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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
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
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
19319926ENew York: Cosmopolitan 1931. First Edition of the Author’s First Book. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author Tom Gill inscribed: “To Rose: This first copy of a first novel. With all my best Tom.†Very good lightly used copy in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears. A romantic adventure story set along the often treacherous Arizona-Mexico border. The front panel of the dust jacket is a striking color painting of a determined looking young American man and a lovely young Mexican woman wearing a tiara and an embroidered shawl. Cosmopolitan unknown books
19727034New York: Abner Schram 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover/Wraps. Very Good in Very Good Slipcase. Minor toning at the spine else tight bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows minor shelf/edge wear else tight and clean. One volume quarterbound in velleum with beige boards second volume in beige wraps gilt lettering black ink lettering. Narrow 8vo. 31pp; 22pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/>One volume is a facsimile of the Cranach Presse edition illustrated by Eric Gill; the other a Postscript. Abner Schram hardcover books
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
199017063103San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1990. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. One of 450 copies folio size 120 pp. with prospectus. This publication from the Book Club of California is an in-depth look at the Golden Cockerel Press edition of "The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ" printed in 1931; John Dreyfus presents the history and development of this masterful work through numerous facsimiles of documents pertaining to the publication including sketches and working papers and the original paste-ups for the text. <br/><br/>This volume particularly focuses on the work of printer and typographer Eric Gill 1882-1940 who completed a prodigious amount of work for the Golden Cockerel Press designing and illustrating fine press editions with his skillful and detailed wood engravings.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full beige cloth illustration in gilt on the front board gilt lettering on the spine brown endpapers frontispiece a facsimile of a wood engraving by Eric Gill title page with illustration of a cockerel in black facsimiles of wood engravings by Gill type specimens and pages from "The Four Gospels" as well as black-and-white photographs throughout; linotronic Galliard type Mohawk Superfine paper folio size 13.25" by 9.5" pagination: i-vi vii-xii xiii-xiv 1-105 1 colophon one of 450 copies unnumbered. In a glassine wrapper. With the original publisher's prospectus a single sheet folded once to four pages folio size Golden Cockerel publisher's device on the front sample illustration from the book on page 2 prospectus information on pp. three and four.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine with clean boards straight corners with no rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The glassine wrapper is near fine clean with a few spots of light wear and one small one-quarter-inch closed tear to the top of the rear panel. Prospectus is near fine clean with a few shallow creases.<br/><br/>___CITATION: BCC no. 194.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard 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 every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Book Club of California hardcover books
192122243Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth and buff boards. V ery good. Gill Eric. VIII 48 pages. 20 x 12 cm. Limited edition one of 240 copies in Caslon O.F. on hand-made paper watermarked with a device Bible & Crown. GILL 8 and No. 34 of St. Dominic's Press publications. Evan Gill also notes the two variant as noted below this copy in boards and cloth. St. Dominic's Press hardcover books
192220783Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1922. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. dark gray wrappers. Fine. Gill Eric. 22 pages. 16 x 11.5 cm. No. 28 9 of Saint Dominic's Press publications. Gill's Paschal Lamb on cover and interior Gravestone with Angel Chalice and Host with Candles initial letter and S D P and cross on back cover. GILL 380. St. Dominic's Press unknown books
1950284092London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1950. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Reprint Edition. Twenty five engravings by Eric Gill an English sculptor typeface designer and printmaker. With no marks of any kind. Small repair to a snag at the bottom of the spine and front hinge. Very Good dustjacket with minor loss at the extremities of the spine. A Very Good copy. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. J. M. Dent & Sons unknown books
1931011144London: Jonathan Cape 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Lacking dustjacket spine edges of cloth slightky faded else fine A clean sturdy copy. 10 diagrams from Gill engravings. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1972289659New York: Abner Schram 1972. Limited. hardcover. fine. Gill Eric. Thin 8vo parchment backed boards accompanied by The Song of Solomon Postscript by Hans Bardtke translated into English and bound in plain wrappers. Together in publisher's board slio-case. New York: Abnner Schram 1972. Limited Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Facsimile edition of the original Eric Gill Cranach Press edition of 1931.<br/><br/> Abner Schram unknown books
1938WRCLIT39105London: J.M. Dent for Hague & Gill 1938. Small quarto. Sewn stiff wrappers. First edition. Plates. About fine in original printed sleeve the latter faintly dusty. Eleven short essays on timely topics. GILL 37. J.M. Dent (for Hague & Gill) unknown books
3118Offered here is a set of twelve sheets from Eric Gill's Golden Cockerell issue of the "Four Gospels" likely printed by Christopher Skelton from his 1987 edition. Various pages all fine condition. The "Four Gospels" is commonly considered one of the greatest Press Books of the late 19th and early 20th Century alongside the "Dove's Bible" and the "Kelmscott Chaucer." <br/><br/> unknown books
192715633Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1927. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 4 leaves. 13 x 9 cm. Two woodcuts and initial letter by Gill printed from Caslon O.F. on hand made paper. This was one of the Rhyme Booklets No.9 in St. Dominic's Press Book List published 1930. GILL 392. Clean bright copy. St. Dominic's Press unknown books
191921222Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1919. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. gray/brown stiff wrappers. Fine. Gill Eric. 47 pages in text. 13.5 x 11 cm. One wood engraving by Gill printed from Caslon O.F. on Batchelor hand made paper. No. 28 of St. Dominic's Press publications. GILL 371. TAYLOR & SEWELL A51. Partly unopened crisp clean copy. St. Dominic's Press unknown books
1929WRCLIT31635New York & London: Cape & Smith/Cape 1929. Quarto. Portrait photographs facsimiles. First edition U.S. issue bound up from the British sheets. A rather striking survey of Gill's sculpture lettering and drawing the photographs reproduced in gravure and the whole printed at the Chiswick Press. A few minor marks to cloth but a very good bright copy. Cape & Smith/Cape hardcover books
19409927ENew York: Putnam 1940. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Tom Gill inscribed by the author: “For Rose The old man just keeps on trying. Always Tom. Washington D.C. May 27 ‘40.†Very good lightly used copy in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears. A romantic adventure story set in the Caribbean with crooked politics gang fights jungle duels and flaming romance. The front panel of the dust jacket is a color painting of a handsome young American man wearing a white suit sitting talking to a beautiful young island woman wearing a flower print dress. Putnam unknown books
19439929ENew York: Putnam 1943. First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author: “For Rose Here we are back south againTom Gill. Washington D.C. April 20 1943.†Very good in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few small chips and tears. A romantic adventure story set in Central America full of romance and intrigue. The front panel of the dust jacket is a color painting of a handsome young American man and a beautiful young Hispanic woman with a jungle scene in the background. Putnam unknown books
1921022213Sussex: S. Dominic's Press 1921. 3" X 4 1/2" no pagination. with six wood cuts by Eric Gill. Bound in pivtorial paper wraps. Near fine. S. Dominic's Press unknown books
191543354London: The Hampshire House Workshops 1915. 1st Edition Gill/Corey/Mackenzie 259. Beige quarter cloth stamped in black red paper over boards printed in black. Extremity wear; spine darkened; spotting to boards; abrasion to paper overlay of rear board. Internally clean and sound overall with only minor foxing to endpapers and occasional very minor soil to margins. About VG. viii 123 5 pp. B/w woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill. 7-1/2" x 5" <br/><br/>A solid copy of the second book Gill illustrated with a total of 11 woodcuts including the five triangular devices. One of 1300 non-"proof" copies priced at 2s. 6d. The Hampshire House Workshops hardcover books