Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$181.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: limited to 400 numbered copies; 34, [1] pp., original marbled boards & blue cloth backstrip (hardcover), t.e.g., corners worn, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Berkshire, England]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First U.K. Edition, Limited to 400 copies of which this is no. 26. Octavo (22.8cm); 34pp. 3 plates including frontispiece. No dust jacket. Marbled paper quarter bound with blue cloth along the spine. Top edge gilt, all other edges deckled. Includes gilt stamped title and author on spine as well. Slight bowing on front board and scuffing along head and tail edges of spine and margins of front cover but otherwise Very Good. Damp staining to bottom gutter of terminals. Pages slightly darkened along the fore edge but otherwise unmarked. All wood-engravings, including the frontispiece and the colophon rooster, are protected with full-page tissue guards. First translation from French to English of Abd-er-Rhaman's choice between the Christian and Muslim heavens after his death.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$249.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, limited and hand-numbered #202/400 copies on the colophon page. Tightly bound in quarter blue cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Slight fading to spine color, a few small and faint spots, very minor edge wear and extremely slight bowing to the boards. The unprinted glassine overlay for the frontispiece has a tattered bottom margin. The Paul Nash woodcuts remain fine. Still a nice copy of a scarce title.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire):The Golden Cockerel Press. 1928. 34pp.+colophon page. Illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Nash. Hardcover. Limited numbered edition, No. 264 of 400 copies. Blue cloth spine with marbled boards. Spine slightly sun-faded with light shelf-wear to edges and edge points. Internally, 2 previous owners small bookplates to inside front board, otherwise pages clean and bright. A very good copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed marbled boards. Title-page and three full-page wood engravings by Paul Nash. Copy #389 of 400. The First English Translation (by Brian Rhys) of this tale about a man who must choose between Christian and Muslim heavens. Boards slightly bowed with mild sunning to the spine. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Description: Publisher's original cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, with the excellent dust-jacket, designed by Paul Nash, with just a small chip at the head of the spine and some very light dust soiling. Title-page and three full-page wood engravings by Paul Nash. Limited Edition of 400 copies, this being #242. A Fine copy. The First English translation (by Brian Rhys) of a story about a man who must make the choice between a Christian and Muslim heaven.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
TELLIER, JULES. Abd-er-Rhaman in Paradise. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1928.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarter blue cloth, gilt, with marbled covers. Sunned, bowed, and minor scuffing. Limited (315 of 400 copies, 200 of which are produced by Random House, but not this one), first English edition. Interior clean. Filled with beautiful woodcuts. Translated from French by Brian Rhys. This story tells of one man's choice of whether to ascend to Christian heaven or to Muslim heaven. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada