Search Results: Titles starting with G from Four Rivers Books, LLC

Collected set of Orwell's reporting and journalism. Enclosed in a slipcase covered with a photograph of Orwell on each side and titled George Orwell Reportage. Fine in a near fine box--one back corner slightly dented.

Various: Golden Cockerel Press, various. A collection of Cockerel ephemera mostly from the 1930's, with a few pieces from the later periods of the Press. Includes prospectuses for Roses of Sharon; Bligh's Voyage in the Resource; Spring, Sunshine and a Chanticleer . . .; The First Fleet; Flowers and Faces; and the Ninety-First Psalm and Hymn to Proserpine. Also included are items more akin to catalogs, including Cockerels in Review for 1960; Golden Cockerel Private Press 1955-1956, British Hand-made Books; The Golden Cockerel Press: A Note on the Press and a List of New Books in hand for 1946; and The Golden Cockerel: British Private Press Books, Chefs-d'oeuvres of Printing for Bibliophiles. Condition of the pieces is generally fine, with a few examples of the common light foxing, one stamped with the name and address of Bumpus' shop in London, and a few hand written notes in one of the catalogs. There is a splendid array of illustrations in the pieces, including examples by Eric Ravilious, Mary… Read More

Quarter dark brown cloth with dramatic cork sides, unpaginated. One of an edition limited to 60 copies signed by Nicholas Parry, who illustrated with wood engravings, and by Mary Parry, who set this book in 14pt. Caslon. "The Gospel According to Saint Mark" was translated into the Midland dialect of English in 1380 by John Purvey. The intention was to present The Gospel in its most vigorous and powerful English form. Fine condition.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. BUCKLAND-WRIGHT,JOHN. Full cloth covered boards, half in pale peach and half in grey-blue, etching in gold of a John Buckland-Wright design of two birds on front cover and title in gold on spine. Designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press. Eight beautiful aquatints by John Buckland Wright. Composition and presswork under the supervision of E. T. Kelly at the Chiswick Press. The book is copy 182 of an edition limited to 360 copies. 85 pages. Tall octavo. Fine condition--a beautiful, bright copy of this book with all glassine guards in place. Cock-a-Hoop, 189, Cave & Manson,189.

Number 114 of 300 numbered copies signed by the artist Helen Siegl. Printed on French-folded Hosho Special with woodcut illustrations printed in blue with decorations in deep yellow. Stiff paper wrappers. Designed, set, and printed by Claire Van Vliet. Fine, with sunned spine. (Fine p.36).