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Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in 1/4 brown cloth and decorative boards. This is a limited edition of this book of poems by various poets. This is 192/350. "As new" copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Tucker, Alan. Poems for Alan Hancox. The Whittington Press, Lower Marston, 1993.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1993, Limited Edition, no.239/350. Quarto. Publisher's quarter cloth, marbled paper boards. A nice clean copy. 'Fine'.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.26 + shipping
Description: Limited edition Numbered Copy No. 219.March 1993. This tribute to Alan Hancox was assembled by Alan Tucker, and set in Goudy Modern type and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper in an edition of 350 copies. Brown cloth spine with bright gilt embossed title, Patterned cloth boards. Title-page wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Size: 4to
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Whittington Press. Poems For Alan Hancox. Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1993.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition number 56/300. A tribute to Alan Hancock by Alan Tucker.
Seller: Surprise Books PBFA, Stroud Glos, United Kingdom
Tucker, Alan (ed). Poems for Alan Hancox. The Whittington Press, Lower Marston, 1993, 1993.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Description: limited edition of 350 copies. This no 48. Cloth spine decorated paper covered boards. Gilt lettering to spine. 11.25ins x 8ins, unpaginated - c42pp. Illustrated title page by Miriam Macgregor. Appeciations by Melvyn Bragg and Michael Foot. Poems by Seamus Heaney, Michael Horovitz, Ted Hughes, Adrian Mitchell, Laurie Lee, Jon Stallworthy and others. VG.
Seller: Missing Books (PBFA), Great Leighs, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Description: Limited edition (76/350). Signed by Alan Tucker. Hardback. Unpaginated. Decorated paper boards with cloth back and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Introduction by Melvyn Bragg. Contributors include: Adrian Mitchell, U. A. Fanthorpe, D. J. Enright, Duncan Forbes, Michael Horovitz, John Fuller, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Jenny Jospeh, Laurie Lee, Peter Levi, P. J. Kavanagh, Brian Patten, Jon Stalworthy, Jon Silkin, Charles Tomlinson, Lawrence Sail, Michael Foot. A fascinating tribute to Alan Hancox, book lover, book collector, bookseller and, amongst other achievements, Director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Wood engraving for title page by Miriam Macgregor. Near fine condition.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter brown cloth gilt with decorated paper-covered boards. 4to., unpaginated. Title-page wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. One of 350 numbered copies assembled by Alan Tucker, set in Goudy Modern type and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. An attractive tribute of sixteen poems and a prose piece. A fine copy in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Royal 8vo, 11 x 7 7/8 in. (280 x 200mm); pp. 41. Two wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Copy 267 of 350 copies printed. Set in Goudy Modern and printed in black, the wood-engravings in brown, on Zerkall cream smooth laid paper on the Heidelberg press. Fine Bindery in quarter binding in cloth with Whittington printed paper-covered boards, gilt spine titling, headbands, top edge gilt, mauve Hahnenühle endpapers. [Butcher 118]. An elegant tribute to Alan Hancox was assembled by Alan Tucker, The introduction is by Melvyn Bragg and the afterword by Michael Foot. It contains sixteen poems (15 of them previously unpublished), and a prose piece by Laurie Lee. Alan Hancox Opened his first bookshop in Cheltenhaim in the late 1940s, and it quickly became a meeting place and the literary heart of the town.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$705.52 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. First printing. Limited Edition of 50 Roman numeralled copies SIGNED by all contributors (see image). With 2 additional prints signed by Miriam Nacgregor. Fine in Fine slipcase as issued. Overseas buyers please read shipping terms and estimated transit times prior to ordering.' 'We are established reputable First Edition sellers and understand collectors needs in terms of accurate grading and proper packaging'
Seller: Malden Books, Kingston-upon-Thames, SURRE, United Kingdom
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, I/50 DE LUXE COPIES (from an edition of 350 copies) printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper and signed by each of the contributors on the half-title verso, 2 cinnamon wood-engravings on the title-page by Miriam Macgregor, separate proof pulls of both of the wood-engravings (printed in black), signed in pencil by Miriam Macgregor and loosely inserted in a pocket on the rear pastedown, pp.[41], imperial 8vo, original quarter mid brown crushed morocco, backstrip gilt lettered, pink boards with overall design of vertical decorative lines, t.e.g., others untrimmed, cloth and board slipcase, fine. Heaney's contribution is 'A Sofa in the Forties' (subsequently collected in 'The Spirit Level'); Ted Hughes's, 'The Bear' - both have signed along with the other contributors; these special copies, this copy number one and from the collection of its editor Alan Tucker, also with signed copies of the Miriam Macgregor wood-engravings. (Brandes & Durkan B193)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Royal 8vo, 11 x 7 7/8 in. (280 x 200mm); pp. 41; Two wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Number XXXVIII of 50 specially-bound, signed opposite the title-page by each of the 19 contributors, with signed proofs of the two engravings on Zerkall cream wove paper (265 x 190 mm) in a pocket at the back. Set in Goudy Modern and printed in black, the wood-engravings in brown, on Zerkall cream smooth laid paper on the Heidelberg press. Quarter-bound at the Fine Bindery in brown Oasis and Whittington printed paper-covered boards, gilt spine titling, headbands, top edge gilt, mauve Hahnenühle endpapers; matching paper-covered slipcase, reinforced in brown buckram at the head and foot. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. [Butcher 118]. An elegant tribute to Alan Hancox was assembled by Alan Tucker, The introduction is by Melvyn Bragg and the afterword by Michael Foot. It contains sixteen poems (15 of them previously unpublished), and a prose piece by Laurie Lee. Alan Hancox Opened his first bookshop in Cheltenhaim in the late 1940s, and it quickly became a meeting place and the literary heart of the town.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.