Author: A. E. Coppard; Robert Gibbings
Title: Rummy: That Noble Game Expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving
Description: Berkshire , The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition of this creative narrative of the card game Rummy by A. E. Coppard and Robert Gibbings. The limited first edition of this work, being one of 1,000 unsigned copies. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A series of vivid and humorous prose, poetry and illustrations centring around the card game of Rummy. A collaborative work from English short-story author A. E. Coppard, with illustrations by Irish artist Robert Gibbings.Gibbings was most noted for his influential work as a wood engraver, being one of the founding members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920.  In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and marks to the extremities. Dust wrapper is chipped to the spine and edge worn. With sunning to the spine and marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with only light spotting to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Robert Gibbings. Near Fine/Good Only.

Keywords: Rummy: That Noble Game Expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving A. E. Coppard Illustrated Robert Gibbings A. E. Coppard Robert Gibbings


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