Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hand numbered 235 out of an edition limited to 370. Quarter leather with bright gilt title on leather spine fully legible. Spine extremities repaired, the top by a small strip of matching cloth. Else in very good condition. The text is taken from the Authorized Version of the Bible of 1612. The arrangement of the book and the wood-engravings are by Noel Rooke. Complete. Hardback. No dj.
Seller: Treasure House Books, Franschhoek, WCAPE, South Africa
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Set in Caslon and Caslon Lining types and printed in red and black on English hand-made paper. Numbr 257 of 370 copies. Quarter leather, spine gilt, blue paper-covered boards. Bookplate of Mary Young at front, book label of Jill Robinson at rear. A very good fresh copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 44 pages of text. Original leather spine with blue paper-covered boards; minor browning and a few spots of soiling to the boards; protected in archival mylar. Number 134 of 370 copies in this limited edition. Printed in red and black. Illustrated and arranged by Noel Rooke. The text is clean and unmarked.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #279/370. Slim 8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings. 43 pp. Beige endpapers. Quarter leather with gilt titles and blue boards. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn, light wear along the edges. VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 370 copies, octavo size, 44 pp. This volume comprises a portion of text from the Book of Saint Luke, telling of the birth of Jesus Christ; printed by The Golden Cockerel Press, this publication is one of its beautiful renderings of stories from the Bible. The wood engravings are by Noel Rooke (1881-1953), an English wood engraver and one of the prominent figures in the revival of wood engraving during the twentieth century, who helped to found the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920. He was influential as both an artist and a teacher, and among his students were notable wood engravers such as Vivien Gribble, Robert Gibbings, and Monica Poole. Rooke's engravings here portray the soft dignity and beauty of the biblical text, and work with the printed text to form a lovely publication from The Golden Cockerel Press. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter brown leather with grey-green paper boards, gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges uncut, two pages of red type of text from the Book of Luke, frontispiece a red and black wood engraving of Madonna and child by Noel Rooke, type in red and black throughout, black-and-white wood engravings by Rooke throughout; Caslon O. F. type, Batchelor handmade paper, octavo size (8.75" by 6"), pagination: [1-9] 10-11 [12-16] 17-43 [1 colophon], one of 370 copies, this number 170. ___CONDITION: Near fine, the leather shelfback smooth and supple, the boards clean (other than a few light, stray spots), minimally corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings (although there is faint evidence of erasure at the top of the rear pastedown); overall a near fine copy which could almost be deemed fine. ___CITATION: Chanticleer no. 32. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: No. 47 of 370 copies. 43p, colophon. Beautifully printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings by Noel Rooke. Bound in gilt-titled quarter morocco over blue boards. With large bookplate of Myrtle Fasken (Artist. 1889-1972). The Golden Cockerel Bibliography no. 32 and Ransom no. 32 list the title as THE NATIVITY.). Boards a bit spotty, else crisp as new in glassine
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
. The Birth of Christ from the Gospel According to Saint Luke. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR NOEL ROOKE TO MARGARET ROOKE on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1925 1st thus, #267 0F 370 COPIES ISSUED BY ROBERT GIBBINGS AT HIS FORMIDABLE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS OF WALTHAM SAINT LAWRENCE, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND. Tight and VG to VG+ in its 1/4 morocco over light-blue boards, with just a touch of light wear at the spine ends and very minor, confined soiling along the rear panel's top-edge. First-rate woodcuts by Noel Rooke, the frontispiece in rich red and black. A lovely edition, "the text taken from Barker's quarto edition of the Authorized Version of 1612"
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.