Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Single folio sheet issued by the GCP in 1935 to promote three books - Storm At Sea by Jack Lindsay; The Hansom Cab & The Pigeons by L.A.G. Strong; The Golden Bed of Kydno by Evadne Lascaris. Previously folded in half, now laid flat and protected in clear archival envelope. Slight sun toning to previous fold.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Single sheet of mould-made paper folded twice to create a folio size prospectus. Two full page line-engravings by Lettice Sandford taken from the book, including the front cover. Two sample pages on centre fold. Extracts from the Introduction by translator P. M. on back page, together with publications details and prices. Laid in is a free-standing Subscription Form for this book - the form is lightly foxed and is now protected within a clear archival envelope. The prospectus itself is in near Fine condition, just a crease to lower left hand corner and untrimmed lower page edges. Will ship by parcel post in a cardboard sleeve.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Lascaris, Evadne. THE GOLDEN BED OF KYDNO. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1935.
Price: US$1338.42 + shipping
Description: Translated from the modern Greek by P. M. & illustrated with twelve line-engravings by Lettice Sandford. Pp. 44+[2](colophon, verso blank), pictorial title page and headpiece, plus 10 full page illustrations, the title, running headings and initials printed in yellow, gilt endpapers; med. 4to; cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, with an illustration by Lettice Sandford in gilt on upper board, the cloth faintly soiled; t.e.g., others uncut; within the original gilt card box, a trifle soiled, edges lightly worn; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1935. One of 140 numbered copies thus bound, of a total edition of 200. Chanticleer 107. *Printed for subscribers. The translation is by Edward Powys Mathers.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia