signed Hardcover
1937 · [London]
by Whitfield, Christopher; Braby, Dorothea (Artist)
[London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Braby, Dorothea. One of 150 signed copies, octavo size, 63 pp., with prospectus. Christopher Whitfield (1902-1967) was a short-story writer and essayist who "arrived in Chipping Campden in 1924 with a car, his cats and his books." (n.b., quote from the biography by his son, Paul Whitfield, "A World of My Own"). Having only dipped briefly into this story, we were charmed and wanted to keep reading; as set forth in Pertelote, "When we received the manuscript...we all felt that it was one of the most enchanting love-stories of its kind we had ever read: it had freshness, sensibility, imagination, and emotion."
This GCP publication with five full-page illustrations by Dorothea Paul Braby (1909-1987), who studied art under John Farleigh and Noel Rooke, as well as in Florence and Paris. This was the first Golden Cockerel Press book for which she would provide the artwork, followed by many others, including their "Mabinogion".
This copy one of the 150 signed by the author; there was also an unlimited number of trade copies, unsigned.
___DESCRIPTION: Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter green morocco over yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering and the cockerel device on the shelfback, the frontispiece one of five full-page illustrations by Braby bound in throughout, title page with a cock crowing astride a book; Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper, octavo size (8 5/8" by 6 3'8"), pagination: [1-4] 5-62 [1, colophon]; limited edition of 150 copies signed by the author at the colophon. Loosely laid in is the prospectus, a single sheet folded to four pages, the front being a mirror of the title page, the inside pages a specimen plate and page, usual information on the last page.
___CONDITION: Volume near fine, the morocco shelfback smooth and supple, the boards clean other than a few light, stray spots, the corners very gently bumped without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; sunning to the backstrip and the top edge, light offsetting to the pastedowns from the leather turn-ins, and light offsetting from the illustrations to the opposite pages. Prospectus also near fine, clean other than a few minute spots, free of wear or creases; light offsetting to the top edge, else fine.
___CITATION: Pertelote 125.
___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.
___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. (Inventory #: 33330957)
This GCP publication with five full-page illustrations by Dorothea Paul Braby (1909-1987), who studied art under John Farleigh and Noel Rooke, as well as in Florence and Paris. This was the first Golden Cockerel Press book for which she would provide the artwork, followed by many others, including their "Mabinogion".
This copy one of the 150 signed by the author; there was also an unlimited number of trade copies, unsigned.
___DESCRIPTION: Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter green morocco over yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering and the cockerel device on the shelfback, the frontispiece one of five full-page illustrations by Braby bound in throughout, title page with a cock crowing astride a book; Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper, octavo size (8 5/8" by 6 3'8"), pagination: [1-4] 5-62 [1, colophon]; limited edition of 150 copies signed by the author at the colophon. Loosely laid in is the prospectus, a single sheet folded to four pages, the front being a mirror of the title page, the inside pages a specimen plate and page, usual information on the last page.
___CONDITION: Volume near fine, the morocco shelfback smooth and supple, the boards clean other than a few light, stray spots, the corners very gently bumped without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; sunning to the backstrip and the top edge, light offsetting to the pastedowns from the leather turn-ins, and light offsetting from the illustrations to the opposite pages. Prospectus also near fine, clean other than a few minute spots, free of wear or creases; light offsetting to the top edge, else fine.
___CITATION: Pertelote 125.
___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.
___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. (Inventory #: 33330957)
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