Edited by Captain H.Cotton Minchin. The Legion Book(Hardback,3rd Impression,1929). Cassell and Company, 1929.

Price: US$19.30 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The Legion Book, Edited by Captain H.Cotton Minchin, 3rd Impression,1929, Published by Cassell and Company, Printed in England at The Curwen Press, Hardback, has fading to covers and spine, has Two White Paint Marks to front cover, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing, Pages are hand-cut, All Illustrations appear present as listed,

Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom

Minchin, Captain H. Cotton (ed). THE LEGION BOOK. CASSELL AND COMPANY LTD., London, 1929.

Price: US$57.50 + shipping

Description: Printed at The Curwen Press, London. 224 pages. NIce book illustrated with 16 beautiful plates, 12 of them half tones. Page 198-9 and 218-9 lightly foxed at spine, otherwise pages good condition. Endpapers show light wear. Maroon cloth, gilt title on spine. Board show light wear, few small stains, scratches. Head/tail of spine and edges show light wear. Corners worn and lighlty bumped. VG

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

MINCHIN Captain H Cotton:. The Legion Book.. London, Curwen Press, 1929., 1929.

Price: US$154.36 + shipping

Description: LIMITED EDITION. VG. Number 438 of 600 copies. Signed by Editor. Large 4to. xi. 241p. Red buckram. Gilt title to spine. Frontispiece plus 9 additional collotypes all protected by captioned tissue guards. 9 further full page illustrations and one small illustration to title page. Each chapter commences with a red decorated capital. Boards dampstained to top edge. Spine sunned and faded. Minor shelfwear to all extremeties. Internally a beautiful copy. Bright and tight. Crisp and clean. A real feast.

Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom

(British Legion) Minchin (Captain H. Cotton). The Legion Book.. Royal 4to, pp.xiv,242 + inserted plates & colophon, London: Privately printed at the Curwen Press (for the British Legion), 1929., 1929.

Price: US$192.96 + shipping

Description: Number 492 of 500 (600) edition de luxe copies signed by the editor. Typeset in Monotype Lutetia and printed in red and black on mould-made paper. Illustrations within the text by William Nicholson, Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, Eric Fitch Daglish, Edward Bawden, etc., collotype plates, following the text, by William Rothenstein, Max Beerbohm, Augustus John and others. Full orange buckram, spine titled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Corners faintly bumped. A very good to fine copy. Published to benefit the British Legion, this was a great success for the Curwen Press, the unlimited 'popular' edition being reprinted three times in 1929. Oliver Simon helped Minchin to edit it and was responsible for the elegant Lutetia type. Literary contributors included John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, P.G. Wodehouse, Winston Churchill, Vita Sackville-West and Walter de la Mare. 100 copies were bound in full vellumized pigskin and held in the gift of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

Minchin, Captain H. Cotton. The Legion book. Edited by . 4ª impresión. The Curwen Press, Londres, 1929.

Price: US$197.75 + shipping

Description: 4º, 234 p., 16 láms. con dibujos. Puntos de óxido en alguna página. Tela editorial. [Ref. C12N481]. Antología de autores ingleses dedicada a The British Legion, institución fundada en 1921 como voz de los veteranos de guerra. La obra incluye textos tanto en prosa como en verso, 4 dibujos a toda página numerados dentro del texto, y 12 notables láminas con reproducciones de hermosos dibujos y grabados, entre ellos los retratos del rey y de la reina. Literatura inglesa. Poesía inglesa. Guerra mundial I. English literature. English poetry. World War I.

Seller: LIBRERIA ANTICUARIA STUDIO, Barcelona, Spain

Curwen Press - Minchin, Cotton (ed.). The Legion Book. Edited by Captain H. Cotton Minchin.. London, Privately Printed, 1929.

Price: US$197.75 + shipping

Description: Gr.-4to. IX, 3, 241, 3 S., 9 Bl. m. Tafeln, 3 Bl. Orangener Orig.- Buckram- Ln.-Bd. m. goldgepr. RTitel, Kopfgoldschn. Nr. 28 v. 600 num. Ex., von denen 100 nicht für den Handel bestimmt waren. Im Impressum signiert vom Herausgeber, zusätzlich mit einer privaten Widmung d. Hrsg. auf einem Vorsatzbl. - Mit lit. Beiträgen u.a. von J. Galsworthy, R. Kipling, W. Churchill, E. Wallace, A. Huxley, G. K. Chesterton, Original-Holzschn. von Eric Gill, Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, Fitch Daglish sowie weiteren Illustrationen. - Schöner, grosszügiger Druck der Curwen Press auf Handbütten in der Lutetia. Mit einer Titelrad. von Clifford Webb.

Seller: Versand-Antiquariat Rainer Richner, Suhr, Switzerland