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John Cowper Powys. The Owl, the Duck, and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!. The Black Archer Press, 1930.

Price: US$170.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: No. 69 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author! Cover shows general wear including bumped corners and moisture stains. Pencil marking and stains on endpapers. Binding is beginning to loosen but still fully intact. Pages are clean. Overall a very nice copy of this limited edition book!

Seller: Forecastle Books, Brookings, OR, U.S.A.

Powys, John Cowper. The Owl, the Duck, and -- Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!. Black Archer Press, Chicago, 1930.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Number 1 of an edition of 250 copies (unsigned). Spine slightly darkened; covers lightly soiled.

Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.

Powys, John Cowper. The Owl, The Duck, And - Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!. Black Archer Press, Chicago, 1930.

Price: US$216.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 250 copies signed by the author, printed for William Targ.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

POWYS, John Cowper. the Owl. The Duck. And-Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!. Black Archer Press, Chicago, 1930.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Frontispiece portrait. Frontispiece portrait. 16mo, white boards, spine lettered in gilt. Chicago: Black Archer Press, 1930. LImited First Edition. Number 93 of 250 copies, signed by Powys on the frontispiece. Photograph of a young child pasted on fly-leaf, with an inscription beneath - 'To Mr. T---from Olwen".

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Powys, John Cowper. The Owl, The Duck, And - Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!. The Black Archer Press, Chicago, 1930.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First, Limited Edition. No. 205 of 250 copies, signed by the author on frontispiece, illustration of author on frontispiece. Full ivory colored paper cover with gilt Black Archer Press symbol on front cover and gilt title on spine. Patterned glassine cover. Comes in ivory colored box. "In this extraordinary piece all of John Cowper Powys’ eccentric and wild inventiveness is on display. In a small flat in New York in the 1920s an old couple, former circus performers, live a crotchety life of poverty and fear. The ones they fear are ‘the Authorities’, their name for the cruel and unthinking denizens of the outside world who want to put them into a home. But living with them in their tiny flat are many more presences than they suspect. Powys peoples their world with a gravely philosophical stuffed owl, an overly amorous china duck, a rude and fatalistic glass fish, a pair of tiny Asian god statues, a tenderly romantic doll, and a sadly dilapidated wooden horse, all of whom see the Known World (as they call the flat) in a biased way according to their super-individual visions. Flitting through this busy roomscape are also less substantial beings: two wispy, half-created characters from the unfinished historical romance novel of a long-ago tenant, and, most importantly, the terribly thin and vaporous ghost of the kind old lady who had the flat before the old couple. Her extraordinary kindness could be the key to saving the old couple from the Authorities – can the ghost of Miss Rowe save the day? With a saucy combination of ghoulishness and bouncing enthusiasm John Cowper Powys revels here in unbounded invention, creating a short masterpiece of great eccentricity and capacious fantasy. Outer hinge of cover slightly creased from opening book, pages slightly darkened from age, clean, tight, and square. Glassine cover has small tear at top of spine, small tear on top edge of cover, worn on corners from shelving, and creased on inner front cover, pattern is clearly visible. Box is torn at the corners, missing part of one of the sides, pencil marking on top. NEAR FINE. . Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall. (vi), 60 pp. Signed by Author

Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.