Price: US$942.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice example of a well produced book, 1948, Limited edition, 20 illustrations. VG+, First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies, in red half morocco over gilt illustrated cloth. Spine, gilt titles & Celtic device. Internally, frontis, illustrated title page, [4], 5-266 pp, [1], 20 illustrations (full page] by Braby, t.e.g, remainder uncut, binders stamp to fpd (S&S), corner tips rubbed, bumps to head & tail of spine, without any of the usual fading. (Folio, 210*354 mm). (Cockalorum 176). Made up of the following: Pwyll prince of Dyfed. Branwen daughter of Llŷr. Manawydan son of Llŷr. Math son of Mathonwy. The dream of Macsen Wledig. Lludd and Llefelys. Culhwch and Olwen. The dream of Rhonabwy. The lady of the fountain. Peredur son of Efrawg. Gereint son of Erbin.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$1130.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition 1/4 cloth Very Good folio clxxxvii + clxxxviiipp., decorations, Third translation into English. Number 361 of a Limited edition of 550 numbered copies. Bound in orange half morocco over gilt illustrated cloth; spine, gilt titles & Celtic device, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Geoffrey Farmer's ex libris on front paste-down. A lovely copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$3900.51 + shipping
Description: 50/75 COPIES (from an overall edition of 550) specially bound by Sangorski & Sutfliffe, and signed by the artist and translators, printed on mould-made paper by The Chiswick Press, title printed in orange and black, 20 full-page scraper-board engravings by Dorothea Braby, initial leaves with two tiny faint spots, pp.[i], 266, [i], folio, original orange Cape morocco, signed S&S on upper board lower turn-in, boards with repeated elaborate gilt-blocked design by Braby, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt cockerel insignia, boards with a few faint marks, top edge gilt, untrimmed fore-edge with a couple of spots, blue buckram slipcase, very good. A magnificent production, immediately hailed by Welsh scholars, book design critics and the general reading public alike as a great success, Braby's intricate, mysterious illustrations, re-produced from photographic blocks made from the original scraper-board designs, perfectly mirroring the tone of the text. [With:] From Reviews of two recent Golden Cockerel Press books: The Mabinogion; Endymion, [1949], pp. [ii], broadsheet with John Buckland-Wright cockerel engraving, "'Merely to look at this sumptuous book, outside or within, in these exigent times brings the delightful surprise that the sudden blossoming of a rosebush would give in the chilling days of December. flowers of refinement and enchantment amidst the nettles of barbarism.' The Times Literary Supplement" (Cockalorum 176; Cock-a-Hoop LXXXII))
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom