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Price: US$54.29 + shipping
Description: 1st ed. thus, octavo, original pattererned quarter linen covered boards, pp 18, ii, coloured wood engravings. Ex-library, with one stamp to the reverse of copyright page and small faint call number to base of spine, otherwise a very good copy. Text from the 1598 edition.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
John Marston. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PIGMALIONS IMAGE. Golden Cockerel Press, New York, 1926.
Price: US$124.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in boards. Limited to 325 copies, this is number 279.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo; 7 3/4 x 5 in (200 x 130 mm). Pp.(viii), 18, colophon (verso blank), (viii) + 2 engraved images (1-17) in sepia, brown and grey-blue ink by René Ben Sussman. Quarter bound cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt and very lightly browned, batik papered boards; lightly cracked at title page.The fragile original plain Glassine WRAPPER is in Very Good condition and now protected by a removable archival mylar cover. Printed on hand-made paper, uncut, in black ink with decorations and caps in sepia. This is number 256 of 325 copies printed. [Chanticleer 46; Ransom p. 296, no. 43]. John Marston was a poet, satirist and playwright whose short career spanned the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods and was famous for the feuds with Ben Johnson. His reputation has varied widely over time but his work was resuscitated by the Romantics and some of his works were well-loved by T.S. Elliot. The text for this edition is taken from the 1598 edition [ESTC S109897] with minor corrections and with contractions expanded. The GOLDEN COKEREL PRESS was founded by Harold Midgely Taylor in 1920 with the object of publishing new works of literary significance by young authors and to print and publish fine editions of books of established worth. When Mr. Taylor retired in 1924, it was purchased by Robert Gibbings, known as an illustrator and woodcutter (Tomkinson, p .93) "Golden Cockerel books are amongst the most popular and desirable private press items." (Ransom p. 106).
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Waltham Saint Lawrence, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926 (first thus). Octavo, [ii] (first blank), 18, [1] (colophon) pages plus 2 three-colour wood-engravings by Rene Ben Sussan. Quarter linen and batik papered boards; leading and bottom edges uncut; spine a little discoloured; corners slightly worn; pastedowns discoloured at the edges; later ownership details in ink on the front flyleaf; a very good copy. Number 325 of only 325 copies. 'The text is taken from the Edition of 1598' (from the colophon). A bookplate (one of many) of Kaz Posney is mounted on the front pastedown; this one is Peake 4338. Chanticleer 46.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 325 copies; 1/2 cream cloth & batik patterned tissue paper over boards, gilt spine title, deckled edges with top edge trimmed, & two 2 colour engravings; A just very good copy with small corner wear; 18 pages
Seller: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
MARSTON, John. Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image. Golden Cockerel Press, (Berkshire), 1926.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition. Engravings by Rene Ben Sussan. Small octavo. 17, [2] pp. Unopened free endpapers with a tiny bookseller label on rear pastedown, modestly toned spine, near fine. Text taken from the 1598 edition. Number 21 of 325 copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MARSTON, John. Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image. Golden Cockerel, Berkshire, 1926.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Engravings by Rene Ben Sussan. 18pp. Short thin 8vo, buckram-backed boards; uncut. (Berkshire): The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. A near fine copy. One of 325 numbered copies. The text is taken from the 1598 edition. Ransom 43 p. 296.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
John Marston. The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Berkshire, 1926.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Condition: near fine. Sussan, Rene Ben (illustrator). Limited. Engravings by Rene Ben Sussan. 18pp. Short thin 8vo, buckram-backed boards; the edges unccut by The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. A near fine copy. One of 325 numbered copies. The text is taken from the 1598 edition. Mention in Ransom, page 43 from the University of Texas Humanities Collection. this is copy 317 on handmade paper, The boards are lovely Batik hand made and laid on boards stiff with a fine buckram 1/4 back copy number 317 of 325. this is the myth of Pigmalion explored once more, this is perhaps an early work on Eroticism
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Number 124 of 325 copies. Printed by Robert Gibbings. With 2 colored Engravings by René Ben Sussan. 3-17, [1] pp, [1] leaf (colophon). 1 vols. 12mo. Ransom 43 Cream cloth and batik boards. Fine With 2 colored Engravings by René Ben Sussan. 3-17, [1] pp, [1] leaf (colophon). 1 vols. 12mo Number 124 of 325 copies. Printed by Robert Gibbings.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$186.64 + shipping
Description: With engravings by Rene Ben Sussan. Pp. [ii]+18+[2](colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece and one plate, title page decorations and one initial printed in brown; cr. 8vo; qr. cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt (and faintly browned), batik papered boards; uncut and partly unopened; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1926. Edition limited to 325 numbered copies. Chanticleer 46. *The text is from the edition of 1598.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia