Private Presses - The Golden Cockerel Press, De Chair (Somer...

Hammer

£140

Private Presses - The Golden Cockerel Press, De Chair (Somerset), The Golden Carpet, Published by Permission of the War Office, first edition, copy no. 275 from a limited edition of 500, Printed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter, 7th April, 1943, in 14pt. Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper, photogravure portrait frontispiece, loosely-inserted publisher's announcement, green morocco gilt over ochre buckram, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, stamped, top-edge gilt, cartographic endpapers after maps by the author, 4to, (1); Folio Press: De La Mare (Walter) & Beck (Ian Archie, illustrator), Motley, and other poems, [&] Kipling (Rudyard) & Ribbons (Ian, illustrator), Barrack-Room Ballads, both 1991, cloth over patterned boards, top-edges gilt, others uncut, glasserine wrappers, 8vo, (2); eleven Folio Society imprints, ten of which are poetry, various dates, bindings, and sizes, (11), [14]