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ERIC RAVILIOUS. John van Druten, G.B.Stern, A.E.Coppard, Sean OFaolain, Norah Hoult, Hamish Maclaren, Elizabeth Bowen, Ronald Fraser and Malachi Whitaker : Consequences. A Complete Story in the Manner of The Old Parlour Game in Nine Chapters, Each by a Different Author. [Edited and with an epilogue by A.E.Coppard]

The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1932

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.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

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