Sharpham, Edward. Cupid's Whirligig The Berkshire Series I. Golden Cockerel Press, 1926.

Price: US$44.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback, linen spine over paper covered boards. 20 x 13.5cm. ix, 94pp, [1]. Number 248 of a limited edition of 550 copies. Paper rather browned with age, otherwise clean. Slight wear only. Reprint of the original 1607 edition.

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

Sharpham,Edward. Cupids Whirligig,The Berkshire Series 1. Golden Cockerel Press, 1926.

Price: US$44.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Edited from the first Quarto of 1607,with an introduction & textual notes by Allardyce Nicoll,8vo,ix + [2] + 94pp.+ [1],Ltd edition 344 / 550,edges untrimmed,very good clean copy in publishers canvas backed boards,paper label to the spine,tiny amount of shelf wear,Hereford bookseller's small ticket [chipped] to the lower rear pastedown,postage at cost for overseas orders.

Seller: Springwell Books, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Edward Sharpham. Cupid’s Whirligig. Edited from the First Quarto of 1607, with an Introduction and Textual Notes by Allardye Nicoll.. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1926.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The Berkshire Series I. Number 494 in a limited edition of 550 numbered copies, and printed on mould-made paper. Gray boards with a canvas backstrip. Darkening of the spine, the title label, and the top1/2 inch or so of the boards, discoloration of the endpapers, signed by the Spencer scholar Rudolf Gottfried on the front stick down, to which is also attached the bookplate of Gottfried and his wife Marion, the shape of that bookplate is offset on the front free endpaper. The words "vide Poggio" written in ink by Gottfried in the margin of page 6, and a parenthesis mark four lines in length, in the same ink and hand, in the margin of page 17. Scarce.

Seller: Cloth Bound Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

Sharpham, Edward. Cupid's Whirligig (1607). Edited from the First Quarto of 1607, with an Introduction & Textual Notes by Allardyce Nicoll, M.A., Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of London. The Golden Cockerel Press, [Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berskshire], 1926.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Number 140 of 550 copies. xii, 94 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Chanticleer 38

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Edward Sharpham; Edward Lodowick Carlell. Cupid's Whirligig; The Tragedy of Osmond the Great Turk, or the Noble Servant; The Fool Would be a Favourit: or, The Discreet Lover. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1926.

Price: US$152.64 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A limited edition reprint of three seventeenth century play. A limited edition set containing reprints of three seventeenth century plays. The present copy of 'Cupid's Whirligig' is number 112 of 550 printed. The present copy of 'Osmond the Great Turk' is number 316 of 550 printed. The present copy of 'The Fool Would be a Favourite' is number 223 of 550 printed. Set in London, Edward Sharpham's play 'Cupid's Whirligig' is a city comedy involving a husband consumed by jealousy after he suspects his wife of having affairs with other men. Sharpham's play, along with the later two works by Ladowick Carlell are all accompanied by useful introductions by Alladyce Nicholl who was Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of London. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding over hard boards. Externally, generally smart. With a mark to the rear board of volumes II and III respectively, with some discolouration of the cloth to volume I near the front joint. Lightly bumped to the head and tail of volumes II and III. Internally. firmly bound, with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom