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123. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. Bibliographies. Chanticleer; Pertelote; Cockalorum. Golden Cockerel Press. 1936-1950. 3 volumes, original cloth, Cockalorum with dust wrapper.
£198
First editions of the first three bibliographies of the Golden Cockerel Press, unlimited editions.(The final volume of the bibliography, Cock-a-Hoop, was not produced by the Press and did not appear until 1976) Illustrated with upwards of 150 reproductions of illustrations from the books. Consisting:
Chanticleer: A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, April 1921 - 1936 August. Introduction by Humbert Wolfe. Foreword & Notes by the Partners [Christopher Sandford, Owen Rutter, Anthony Sandford];
Pertelote: A Sequel to Chanticleer, being a Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press October 1936 - 1943 April. Foreword & Notes by the Partners [Christopher Sandford & Owen Rutter];
Cockalorum: A Sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote, being a Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, June 1943 - December 1948. Foreword & Notes by Christopher Sandford.
124.GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. LAWRENCE, T.E. Crusader Castles. I. The Thesis. II. The Letters. [With Forewords by A.W. Lawrence and Mrs. Lawrence]. Golden Cockerel Press. 1936.
£2,750
Crown 4to. 2 vols.; original half orange morocco, spines lettered in gilt, cream cloth sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; with many photographs, maps, and drawings by the author, complete with the two loose folding maps in a pocket, title-pages printed in red, cloth sides just a little darkened, but a very good set.
First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies. With the pencil ownership inscription of W.H. Shepardson in each volume.
Whitney Hart Shepardson (October 30, 1890 – May 29, 1966) was an American businessman and foreign policy expert. He headed the Secret Intelligence Branch of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
Shepardson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Colgate Academy, where his father was principal. He graduated from Colgate University before attending Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, metriculating the term after Lawrence submitted Crusader Castles as part of his Oxford University History Finals.
Shepardson’s involvement in international relations began when sent to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference by the State Department as an aide to Edward M. House, where he became secretary to the commission responsible for drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations. He was secretary also to a group of Americans seeking to organize the international relations institute which would become the Council on Foreign Relations. Shepardson was a founding member of the board.
Lawrence too served at the Paris peace conference, working hard to promote Arab unity and independence. It is therefore possible that Lawrence and Shepardson met at the conference.
After the outbreak of war in Europe he was appointed to lead the political group of the CFR’s War and Peace Studies project. Following the involvement of the United States in war, he served with the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and London. In London, he was special assistant to the U.S. ambassador, and became first London head of Secret Intelligence. He became head of the agency’s Secret Intelligence Branch in 1943, staying
with the organization which would ultimately become part of the Central Intelligence Agency until 1946.
The Whitney H. Shepardson Fellowship is now periodically awarded to persons with experience and recognized professional stature in public or academic affairs related to the study of international relations.
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