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Armstrong, Martin. The Puppet Show. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 153 pages (complete). Boards torn on spine, chipped, worn, marked. Tanning, foxing, ownership inscriptions, deckle edges, markings. In poor condition, intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Armstrong, Martin. The Puppet Show. Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1922.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Light green paper-covered boards with black cloth spine & paper spine label. 154pp. Spine label darkened. Covers edge-worn. Internally very good.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Armstrong, Martin. THE PUPPET SHOW. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922, 1922.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Description: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. Hardback, 8vo, 154pp. Gift message (1922), endpapers and prelims spotted. Original quarter cloth, a little shelf marked and bumped, paper spine label, chipped and tanned. A fair copy
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Armstrong, Martin. The Puppet Show. The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1922.
Price: US$16.68 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback. 153pp. Boards slightly faded and bumped to extremities. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. A rather decent copy. (q21)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Armstrong, Martin. The Puppet Show. The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1922.
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback. 153pp. Boards a little age-discoloured. Slight loss to fore margin of page 151, text not affected. A pleasing copy. (q22)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
ARMSTRONG Martin.. The Puppet Show.. , 1922.
Price: US$23.39 + shipping
Description: Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press 1922. Sm. 8vo. Orig. qtr. cloth with plain paper boards and printed titling label on spine (covers slightly discoloured). (156pp.). Uncut.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Armstrong, Martin. The Puppet Show. Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1922.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 154 pages. 19 x 13 cm. An early effort from the Press, the 6th publication. Some spotting of endpapers. Limited edition, one of 1200. There was a second edition the following year of 1500 copies. CHANTICLEER 6. Orig. blue boards and black cloth with paper spine label. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in Near-Fine condition in a Good-plus dust jacket, 12mo, pages: 153,[3]. Gray-bliue paper-covered boards, black cloth shelf-back with salmon-color paper label, top edge dyed red, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition (of 1200 copies). Bookseller accession no.: GP160. This is the Martin's first book of short stories, following three books of poetry. Seemingly uncommon with dust jacket.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-153 [154] [155: blank] [156: printer's imprint] [157-160: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original gray boards with black cloth shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, top edge stained brown, other edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's first collection of short fiction; fables and sketches, many ironic, including the delightful "Biography: A Study in Circumstantial Evidence." Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Chanticleer 6. Paper spine label age-darkened, a clean, tight, nearly fine copy. (#133737)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.