THE HUNDREDTH STORY.
With engravings by Robert Gibbings. Pp. [iv]+58+[2](blank, colophon), 4 wood-engravings, cockerel device at colophon; med. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, patterned papered boards, faintly foxed and browned, the fore-corners lightly worn, fore-edge of lower board slightly bruised and with small surface chip near centre, the spine which is slightly rubbed and chipped at extremities, lightly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, together with binder's stamp and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1931. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Chanticleer 74; Schwartz p. 60. *The first book in the 'Guinea Series' of illustrated modern authors; also the first printed in the Golden Cockerel fount designed by Eric Gill. Loosely inserted is the printed Notice to Subscribers, announcing changes to the edition size and format. Item #162822
Price: $200.00