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The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, printed by Moira and Robert Gibbings and limited to 1,200 copies (this being one of 1,000 unsigned examples). Tall 8vo. 67pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine. With a splendid engraved frontispiece by Eric Ravilious who also provides a cockerel title page decoration. A light scattering of spotting to the top edge, encroaching a fraction to occasional upper margins, and a little further spotting to half a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly dust soiled, and a little rubbed at several edges, with a little internal reinforcement and two small areas of repaired loss. The classic parlour game in book form, with the nine authors contributing, in order, stories under the following headings: The Man, The Woman, Where they Met, He said to Her, She said to Him, He have Her, She gave Him, The Consequence was, [and] And the World Said..

Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, (1932). First trade edition. Foxing to first and last several pages, else very good in very good jacket. 4], (67) pp., frontispiece engraving by Eric Ravelous; tall octavo, red cloth, jacket. Editon of 200 signed and 1000 unsigned copies, this of the latter group. A. E. Coppard's contribution to the story of a young couple is "where they met."

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Very good. Eric Ravilious. 8vo, 9 1/2 x 6 1/8 (242 x 155 mm); 67 pp. with an engraved frontispiece by Eric Ravilious. One of 1000 unsigned copies on machine-made paper, pink cloth binding with title in black on spine. Soiling to the cover and light foxing on front and back sheets, not affecting the title page. Binding tight. Inscription in pen on flyleaf. [Chanticleer 85]. Nine stories by Elizabeth Bowen, A. E. Coppard, John Van Drute, Sean O'Faolain, Ronald Fraser, Norah Hoult, Hamish MacLaren, G. B. Stren, and Malachi Whitaker. The unlimited edition at 6 shillings, was the outcome of an attempt to produce cheaper Cockerels for small purses.