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194560374Montgomery AL: The Committee 1945. First edition a reproduced typescript. 4to. 1 2 9 5 8 6 10 3 pp. printed rectos only. The committee was composed of Gill a physician and state health officer Clark a professor of food hygiene and health and Tucker a nutritionist; it inspected each of the state's prisons Kilby Draper Atmore and Julia Tutwiler women's the state Cattle Ranch and all of its road camps paying particular attention to medical and dental services rehabilitation work and food services and nutrition noting many deficiencies in all areas and making recommendations for remediation in detail. The races were largely segregated but seemed to have shared fairly equally the poor conditions but with African Americans bearing the brunt of the road camp work. The "History of the Alabama Department of Corrections" on that organization's website makes no mention of this report and none of its findings or recommendations are included in the ADOC website timeline. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Some age soiling else very good. Brad-bound at top final leaf with tear at brad. #7545. <br/><br/> The Committee unknown books
1934604838<p>1934. "Eric Gill" in black fountain pen ink Jerusalem June 13 1934. 8" x 10". 1 page recto only. Very good. To Mr. Sutcliffe: In full: "Many thanks for your letter of June 4. I shall be back home in July & will come and see you about the matter as soon as possible. . ." Probably the London book binder George Sutcliffe.</p> unknown books
1923WRCLIT57677Ditchling Sussex: Saint Dominic's Press 1923. Pictorial linen. First collective edition of these two essays with revisions. Printed in Caslon Old Face type on Batchelor handmade paper. Binding slightly bowed and smudged otherwise a very good copy. GILL 10. Saint Dominic's Press unknown books
1934239328London: Golden Cockerel Press 1934. No. 191 of 500 copies. Title vignette full-page frontispiece and wood-engraved initial capital by Eric Gill. 24pp. Printed by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press. 1 vols. 4 1/2 x 9 inches. Cream buckram lettered in gilt on upper cover from Gill's design. Fine. Gill Eric. No. 191 of 500 copies. Title vignette full-page frontispiece and wood-engraved initial capital by Eric Gill. 24pp. Printed by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press. 1 vols. 4 1/2 x 9 inches. According to the colophon this book was "the first in which the Press made use of Eric Gill's Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic types." Gill 26 Golden Cockerel Press unknown books
193412241London: Golden Cockerel Press 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.cream basket-weave cloth. Near fine. Gill Eric. 16 pages. 9 x 4 1/2"with a frontispiece engraved on wood by the author. Limited edition copy 13 of 500 printed on Arnold paper in Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic type.The first book to appear in the new 14pt. version of this font. CHANTICLEER 92. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1934193178London Golden Cockerel Press 1934. 1934. Tall narrow 8vo. Title page vignette and full-page illustration by the author. Original gilt stamped cream cloth uncut light soiling. No signatures on bookplates. Very good. #23/500 numbered copies printed by Christopher Sandford et al at the Golden Cockerel Press. First use by the press of Gill's Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic types. Hardcover. [London] Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. hardcover books
193117083230Near Hughenden Buckinghamshire: Sheed & Ward 1931. No binding. Fine. Gill Eric. Prospectus only octavo size 4 pp. "TYPOGRAPHY" was the first book printed at Pigotts the partnership between renowned printer and artist Eric Gill 1882-1940 and Rene Hague his daughter Joanna's husband; this prospectus includes a reproduction of pp. 8-9 and a short essay on typography in the arts-and-crafts mode. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Off-white sheet folded twice to make four pages printed in black; duodecimo size 7.5" by 5". <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine clean and without wear. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Gill no. 21. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Sheed & Ward unknown books
193117082112Near Hughenden Buckinghamshire: Sheed & Ward Publishers 1931. No binding. Near fine. Gill Eric. Prospectus only duodecimo size 4 pp. "TYPOGRAPHY" was the first book printed at Pigotts the partnership between renowned printer and artist Eric Gill 1882-1940 and Rene Hague his daughter Joanna's husband. The prospectus includes a reproduction of p. 37 and a short essay on typography in the arts-and-crafts mode. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Cream-coloured sheet folded once to make four pages printed in black with wood engraving by Gill "Tree and Dog" P734 on the front page; duodecimo size 7.5" by 5". <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Near fine clean with only very slight wear to the edges. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Gill no. 21. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Sheed & Ward, Publishers 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
