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H. E. Bates. Flowers And Faces [Prospectus]. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1935.

Price: US$51.98 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 4pp prospectus with specimen page and a full-page specimen plate by John Nash taken from the book. Front cover illustration also by John Nash. Literary review comments and publication details on rear cover. Untrimmed lower page edge.

Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom

Bates, H. E.. Flowers and Faces. Golden Cockerel Press, 1935.

Price: US$584.80 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardback, 1/4 green morocco with gilt lettering, marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. 25.5 x 19.5cm 52pp, [2]. Illustrated by John Nash with wood engraved titlepage and 4 fullpage wood engravings. Limited edition, number 204 of 325, signed by the author to the colophon. Some rubbing to corners. Re-cased, new end papers, erased library mark to spine, library stamp to verso of title. Contents very clean.

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

Bates, H. E.. Flowers and Faces. Golden Cockerel Press, 1935.

Price: US$675.76 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed by H.E. Bates. Limited edition 210/325. Engravings by John Nash. Book is in very good condition on bachelor hand made paper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in quarter crushed morocco lettered in gilt with marbled boards.

Seller: Holt Art Books, Birmingham, United Kingdom

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / Bates, H.E. / John Nash ill. Flowers and Faces. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1935.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 4to, 10 x 7 1/2 in (250 x 185mm); 54 pp.; 5 wood-engraved illustrations by John Nash, including title page; printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. Half green morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, spine lightly sunned; handsome marbled paper boards, lower corner bumped; gilt titling, t.e.g., rest uncut. Bookplate of John Gant on inside front cover. LIMITED EDITION 179/325, SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. [Chanticleer 106]. This book is Bates's first collection of essays about rural life and gardening, and expresses his passion for nature, his fond memories of early family and boyhood, and the saga of the acquisition of the Kentish granary in 1930 as a family home and the creation of its gardens. Two sections recall visits to the home and garden of his great-grandmother and make the point that love, more than horticultural knowledge, makes the garden. Herbert Ernest BATES (1905 - 1974) was a prolific British author best known for his stories describing life in the rural Midlands of England, notably his native Northamptonshire. In particular his two volumes of essays entitled 'Through the Woods' and 'Down the River' have been reprinted many times, and his 1958 novella 'The Darling Buds of May' was adapted for the film "The Mating Game" and a TV series "The Larkins"

Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.

Bates, H. E.. Flowers and Faces. Golden Cockerel Press, 1935.

Price: US$779.73 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 1/4 green morocco with gilt lettering, marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. 25.5 x 19.5cm 52pp, [2]. Illustrated by John Nash with wood engraved titlepage and 4 fullpage wood engravings. Limited edition, number 92 of 325, signed by the author to the colophon. Slight rubbing only to corners. A few marginal spots to end-papers, and the occasional spot to margins, but generally a nice clean copy.

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

Bates H.E. & Nash, John (Illus.). Flowers and Faces : One Of 60 Specially Bound Copies Signed By The Author With An Additional Suite Of The 4 Wood Engravings Each Signed By The Artist. The Golden Cockerel Press, UK, 1935.

Price: US$3833.66 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The sole UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press, UK in 1935. This is number '32' of 60 specially-bound copies signed by the author to the limitation page, from a total edition of 325 copies [Chanticleer 106]. The BOOK is in near Fine condition, bound in the publisher's original green morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titling to the spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A hint of offsetting to the blank end-papers. A wood-engraved pictorial title and 4 striking B/W plates by John Nash. With an additional suite of the 4 B/W wood-engraved plates on Japon, each signed in pencil by John Nash, loose in a paper envelope. The plates are in Fine condition with just a hint of creasing to the extreme outer edges of one of the plates. With the publisher's Prospectus loosely laid in, which contains one specimen plate. Housed in a custom cloth solander box with a leather titled label to spine. A very handsome production and extremely elusive with such attributes. Only the second copy we have handled. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom