6. Coppard (A.E.) Adam & Eve & Pinch Me, first edition , one of 550 copies (340 in this binding), signed by the author on front free endpaper, original orange boards with paper labels, a little soiled and faded, cocked, 1921; another copy, one of 500 copies (160 in this binding), original white buckram, paper label on spine, soiled, 1921; Clorinda Walks in Heaven, one of 1200 copies, 1922; Hips & Haws, one of 1200 copies, signed by the author , 1922; Pelagea and other poems, one of 425 copies, 1926; Count Stefan, one of 600 copies, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, wood-engraved portrait and illustrations by Robert Gibbings, 1928, all but the first two original cloth-backed boards, uncut, dust-jackets, most a little rubbed, the fifth spotted, [Chanticleer 1, 4, 7, 43 & 57], 8vo, Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press (6)
est. £200 – £300
The inscription in the last reads, “It gives me a nice feeling to sign a book of mine that got itself published a quarter of a century ago, but when I confront the woodcut with what I now see in the mirror - O my!...A.E.Coppard 15 Jan 1954.”