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$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardback, slim octavo, quarter blue cloth lettered gilt to spine, marbled paper covered boards, covers dulled, the binding remains tight, light scattered foxing, stamp of a previous owner to the front pastedown, issued in a limitation of 1,000 unnumbered copies, Illustrated, 42pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$117.11 + shipping
Description: Pp. 44(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, pictorial headpiece, text decorations and tailpiece by Eric Ravilious; med. 8vo; silver cloth, spine lettered in navy, the cloth slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; fore-edges uncut; bookseller's small ink stamp at head of upper pastedown, scattered foxing (heavier on outer leaves); The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1935. First edition, limited to 1,212 copies, this being one of 1,000 unsigned copies on machine-made paper. Chanticleer 105. *The Ingleton copy, with the bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton on upper pastedown, and the green stamped Ingleton Catalogue number on lower pastedown. Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his bookplate also on the upper pastedown.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Golden Cockerel Press (First Edition, 1935). Part of a first edition of 1,212 copies, this being one of 1,000 unsigned copies on machine-made paper. Hardcover in good+ condition with clean, unmarked pages featuring numerous fabulous black and white illustrations by Eric Ravilious. No dustjacket but light wear only to silver-coloured clothbound boards. Light foxing to inside front and back cover and endpapers. Some rubbing at top and bottom edges of spine. Photos available upon request. Dispatched from UK within three days.
Seller: Bopcap Books, Manchester, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Description: , 42 [6] pages, engraved black and white illustration cuts thoughout and black and white frontispiece, one of 1000 unnumbered copies on machine made paper First Edition , rubbing to spine and boards, foxing throughout, heavier on the prelims, stamp and inscription to front free endpaper, fair condition , quarter blue cloth with marbled paper , octavo, 25cm x 16.5cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$154.29 + shipping
Description: Silver-coloured cloth, 8vo, 42 pp, 2 sheets, 17 wood cut prints; -edges rubbed, paper slightly browned, very good copy. Wood-cut Illustrations Eric Ravilious. Compositors A.H.Gibbs, E.J.Ward; Pressman E.Barker; one of 1000 copies.
Seller: Antiquariat Atlas, Einzelunternehmen, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 43pp. Printed in an un-numbered edition of 1000 copies on machine-made paper. Blue cloth quarter binding with blue and green fantail decorated paper covered boards. Crease to cloth at tip of tail of spine and slight dirt mark on inside of this area. Fade mark on lower spine hinge and another at tail of rear spine. Tiny purple sticker ffep. Slightly weak binding to lower hinge of pp32/33. Frontis engraving of hansom cab and pigeons in sunlit garden. P5 header illustration of steam train crossing viaduct together with fifteen other on-page decorations. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Clean inside pages with no inscriptions. Overall in very good condition.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, #36 of 212 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. Quarter leather over patterned boards. Woodcuts by Eric Ravilious. Bookplate to front pastedown, small ownership signature to front free endpage. Some rubbing to ends of spine, rubbing and slight bumping to corners, Internally clean and fresh.
Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Ravilious, Eric. One of 1000 copies thus. Illustrated with 6 wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. 1 vols. 8vo. Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press 105 Silver cloth. Edges alightly darkened, else Fine Illustrated with 6 wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: 43 (3) pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 114 of 212 in Perpetua type on hand made paper signed by Strong. There were also 1000 unnumbered and unsigned copies. illustrated by Ravilious with a full page frontispiece, first leaf engraving, and a series of repeated decorations (bandeaux). One of three books Ravilious illustrated for Golden Cockerel. This edition priced at one Guinea. CHANTICLEER 105. Sanford called this work, "one of our most successful efforts." Spine slightly sunned. Orig. blue morocco spine and marbled boards. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$630.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (240 x 160 mm); (vi) + 46 + (vi) wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Ravilious, slight offsetting to title, original morocco-backed marbled boards, spine rubbed with some fading but binding tight and square; t.e.g, rest uncut; pages bright and crisp. Colophon ends with the words: "God save the King !" and bears the ink signature of the author and the number 115 (out of a limited first edition of 212 on hand-made paper; a further 1000 copies were printed on machine-made paper, unsigned and un-numbered). [Chanticleer 105]. This is a charming little volume by the Golden Cockerel Press, printed to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V in May 1935 and bears a superb wood-engraved frontispiece, a head-piece illustrating transport and progress (steam train crossing a viaduct, a biplane, windmills) and fifteen further decorative wood-engraved vignettes by Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942) the famed engragver, water-colorist and muralist who illustrated war scenes while he was assigned to the Admiralty during W.W. II. He was lost in action in Iceland in 1942. This is one of three books illustrated by Ravilious for the Golden Cockerel Press. Founded by Harold Midgely Taylor in 1920 with the object of publishing new works of literary significance by young authors and to print and publish fine editions of books of established worth. When Mr. Taylor retired in 1924 it was purchased by Robert Gibbings, known as an illustrator and woodcutter (Tomkinson, p .93) "Golden Cockerel books are amongst the most popular and desirable private press items." (Ransom p. 106).
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Quarter leather over patterned blue and white boards. Protected in a clear acetate wrapper. One of 212 special copies SIGNEDby the author. Printed on hand-made paper. Illustrated woodcut frontis and with interior decorations and illustrations by the same artist (Eric Ravilious). Slight edgewear to boards. Tiny bookseller sticker afixed to the inside front pastedown. A handsome near fine copy. 43 pp. Scarce in the signed limited edition.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$763.54 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence in 1935. Number '25' 0f only 212 copies issued of the special limited edition. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Printed in Perpetua type on hand made paper and signed by L.A. Strong to the limitation page as called for. There were also 1000 unnumbered and unsigned copies. Original blue morocco spine slightly sunned and marbled boards. Very light spotting to the text block with the occasional light spot to the page edges in places. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The fragile original plain Glassine WRAPPER is in Very Good condition. It is split at the spine with some loss of the spine portion. The scarce glassine wrapper is now protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Illustrated by Eric Ravilious with a full page frontispiece, first leaf engraving, and a series of repeated decorations (bandeaux). One of three books illustrated by Ravilious for The Golden Cockerel Press. Sanford called this work, 'one of our most successful efforts.' (CHANTICLEER 105). Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom