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Price: US$329.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in yellow wraps, a bit bumped at edges. Previous owners name on title page. Compliments slip from the publishers loosely inserted.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Gibbings, Robert. Fourteen Wood Engravings.. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1932.
Price: US$537.59 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 14 beautiful woodcuts by the master of the modern wood engraving revival in Britain. ¶ Description: Original yellow printed wrappers, sewn as issued, untrimmed. Folio: 34 × 24 cm. Title with woodcut vignette, small woodcut on following text page, 14 full-page woodcuts (recto only) with printed captions, printed colophon on last leaf verso. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. ¶ Inserted: The Orient Line compliments slip laid-in. ¶ Ref.: Cave/Manson 86A ¶ Condition: Covers slightly soiled, torn at spine fold (approx. 7 cm). Otherwise a near fine copy. ¶ Notes: Gibbings produced this woodcuts for the Orient Line Shipping Company as "quids for their quo of hospitality" (Cave/Manson). Based on drawings he had made on his cruise around the Caribbean islands, and on his previous voyage to Tahiti. One of only a few commissions for other publishers that Gibbings undertook. ¶
Seller: Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$540.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full-page plates and illustrations by Gibbings Folio Wrappers a little worn and soiled, a few tears and ink-marks, but internally a very nice copy. With, loosely inserted, the Golden Cockerel Press printed compliments leaf from the managers of the Orient Line Original yellow printed wrappers
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$546.71 + shipping
Description: Sole edition, folio, (16) leaves. Title and one other vignette engraving plus 14 full page wood engravings, Orient Line compliments leaf (also printed at the Golden Cockerel Press) loosely inserted. Original yellow wrappers, some very mild soiling otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$578.87 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. Illustrated with 14 full-page and 2 smaller wood engravings, done on the rectos only. Variant binding of quarter green cloth with blue paper-covered boards, blue endpapers, printed label superimposed on the upper cover. A very good copy to fine copy. Advertisement slip for proof engravings (on GCP watermarked paper) loosely inserted. Printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, but as a private commission and so not reckoned a Golden Cockerel item. It is much more usually found in a binding of printed yellow wrappers, sewn. (Kirkus 17)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom