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Gill Eric.. Art-nonsense and other essays.. Londra, Cassell, 1929.
Price: US$22.05 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: In-8° (cm. 22), tela editoriale, pp. [X], 324, [6]. Ottimo esemplare. (MG10)
Seller: Gabriele Maspero Libri Antichi, Como, Italy
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Description: Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, x, 324 pp. This book was the first printed in Gill's 'Perpetua' type. Gill notes in his 'Apology' - "In the earlier essays I was more concerned to extricate the artist from the hot-house of the art-school, whereas in the later I was more concerned to extricate him from the ice-house of an atheistic industrialism. Man is matter and spirit - both real and both good - that is the gist of the matter." Contents include: Apology; 1 Slavery and Freedom (1918); 2 Essential Perfection (1918); 3 A Grammar of Industry (1919); 4 Westminster Cathedral (1920); $ Dress (1920); 6 Songs without Clothes (1921); 7 Of Things Necessary and Unnecessary (1921); 8 Quae ex Veritate et Bono (1921); 9 Stone-Carving (1921); 10 Wood-Engraving (1921); 11 Indian Sculpture (1922); 12 A War Memorial (1923); 13 The Revival of Handicraft (1924); 14 The Problem of Parish Church Architecture (1925); 15 Responsibility, and the Analogy between Slavery and Capitalism (1925); 16 Id Quod Visum Placet (1926); 17 Architecture and Sculpture (1927); 18 Art and Love (1927); 19 Christianity and Art (1927); 20 Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Practical Aesthetics (1927); 21 The Enormities of Modern Religious Art (1927); 22 The Criterion in Art (1928); 23 The Future of Sculpture (1928); 24 Art-Nonsense (1929). Covers rubbed and faded (spine heavily faded), edges untrimmed, faint spotting to front and rear endpapers, a Good unopened copy.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
GILL, Eric. Art-Nonsense and Other Essays. Cassell & Co & Francis Walterson, London, 1929.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Blue linen boards with gilt spine titles; x, 324pp. Page edges untrimmed. Spine quite sunned as usual (gilt still legible), else a straight, tight and attractive copy; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Essay collection including a number of key works including "Songs Without Clothes" (1921), "Wood Engraving" (1922), "A Grammar of Industry" (1919), etc.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. Art-Nonsense and Other Essays. Cassell & Co. & Francis Walterson, London, 1929.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size: 9" x 6 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped blue cloth over boards, deckled paper, 324 pages. Boards spine is toned, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. In a printed dust jacket that is price-clipped on interior flap, has some staining, toning along spine, wear at corners and spine ends, a couple short edge tears. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 12 oz. Category: Art & Design; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015273.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. Art-nonsense and other essays. Cassell & Co, London, 1929.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 324, [2]; title-page vignette reproduction of "Bell Sauvage, IV: girl standing"; original blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine, spine toned, else fine. "The type, of which this is the first use, is the 'Perpetua,' designed by the author and cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation Limited, London" - colophon. A few words and passages are underlined, the italics for the font not being available at the time of publication. Gill 18.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. Art-nonsense and other essays. Cassell & Co, London, 1929.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 324, [2]; title-page vignette reproduction of "Bell Sauvage, IV: girl standing"; original blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine, spine toned, else fine. "The type, of which this is the first use, is the 'Perpetua,' designed by the author and cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation Limited, London" - colophon. A few words and passages are underlined, the italics for the font not being available at the time of publication. Gill 18.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. Art-Nonsense and Other Essays.. Cassell & Co., 1929.
Price: US$63.25 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: x, 324p. Edges and end papers stained, spine lost color.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Eric Gill. Art-Nonsense and other Essays. Cassell & Co Ltd, 1929.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Art-Nonsense And Other Essays, Eric Gill, Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1929 In good condition, the binding is straight and tight. The boards are marked and there is sum damage to the spine. The end papers and pages are free from marks or tears. There is s neat personal dedication and date to the front end paper. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1929, 1st. Octavo. x, 324pp. Original blue cloth, spine faded. Former owner's neat gift inscription to end paper. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
GILL, Eric. Art-Nonsense and other Essays. London: Cassell & Co., 1929.
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, x, 324, (2) pp. Wood engraving to title page, brief inscription to fly leaf. Original blue buckram, d.w., spine and edges browned, some light soiling, a very good copy. Evan Gill 18. The first book to use Gill's perpetua type.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Gill, Eric. ART-NONSENSE AND OTHER ESSAYS. Cassell and Francis Walters, London, 1929.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue bevelled buckram gilt, 8vo., x, 324, (1) pages, one gill engraving. Nicely printed by the Cambridge University Press. The first use of Perpetua type, designed by Gill. Italics not being yet available, underlining was used for emphasis. Date and name of artist-illustrator Edwin Scott Johnston at front endpaper, minor toning of paper, a solid very good copy with typical toning of the spine, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
GILL, Eric. Art-Nonsense and other essays. Cassell & Francis Walterson, London, 1929.
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo in blue cloth, bevel edges, gilt lettering to spine, 324pp CONDITION: A well preserved near FINE clean and tight unmarked copy (spine tanned and slightly rubbed, small ink name on fly-leaf, pages slightly tanned) ] ._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
Gill, Eric. Art Nonsense and other Essays. Cassell, 1929.
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Contemporary presentation inscription. Blue buckram. Spine slightly faded, else nice copy. First use of the Perpetua type-face designed by Gill.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Gill, Eric.. Art-Nonsense and Other Essays.. London: Cassell & Co., 1929., 1929.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: [First edition]. Original blue bevelled buckram sunned on spine and along top edge of both covers; gilt spine lettering still nice and sharp; fore and bottom edges uncut; slight creasing at tail. Internally clean and tight; faint vertical crease to rear endpaper; small bookseller's label on front pastedown. Shame about the sunning . a very good copy. A collection of Gill's writings on art, the creation of art, and creativity. (N.B. - First use of Gill's "Perpetua" type.).
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
GILL, Eric. Art-nonsense and Other Essays.. Cassell & Co., 1929., 1929.
Price: US$143.67 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Tall 8vo. pp. x, 324. Very Good in browned and slightly chipped dust wrapper.
Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom
Gill, Eric. ART-NONSENSE & OTHER ESSAYS. Cassell & Co., London, 1929.
Price: US$173.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 324pp with woodcut vignette on title-page. First book to use Gill's 'Perpetua' type. Late owners name on ffep & some very light foxing to some prelims, o/w vg.
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
GILL, Eric.. Art - Nonsense and Other Essays.. Cassell & Co., London, 1929.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: x, 324 [1] pp. Title page woodcut vignette by Eric Gill. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Pencilled bibliographical notes on front pastedown (eraseable); very slightest of bumping to the lower corners; slight foxing to endsheet;' otherwise fine i a price-clipped jacket with a tanned spine and some light soiling.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
ERIC GILL.. Art Nonsense and Other Essays.. Cassell & Co. Ltd., and Francis Walterson, London, 1929.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 324pp. Blue buckram with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine. With a title page engraving by the author. Free endpapers and fore edge lightly spotted. All gatherings uncut at the upper edge. A virtually fine, unopened copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but lightly toned at the spine panel and the margins of the front and rear panels, and with a touch of wear to the head of the spine panel. A two-page Apology by the author precedes twenty-four essays. A superb copy, printed by the Cambridge University Press in Perpetua type designed by Eric Gill - the first ever use of this font (there is some printed underlining in the text to represent italics - the italic form of Perpetua was not available when the book went to press).
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Eric Gill. Art-Nonsense and other Essays [Signed by the Author]. Cassell & Francis Walterson, 1929.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original red hardback with gilt lettered spine: firm and square, strong joints, just slightly sunned. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Note: this is number 69 of just 100 copies printed on large paper. Signed by Eric Gill. Thus a scarce book in very presentable condition.
Seller: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Gill, Eric. Art-Nonsense and other essays. Cassell & Francis Walterson, 1929.
Price: US$352.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red buckram. One of 100 numbered, large paper copies signed by the author. The first use of the Perpetua type designed by Gill.Spine faded, else very nice copy.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
GILL, Eric.. Art Nonsense and other essays.. Cassell & Francis Walterson, London., 1929.
Price: US$352.76 + shipping
Description: First edition. pp x, 324. Title-page vignette by Gill. This is the first use of his Perpetua type. Original blue buckram covers, bevelled edges. Pages unopened.Free endpapers a bit spotted. Near fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper nicked and creased at top edge and faintly darkened at the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Gill, Eric. ART-NONSENSE AND OTHER ESSAYS. Cassell & Co., Ltd, & Francis Walterson, London, 1929.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Interior vg. (10)324pp. #15 of 100 copies printed on large paper and SIGNED by Eric Gill. Pages uncut. Gilt top. Gilt-stamped red cloth with beveled edges. Corners & edges rubbed particularly along top edge. Hand-written initials in front in 1" square - "MHF CRF April 17, 1941". Size: Large 8vo
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. Art-Nonsense and Other Essays. Cassell & Co., 1929.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1929 copyright
Seller: POQUETTE'S BOOKS, DEWITT, MI, U.S.A.
Gill, Eric. Art-Nonsense and Other Essays. Cassell & Co., Ltd. & Francis Walterson, 1929.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Includes a letter signed by Gill. Lacks the dust jacket. Blue buckram with gilt spine titles; cloth rubbed, age-soiled, with heavy sunning to spine. Gilt is still sharp and bright, though visually it blends with the sunning at spine. Spine square. Binding sound. No DJ; stored and sold in protective clear wrapper. Top edge of textblock dusty. Pages sparsely foxed throughout, with more moderate foxing to rear endsheet. Bookplate belonging to Eleanor and Reginald Jebb adhered at front paste down. Interior otherwise unmarked. Includes a letter from Gill to previous owner Eleanor Jebb, hand-written and signed by Gill on letterhead from Pigott's, North Dean, High Wycombe; dated February 1931. The letter had been torn and has been reconstructed by pasting its pieces onto a different piece of paper; this has been tipped-in by a previous owner at half title. Additional correspondence between Mrs. Jebb and Gill's wife, Mary, and with Fr. Vincent McNabb, is laid-in at the back. The letters with Mary Gill are dated 1944, and the postcard from McNabb is from 1931. Photographs available upon request.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Eric Gill. Art-Nonsense and Other Essays. Limited signed edition.. Cassell, London, 1929.
Price: US$780.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Cassell. Very Good. 1929. Red Cloth. Number 11 of only one hundred large paper copies signed by the author. Top edge gilt, others deckled, bevelled boards. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a very nice clean copy free of owners' names or plates. ; 8vo ; x, 324, [1] pages; Additional images and further information provided upon request.; Signed by Author; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Sm 4to (10.25" x 7"), red cloth over boards, gilt title/author at spine, deckled fore- and tail edges, t.e.g. X, 324 pp., colophon. Bookplate of Alfred Knopf, designed by Rockwell Kent in 1928, on front paste-down. CONDITION: Very good, spine moderately sunned, light wear to extremities. This is number 55 of 100 copies printed on large paper. Signed and numbered by Gill on the colophon.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.