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Gogmagog Press. A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE GOGMAGOG PRESS AND THE GOGMAGOG PHOTOCOPY LIBRARY, COMPRISING Gogmagog Press (1957-1983) A collection of 38 volumes, comprising a complete collection of all 35 books issued by Morris Cox including: Yule Gammon. 1957, the first gogmagog press book, number 1 of 20 copies, signed by the author, coloured linocut frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, [Chambers 1], some minor browning; Crash! 1963, one of 80 copies of which this is one of 65 copies bound in wrappers, 8 double-page coloured prints, [Chambers 11]; Crash! 1963, one of 80 copies of which this is one of 15 copies bound in cloth, 8 double-page coloured prints, [Chambers 11]; Magogmagog. 1973 [1974], number 65 of 75 copies, signed by the author, 9 linocuts, bound with a complete set of original drawings and proofs, full brown morocco gilt signed "James R. Brockman | 1976", [Chambers 23], [together with] 12 original linocut printing blocks, full brown morocco; all in black cloth solander box by James Brockman with brown morocco panels on spine; Magogmagog. 1973 [1974], number 73 of 75 copies, signed by the author, 9 linocuts, original vellum backed boards, [Chambers 23]; Blind Drawings. 1978, number 22 of 75 copies of which this is one of 30 copies with plates on hand-made Japanese paper together with an original drawing, signed by the artist, original vellum-backed boards, [Chambers 30]; Blind Drawings. 1978, number 38 of 75 copies of which this is one of 45 copies with plates on Japanese mingei paper, signed by the artist, original vellum-backed boards, [Chambers 30]; A Feminity of Nudes. 1980, number 4 of 25 [5] copies of which this is one of 5 copies "being artist's proofs and exploratory", presentation inscription signed by the artist to the binder ("For Gemma [O'Connor] | Morris Cox"), 20 prints, original morocco-backed solander box, [Chambers 32]; Studio Book. 1980, number 29 of 35 copies, signed by the author, 50 coloured plates, original silk boards, slipcase, [Chambers 33]; [together with] 29 others; all various sizes, original bindings (38) Gogmagog Photocopy Library (1984-1986) A collection of 10 volumes, comprising a complete collection of all 10 books issued by Morris Cox Pre-Gogmagog Period (1923-1954) A collection of 3 volumes, comprising: Towards Civilization. 1933, number 5 of 15 copies, signed by the author, 8 plates, original paper wrappers, [Chambers b], slight fading and splitting at spine; The Whirligig. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954, original cloth, dust-jacket, [Chambers d], soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with loss to head of spine; Selected Early Poems [The Whirligig]. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954 [Gogmagog Press, 1970], one of 35 copies, double-page coloured print, original paper boards, [see Chambers d] Additional Material Chambers, David; Franklin, Colin and Alan Tucker. Gogmagog. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991, number 4 of 69 special copies of which this is one of ten copies with twenty additional specimen leaves, 2 volumes, original cloth, slipcase; Three Prospectuses (comprising the first prospectus recorded by Chambers, the fourth prospectus recorded by Chambers and a prospectus for 9 Poems from Nature unrecorded by Chambers); Typed letter signed ("Morris") to Corrie [Guyt] noting of his books "so few copies available, and these in great demand..." (4to, 13 Dartmouth Park Road, 12 November 1985); Seven typed letters, mostly signed ("Morris Cox") to Philip Ward relating to Gogmagog Press books (mostly 4to, 3 Heyworth Road, London, 2 August 1960 – 13 September 1966) together with three carbon typed letters from Ward to Cox (4to, Tripoli, Libya, 4 November 1965 – 15 August 1966)