Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, #36 of 212 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. Quarter leather over patterned boards. Woodcuts by Eric Ravilious. Bookplate to front pastedown, small ownership signature to front free endpage. Some rubbing to ends of spine, rubbing and slight bumping to corners, Internally clean and fresh.
Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Quarter leather over patterned blue and white boards. Protected in a clear acetate wrapper. One of 212 special copies SIGNEDby the author. Printed on hand-made paper. Illustrated woodcut frontis and with interior decorations and illustrations by the same artist (Eric Ravilious). Slight edgewear to boards. Tiny bookseller sticker afixed to the inside front pastedown. A handsome near fine copy. 43 pp. Scarce in the signed limited edition.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$768.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence in 1935. Number '25' 0f only 212 copies issued of the special limited edition. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Printed in Perpetua type on hand made paper and signed by L.A. Strong to the limitation page as called for. There were also 1000 unnumbered and unsigned copies. Original blue morocco spine slightly sunned and marbled boards. Very light spotting to the text block with the occasional light spot to the page edges in places. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The fragile original plain Glassine WRAPPER is in Very Good condition. It is split at the spine with some loss of the spine portion. The scarce glassine wrapper is now protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. Illustrated by Eric Ravilious with a full page frontispiece, first leaf engraving, and a series of repeated decorations (bandeaux). One of three books illustrated by Ravilious for The Golden Cockerel Press. Sanford called this work, 'one of our most successful efforts.' (CHANTICLEER 105). Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom