MAYA.
A play by Simon Gantillon. Paraphrased into English by Virginia & Frank Vernon. With XIII wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Pp. 96(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, 5 full page illustrations and 7 pictorial tailpieces; roy. 8vo; maize buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards slightly scuffed, edges and spine browned and a trifle rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut; name stamp (Eric H. Dukes) and book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset and slightly tape marked, scattered foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1930. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Chanticleer 71. *The first book illustrated for the Golden Cockerel Press by Blair Hughes-Stanton, published in the year he and his wife, Gertrude Hermes became co-directors of the Gregynog Press. Simon Gantillon (1887-1961) was a French playwright and screenwriter. Item #162915
Price: $120.00