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Price: US$13.23 + shipping
Description: Pp. [2], broadsheet, with wood-engraving by Gwenda Morgan; 21.2 cm. x 16 cm.; Laverstoke cream laid paper [?]; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Coppard, A.E.. Tapster's Tapestry. Golden Cockerel Press, 1938.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Golden Cockerel Press: 1938. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. Unlimited edition. Red boards with gilt lettering along the spine. Top corners of the boards lightly bumped, previous owner's signature to the first free end paper. Unclipped jacket has foxing to the front cover and some chipping and edge wear. Book is near fine, jacket is good.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
COPPARD, A.E.. Tapster's Tapestry. Golden Cockerel Press, U.K., 1938.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The special relationship between Coppard and Golden Cockerel (Coppard's first book, "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me', was also the first book from the press) continues with this lovely book of words and pictures. Decorated title page. Top edge gilt. Five full page, and five smaller engravings by Gwenda Morgan. Unlimited Edition. (There was a limited edition signed by Coppard and Morgan.) This story was subsequently collected in "Dark-Eyed Lady" (Methuen, 1947). Extremities slightly bumped - particularly top front corner, minmal browning, but a very good copy indeed, lacking the foxing often associated with this title.
Seller: The Bark of the Beech Tree, Depoe Bay, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth lightly soiled; pages tanned at edges. DJ has stains and wear; bottom 1-3/4" of DJ spine missing; small chip missing at top of DJ spine. ; Illus
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
COPPARD A.E. Tapster's Tapestry. Golden Cockerell Press, London, 1938.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. original red cloth boards, gilt title to spine -couple of spots front cover o/w vg. teg. No Dw 59pp + 11 blank 5 full page engravings + 5 Vignettes by Gwenda Morgan. light yellowing to pages + light spotting to pastedowns o/w clean. This is an Unlimited Edition Printed and Published by Christopher & Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press Rolls Passage, London and finished on the 31st day of August,1938
Seller: Hencotes Books, Penny Pearce, Hexham Northumberland, United Kingdom
Coppard, A. E.. Tapster's Tapestry. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Standard 'unlimited' edition, 1938. Small Quarto. 58pp. Illustrated. Prospectus at front. Publisher's cloth, gilt title to spine. A few markings to boards. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No Jacket. First Edition. Private Press. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Engravings by Gwenda Morgan. 58 pages. Printed and published by Christopher & Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press. Top edge gilt. Red cloth covers mildly spotted and dust-marked; light foxing, but a good copy
Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Coppard, A. E.. TAPSTER'S TAPESTRY.. The Golden Cockerel Press (1938), (London), 1938.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 58 pp., wood engraved illustrations by Gwenda Morganoctavo, red cloth with gilt spine title, jacket. "Unlimited edition" of the title also issued in a signed limited edition. From the library of John K. Martin (of Black Sparrow Press) with his small exlibris label to rear pastedown. Fine in near fine pictorial jacket
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Coppard, A. E.. Tapster's Tapestry. Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 59 pp. Engravings by Gwenda Morgan. Cloth in dustwrapper, unclipped, very good copy. (51054).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Coppard, A. E.. TAPSTER'S TAPESTRY. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938.
Price: US$79.40 + shipping
Description: Engravings by Gwenda Morgan. Pp. 58+[2](colophon, blank), decorative title page, plus 10 text illustrations (5 full page); small f'cap. 4to; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards faintly soiled; t.e.g.; scattered foxing and occasional faint soiling; dust wrapper, soiled, browned, and slightly silverfished, the edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown, top fore-corner of upper free endpaper creased, the free endpapers slightly offset, scattered light foxing and occasional faint soiling; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938. Unlimited edition. See Pertelote 137. *A review copy, with the original prospectus (Cock-a-Hoop P137[ii?]) tipped-in after the upper free endpaper; edges worn, annotated in ink: 'For the favour of a Review'.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Set in Perpetua. Illustrated with 10 wood-engravings. Bound in red cloth, gilt spine titling, gilt top.Yellow pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy. The unlimited edition, previously produced by the Press in an issue of 200 copies. "The conceit of our title-page mars the book, and collectors will please to ignore it!" (Pertelote 137)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Coppard, A.E.. Tapster's Tapestry. The Golden Cockerel Press, [London], 1938.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Unlimited edition. Engravings by Gwenda Morgan. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket Engravings by Gwenda Morgan. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$238.21 + shipping
Description: 8vo (22x16.2cm), hardback, 58pp. Very good condition. No dustwrapper. Burgundy with green leather binding, upper edges gilt, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear, spine sunned, bumped, dent to upper front edge, a few little marks. Uncut fore edge and lower edge. From the library of G. & N. Ingleton with bookplate at front pastedown and small stamp at lower corner of rear pastedown. Printed on hand made paper. A nice thing. Pictures available on request.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia