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1993ref. UGUIMYF00fpBrimax 1993. Very Good. Guile Gill. My First Storybook Dictionary. Newmarket UK: Brimax 1993. 77pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Head of spine lightly bumped. Brimax hardcover books
2004ref. UPERTHE00ataYale University 2004. Very Good. Perry editor Gill. Themes in Contemporary Art. Wood Paul. New Haven: Yale University 2004. 326pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Yale University paperback books
2003ref. UGILILG00araThomas Dunne 2003. Very Good. Gill Anton. Il Gigante: Michelangelo Florence and the David. New York: Thomas Dunne 2003. 338pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Thomas Dunne hardcover books
1993ref. UMCBGEC00jtmRuwanga Trading 1993. Very Good. McBarnet Gill. Gecko: Hide and Seek. Waipahu Hawaii: Ruwanga Trading 1993. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gift inscription on front paste-down. Ruwanga Trading hardcover books
1977ref. UCHABET00fpGraphic Arts Center 1977. Very Good. Chan Peter. Better Vegetable Gardens the Chinese Way: Peter Chan's Raised-Bed System. Gill Spencer. Portland OR: Graphic Arts Center 1977. 94pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Graphic Arts Center paperback books
1989ref. UTROLAS00drpOxford University Press 1989. Very Good. Trollope Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset. Gill Stephen. NY: Oxford University Press 1989. 900pp. 12mo. Cream 1/4 cloth. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped foot of spine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with light rubbing. Small adhesive mark on rear panel. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1985ref. UBRIEAS00hlDover 1985. Very Good. Bridgewater Alan & Gill. Easy-to-Make Decorative Kites: Step-by-Step Instructions for 9 Models from Around the World. NY: Dover 1985. 48pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped edges and former owner's name in marker on cover. Dover paperback books
ref. UGILOPE00kwN.P. N.D. Very Good. Gill David W. The Opening of the Christian Mind: Taking Every Thought Captive to Christ. N.C.: N.P. N.D. 142pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. N.P. paperback books
1974ref. RGILGUN00LAWWilliamsburg Foundation 1974. Good. Gill Harold B. The Gunsmith in Colonial Virginia. Williamsburg VA: Williamsburg Foundation 1974. 139pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with gently bumped corners subtle rubbing and subtly soiled extremities. Quite inconspicuous crease in spine. Former owner's name penned on half title page. Williamsburg Foundation paperback books
1932ref. 17083234London: Printed by Hague & Gill Published by Sheed & Ward 1932. Limited Edition. Sewn binding. Very good . Gill Eric. One of 500 copies duodecimo size 22 pp. inscribed by Eric Gill. Eric Gill 1882-1940 was 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. This volume is a presentation copy with a nice association to Eric Gill's 1882-1940 sculptural work; here Gill articulates the purpose and artistry of sculpture of function as opposed to aesthetic appeal. Inscribed on the front wrap near the author's printed name "To Edward Maufe Sept. 1932 from &" "by Eric Gill" printed and signed "ECG" in green ink to the last page of text. Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe 1882-1974 was a friend sometime collaborator and longtime patron of Gill. A renowned architect particularly esteemed for his work on places of worship and memorials in 1932 Maufe won a competition to design Guildford Cathedral; Gill's sculpture "St John the Baptist" resides above the cathedral's south door. ___DESCRIPTION: Pamphlet-stitched yellow wrappers printed in red and black with a wood engraving by Gill "Flames for Tree and Dog" P733a to rear wrapper frontispiece wood engraving by Gill "Artist and Mirror II" P837; duodecimo 6.75" by 4" pagination: 1-20 21-22. ___CONDITION: A better than very good copy with clean wraps overall without edge wear but for slight creasing at the corners of the wraps the binding is tight the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; light toning to the wrappers and slight foxing to the page block. ___CITATION: Gill no. 23. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___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. Printed by Hague & Gill, Published by Sheed & Ward unknown books
1931ref. 17082112Near 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. ___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". ___CONDITION: Near fine clean with only very slight wear to the edges. ___CITATION: Gill no. 21. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___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
1931ref. 17082110London: Jonathan Cape Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press Cambridge 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Gill Eric. No. 129 of 160 octavo size 206 pp. signed by Eric Gill. Clothing has long been an integral part of society and can be used to reflect diverse religious and cultural identities. In this essay Eric Gill 1882-1940 discusses the significance of clothes in society and argues for a more egalitarian approach to clothing; for example Gill advocates the suitability of men's clothing trousers for women as a way to liberate the sexes and create a more equal society. Gill provides wood engravings for the book illustrating his concepts and showcasing his masterful rendering of the technique; his illustrations have a slightly satirical slant while evoking the pathos of his arguments. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter brown pigskin with marbled paper boards gilt rules and lettering on the spine top edge gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut illustrations include title page device "Woman Dancing" P712; "Art and Prudence" P714; "Clothes as Houses" P715; "Clothes as Workshops" P716; "Clothes as Churches and Town Halls" P717; "Clothes for Special Parts" P718; "The Tyranny of Tailors" P719; "Nature and Nakedness" P720; "Trousers" P21; and a tailpiece of "Trousers and Spats" P722; octavo 7.5" by 5.25" pagination: i-vii 1-2 3-196 197-198 1 colophon one of 160 copies this number 129 signed "Eric G" on the colophon. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some slight rubbing to the bottom edges of the boards and to the corners a faint stain to the gutter of Contents page and very slight cracking to the gutter at pages 128 and 129 but hinges are still tight. ___CITATION: Gill 22. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___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. Jonathan Cape [Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge] hardcover books
1931ref. 17083230Near 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. ___DESCRIPTION: Off-white sheet folded twice to make four pages printed in black; duodecimo size 7.5" by 5". ___CONDITION: Fine clean and without wear. ___CITATION: Gill no. 21. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___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
1955ref. UGILHOU00KTDoubleday & Company Inc 1955. Very Good. Gill Josephine Eckert. House That Died. Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1955. 1st edition. 192pp. 12mo. Gray cloth. Book condition: Very good. Corners bumped. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
2003ref. UTOBPAR03LRState University of New York 2003. Fine. Tobias Michael Teun Timmers and Gill Wright editors. A Parliament of Science : Science for the 21st Century. Albany New York: State University of New York 2003. 171pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. State University of New York paperback books
2003ref. 309413New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003. hardcover. very good/near fine. Color illustrations throughout. 78 pages. Small folio pictorial boards d.w. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003. Small abrasion at top of spine else near fine. Pages 1-19 comprise a folding timeline that is 14 feet in length and has 2000 facts and dates. Also there is a folding map of Central Park. Palgrave Macmillan unknown books
1959ref. 58567México: Ediciones Azteca 1959. tbls. bibliographical references pages 320-331 and index color pict. d.j. Full color dust jacket by Alberto Beltrán. Ediciones Azteca unknown books
1973ref. 60154New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in lightly worn very good plus unprinted tissue dust jacket as issued. Publisher's complimentary card laid in. One of a limited edition issued as a New Years greeting to friends of the author and publisher. An excerpt from Gill's then forthcoming Ways of Loving. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1968ref. 8302Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 1968. stiff paper wrappers. Gill Eric. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii 67 5 pages. Introduction by Albert Sperisen. Illustrated. A fine copy. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library unknown books
ref. acs1508University of Tampa 1943. Quarto hardcover textured and illustrated slick padded white boards unpaginated with ads for local Tampa business at rear. Very Good with wear to spine. Contents: Vistas photographs of Tampa and the University campus; Administration and Faculty; Classes; Organizations; Social Organizations; Applied Music; Athletics; Features; Advertisements. hardcover books
1927ref. 1300131927. First Edition. GILL Eric illustrator. The Way of the Cross. Text of the Devotion Traditional in the Catholic Church. Garden City New York: Country Life Press 1927. Octavo contemporary full red morocco gilt raised bands marbled endpapers all edges gilt; housed in a matching morocco-tipped slipcase. $1200.Limited first American edition one of 350 copies with 15 illustrations by Eric Gill including one on the title page not included in the English editions.Gill converted to Catholicism in 1913 the same year he was approached by the architect-in-charge of London's Westminster Cathedral about sculpting the Stations of the Cross for the Mother Church of English Catholics. ""For the next four years Gill was principally engaged in carving the fourteen panels called Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral the work which put him definitely in the front rank of contemporary English sculptors"" Donald Attwater Eric Gill: Workman. After four years' work Gill's designs for the limestone panels in the Cathedral were completed in the spring of 1918 just in time for the dedication on Good Friday. Echoing Gills' sculpted designs the Way of the Cross was first printed in 1917 by Gill's fellow convert Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler at Ditchling St. Dominic's Press. Prefaced by the Stabat Mater Dolorosa there 14 wood-engravings are printed in Latin and English and captioned with the antiphon Adoramus Te ""We Adore Thee"". St. Dominic's Press printed four more editions before this first American edition was printed in a limited edition of 350 that includes an additional illustrationÑAgnes Redemit OvesÑon the title page. Mild fading to spine. Nearly fine condition. hardcover books
2011ref. 38447London: The Folio Society 2011. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 459 of 1250 numbered copies for sale to members of The Folio Society. There were also 25 lettered copies that were not for sale. This folio sized work was originally printed b Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press in 1926-27 using the text from the Globe edition of 1898. This is an exquisite modern edition of this classic work by Chaucer that is beautifully illustrated with drawings by famed artist and illustrator Eric Gill. It is a facsimile edition after the original of 1898. Bound in black goatskin with gilt stamped illustrations and lettering on front cover and spine gilt edges accompanied with a companion book in black half leather over dark blue boards with black lettering on cream paper label on cover; housed in matching black cloth slipcase with gilt lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. With a companion volume that has a frontispiece photograph of Eric Gill by Howard Coster 1885-1959 a self-styled photographer of men taken in 1927. This facsimile edition was printed in 2011 by Memminger MedienCentrum for the Folio Society on Rigoletto Panna felt-marked paper and bound by G. Lachenmaier in full goatskin leather with Merida Indigo endleaves. The companion volume here Barry Windeatt's essay on Troilus and Criseyde was first published as an introduction to his translation of the poem published by the Clarendon Press in 1992. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition with minor emendations. " from the imprint. Contains notes at rear. A beautiful production fine condition in a near fine solander box. 309 2; 48 pages. Measures 7.75 x 12.25 inches. PRI/101826. The Folio Society hardcover books
1972ref. 89569San Francisco: Cranium Press 19720. First edition. Single long sheet folded three times 7 1/2 x 5 inches closed. One of 200 copies printed in two colors for the joint meeting of the Roxburge and Zamorano Clubs in San Francisco. A fine presentation of Gill’s original holograph manuscript corrected proof and final draft. Original mailing envelope present. San Francisco: Cranium Press unknown books
1996ref. 64452London & NY: Routledge 1996. First edition. xiii 234 pp w/index. Tiny bump on spine else fine in decorated boards. A collection of twelve essays plus a previously-unpublished letter by Blanchot addressing his political sympathies in the 1930s. London & NY: Routledge hardcover books
1993ref. 76847London: John Murray 1993. First edition. xii 304 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. London: John Murray unknown books
