Search Results: last essays by gill eric

Jonathan Cape, 1942. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Jonathan Cape, 1943. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1943. 4th Impression. 90 pages. Grey dust jacket with lettering over blue cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking. Water stains overall.

Jonathan Cape, 1947. Hardcover. Good. 1947. No edition remarks. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Prize plate stuck to front endpaper. Deckled edges. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends.

Jonathan Cape, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1943 HB Cape; no dust jacket and inscription to prelim

Jonathan Cape, 1942-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1942 Reprint HB Cape; no dust jacket; previous owner signature on ffep

Jonathan Cape, 1942. Hardback. Second impression, 1942. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Good condition; boards rubbed with some edge wear, endpapers un-trimmed, pages clean and tightly bound, ink blot on first few pages. No dust jacket. Published: Jonathan Cape, 1942

London, Jonathon Cape fourth impression 1943.. 92pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Black and white frontispiece. A very good copy.. A collection of essays from the last year of Gill's life.

Uk: Jonathan Cape. Good. Hardcover. 1948. 251 pages. 2nd imp. -sound ex library .

Slim 8vo, navy blue cloth with silver titles, 93pp. Stated second impression, October 1942. Price clipped dust jacket shows toning to panels, light chipping to edges. Binding sound and sharp, interior clean. The final collection of essays by Eric Gill, collected from Blackfriars, Catholic Herald, and other publications, expounding his distributist philosophy in the relationship of man to work and industry to art. Illustrated with woodcuts by Gill and an introduction by his wife Mary Gill. A handsome copy in mylar.

Hardback. 1942. Introduction: Mary Gill. With illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill. 94pp ills., Jonathan Cape, London 2nd impression 1942. VG in worn DW .

Jonathan Cape, 1943. Hardback. Very Good/Good. First edition fourth impression hardback, 1943, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket darkened and rubbed to edges with a couple of small nicks and chips (now protected); blue cloth boards clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1943, 4th impression,. 1943. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, 251pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browning, text clean and sound, blue cloth, spine and board edges faded, Good / no dustwrapper .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. First edition, 12mo, pp. 903, [1]; wood-engraved frontis and colophon; small stain on front panel of jacket and spine of jacket slightly soiled else a very good copy or better.

Jonathan Cape. London. 1943. Fourth impression.. pp. 90. Frontispiece and one plate. Original cloth, a very good copy.

Jonathan Cape, 1948. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 1944, ""In a Strange Land"" only. Gift inscription to front endpaper. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943 VG+/VG. 12mo. original navy blue cloth (a trifle rubbed & flecked) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & marked, some minor fraying & silverfishing); pp. 94, with 1 figure. A very good copy.. Fourth Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and slightly dusty, slightly foxed page edges. Front and lower page edges untrimmed. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with slight marking to front, sunned spine and small nick to slightly rubbed upper front edge. 93pp. Philosophy and how man is forced to become in the subhuman conditions of a servile industrial civilization. Illustrated with a number of woodcuts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 7.5 x 5 inches.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1942. Reprint. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 93 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subjects; Gill, Eric 1882-1940 ; Essays. Art Philosophy. Art and industry; Moral and ethical aspects.

UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp. [First published October, 1942 and a 2nd impression - this example - also in October,1942. BOOK PRODUCTION WAR ECONOMY STANDARD'.The typography and binding of this book conform to the authorised economy standard' advice/notification to recto of title page. Uncommon example with a dw/dj,given it's period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing,and the poor quality of cheap paper stock generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+ printers. Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/title.With war-time paper rationing and conservation of that and other materials,pulping was actively encouraged,so publishers with restricted and limited quantities for publishing,opted towards highly acidic and therefore cheaper paper,allowing for more books to be… Read More

London : J. Cape, 1943. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 251 p.; 20 cm. Subjects: Artists' writings; Gill, Eric 1882-1940; Gill, Eric 1882-1940 ; Essays; Art Philosophy; Art and industry Moral and ethical aspects; Philosophy, Modern 20th century; Sculptors' writings.