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196748967Trumansburg N.Y.: NEW / BOOKS 1967. 1st Printing. Grey paper covers with front cover printed with large graphic of a young man. Original price sticker to rear cover. Modest wear small glue stain to rear cover still VG. 38 ll printed french-fold. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Author's first book. NEW / BOOKS unknown books
1935D7560London: Faber & Faber 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Publisher's red cloth lettering stamped in blue on spine; in blue dust jacket lettered in red; small 8vo; pp. 142. Spine tips and edges of boards lightly scuffed; cloth split along front joint but holding just fine; some pencilled underlinings. Dust jacket a little soiled; tanned along spine; and chipped along the edges; not price-clipped and in mylar. Sold as is. Three lectures given at University College Bangor in November 1934. <br/><br/> Faber & Faber hardcover books
19359173London: Faber and Faber 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Very good. Gill Eric. 144 pages. 18 1/2 x 13 1/2 cm. Title page illustration by Gill. GILL 31. Backstrip chipped at extremities. Covers a bit rubbed. Faber and Faber hardcover 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
191819071903Ditchling Sussex: Printed at the Ditchling Press by Douglas Pepler 1918. First and Limited Edition. Wraps. Good . Gill Eric and Beedham R. John. One of 240 copies duodecimo size 126 pp. "Woodwork" contains twenty-one wood engravings of tools by the inimitable Eric Gill 1882-1940; a highly regarded printmaker sculptor and typographer as well as a complicated man Gill provided illustrations for numerous fine press publications by the Golden Cockerel Press and the Saint Dominic's Press as well as with Pepler under the imprint of the St. Dominic's Press.<br/><br/>An informative look at the art of carpentry by craftsman-woodworker Arthur Romney Green 1872-1945 who like Gill and Pepler was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Although the book is stated as "Volume I" no further volumes were issued.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Brown paper wraps black lettering on the front wrap fore- and bottom edges uncut title page with black-and-white wood engraving a total of thirty-one wood engravings in the text throughout: twenty-one wood engravings of carpentry tools by Eric Gill ten wood engravings by R. John Beedham; Caslon O. F. type Batchelor handmade paper duodecimo size 7.75" by 5" pagination: i-iv v-xvi 1 2-110 one of 450 copies this number 161.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Better than good with clean wraps a strong square text block the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; overall minor edgewear to the wraps some loss to the paper at the spine exposing parts of the gatherings however text block still solid small loss to the bottom fore-edge corner of the title page.<br/><br/>___CITATIONS: Gill no. 269; Taylor and Sewell no. A31.<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. Printed at the Ditchling Press by Douglas Pepler unknown books
1929186215Ditchling Common Sussex England: St. Dominic's Press 1929. Hardcover. Good light shelfwear overall and foxing spots to boards pages are clean and clear. Tan paper over boards with black lettering and illustration; black cloth spine; iv 43 pp; untrimmed pages bw illustrations. Introduction and appendix by Eric Gill. St. Dominic's Press hardcover books
1973402981973. GANE Gill. WOMEN AND LITERATURE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WOMEN WRITERS. Cambridge Mass: Sense and Sensibility 1973. Small 4to printed wraps. Second Revised & Expanded Edition. Good some soil covers. $7.50. <br/><br/> paperback books
1920201437Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press 1920. First. paperback. fine. Gill Eric. Small 8vo printed wrappers uncut & unopened. Ditchling Sussex: St. Dominic's Press n.d ca.1920. Fine.<br/><br/> Welfare Handbook No. 4. Contains one wood engraving by Eric Gill<br/><br/> St. Dominic's Press unknown books
19929009835London: Greenhill Books 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. <br/><br/> Greenhill Books hardcover books
1992UGILWIT00AFGreenhill 1992. Fine. Gill John H. With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and his German Allies in the 1809 Campaign. London: Greenhill 1992. 534pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. Glossary. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine with faintly bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Greenhill hardcover books
1992264252California: Greenhill Books 1992. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated in black and white. 534 pages very thick 8vo brown cloth dust wrapper. California: Greenhill Books 1992. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Greenhill Books unknown books
1976160196Alameda: Alameda Poets 1976. viii 90p. foreword very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Long inscription signed by contributor Gill. Alameda Poets unknown books
192431944NY: Macmillan 1924. First Edition. 8vo pp. 58. Color frontis. Aqua cloth stamped in gilt.Cover little scuffed and soiled one hinge near tender o/w VG. Short poems for children. Macmillan unknown books
192412777New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1924. Hardcover. Blue gilt cloth; some soiling; ex library; contents very clean And complete. ; 1st Edition . The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1989027004Oxford: Clarendon Press 1989. xix 525p. b/w illus. dj. Clarendon Press unknown books
1974254422London: Routledge 1974. hardcover. near fine/very good. 244 pages. 8vo red cloth dust wrapper. London: Routledge 1974. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Routledge unknown books
19417192NY: Putnam. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1941. Hardcover. First edition. Slight spine slant else very good in a good small hole at mid-spine minor edge wear and fading price clipped dust jacket. . Putnam 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
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
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
1951146938London: Printed in England and Published by Curtis Warren Limited. 1951. Octavo cover by Ray Theobald pictorial wrappers. First edition. Strange events on Earth and out beyond Pluto lead investigators to conclude that an invasion of the solar system is at hand. "A well-written and complex story of alien invasion nicely understated." - Harbottle and Holland. Reginald 06398. Harbottle and Holland A214. A fine copy. #146938 Printed in England and Published by Curtis Warren Limited. unknown books
1984014112LaSalle: Open Court. 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine but for sticker remains on pastedown in fine dust jacket. 17 essays. . Open Court hardcover books
196934507Cambridge & Cheltenham: R Books 1969. First edition. 22 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Covers by Peter Cartwright. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Vickers with a 26 line holograph poem. Cambridge & Cheltenham: R Books, 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
193835362London: J. M. Dent & Sons for Hague & Gill Ltd. prs. colophon: 1938. Square 8vo 21 cm; 8". 12 ff. i.e. 24 pp. illus. <br><br>In this collaborative work Gill supplied eleven short essays and his son-in-law husband of Petra provided the eleven full-page illustrations. The essays are: "Unholy trinity" "Unholy alliance" "Work and leisure" "Paradox of plenty" "Wheels within wheels" "Yes we have no bananas" "Europa and the bull" "Swine" "Cannon fodder" "Safe for Christianity" and "Melancholia." They treat of social problems war and society and capitalism. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Gill second ed. 37. Publisher's pink paper wrappers printed on front in blue housed in matching pink and blue paper envelope. Pamphlet in fine condition; envelope with bumped edges and corners and a few spots of smudging. J. M. Dent & Sons (for Hague & Gill Ltd. [prs.]) unknown books
