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter red morocco over beige canvas boards, cockerel device in gold to upper cover, lettered and decorated in gilt with two cockerel devices to the spine; top edge gilt, else untrimmed; title printed in red, green and yellow, initial letters in various colours; pp. [vi], 5-48, [vi]; an excellent copy, a few very light marks to boards and endleaves lightly offset, but otherwise an excellent copy. One of 250 numbered copies, this No. 174. A handsome edition of Jonson's lyrics, printed to commemorate the poet's tercentenary. Nearly all of the poems were printed from the first folio of 1616, collated with two copies held in the Bodleian Library. The type is Caslon's Old Face, printed on Batchelor's hand-made paper. The Cockerel watermark can be found on several pages.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom