Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine ends worn through, otherwise a tidy little book, contents clean. Very Good in mylar wrap.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 8vo, 46 pages, illustrated with woodcuts by Ethelbert White, very good condition in paper covered boards and cloth spine, paper title label on spine (browned and chipped), some marks on the boards, text and illustrations in fine, clean condition, number 335 of an edition of 360 copies, this one of 320 copies printed on paper.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some light chipping to the paper spine label; overall a clean partially uncut copy; woodcut engravings in fine condition.
Seller: Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB, Shelburne Falls, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Description: NO. 99 OF 320 COPIES, 8vo, pp. 46, [4]. Colour woodcut frontispiece and 2 colour woodcut plates included in pagination. Original pale blue boards backed in ecru cloth, paper label to spine. Binding a little soiled and toned. Bookplate of Francis E. Bliss to pastedown. An early work from the Golden Cockerel Press, with attractive woodcuts by Ethelbert White which were nevertheless unpopular with press proprietors Hal and Gay Taylor, and were ?universally condemned? (Cave and Manson, History of The GCP, p. XXX). This led directly to White?s replacement by Robert Gibbings in the Taylors? next project and Gibbings? subsequent acquisition and stewardship of the press over the next decade. Cave & Manson 14.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: One of 345 copies, unnumbered, "Not for Sale". Woodcuts by Ethelbert White. 46 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Buckram-backed blue boards, paper spine label. Endpapers foxed, else Fine. Gift inscription on ffep Woodcuts by Ethelbert White. 46 pp. 1 vols. 12mo One of 345 copies, unnumbered, "Not for Sale".
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Spenser, Edmund. The Wedding Songs of Edmund Spenser. Golden Cockerel Press, 1923.
Price: US$141.71 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With woodcuts by Ethelbert White. Blue boards, grey cloth spine. Small bookplate. Neat presentation inscription. Fine in torn original tissue. One of 320 numbered copies.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 350 copies (on paper), duodecimo size, 49 pp. Edmund Spenser (1552/3 to 1599) is probably best known for his epic poem "The Faerie Queene", an ode to Elizabeth I. Even today he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language. This work, "The Wedding Songs", is a publication uniting two works which were published a year apart, both dealing with love and romance. According to "Chanticleer", this is the first work of the Press to be illustrated with wood-engravings; however, they go on to state that "[t]here is no great feeling of harmony between the engravings and the type" (p. 16). We find the three wood-engravings charming; Ethelbert White (1892-1972) was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society, beginning his career with water colour but being introduced to wood-engraving in 1920. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter linen, white paper spine label with black lettering, blue paper sides over boards, fore- and bottom edges uncut, the frontispiece one of three wood engravings and the only one in three colours (rust, green and yellow), the other two only in rust; Caslon type on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper, duodecimo size (7 3/8" by 4 1/2"), pagination: [1-8] 9-46, [47, final wood-engraving] [48, colophon] [49, publisher's device]; no. 329 of the 350 copies on paper (per the bibliography; note that the colophon states 320 copies on paper), there were an additional 25 copies on Japanese vellum. ___CONDITION: Volume near fine, with clean boards, perfectly straight corners with a hint of rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some sunning to the margins of the board edges and some offsetting and light foxing to the endpapers. ___CITATION: Chanticleer no. 14. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 320 copies. EXHIBITION COPY, numbered 333 at bottom of colophon page. 12mo. 46 p. Illustrated with three color wood engravings by Ethelbert White. Bound in quarter linen over blue Holland boards, paper spine label. The first book of the press illustrated with wood engravings. Golden Cockerel Bibliography no. 14; Chapman. The Wood Engravings if Ethelbert White, p. 14. Spine label darkened, staining to upper spine, upper portion of boards, and inner from gutter, contents fine Limited to 320 copies. EXHIBITION COPY, numbered 333 at bottom of colophon page.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.