Price: US$6.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prospectus for: Scott, Walter Sidney (Editor). HARRIET & MARY. Being the Relations Between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg as shown in letters between them now published for the first time. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Single sheet, printed both sides, printed in Perpetua type, on mould-made paper. Very slight discolouring of paper, otherwise good.
Seller: Andrew Johnson Books, Shipston-on-Stour, United Kingdom
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition 480/500 copies only. (84pp). Top edge gilt, other edges unvut. Small ownership stamp bottom rear free endpaper, else clean unmarked Size: Quarto
Seller: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
Price: US$64.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, quarter-leather, gilt title to spine. 25.5 x 19.5cm. 84pp. Frontispiece. No. 339 of a limited edition of only 500 copies. Binding is a little marked and worn. Previous owner's details written to the free front end-paper, some of it crossed out. Very minor spotting.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$97.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, quarter morocco with cloth covered boards. 25.5 x 20cm. 84pp. Frontis. Number 405 of 500 numbered copies. Slightest rubbing only. Spine slightly faded. Inside the occasional spot but generally nice and clean.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Scott, Walter Sidney (editor). HARRIET & MARY. Golden Cockerel Press, (London), 1944.
Price: US$138.00 + shipping
Description: large 8vo. quarter red morocco, top edge gilt, 4 raised bands with two golden cockerels. (iv), 84 pages. Being the Relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg; As Shown in Letters Between Them, Now Published for the First Time. Printed in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is one of 450 copies bound thus. Only the slightest hint of wear to the spine, else a near fine copy. Printed on Arnold's mould-made paper in Perpetua type. Item number 161 in the Press's third Bibliography, Cockalorum. Second volume of Trilogy. Edited and with an introduction by Walter Sidney Scott. Lovely frontispiece portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Print is very crisp and striking. quarter red morocco, top edge gilt, 4 raised bands with two golden cockerels
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is limited edition number 279 of 500 copies produced, bound in quarter leather with raised bands and gold gilt to the spine and housed in its own handsome, handmade slipcase. The boards are a little rubbed and edge worn, with some slight bubbling in the cloth of the boards. Despite this, the boards are strong and sturdy. Internally, there is some faint tanning around the edges throughout, but there are no other markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are neat and complete. Securely bound. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Walter Sidney Scott. Shelley at Oxford. The Golden Cockerel Press, Great Britain, 1944.
Price: US$162.44 + shipping
Description: 5 Raised Bands. Ex libary copy. SHELLEY AT OXFORD is the third book of a trilogy, edited by Walter Sidney Scott and published by Golden Cockerel Press, of which the first book was THE ATHENIANS and the second HARRIET MARY.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$162.44 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition to 500 numbered copies of which this is No. 279. Publisher's quarter brown morocco with gilt titles to spine, green cloth boards, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Binding slightly rubbed. A clean and tight copy. The third book of a trilogy, edited by Walter Sidney Scott and published by the Golden Cockerel Press, of which the first book was The Athenians and the second Harriet and Mary.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition 1/4 leather Nice copy large octavo 84pp., frontis., references, Quarter russet morocco with gilt spine titles and decoration, top edge gilt, over blue buckram. PHOTO available
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$200.13 + shipping
Description: Portrait front. Uncut in orig. quarter tan morocco, blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; boards & spine sl. marked. Gift inscription in blue ink on leading f.e.p.: 'For Darling Howard, from Jane. For your 31st - a poor present to offer, as I know what you have given me for my 21st! Feb. 2nd/45'. t.e.g. Number 316 of 500 ordinary numbered copies. This volume is the second in a series of three books produced by the Golden Cockerel Press and edited by Walter Sidney Scott; the first book was The Athenians and the third Shelley at Oxford. Walter Sidney Scott married Thomas Jefferson Hogg's great-niece and allegedly found these letters in a drawer. A loosely inserted note identifies 'Howard' from the inscription as Howard Samuel, the son of the 'high street jeweller' H. Samuel and founder of Great Portland Properties. According to ODNB, Samuel married artist Jane Lane in 1944; the two later divorced but remarried in 1959.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$207.93 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A first and limited edition copy of 'Harriet and Mary', numbered 206 of 500. A study, through letters, of the relationship between members of the Shelley circle: Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In a quarter calf binding. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$227.44 + shipping
Description: 4to. 26cm, 79p., limited edition of 500 numbered copies, this being #240, on Arnold's mould-made paper, title printed in red and black, 4 portrait plates including frontis, quarter morocco grain tan calf, blue linen boards, raised bands, gilt spine titles & panel decoration, (cockerel), t.e.g., near fine. (Lt) ~ The third book of a trilogy of which the first book was "The Athenians" and the second "Harriet & Mary". Illustrated with two portraits of Shelley (by Leisman and Clint), Hogg, and Mary Shelley (by Rothwell). Chapter Two contains the formerly unknown prose fragment by Shelley dating from 1810-11. An attractive Golden Cockrell Press publication designed and produced by Christopher Sandford. Printed at the Chiswick Press.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$281.25 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 78, [2]; frontispiece; unbound, unopened sheets, out of series and without the 3 plates after drawings by Leisman & Easton; near fine copy. The third book of a trilogy, edited by Walter Sidney Scott and published by the Golden Cockerel Press, of which the first was The Athenians and the second Harriet and Mary. Accompanied by: Supplement of reproductions limited to fifty copies to accompany the first fifty copies of the book., an 8-page gathering reproducing a contemporary engraving, and 6 pages of facsimile, including one of Mary Shelley. Cockalorum 163.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The complete three volume set as photographed. Attractively bound in quarter morocco over cloth with gilt titles. The spine of the Athenians is a little sunned, otherwise this is a nice set of this limited edition, printed on hand made paper.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Copy number 12 from a deluxe edition of 50 specially bound copies. 4to. Publisher's polished russet morocco, spine with 4 raised bands, lettered in gilt with gilt centres, top edges gilt, others uncut, gilt ruled edges and turn-ins. Spine slightly faded Copy number 12 from a deluxe edition of 50 specially bound copies.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 87, 84 & 79 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm "the complete set of the letters contained in these three books had lain for over a century in a drawer, till Mr. Scott found and collated them. Full titles for each follow: THE ATHENIANS BEING CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THOMAS HOGG and HIS FRIENDS THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, LEIGH HUNT, PERCY SHELLEY AND OTHERS. One collotype portrait. Limited edition, copy 281 of 350 & HARRIET AND MARY BEING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, HARRIET SHELLEY, MARY SHELLEY, AND THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG, etc. One collotype portrait. Limited edition, copy 367 of 500 & SHELLEY AT OXFORD THE EARLY CORRESPONDENCE OF P.B. SHELLEY WITH HIS FRIEND T.J. HOGG, TOGETHER WITH LETTERS OF MARY SHELLEY AND T.L. PEACOCK, etc. Four collotype plates and a Shelley prose fragment. Limited edition, copy 218 of 500. COCKALORUM 158, 161, 163 respectively, A fresh, bright set uniformly bound. Quarter brown morocco and blue buckram boards. Near fine. 3 vols
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One 50 copies bound in full niger morocco, t.e.g., by Leighton-Straker, with collotypes of six letters added, signed by Scott. A few scratches to the binding.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.