Wilson Gill RobbABAA
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027504New York; 1968: Vantage Press. First Edition. Octavo. 291 pages. Illustrated with photographic images. One of the great autobiographies of a major figure in early flight. He flew with the Lafayette Flying Corps and founded the Civil Air Patrol. He was the first member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association AOPA. He was editor of Flying Magazine and involved with the investigation of the zeppelin Hindenburg disaster. He witnessed the test of the atomic bomb on Bikini Island which it is thought led to his death. He wrote a foreword to Richard Bach's first book Stranger to the Ground. Embry-Riddle University has dedicated a building to him the Gill Robb Wilson Memorial Aeronautical Science Center. Bound in blue cloth spine lettering white near fine in clipped pictorial dust jacket showing only light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Vantage Press unknown books
7405Waltham Saint Lawrence Golden Cockerel Press 1928. One of 500 numbered copies. Cloth uncut 5 18 1 pp. illustrated with 2 original full-page engravings by Gill. Fine. CHANTICLEER 61. <br/><br/> Waltham Saint Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. hardcover books
19179177Ditchling: Douglas Pepler 1917. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. printed brown wrappers. Near fine. Gill Eric. 24 pages. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Number 21 of St. Dominic's Press Publications. The essay originally appeared in THE HIGHWAY June 1917 No. 70. Printed from Caslon O.F. on hand-made paper. Limited edition one of 400. GILL 5. Crisp bright copy. Douglas Pepler unknown books
19537011London: Privately Printed 1953. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies. 16mo; quarter linen over printed paper boards; original glassine unprinted jacket; 59pp; 10 gravure plates of Gill's friezes for the Archaeological Museum of Jerusalem commissioned in 1934. Hint of sunning to upper board edges else Fine in original glassine. GILL Bibliography 54a. Privately Printed unknown books
1980WRCLIT74764Verona: Plain Wrapper Press 1980. Quarto. Open-sewn decorated boards. Posthumously contrived bookplate of a collector otherwise fine. First edition. One of 155 press "numered" copies printed on English handmade paper signed by the author. Published as "Quartus III." Decoration and binding paper after designs by Fulvio Testa. Errata sheet laid in. SMYTH 29. Plain Wrapper Press hardcover books
1951201965London: Dent 1951. Third. hardcover. fine/near fine. GILL Eric. Illustrated throughout with elegant female nudes by Eric Gill. Thin 8vo red cloth dust wrapper. London: Dent 1951. Fine.<br/><br/> Third impression<br/><br/> Dent unknown books
192141278Ditchling Sussex: S. Dominic's Press 1921. First Edition. Variant binding a. 12mo 18cm.; publisher's linen-backed grey paper-covered boards; 646pp. A hint of wear and toning to board extremities else Very Good to Near Fine. GILL 8 describing the first state binding as sewn cream wrappers in glassine dust jacket. S. Dominic's Press unknown books
1885318318London: The Religous Tract Society 1885. First edition. With 16 illus. 248pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters mottled modern caklaf and marbled boards leather label. Fine. First edition. With 16 illus. 248pp. 8vo. The Religous Tract Society unknown books
200524807No Place: Nobody 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Oblong hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. Brief text by Mark Harworth-Booth. A volume of color photographs. SIGNED by Gill on the title page. A fine copy in lightly faded unclipped dustwrapper. Nobody hardcover books
1923WRCLIT44178Ditchling Sussex: S. Dominic's Press 1923. Small octavo. Cloth paper label. Cloth a bit darkened and foxed two small initials in upper inner corner of endsheet otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Illustrated with six wood- engravings by Gill. This copy is in the variant blue cloth with printed label recorded by Gill et al. GILL et al 87. S. Dominic's Press hardcover books
192120781Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1921. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. stitched dark gray wrappers. Fine. Gill Eric. 13 pages in text. Four engravings by Gill -- device on front cover and title page peacock from a wood-engraving by Desmond Chute and Dress 2 P186 & P187 plus Dog and flaming torch. No. 28 7 of St. Dominic's Press publications printed from Caslon O.F. on Batchelor hand-made paper. This a variant without the one shilling price and back cover. GILL 7. Fresh crisp copy. St. Dominic's Press unknown books
1935WRCLIT58767Windham CT: Hawthorn House 1935. Cloth. Slight darkening at endsheet gutters 1937 ownership signature of a Harvard Librarian on free endsheet otherwise very good or somewhat better without printed dust jacket as issued. First edition of the author's first book limited to only one hundred and sixty copies. Hawthorn House hardcover books
1952132347London: Printed in Great Britain and Published by Curtis Warren Limited 1952. Octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's first book. At a secret base in Antarctica invaders from Venus are modifying Earth's atmosphere preparing the planet for colonization. A fine nearly "as new" copy.#132347 Printed in Great Britain and Published by Curtis Warren Limited unknown books
1958001202London: The Monotype Corporation Limited 1958. First Printing. One of 250 unnumbered copies printed " 250 copies of this keepsake were set and printed in Eric Gill's 'Monotype' Perpetua by the Monotype Corporation Ltd. of London 1958". Printed on the occasion of the 1st exhibition dedicated solely to his work as a carver engraver and draftsman of the letters of the Alphabet. A sixteen page stapled pamphlet with text and several illustrations and a single page photo of Gill at work that is laid in. Tiny curl at 2 corners of the front wrapper Else Fine. An apparently unique Gill item. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. About Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. The Monotype Corporation Limited Paperback books
189797426London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1897. Hardcover. 199p. frontis-portrait with tissue guard rubricated title page preface address on "Class Making" essay by J. A. Symonds very light foxing to endpaper edges otherwise a very good first edition in bright blue cloth boards gilt titles and top edge untrimmed fore edge and bottom edge mylar jacket. Uranian poet see d'Arch Smith "Love in Earnest". John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover books
196427663New York: Reinhold Publishing Company 1964. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Square hardbound 8vo. 94 numbered pp. Brief textual introduction by the three authors followed by over 90 pages of examples of advertisements and graphic design examples that provide solutions to gadvertising and communication problems. A very good copy. Spine lettering dulled but still readable. Issued without dustwrapper. Quite uncommon in the hardbound edition. Reinhold Publishing Company hardcover books
200523937London: Nobody / Archive of Modern Conflict 2005. First edition. Cloth. Fine. From the first trade edition of fifteen hundred copies a fine example in illustrated cloth covers. Issued without dustwrapper. An immensely popular and important photobook from the period. Featured in The Photobook: A History by Parr and Badget Volume II. This copy has been SIGNED by the photographer on the inside front pastedown. Illustrated in color. Small booklet tipped in as called for. Nobody / Archive of Modern Conflict unknown books
1918170736Sussex: Douglas Pepler 1918. First edition. Small softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 5-14 1918 at the Alpine Club Gallery. Printed and with brief text by Douglas Pepler. Includes several small black and white illustrations and a checklist of Drawings Wood Engravings and Inscriptions. A near fine copy in sewn wrappers that are very lightly soiled and partially unopened. An uncommon and early catalog of Gill's works. Douglas Pepler unknown books
1923PW1046Camden NJ:: Wilson G. Bailey 1923. 1923. 8vo. xi 1 254 pp. Frontis. portrait index. Red gilt-stamped cloth; small nick at head of spine. Very good. Rare. LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR; VERY RARE. Inscribed by W. G. Bailey M.D. "Oct. 7th 1929. To My Friend Dr. William Cashman With the hope that he will to the extent of reading this book – interest himself in what an impartial investigator Hereward Carrington called 'The coming science knowledge & of life after death.'" "Bailey graduated from Paulsboro High School and Pierce Business College then went on to Jefferson Medical College from which he received his doctorate in 1891. He interned at Cooper Hospital and remained in Camden practicing general surgery into the 1930s." Bailey's nephew had the same name but was born in 1893. Hereward Carrington 1880-1958 was a well-known British-born American investigator of psychic phenomena and author. A wonderfully odd book! Wilson G. Bailey, 1923. hardcover books
192315647Ditchling: Douglas Pepler 1923. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth lettered in black. Near fine. Gill Eric. 41pages. 17 x 13 cm. The first edition entitled simply "Sculpture An Essay" published 1918 no. 21 of St. Dominic's Press publications. This edition in book form with considerable additions and alterations a Preface and three wood engravings by Gill. GILL 10. "This book comprises two esays previously published separately." TAYLOR & SEWELL A112. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper very bright and clean Gill front cover illustration replicates that of the title page. Douglas Pepler hardcover books
1921239342Ditchling Sussex: Printed and Published at S. Dominic's Press 1921. 6 46 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Linen and boards untitled. About fine. 6 46 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Gill 8; Taylor A82 Printed and Published at S. Dominic's Press unknown books
191820775Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1918. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. black wrappers. Fine. Gill Eric. 23 pages in text. 26 x 20 cm. No. 24 of St. Dominic's Press Publications. Contains Gill's red cross on title Paschal Lamb and Spray of Leaves. Two pages of St. Dominic Press adverts at rear. GILL 366. "This was also published in black paper wrappers lettered on front cover in gilt our copy." Fresh almost as new copy. St. Dominic's Press unknown books
2007166457Great Britain: Nobody in association with Archive of Modern Conflic 2007. First edition. Softcover. 52 pages. Number 48 of 100 copies. A collection of 25 black and white photographs of folded toilet paper from hotels and various bed and breakfasts all over the world. A fine copy in wrappers in a fine dust jacket and housed in a very near fine string tied cloth chemise. Includes an original bromide photograph on a sheet that measures 6.5" x 8.25" with an image 4.5" x 6.25." Signed by Gill on the reverse side. Nobody in association with Archive of Modern Conflic unknown books
200725874N.p.: Nobody in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict 2007. Fine in white printed wrappers and green velum jacket housed in a cloth chemise. Limited edition. Octavo. Number 26 of an edition of 100 SIGNED by Gill with a 6.5 x 8.25 inch signed original print laid in. A collection of 25 black-and-white photographs featuring found folded toilet paper "origami" by anonymous creators from hotels around the world. N.p.: Nobody in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict unknown books
19349024139London: Golden Cockerel Press 1934. Hardcover. Fine. One of 500 numbered copies bound in the publisher's original clolth covered boards cover and spine stamped in gilt. Printed and published by Christopher Sandford Francis J. Newbery & Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press. <br/><br/> Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
