[Rarebooks] FS: 7 by A. E. COPPARD, prices reduced

[Charles Agvent]

These are offered at 40% off the listed prices, or take all 7 for $285 
postpaid media mail.

1.  COPPARD, A. E. COUNT STEFAN. [Waltham Saint Lawrence]: The Golden 
Cockerel Press, 1928. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. 
Illustrated with four wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Copy #532 of 
600 copies printed by Robert Gibbings. Spine slightly darkened. Near 
Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. (#015153) $75.00

2.  COPPARD, A. E. THE FIELD OF MUSTARD. TALES. (London): Jonathan Cape, 
(1926). First Edition. Bound in publisher's full vellum with 
gilt-lettered green morocco spine label. Copy #9 of only 85 numbered 
copies SIGNED by the author. From the library of Geoffrey Ecroyd with 
his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a price-clipped, 
close to Fine dustwrapper. (#014296) $150.00

3.  COPPARD, A. E. GOOD SAMARITANS. [New York], 1934. First Edition. 
Plain brown wraps with a printed label extending across both covers. 
Privately Printed at Christmas 1934 for Albert Parsons Sachs by the 
Spiral Press with drawings by Victor Candell. Stated limitation of 110 
copies, this copy unnumbered. Fine. (#014302)        $45.00

4.  COPPARD, A. E. NIXEY'S HARLEQUIN. TALES. London: Jonathan Cape, 
(1931). First Edition. Bound in publisher's full vellum with 
gilt-lettered green morocco spine label. Copy #52 of 304 numbered copies 
SIGNED by the author. Light fraying to the top edge of the rear board 
and the spine head. Very Good or better, lacking a dustwrapper. 
(#014252)        $50.00

5.  COPPARD, A. E. NIXEY'S HARLEQUIN. TALES. London: Jonathan Cape, 
(1931). First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front 
endpaper for William Macey Stone, long- time secretary of the Carteret 
Book Club. Below his inscription, Coppard has added a quote from Thomas 
Hardy identified by him as "(T.H.)": "the whole romance to see here/Is 
the dream I bring with me." The beautiful muti-colored covers of this 
book are bright and fresh. The paper spine label is now loose and laid 
into the book but in perfect condition. Near Fine in a Good or better 
white dustwrapper with expected soiling and a one-inch closed tear 
internally repaired with tape. (#014291)        $100.00

6.  COPPARD, A. E. SILVER CIRCUS. TALES. (London): Jonathan Cape, 
(1928). First Edition. Bound in publisher's full vellum with 
gilt-lettered green morocco spine label. Copy #16 of only 125 numbered 
copies SIGNED by the author. Light fraying to the spine heel and bottom 
edges; covers slightly bowed. Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper. 
(#014254)        $75.00

7.  COPPARD, A. E. THESE HOPES OF HEAVEN. n.p.: [Blue Moon Press], 
[1934]. First Edition. Yellow wraps decorated by Pearl Binder. Privately 
Printed in January 1934 for Albert Parsons Sachs by the Blue Moon Press 
Ltd. in an edition of 150 copies. Fine. (#014303)        $25.00

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