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Golden Cockerel Press Prospectus P197. THE SERPENT'S PRESENCE. By Eurof Walters. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1954.

Price: US$16.78 + shipping

Description: Single fold, 4 pp., title page with wood-engraved device and illustration by Clifford Webb, specimen page of text, prospectus; 23 cm. x 14.6 cm.; cream wove paper; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, l954. Cock-a-Hoop Pl97.

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

Eurof Walters. The Serpent’s Presence [Prospectus]. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1954.

Price: US$19.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 4pp prospectus of a book by Eurof Walters with full page engraving by Clifford Webb on inside page, together with a specimen page from the book. Printed by The Golden Cockerel Press to promote the publication in early autumn, 1954. Off-set front page fore edge with untrimmed lower page edge. Creases to both lower corners. Otherwise in VG+ condition. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this prospectus.

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

Walters, Eurof. The Serpent's Presence. The Golden Cockerel Press, Great Britain, 1954.

Price: US$117.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good+ hardcover edition, has some fading to the cloth on the front board. Upper corners are bumped. Limited edition book. ; Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 105 pages

Seller: Elder's Bookstore, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.

. The Serpent's Presence. Golden Cockerel Press, 1954.

Price: US$162.52 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: By Eurof Walters. With eight wood engravings by Clifford Webb. Cream vellum-paper boards. Very nice copy. One of 290 numbered copies. This is one of 50 with this binding, the least expensive of the three.

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

(Golden Cockerel Press) Walters (Eurof). The Serpent's Presence with eight wood-engravings by Clifford Webb.. 8vo, 23cm, pp.106, Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1954., 1954.

Price: US$208.03 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Set in Cochin type with Fry's Ornamented for display and printed on mould-made paper. Illustrated with 8 full-page wood-engravings. This an unnumbered copy from an edition of 290 copies, This, one of 180 copies bound up in green and purple fabrics, stamped and titled in gilt. . Glassine dust-jacket chipped with some loss. A fine copy. (Cock-a-Hoop 197) There were three states of the binding on this parable of the story of Adam and Eve: 60 copies in green half morocco with crimson buckram; 180 copies in green and purple fabrics; 50 copies in cream vellum-paper.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

Walters, Eurof. The Serpent's Presence. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1954.

Price: US$210.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: No signatures. Light spotting to top page edges. Boards protected in loose fitting non-adhesive plastic jacket.; Number 69 of an edition of 290 copies. Purple and green cloth boards with gilt illustration of four serpents on front and rear boards. A retelling of the story of Adam and Eve. Illustrated with eight wood engravings by Clifford Webb. "The Mystery of Iniquity lies / in the Subtlety of Evil. // The Devil is in us as far as / we are in Nature." - quote from Blake on page 4.; 8vo

Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand

Walters, Eurof:. The Serpent's Presence. With Eight Wood Engravings by Clifford Webb.. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1954.

Price: US$227.53 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited edition of 290, no 265. HB. Green and purple cloth with gilt snake motifs to front and back covers , gilt title to spine, and glassine dustjacket. 105pp, h: 23cm. Designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford at the The Golden Cockerel Press, in Cochin Type on hand cut paper. Full page engravings by Clifford Webb. Text concerns Adam and Eve and the serpent. Clean and crisp pages, apart from light foxing to top closed edges; no ownership marks. Covers have a few very light marks and some browning around edges; glassine jacket has frayed and torn edges with losses. A Very Good copy.

Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom

(Golden Cockerel Press) Walters (Eurof).. The Serpent's Presence with eight wood-engravings by Clifford Webb.. 8vo, 23cm, pp.106, Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1954., 1954.

Price: US$240.53 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Set in Cochin type with Fry's Ornamented for display and printed on mould-made paper. Illustrated with 8 full-page wood-engravings. This number 68 from an edition of 290 copies and one of 180 copies bound up in green and purple fabrics, stamped and titled in gilt. . Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. With three single-page T.L.s, to Kerrison Preston, Esq., loosely inserted: From the Golden Cockerel Press, 10.11.54; From Eurof Walters, 24.11.54 and again 31.3.55. Most discuss the origin of a quotation in the SP.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

Walters, Eurof. THE SERPENT'S PRESENCE. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1954.

Price: US$316.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: #62/290. With 8 wood-engravings by Clifford Webb. 105 pp. Beige endpapers, with previous owner's name on front paste-down endpaper. Green and purple cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped, light stains along the edges. No DJ. VG Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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