Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.) Group of 6 volumes. Illustrated. Mostly 8vo and 4to, original bindings. Each a limited edition. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. (London, vd)

Additional Details

Wolfe. Chanticleer : A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, April 1921-August 1936. Title-page printed in gold and black. Illustrated with 34 wood engravings. Spine and joints discolored, top edges gilt, others uncut. 269/300 Signed copies. 1936 Quennell. A Lovers Progress. 115/215 copies. 1938 Beaumont. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. 10 engravings by John Buckland-Wright. 321/380 copies. 1951 Severin. Apollonius of Tyre. Line engravings by Severin. Water-staining to spine into front and rear boards; prospectus laid-in. 182/300 copies. 1956 Bannet. The Amazons. Woodcut illustrations. 263/500 copies. 1948 Stewart. Topiary. Color engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. 3/4 pumpkin morocco over patterned paper boards. Number 4 of 100 specially bound copies from a total edition of 500. [1954].