Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Quennell, Peter. Masques & Poems. Golden Cockerel, Waltham, UK, 1922.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Waltham, UK, Golden Cockerel, 1922. 8vo. Teal paper with black lettering, rag paper text block, illustrated throughout, 53 pp. Cover unattached from book, but present, with right-hand front corner missing, dog-eared and chipping, most of the pages in the text block are uncut, so the book appears to be unread. Text block is clean. Overall fair condition. Protected by a mylar sleeve.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Quennell, Peter. Masques & Poems. Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1922.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Paperback, with original wraps. 22.5 x 17.5cm. 53pp. Illustrated throughout. Cheaper edition 1922. Tape repairs to spine and 2 leaves of prelims. Edges of covers chipped with small losses. Some pages partially unopened.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Quennell Peter. Masques and Poems. UK Golden Cockerel Press 1922, 1922.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Limited Edition of 550 copies of which this is number 361.Decorated throughout by the author.Internally a nice copy.The pale blue borads are stained to the edges the linen spine is marked and the paper label is very rubbed.Thus
Seller: barnoble-books, Boston, LINCS, United Kingdom
Quennell, Peter. Masques & Poems. Golden Cockerel Press, 1922.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hsrdback, buckram spine and paper covered boards. 22 x 17.5cm. 53pp, [2]. Number 323 of an edition of 500 copies. Edges of boards stained, end-papers typically discoloured. Previous owner's details an annotation and an extract from a catalogue pasted onto the front end-papers. Final leaf unopened at top-edge. Contents generally clean, light wear only.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Quennell, Peter. Masques & Poems. Golden Cockerel Press (1922), Berkshire, UK, 1922.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 53p quarto, Front wrapper chipped at the lower corner otherwise a very good copy in blue green wraps.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some light staining to boards. Preliminaries foxed.Internally fresh and clean. One of 375 copies for sale in the UK. This copy marked "Not for Sale"
Seller: James Howell Rare Books, Dublin, IRELA, Ireland
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: hardback, large 8vo, 55pp, illustrations by the author, owner's gift inscription on endpaper, pages browning, paper-covered boards and quarter-cloth binding, boards brown-spooted; Good condition / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Quennell, Peter. Masques & Poems. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1922.
Price: US$66.14 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited to 375 numbered copies, this copy is out of series 'not for sale' written on the limitation. 5 drawings by the author. Quarter linen, edges lightly rubbed, end papers a touch foxed. Free from any markings or inscriptions.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$69.27 + shipping
Description: 55 pp., clean pages in 4to hardback quarter canvas biound + blue grey paper, Excellent copy bar paper spinelabel breaking up (easy to replace) Size: 4to
Seller: Appleford Bookroom, Abingdon, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 81 of 375 copies printed on handmade paper. 5 full-page or near full-page line drawings by the author. Grey paper sides, linen back with printed label. A very good to fine copy. (Chanticleer 9)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Quennell, Peter. MASQUES & POEMS. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1922.
Price: US$80.20 + shipping
Description: Pp. 54(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), one full page illustration, pictorial head and tailpieces; f'cap. 4to; qr. natural linen, with printed paper title label on spine, pale blue/grey papered boards, with several damp stains; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, a couple of spots of foxing and occasional faint soiling; Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1922. One of 375 numbered copies thus bound (total edition 550). Chanticleer 9. *Written and decorated by Peter Quennell, this was the first illustrated book issued by the Golden Cockerel Press.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
QUENNELL, Peter. Masques & Poems. , 1922.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: QUENNELL, Peter. Masques & Poems. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berks: The Golden Cockerel Press, [1922]. 4to. First edition. One of 175 numbered copies for sale in America. The author's first book, published when he was 17. Small bookplate, else fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
PETER QUENNELL.. Masques & Poems.. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1922.
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies (375 for the UK and 175 for the US). This example un-numbered, marked 'Not for sale' and signed by the author on the colophon (the signature is not called for). Tall 8vo. 53pp. Paper-covered linen with a slightly toned paper spine label. A little discolouration to the board margins, some browning to the free endpapers, and some spotting to a few preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. The author's first book, comprising two short masques and seventeen poems, plus five decorations by the author. The ninth book published by The Golden Cockerel Press. Uncommon with Quennell's signature.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Octavo. 53pp. Linen spine with printed paper label, blue papercovered boards. Covers and endpapers are very lightly foxed, partially unopened copy, very good in a good only lightly soiled and rubbed dust jacket with chips on edges and in center of front panel. The American issue pictorial dust jacket (with "New York. Brentano's" on front panel, and priced in dollars on spine). The ninth book published by The Golden Cockerel Press. American issue, limited to 175 numbered copies, total edition of 550 numbered copies with 375 for sale in Britain and 175 for sale in America.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 502 of 550 of the Ninth Book of the Press. . Illustrations and decorations by the author. 53, [3] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Chanticleer 9 Cloth, paper label damaged, boards. Very good . Illustrations and decorations by the author. 53, [3] pp. 1 vols. 4to 502 of 550 of the Ninth Book of the Press.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Quennell Peter. Masques and Poems. UK Golden Cockerel Press 1922, 1922.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited Edition of 550 copies of which this is number 60.Decorated throughout by the author.Internally a nice copy with uncut pages.The dust jacket has damage and missing pieces at the spine
Seller: barnoble-books, Boston, LINCS, United Kingdom
Quennell, Peter. Masques & Poems. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1922.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Thin, square octavo. Illustrations and decorations by the author. Uncut and partly unopened. Original half linen over blue boards, paper label. Dust jacket (small chips; creases and tears; with 7s 6d price on spine). Very good. 53 pages. One of 550 numbered copies (this copy with holograph notation "Not for sale" and not numbered), printed at The Golden Cockerel Press (9th book published by the press). Chanticleer 9.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.