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Hughes, Richard. Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire England, 1922.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The eighth book printed at the Golden CFockerel Press. This edition of 750 copies finished March 24th, 1922.Brown boards with green cloth spine. Paper label on spine. Top and bottom of spine lightly bumped with spine faded and slightly rubbed. 69pp. Contents clean and sound with paper a little tanned. Wesley University Library book plate on inside front cover. photos available on request.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Hughes, Richard. Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922.
Price: US$43.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Frontispiece portrait of author by Pamela Bianco, tissue-protected, augments this fine exemplar of a Limited Edition of 750 copies, this being the eighth title ever printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, printed at Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, England. Note of Errata bound in. Twenty-one poems plus Preface, which is a due homage to the poetical theory of Robert Graves. This edition completed March 24th, 1922. Brown paper over boards, sunned blue cloth spine, paper label on spine. Only mildly worn, bright and unmarked of interior but for half-toning to endpapers and a fine bookplate inside front flap. The author, Richard Arthur Warren Hughes O.B.E. (19 April 1900 ? 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. Born in Weybridge, Surrey, his father was Arthur Hughes, a civil servant, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren had been brought up in the West Indies in Jamaica. He was well educated and began publishing his literary output at an early age and enjoyed a long and prestigious career, including coeditorship of literary journals such as Oxford Poetry. Hughes was the author of the world's first radio play, A Comedy Of Danger, broadcast on 15 January 1924. He traveled, married the painter Frances Bazley (1905?1985) in 1932, and about them the poet Dylan Thomas wrote his book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog whilst living at their Castle House. He relocated to Ynys in Gwynedd late in life and became churchwarden of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, a village church, and was buried there upon his death at home in 1976. 69 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in light brown cloth with blue cloth backstrip and white title label to spine, this hardcover 1922 Limited Edition (750 copies) from The Golden Cockeral Press is VG. 69pp with portrait charcoal sketch by Pam Bianco as frontis with tissue guard, Preface by author and 34 Poems. Colophon announces this to be the eighth book printed at The Golden Cockeral Press, Limited to 750 copies and finished on March 24th, 1922. Title label has three small chips to edges, but is completely legible. Spine once blue is now sunned below the label, otherwise all VG
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Hughes, Richard. Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. Golden Cockerel Press, 1922.
Price: US$67.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback, 12mo, no jacket, purple linen backstrip with paper title to spine, paper covered sides, faded to spine, darkened to sides, Limited edition of 750 copies, tissue guarded portrait frontis, 69pp & Colophon to rear, errata slip at Contents, fore & tail edges rough trimmed, protective loose fitting clear film sleeve
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Richard Hughes. GIPSY-NIGHT AND OTHER POEMS. The Golden Cockerel Press, England, 1922.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4 x 7 in. 69 pp. Purple cloth and paper boards with paper spine label. Limited edition f 750 copies. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to spine ends, covers clean but somewhat tned, spine sunned, around the hinges too. Spine label toned with a few minor chips. Poetry. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Hughes, Richard. Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. Golden Cockerel Press (1922), Berkshire,UK, 1922.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 69p 12mo, 1/750 copies printed. A very good copy in a good dust jacket, Front panel of the jacket separated from the spine but undetecable. jacket lightly nicked at the base.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 750 copies. Portrait Frontispiece. 69, [3] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Author's First Book. With "seduce" on p. 36. Cloth and boards. Fine, spine sunned Portrait Frontispiece. 69, [3] pp. 1 vols. 12mo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
HUGHES, Richard. Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. Golden Cockerel, Berkshire, 1922.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 24mo, 69 pages, cloth - backed grey boards (faded), paper spine label, uncut. Berkshire, Golden Cockerel Press, (1922). One of 750 copies. Very good (+).
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HUGHES, Richard. Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1922.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: First printing, limited to 750 copies. 18mo (17cm). In original tan paper over boards, backed in light blue cloth, titled in black on printed paper spine label; plain endpapers; 69,[3]pp; frontispiece lithograph by Pamela Bianco. With a gift inscription to front pastedown. With errata slip. A sound copy, boards lightly browned and soiled, spine faded, rubbed at extremities: Very Good. The author's first book, and the eighth book printed at the Golden Cockerel Press. Hughes (1900-1976) wrote plays, poems, and short stories, including the world's first radio play (for the BBC).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
hughes, richard. the gipsy-night and other poems. the golden cockerel press, 1922.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edition limited to 750 copies. Paper label on spine. Light wear to boards.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
HUGHES, Richard. Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. Will Ransom / (Golden Cockerel Press), Chicago, 1922.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Large octavo. 65pp. Quarter yellow cloth and purple papercovered boards with printed spine label. Near fine with some light toning, subtle edgewear and some darkening at the pastedown from the binder's glue. One of 63 numbered copies Signed by Hughes and with a tipped in special proof lithograph that is Signed by artist Pamela Brown; with 30 for sale in American and 26 in England. This is copy number six. Also Signed by the printer Will Ransom and with the bookplate of publisher Robert O. Ballou.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.