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Lot 290
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$1,000 -
2,000
Price Realized
$625
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Lot Description
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS] -- [CUNEO FINE BINDING STUDIO]. FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880). Salambo. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931.
8vo. Numerous woodcut illustrations by Robert Gibbings. (Some minor offsetting.) Contemporary crushed red levant morocco, sides with vertical ruling in gilt and black, spine in five compartments with four raised bands, gilt-lettered in four, and one large compartment with elaborate foliate and floral motif of tan, blue and green morocco onlays gilt, gilt butterfly tooling, board edges gilt-ruled, turn-ins ruled in gilt and black, blue watered silk doublures and endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed: “Bound by Cuneo” (joints and raised bands slightly rubbed, upper hinge starting .
LIMITED EDITION, one of 371 of 500 copies. ELABORATELY BOUND BY THE CUNEO FINE BINDING STUDIO. (For an additional binding by the Cuneo Press Fine Binding Studio, see lot 284. For an additional binding by Mounteney, see lot 335.) Chanticleer 78.

