Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Mawdesley, Bruce. Song of the Scythe. The Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1983.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very good copy in green paper d/w over card, 650 copies printed at The Whittington Press with wood-engravings by Miriam Mcgregor. A nice example of the work of John Randle at his Whjttington Press.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Mawdesley, Bruce. Song of the Scythe. Whittington Press, 1983.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Booklet, stitched, paper wraps. 27.5 x 19.5cm. [16]pp. Illustrated with six wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. One of an edition of 650 copies. A little wear to covers, otherwise an excellent clean copy.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Mawdesley, Bruce. Song of the Sythe. Whittington Press, 1983.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: As New with No Markings. One of 650 Copies. Pix Upon Request. Gift Giving Quality.
Seller: tjl books, Milton, MA, U.S.A.
Mawdesley, Bruce. SONG OF THE SCYTHE. The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, 1983.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. paper wrappers, paper cover label. not paginated. Printed in an edition limited to 650 copies, this being one of 615 copies without proofs. (Butcher 66). Spine lightly faded, else a fine copy. Mawdesley worked at Whittington on and off for a year, mending the walls, building a Cotswold stone extension to the Press building and scything the grass. The story is about the scythe, a tool of his ancestors and the portraits in the book are recognisably him. It is illustrated with six wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor (b.1935). paper wrappers, paper cover label
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Mawdesley, Bruce. Song Of The Scythe. Whittington Press, Andoversford, 1983.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. One of 650 copies. Bound in wraps. Wraps slightly sunned at edges, otherwise near fine condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 35 (650) special copies, specially bound, signed by the author and artist upon the colophon, with a separate portfolio of 6 proof engravings individually signed by the artist. Handset in Caslon and printed in purple (the title-page in orange and purple, the illustrations in black). Quarter green buckram, printed spine label, printed paper boards in shades of green from a perspex engraving by the artist, top edge green. Matching slipcase. A fine copy. First printed in an edition of 40 copies (with one less engraving) at the artist's Plum Tree Press in 1982. Butcher states that the portraits of the scyther 'are recognisably Bruce'.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, 10-3/8 inches x 7 inches. One of 35 signed copies, bound with a signed suite of the six engravings. Unique binding by Angela James, signed "APJ 1984, using painted leathers, suede, and wood strips, incorporating a functioning door, opening to a rustic shed's interior,showing the eponymous scythe.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.