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Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works
Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.
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Lord Adrian: Available Copies
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Lord Adrian, A Play In Three Acts. Engravings by Robert Gibbings. Limited Numbered Edition. by DUNSANY, Lord: GIBBINGS, Robert:
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP (DORCHESTER, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $176.00
Shipping: $25.89
TOTAL Cost: $201.89
Hardback, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Halfbound red leather to spine lettered in gilt and blue patterned cloth to boards. In very good condition. Some darkening and rubbing to spine, minor darkening to cloth and rubbing to edges/corners. Some minor fading to free endpapers. Numbered at rear. Pages clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 74pp. Illustrated with B&W wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings.
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Lord Adrian. A Play in Three Acts. by DUNSANY, Lord.
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Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence. (1933)
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB (London, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $300.00
Shipping: $19.42
TOTAL Cost: $319.42
First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 74. One of 325 numbered copies. Seven wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Quarter red morocco with patterned cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Printed on handmade paper. Two bookplates on front pastedown, the larger of which is William Maxwell's designed by John Farleigh. Spine a little faded and marked. Corners slightly bumped. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Very good indeed.
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Lord Adrian, A Play in Three Acts. by GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. GIBBINGS, Robert. DUNSANY, Lord.
Hardcover
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Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St Lawrence (1933)
Seller: SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB (LONDON, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $466.66
Shipping: $38.83
TOTAL Cost: $505.49
7 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. No. 280 of 325 copies. 8vo., original red morocco backed patterned cloth covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine faded, a little rubbing to extremities and slight bumping to corners, otherwise a very good copy. Booklabel of David & Nadia Conway on front pastedown. A presentation copy from the artist and printer to 'Victor and Margaret', signed 'Robert' and dated 12.3.33. Lord Adrian was Gibbings's last book for the press as in August of 1933 Golden Cockerel was taken over by Christopher Sandford, Francis Newbery and Owen Rutter and transferred to London.
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LORD ADRIAN: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS by Lord Dunsany [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany]; Gibbings, Robert [Engraver]
Hardcover
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Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire (1933)
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (Rockville, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $560.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $566.00
Octavo, 73 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in morocco-backed decorated cloth and protected with glassine. Very mild shelf wear. Top edge of text block gilt. Front endpaper has an inscription, dated 1958, stating that this volume was part of Lord Dunsany's personal library. Loose within is a letter from the Golden Cockerel Press dated 1958 answering an inquiry about the publication of this book. LP Consignment. Shelved in Case 8. Printed by Gibbings in Golden Cockerel type on Batchelor's hand-made paper with seven wood-engravings by Gibbings. One of 325 numbered copies, of which this is number 139. 1287101. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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