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Whitfield, Christopher. Together and Alone: Two Short Novels. Golden Cockerel Press, 1945.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards, gilt title to spine. 25.5 x 16.5cm. 109pp. With 10 illustrations by John O'Connor. No. 424 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Spine a little age discoloured and a few spots to cloth, internally clean.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Description: pp. (iv) blank, 109, (i) colophon, (iv) blank. Title vignette and 9 engravings by O'Connor. White canvas-backed boards, top edge gilt, uncut, a couple of leaves carelessly opened, else a very good copy.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$66.32 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 109pp, black and white illustrations, top edge gilt. A good hardback copy in marbled cloth with cream, cloth spine. Covers rubbed, corners lightly bumped. Edges foxed. . Number 225 in a limited edition of 500 copies.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Whitfield Christopher. Together and Alone. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1945.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail. PayPal accepted. Limited to 500 copies, this is no 277. Initially inscribed by the Author "C. B. from C.W. October 1945". Designed and printed by Christopher Sandford, original quarter bound marbled boards, binding on spine and covers slightly marked.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition hardback book titled TOGETHER AND ALONE: Two Short Novels by Christopher Whitfield with engravings by John O'Connor. Published by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1945 in a limited edition of 500 copies (#308. Light rubbing/scuffing to boards with edge faded - tips bumped. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-13A-middle-R) rareviewbooks Language: eng
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$84.14 + shipping
Description: tall8vo, 25cm, 110p., limited to 500 copies, this being #405, title-page vignette, with 10 wood-engravings by John O'Connor, on hand-made paper, in quarter white fine grain book linen, colour marbled design cloth boards, gilt spine title, t.e.g., a fine clean copy in good to very good shipping glassine wrapper, (ho3.1). ~ Cocalorum 165. Golden Cockerel Press, an English private press, existed from 1920 to 1961. H.E. Bates said of one of Whitfield's stories "His tale is in my view a small masterpiece. in grave and lovely phraseology". Franes Meynell commented "Toether and Alone was only one of several which were largely experimental, and introued many unusual features. It is pleasant aesthetically, but the stores do not read well, wet in this italic type" -Cockalorum.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 108 of 400 copies from a total edition of 500, 8vo, 109, (1) pp. 10 wood engravings, inscribed from the publisher Christopher Sandford on the half title, who has also signed it below the colophon. Cream quarter buckram, t.e.g., marbled cloth sides, some faint soiling otherwise a lovely copy. Cockalorum 165.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Whitfield, Christopher. TOGETHER AND ALONE. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945.
Price: US$165.80 + shipping
Description: Two short novels. With engravings by John O'Connor. Pp. 110(last colophon), title page vignette plus 9 pictorial headpieces; roy. 8vo; qr. white canvas, spine lettered in gilt, marbled cloth boards, the canvas faintly foxed; t.e.g., others uncut; original glassine wrapper, edges slightly chipped; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945. One of 400 numbered copies thus, of a total edition of 500. Cockalorum 165.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Whitfield, Christopher. TOGETHER AND ALONE. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945.
Price: US$232.13 + shipping
Description: Two short novels. With engravings by John O'Connor. Pp. 110(last colophon), title page vignette plus 9 pictorial headpieces; roy. 8vo; qr. white morocco, spine lettered in gilt, marbled cloth boards, edges slightly rubbed and fore-corners lightly bruised, the leather slightly foxed; t.e.g., others uncut; binder's stamp at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1945. One of 100 copies thus bound and signed by the author and artist (total edition 500). Cockalorum 165. *With a [proof?] copy of the title page illustration loosely inserted. From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown above the earlier label of British writer and publisher John Hadfield (1907-1999), founder of the Cupid Press, and long term editor of the Saturday Book. The engravings by John O'Connor 'were made in arctic cold in a Nissen hut, in the intervals between operational flights' [Cockalorum p. 25].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 100 numbered copies (from a total edition of 500 copies) bound in quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, and signed by the author and artist (this being #56). 4to. 109pp. Quarter white morocco lettered in gold at the spine and with handsome marbled cloth sides. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. O'Connor provides a title page decoration and nine quite magnificent header piece engravings, each of which is accompanied by a loose tissue protector. The morocco lightly toned and soiled, with just a touch of wear to several corner tips. A little spotting to the fore edge, very occasionally encroaching to the extreme fore edges of a few text leaves. Very good indeed. Lacking the original unprinted glassine wrapper, but with a fresh sheet of protective acetate supplied. One of the earlier O'Connor appearances, eight years after his bookform debut, these magnificent engravings were produced whilst he was serving with the RAF "in arctic cold in a Nissen hut, in the intervals between operational flights".
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$352.74 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Number 76 of 100 special copies, bound in quarter white morocco over marbled cloth, lettered gilt to the spine and signed by both author and illustrator. In the publisher's original cream cloth slipcase. A very good copy in a very good slipcase. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Wood engravings by John O'Connor throughout. There were also 400 copies bound in quarter cloth.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom