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Description: Limited edition (76/350). Signed by Alan Tucker. Hardback. Unpaginated. Decorated paper boards with cloth back and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Introduction by Melvyn Bragg. Contributors include: Adrian Mitchell, U. A. Fanthorpe, D. J. Enright, Duncan Forbes, Michael Horovitz, John Fuller, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Jenny Jospeh, Laurie Lee, Peter Levi, P. J. Kavanagh, Brian Patten, Jon Stalworthy, Jon Silkin, Charles Tomlinson, Lawrence Sail, Michael Foot. A fascinating tribute to Alan Hancox, book lover, book collector, bookseller and, amongst other achievements, Director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Wood engraving for title page by Miriam Macgregor. Near fine condition.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$710.79 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. First printing. Limited Edition of 50 Roman numeralled copies SIGNED by all contributors (see image). With 2 additional prints signed by Miriam Nacgregor. Fine in Fine slipcase as issued. Overseas buyers please read shipping terms and estimated transit times prior to ordering.' 'We are established reputable First Edition sellers and understand collectors needs in terms of accurate grading and proper packaging'
Seller: Malden Books, Kingston-upon-Thames, SURRE, United Kingdom
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Royal 8vo, 11 x 7 7/8 in. (280 x 200mm); pp. 41; Two wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Number XXXVIII of 50 specially-bound, signed opposite the title-page by each of the 19 contributors, with signed proofs of the two engravings on Zerkall cream wove paper (265 x 190 mm) in a pocket at the back. Set in Goudy Modern and printed in black, the wood-engravings in brown, on Zerkall cream smooth laid paper on the Heidelberg press. Quarter-bound at the Fine Bindery in brown Oasis and Whittington printed paper-covered boards, gilt spine titling, headbands, top edge gilt, mauve Hahnenühle endpapers; matching paper-covered slipcase, reinforced in brown buckram at the head and foot. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. [Butcher 118]. An elegant tribute to Alan Hancox was assembled by Alan Tucker, The introduction is by Melvyn Bragg and the afterword by Michael Foot. It contains sixteen poems (15 of them previously unpublished), and a prose piece by Laurie Lee. Alan Hancox Opened his first bookshop in Cheltenhaim in the late 1940s, and it quickly became a meeting place and the literary heart of the town.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.