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Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: First Edition thus. Publisher's pale green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and GCP Cockerel motif to the front board, and the book label of Albert Sperisen. Housed in a matching cloth covered board slipcase. Octavo. Chanticleer: pp. [1-12] 13-48, Pertelote: pp. [1-6] 7-52 and Cockalorum: pp. [1-5] 6-112 [4]. A book in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$487.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, original morocco-backed patterned cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 26.5 x 17cm. 112pp. Numerous illustrations. Number 293 of 300 specially bound copies, printed on hand-made paper and signed by Christopher Sandford. Firmly bound, a lovely clean copy.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Description: , 47 [1] pages, no. 238 of a 300 copy limited edition. SIGNED by Christopher Sandford, numerous black and white in text illustration and plates throughtout First Edition , the book is a little faded at head and foot edge of boards, green colouring to spine has faded to brown, book plate of Michael Raymond William Charles Holmes T.O.S.F tipped to upper pastedown, binder's mark to upper pastedown, very good condition , quarter bound green morocco under orange cloth with dark green cockerel design, gilt lettering to spine, gilt head edge to text block , octavo, 26.5cm x 17cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$802.04 + shipping
Description: , no.277 of a limited edition of 300, signed by Christopher Sandford, printed on F.J. Head's hand-made paper, 112 pages, woodcuts throughout Limited Edition , light rubbing to boards and spine ends, spine faded, internally clean, binding firm, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, very good condition , quarter morocco, patterned cloth, gilt titles to spine , 27 cm x 17 cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$834.12 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The sole UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire in 1936. The Book is in Near Fine condition with just some light fading of the morocco spine but the gilt titling remains bright. The Numbered Limited Special Edition, this being number 95 of only 300 special copies printed on F.J. Head's hand-made paper. Title page printed in gold and black. Quarter green morocco with cockerel pattern yellow cloth covered boards. Gilt title on spine. T.E.G., others uncut. Free from inscriptions and bookplates. Light offsetting to the blank end-papers. The limitation page is Signed by ALL Four partners : Christopher Sandford, Anthony Sandford, L.J. Newbery, and Owen Rutter. The majority of copies were only signed by one or two partners. 34 wood engravings selected from the books including works by John Farleigh, Celia Fiennes, Tirzah Garwood, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, Gertrude Hermes, Blair Hughes-Stanton, David Jones, Lynton Lamb, Agnes Miller Parker, John Nash, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious and Lettice Sandford. Introduction by Humbert Wolfe with a Foreword & Notes by the four Partners above. There was also an unnumbered unsigned trade edition. Accompanied by the loosely inserted Publishers 4 page Prospectus with the specimen full page Eric Ravilious B/W illustration (taken from 'Consequences') and the reproduction of the title page to the front cover. This is in fine condition and a very scarce item in its own right. The book is protected in a lose Mylar archival cover. We have never handled another copy signed by all four partners before. Collectible with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volume set. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 3/4 red morocco over beige cloth, raised bands, top edge gilt. Good binding. A small pen worm hole. Lacks the 2 folding maps. Minor spotting to end pages. This is the first printing of Lawrence's undergraduate history thesis of 1910. In this work, Lawrence argues that the Crusaders, after seeing the fortifications built in the Middle East, went back to Europe to build their own battlements along the same lines. Numerous castle plans and photos. The second volume includes an introduction by Lawrence's mother and reprints his letters to her. Includes additional ephemera, including early photographs of castles/country scenes. Chanticleer 112. O'Brien A188.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: LIMITED EDITION of 1,000 copies in two volumes, of which this is 'Number 638' (as stated on p.2 of Vol.I). Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, as stated on front pastedowns, in half red morocco with cream cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt with five raised bands, teg others untrimmed. Crown Quarto. Printed in Perpetua type on British mould-made paper. Foreword and Preface by A.W. Lawrence and Mrs S. Lawrence. Bookplate of Michael & Phyllis Staines to front pastdowns. 166 reproductions of drawings, photographs and diagrams, two maps printed in red and black laid down within the original envelope which is lightly foxed, both maps being in Fine condition. Both volumes in Very Good condition, a little overall spotting and soiling to cloth, rubbing to extremities. Faint foxing to rear pastedown of first volume Chanticleer 112
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom