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Golden Cockerel Press Prospectus P179. THE NEW LONDON LETTER WRITER: containing the compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspicuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability by Samuel Johnson, M.A.. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948.

Price: US$16.80 + shipping

Description: Pp. [4]: title page, with wood engraved device plus full page wood engraving, by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve, specimen page 21, prospectus, with printed details for Sole Agents for Australia: Walter Standish and Son, Sydney; demy 8vo; Arnold unbleached white laid hand-made paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948. Cock-a-Hoop Pl79.

Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Samuel Johnson. The New London Letter Writer containing the compleat Art Of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspicuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respctability [Prospectus]. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 4pp prospectus for forthcoming publication by The Golden Cockerel Press. Contains a sample page from the book together with a full-page illustration by Averil MacKenzie-Grieve. Printed on mould-made paper with untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Touch of toning to edges of front and rear covers. Otherwise in fine condition. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight of this prospectus.

Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom

Johnson, Samuel. The New London Letter Writer. Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Quarter bound in reddish buckram over marbled boards with a sunned spine. With 63 pages of text and illustrations, and limited to 500 numbered copies. With the bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books affixed to the front pastedown.

Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.

Samuel Johnson, M. A.. The New London Letter Writer: Containing The Compleat Art of Corresponding With Ease, Elegance, and Perspicuity as is Now Practised by All Persons of Respectability. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Cover is shelf worn and slightly rubbed, otherwise book is in great condition with no other visible flaws. Binding is tight. Pages are slightly yellowed, but otherwise are clean and unmarked.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Samuel Johnson. Prospectus for the Golden Cockerel Press for The New London Letter Writer. Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.

Price: US$50.12 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1948. Pamphlet. 4pp Ilustrated. . . . .

Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland

Samuel Johnson. The New London Letter Writer,Containing the Compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease,Elegance and Perspicuity,as is now Practised by All Persons of Respectability. Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948.

Price: US$51.98 + shipping

Description: Private Press:No.472/500.A tight,lightly tanned copy.No inscriptions.

Seller: David Pearson, Bodmin,Cornwall, United Kingdom

Johnson, Samuel. The New London Letter Writer Containing the Compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspicuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948.

Price: US$54.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition thus. Thin octavo. Foreword and 12 wood engravings by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve. Original red cloth over marbled boards (spine faded), t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good. 63 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 500 numbered copies (this copy is not numbered), designed by Christopher Sandford.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

Johnson, Samuel. The New London Letter Writer containing the compleat Art Of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspicuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability. Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Description: 64 pages. 22.5 x 14 cm. Foreword and 14 decorations by Averil Mackenzie-Brieve. Designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford in Caslon's Old Face on Arnold's mould-madepaper. A rare 18th century book reprinted here. Limited edition, copy 301 of 500. PERTELOTE, III 179. Marbled boards by Sidney Cockerell and maroon cloth spine. Teg. Fine

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Johnson, Samuel; Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil (illus). The New London Letter Writer. Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1948.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Limited Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve. Touch of sunning at the spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, red cloth spine, gilt lettering, marbled paper boards, frontispiece, teg. 8vo. 63pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 424 of 500.

Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.

Johnson, Samuel. The New London Letter Writer Containing the Compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspicuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability. Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Edition limited to 100 numbered copies in quarter red leather. This is copy #50. One-inch of scuff to leather at bottom of spine.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Johnson, Samuel. THE NEW LONDON LETTER WRITER, CONTAINING THE COMPLEAT ART OF CORRESPONDING WITH EASE, ELEGANCE, AND PERSPICUITY AS IS NOW PRACTICED BY ALL PERSONS OF RESTECTABILITY. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: No. 290 of 500 copies. 63p. With a foreword and illustrations by Averil MacKenzie-Grieve. Bound in gilt-titled quarter maroon cloth with marbled paper sides, t.e.g., other edges stained green. Spine mildly faded, remainder fine

Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.

. The New London Letter Writer. Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: By Samuel Johnson. Containing the compleat art of corresponding with ease, elegance and perspicuity as is now practised by all persons of responsibility. Foreword and decorations by Avril Mackenzie-Grieve. Marbled paper boards, red morocco spine. Fine in slipcase. One of 100 specially bound copies signed by the illustrator.

Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom

Johnson, Samuel. The New London Letter Writer Containing the Compleat Art of Corresponding with Ease, Elegance, and Perspicuity as is now practised by all Persons of Respectability. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1948.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition thus. Thin octavo. Foreword and 12 wood engravings by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve. Original gilt stamped brick red morocco over green and red marbled boards, t.e.g., other edges stained light green. No dust jacket. Fine. 63 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 100 numbered copies (this copy is unnumbered and out of series), designed by Christopher Sandford.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.