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E. Powys Mathers. Red Wise #285/500. Golden Cockerel Press, Great Britain, 1926.

Price: US$75.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Red paper over 1/4 buckram. A few dark spots at top of front board on right and left sides. Corners lightly bumped and/or rubbed. Spine mildly sunned, gilt lettering on spine. Patterned end papers in green and gilt. PO book plate on inside front paste down. Clean cream-colored pages. Pages 89 to 92 have a few small tan spots in the upper or lower margins. Hand-made paper, naturally uneven edges. Black woodcuts. Small book store sticker on back inside paste down.

Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

Mathers, E. Powys and Robert Gibbings(illustrator/printer). Red Wise. The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1926.

Price: US$92.70 + shipping

Description: Octavo. 98(1)pp. printed and illustrated by Robert Gibbings, limited to 500 copies. The present copy is number 141. While Abu Nowas was a very real person, the stories of Anue were of fiction. Beautifully illustrated with wood block illustrations. Bound in 1/4 white cloth over red paper covered boards, decorative endpapers, light wear to spine ends, spine and board edges darkened. A very good copy.[Chanticleer 34].

Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.

Mathers, E. Powys. Red Wise. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence,, 1926.

Price: US$94.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Robert Gibbings (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 8 wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Chapter headings printed in red. Original white cloth over red boards, uncut. No dust jacket. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. No. 129 of 500 numbered copies.

Seller: OPEN DOOR BOOKSHOP, Roma, RM, Italy

Mathers, E. Powys. Red Wise. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1926.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 8 wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Chapter headings printed in red. Original white cloth over red boards, uncut. No dust jacket. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. No. 83 of 500 numbered copies. Chanticleer 34.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

Mathers, E. Powys. RED WISE. Golden Cockerel Press, N.P. (London), 1926.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. rebound in full leather with four raised bands, gilt on spine, leather spine label, blind-stamp double border on cover. (vi), 98, (4) pages. Number 34 in the first Golden Cockerel Bibliography (Chanticleer). Limited to 500 numbered copies. Light shelfwear, else near fine. Partially unopened. Nineteen tales (entirely fictional) about or using the name of "Abu Nowas" (meaning, we assume, Abu Nuwas, the late 8th-century Arab poet); a rather modest example of "orientalistic" fiction. Printed on hand-made paper in Caslon Old Face, with eight wood engravings by Robert Gibbings, who illustrated a number of Golden Cockerel books. Two-color printed patterned endpapers. rebound in full leather with four raised bands, gilt on spine, leather spine label, blind-stamp double border on cover

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

MATHERS, E. POWYS. Red Wise. The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1926.

Price: US$228.26 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of 500 numbered copies [#203] bound one quarter white cloth with red paper to boards; gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpages; fore and tail edges untrimmed. In original glassine paper wrapper showing some wear and a chip to the lower edge of the rear panel.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

(Golden Cockerel Press) Mathers (E. Powys).. Red Wise.. First edition, 8vo, 22cm, pp.[viii],98[2], colophon, The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence, 1926., 1926.

Price: US$240.53 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Number 246 of 500 copies set in Caslon and printed in red and black on handmade paper. Illustrated with 8 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Quarter white buckram with gilt spine titling, red paper-covered boards, patterned endpapers printed in green and gold. Printed paper dust-jacket with a repeat engraving on the front panel, slightly soiled at the spine. A very good copy. (Chanticleer 34, Kirkus 28)

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

MATHERS, E. Powys. Red Wise. Golden Cockerel, Berkshire, 1926.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Eight striking woodcut engravings by Robert Gibbings. 98pp., 8vo, cloth-backed red boards, d.w. Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. No. 297 of 500 copies.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Mathers, E. Powys. RED WISE. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1926.

Price: US$268.45 + shipping

Description: Pp. [viii]+98+[4](note, colophon, last blank), illustrated with 8 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings (3 full page), all chapter headings and the cockerel device at colophon printed in red, endpapers patterned in dark green & gilt; demy 8vo; qr. cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, red papered boards, lower board faintly scuffed and lightly bruised at top fore-corner; uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split with a couple of tiny chips and short closed tears, the backstrip lightly rubbed and browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, a couple of spots of foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1926. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies on Batchelor hand-made paper. Chanticleer 34.

Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia