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Price: US$89.18 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 23 pages, frontispiece wood engraving by Eric Gill, initial letters and tailpieces by Eric Gill, text pages in fine, clean condition, paper covers detached.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Frances Cornford. Autumn Midnight. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1923.
Price: US$146.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An uncommon collection of poetry by Frances Cornford, decorated throughout by Eric Gill. The first and only edition of this work. The first and only edition of this work. A collection of poetry by Frances Cornford printed on hand-made paper, including seventeen of her poetical works, comprising 'Autumn Midnight,' 'On the Roads,' 'Susan to Diana,' 'Hope' and others. Frances Cornford was a granddaughter to Charles Darwin.With a wood-engraved frontispiece, initials, and tail pieces by Eric Gill. In the original publisher's paper wraps, with the text block disbound. Externally sound with some shelf wear and rubbing to the wraps, the wraps faded. With a minor loss to the tail of the spine. Margaret Lois Garretts's pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. With a wood-engraved frontispiece, initials, and tail pieces by Eric Gill. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Cornford, Frances. AUTUMN MIDNIGHT. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1923.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in original sewn pale pink stiff wrappers with the dedicatory engraving in green. Illustrated by Eric Gill with wood engraved frontispiece and 21 small engravings as decorated initials. Taylor and Sewell A115 (Saint Dominic's); Gill no. 273. Wrappers with slight handling and fade, contents fine
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
CORNFORD, Frances; GILL, Eric (illustrator).. Autumn Midnight.. London The Poetry Bookshop, 1923.
Price: US$181.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, early issue; 8vo; wood-engraved frontispiece and 21 engravings by Eric Gill, including initials and tailpieces, occasional light offsetting; original stiff pink printed wrappers, 'sxipence' on the front cover, minor creasing to corners, spine and edges slightly discoloured, slight soiling to edges, otherwise a very good copy. The first and only edition of this collection of poetry by Frances Cornford, printed on handmade paper. Comprising seventeen of her poetical works, including 'Autumn Midnight', 'On the Roads', 'Susan to Diana', 'Hope' and others. Frances Cornford was a granddaughter to Charles Darwin. Gill 273.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Description: Wood engraved frontispiece by Eric Gill, together with numerous other wood engraved vignettes and initials by Gill throughout the text. Printed at St. Dominic's Press. Early issue with 'sixpence' spelled correctly on the upper cover. 8vo., original buff wrappers, some light rubbing and soiling to covers, upper cover skilfully reattached, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: CC TEST, Abingdon, United Kingdom
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Description: Wood engraved frontispiece by Eric Gill, together with numerous other wood engraved vignettes and initials by Gill throughout the text. Printed at St. Dominic's Press. Early issue with 'sixpence' spelled correctly on the upper cover. 8vo., original buff wrappers, some light rubbing and soiling to covers, upper cover skilfully reattached, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Description: , 23 pages, [1], wood-engraved frontispiece, title page with dedicatory initials on red background, initials and tailpieces, loose insert (compliment's slip from publisher enclosing the Review Copy) First Edition (Review Copy) , some discoloration and rubbing to covers, creasing and chipping to foredge of covers, interior in very good condition, exterior in good condition , buff card, black illustrated upper cover in black border with black titles, untrimmed edges , 22 x 15.5 cms Paperback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Frances Cornford. Autumn Midnight. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1923.
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A charming collection of poetry from France Cornford, decorated by Eric Gill. First edition. A collection of poetry by Frances Cornford printed on hand-made paper, including seventeen of her poetical works, comprising 'Autumn Midnight,' 'On the Roads,' 'Susan to Diana,' 'Hope' and many other pieces. Written by Frances Cornford, an English poet who was the granddaughter of British naturalist Charles Darwin. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, initials, and tail pieces by Eric Gill, an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker. In the original brown paper wraps. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and sunning. A small closed tear to the tail of the spine and the odd small mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark or spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the title page. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
CORNFORD, Frances. Autumn Midnight. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1923.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Stiff pink wrappers. 23pp. Frontispiece, 17 rubricated initial capitals, 5 tailpieces, decorations. Very good. Bit of age toning to outer wrapper edges, else tight and internally fine. A lovely and superb first edition, early printing, of this slim verse gathering by the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, English poet Cornford (1886-1960). Usual misspelled "SXIPENCE" on front wrapper; title page decoration ("To J. & G. / from / F.C. & E.G.") in black (others bear this printed in green or red). Gill's woodcuts are as usual a delight. Front flyleaf bears an intriguing ownership signature worth further research: "Helen Davies [illegible]." Eric Gill had three daughters with wife Esther, and one of them (Betty, 1905-56) married David Pepler, son of Gill's colleague Hilary Pepler (English printer, poet/writer) and the first of their five children was Helen. In 1951 she married well-known National Park warden Wilfred Davies. It's feasible this copy belonged to Eric Gill's granddaughter, though the lack of handwriting exemplars makes identifying this with certitude impossible and the illegible final word ("Mc----" -- McCosh" or similar) further hampers identification. Makes you wonder, though.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
GILL Eric.; CORNFORD, Frances 1886-1960. Poet. Autumn Midnight. , 1923.
Price: US$206.39 + shipping
Description: Wood-engraved frontispiece, and twenty-one engravings by Gill including initials and tail-pieces. First edition, early issue, with ?SXIPENCE? on the wrapper. 8vo., original printed pink paper wrappers, later cloth folding case. Uncut. London, The Poetry Bookshop. Printed at the S. Dominic's Press. Minor creasing and tears to the edges of wrappers, which are also slightly soiled, but nevertheless an attractive copy. From the collection of Bobby Furber, without his booklabel but with his attractive ink notation of ownership, incorporating a note about Frances Cornford's antecedents and spouse.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
CORNFORD, FRANCES and ERIC GILL (Illustrator). Autumn Midnight. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1923.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 5.875 x 8.5 in. 23, [1] pp. Buff wrappers. Printed at S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, Sussex. Title page with dedicatory initials engraved by Gill printed in red. Illustrated by Eric Gill with 21 wood engravings, including elegant, elaborate capitals & charming tailpieces; plus big, bold Gill frontispiece. An exceedingly fresh copy. Very nearly fine. A trace of toning to extremities. Small, handsome New York bookseller's ticket inside rear cover, with small previous ownership sticker.
Seller: Irving Book Company, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth spine, paper covered boards, cloth label, in clean, tidy condition, containing the original pink printed card covers, with Gill designs and the incorrect spelling " sxipence ", slight loss of colour to the covers, contents bright, full page frontis, 17 engraved initials with a few other small decorations, an attractive example Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom
Cornfield, Frances. AUTUMN MIDNIGHT. The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1923.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: (SAINT DOMINIC'S PRESS) CORNFORD,FRANCIS. AUTUMN MIDNIGHT. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1923, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, plain brown paper wrappers embossed and decorated elegantly in black, custom clamshell slipcase is half natural linen with marbled paper covered boards and black leather spine label stamped in gold, 24 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Eric Gill--the wood engraving Autumn Midnight is the frontispiece, a leaf ornament on the front cover, four small decorations, and 17 decorated initials. Printed at S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling. Very good plus condition, front and back cover pages are wrinkled, slight cracking to paper spine, slight aging to lower edges of some pages, slipcase in fine condition. Overall, an attractive copy. Evan Gill number 273, like the second copy described by Gill, but SIXPENCE is spelled correctly.
Seller: Four Rivers Books, LLC, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.