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Coppard, A. E.. Hips & Haws, Poems. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This book has a gentle vertical crack and creasing to the front cover approx halfway into the cover running the full length, shelfwear to the edges and corners of the covers that has resulted in loss of the cover paper, wear and color loss to the paper title tag on the spine as well as general sunfading, a shifted spine, loose hinges, a tear approx 2 1/2 inches long at the top of the interior of the front hinge, toning and faint foxing to the endpages, bumped and scuffed corners, smudging to both covers, and an overall gentle aging to the pages, otherwise this book is in fair, readable condition with unmarked pages and a tight binding.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Coppard, A.E.. Hips & Haws: Poems. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1922.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: 44 pp. 8vo, mostly unopened. Limited edition, copy 258 of 500. Coppard's first book of poems and the seventh book of the press. This was the first book in which separately numbered copies were issued. The book contained several printer's errors which the author says, "moved me at the time to a desperate horror. Alas for those enthusiasms of youth -- they make me giggle with laughter now!" CHANTICLEER:I 7. Spine nicks head and foot. Orig. yellow boards with red cloth spine. Backstrip paper label. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy un-numbered and marked 'Not for Sale'). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Frederic Prokosch, under which Coppard has inked the final two lines of Masefield's poem 'Flesh, I Have Knocked at Many a Dusty Door'. With Prokosch's bookplate to the front pastedown. Slim 8vo. 44pp. Buckram-backed paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. Boards a little rubbed and dust soiled, and with just a little toning and spotting to the endpapers and to two or three preliminary leaves. A nice bright copy of the author's first collection of verse, and the seventh Golden Cockerel Press publication. No dust wrapper.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
COPPARD, A.E.. HIPS & HAWS. Poems.. Berkshire, U. K. :Golden Cockerel Press,, 1922.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 in. x 7 5/8 in. Red cloth spine with paper label on spine, yellow boards. The 7th book published by Cockerel; No. 313 of 480 copies available for sale. 44 pp. The end-papers show tanning. A small darkened spot on the rear panel along the upper margin. The original DJ has darkened and shows some chips and tears.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 167 of 500 copies of the 7th book of the Press. 44, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Author's first book of poems. Chanticleer: 7 Red cloth and yellow boards. Fine in almost fine dust jacket First edition, 167 of 500 copies of the 7th book of the Press.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$156.20 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, endpapers mildly offset; original yellow boards, red cloth back, backstrip with paper label, uncut, one corner mildly bruised, boards very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 318). The author's first book of verse and the seventh book published at the Golden Cockerel Press. Chanticleer 7; Fabes, p.18; Schwartz p.42.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: first edition of 500 copies (this being no. 192) textblock near fine; binding of yellow paper-covered boards and red cloth spine with paper label very good condition, with just slight shelf wear, primarily to extremities; also newspaper portrait of author pasted to ffep which has slightly offset to front pastedown; former owner's name and address on ffep, as well; letter tipped to rfep; dustjacket present in two pieces, separated at rear hinge, somewhat chipped, faded and darkened, but except for separation, quite intact; 45 pages; this very nice copy from the collection of rare book dealer Benjamin Crocker Clough has tipped in an ALS from Coppard to Clough dated 3. Aug. 1921, with good literary content;
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.