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Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12pp thread bound large booklet with mauve card covers. Wood engraving illustration on front cover and others on inside pages. Printed on cream laid paper with specimen page from The Wood-engravings of Gwenda Morgan as well as promotions for other publications from the Whittington Press in 1985. Untrimmed lower page edges. Hint of sun fade to spine area of covers. Otherwise in fine condition. Appears unread.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Description: 4to, (268mm), [12]p. 5 wood-engravings by Gwenda Morgan (2) & Miriam MacGregor (3 - 1 on the front cover) & other illustrations. Apart from a small ink spot on the front, a very good copy in original illustrated stiff wrappers.
Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 26x19cm, 12pp. With various illustrations, including Gwenda Morgan's wood-engravings printed from the original blocks. Sewn into overlapping lilac handmade paper covers, with an engraving by Miriam Macgregor printed in black in a blind panel on the front. A most elegant high-spot amongst the Whittington catalogues. 'This was quite an ambitious catalogue which we justified partly by having met so many new and potential customers on our trip to America in autumn 1984' (John Randle, quoted in Butcher C140. Fine. Butcher C14
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, unpaginated; black and white illustrations throughout (wood engravings, linocuts); original purple pictorial wrappers, printed in blue and black; fine. Titles from the Press include a reprint of "Matrix 1" as well as "Matrix 3"; and "The Wood-engravings of Gwenda Morgan." List of titles still available provided. Integral order form.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
. Nursery Rhymes. Lorson's Books & Prints, (Fullerton, CA), 1985.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: (24)pp. One of 150 copies. Published in California but letterpress printed at the Whittington Press in Gloucestershire, England. Well known nursery rhymes, illustrated with twelve charming wood engravings by Gwenda Morgan. Bound by Smith Settle in Whittington marbled paper-covered boards, backed in rust-colored cloth. Fine in a coordinating slipcase. (Bradbury, p. 141). (2 1/2 by 1 7/8; 64x49mm).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Morgan, Gwenda. Country Calendar. Lorson's Books & Prints, (Fullerton, CA ), 1985.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: 15ff. One of 150 copies. Published in California but letterpress printed at the Whittington Press in Gloucestershire, England. Each month is described by a verse of English poetry, coupled with a charming wood engraving by Gwenda Morgan. Bound by Smith Settle in Whittington marbled paper-covered boards, backed in mustard-colored cloth. Fine in a coordinating slipcase. (Bradbury, p. 141). (2 1/2 by 1 7/8; 63x48mm).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Gwenda Morgan. The wood-engravings of Gwenda Morgan. Whittington Press January 1985, 1985.
Price: US$284.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED AND NUMBERED #232. LONG GIFT INSCRIPTION TO FLYLEAF. used hardcover copy, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). light shelfwear, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight, and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4104.84 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A scarce, finely bound, limited edition copy of Gwenda Morgan's wood-engravings. With a letter from Morgan to the prior owner of this work, Allan Freer. From the library of Allen and Beryl Freer. The Freers were avid art collectors, and acquired quite the selection over the twentieth century, of works mostly bought from the artists. Allen organised many exhibitions of artists he admired and published several works on art. With Allen Freer's bookplate to the front pastedown.Limited edition, numbered XXIV of 335 copies printed. This is one of the thirty-five copies quarter bound in leather with a set of fifteen prints of the engravings.Bound by Smith Settle.In the original custom slipcase.Collated, complete.Letter from the artist Gwenda Morgan to the prior owner 'Mr Freeth' dated 1986. 'Thank you very much for your letter. After you had left here I found the enclosed note in my writing pad. I am sending it just in case you may want it. It is nice to know that two of my engravings will be included in you exhibition.'A very scarce collection of Gwenda Morgan's engravings. In the publisher's original quarter leather binding, and marbled paper boards. Second volume is in original paper covered boards. Both volumes are in the original slipcase. Externally, both volumes are fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom