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Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 178 of 400 copies from a total edition of 500. Tall thin 4to. 152 pp. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter vellum over beige buckram boards with a gilt line illustration to the upper cover, top edge gilt. 58 wood engravings. Toning to the vellum with a little light wear to the edges of the boards, foxing to a handful of leaves including one of the full page engravings at p.81, an attractive copy overall. Cockalorum, 175.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. Golden Cockerel Press, 1947.
Price: US$1803.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardback, original vellum backed-cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with gilt title to spine and illustration to front board. With the original tattered glassine wrapper in two halves with some losses. 32cm x 20cm. 150pp. With illustrations throughout by John Buckland-Wright. No. 476 of a limited edition of only 500 copies. A little sporadic foxing to contents. A wonderful copy.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Description: Folio, pp.150, [2], with a frontispiece and 55 woodcut illustrations by Buckland-Wright, some full-page; a few leaves slightly foxed (as often with this work), else a very good copy in the publisher's quarter vellum and red boards, stamped gilt.No.200 of 500 copies (the first 100 specially bound in full vellum); also found in brown buckram rather than red as here. Buckland-Wright's greatest work and one of the most important Golden Cockerel publications, it was begun in 1943 but not completed until late 1947.Franklin, p.229.
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2576.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The sole UK printing of this illustrated edition published by Golden Cockerel Press, London in 1947. Number '383' of 500 copies issued on Arnold's hand-made paper with the Golden Cockerel Press watermark, of which one hundred copies were specially bound in vellum at Sangorski and Sutcliffe. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. The vellum spine with gilt titling has a few lights spots. The cloth boards with gilt decoration are clean. The binding is tight. Top edge gilt. Free from inscriptions. Some light sporadic toning to the page edges in places, more so to pages 12-15, 90-91 and 132-133, and the rest mild - all copies appear to have been affected with this to some degree, and it does not particularly detract. Profusely illustrated throughout with engravings by John Buckland-Wright. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. One of the highlight productions from the Golden Cockerel Press. Increasingly scarce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 32.5 cm, 152 pp, illus, vellum over boards. A very clean and square copy, which appears unused. Some light sporadic tanning to around 15 pages; moderate to around three of those, and the rest mild - all copies affected with this to some degree; and does not particularly detract. One hundred copies specially bound in vellum at Sangorski and Sutcliffe - however this is not numbered nor signed, but is from that part of the run. VG minus.
Seller: Archway Books, Mana, New Zealand
BUCKLAND WRIGHT, John. John Keats: Endymion: A Poetic Romance. Golden Cockerel Press, 1947.
Price: US$6119.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition, small folio, original pictorial white vellum, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with Cynthia Goddess of the Moon by Buckland Wright in gilt to covers, top edge gilt, others uncut, cloth slip-case. Number 77 of 100 specially-bound copies signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 500, wood-engraved illustrations. Buckland Wright took over four years to produce this work and it is considered to be his masterpiece. "His wood-engravings for this book have a romantic beauty that could hardly be surpassed and, as there are no less than 58 of them, they make a particularly sumptuous volume". (Reid in A Check List oh the Book Illustrations of John Buckland Wright). A near fine copy, with very light foxing to a couple of leaves but far less than usual. Cockalorum 175; Reid A47a
Seller: York Modern Books PBFA ABA, York, United Kingdom