Estimate: | £150 - £250 |
Hammer price: | £120 |
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - Alfred Edgar COPPARD (1878-1957) & Robert GIBBINGS (1889-1958, illustrator). Rummy. That Noble Game expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving ... With an Account of Certain Diversions into the Mountain Fastnesses of Cork and Kerry. Waltham Saint Lawrence: THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, [1932]. Large 8vo (240 x 155mm). Title printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings. Original green morocco-backed decorated cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine faded). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 26 OF 250 COPIES "ON HAND MADE PAPER" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST. Chanticleer 86; Kirkus 43. With 3 other books printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, namely A. E. Coppard's Pelagea & Other Poems (Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1926, large 8vo, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, original buckram-backed decorated paper boards, dust-jacket, jacket spotted, NUMBER 58 OF 425 COPIES), the same author's The Hundredth Story (Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1931, large 8vo, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, original morocco-backed decorated paper boards, NUMBER 919 OF 1,000 COPIES) and The Epicure's Anthology. Collected by Nancy Quennell with an Essay on The Epicure and the Epicurean by A. J. A. Symons (London, 1936, large 8vo, wood-engraved illustrations by Osbert Lancaster, original tan textured morocco, red morocco lettering-piece on spine, NUMBER 13 OF 150 COPIES "ON HAND-MADE PAPER" SIGNED BY OSBERT LANCASTER). (4)