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Gibson. Frank. Charles Conder, His Life And Works. John Lane the Bodley Head, 1914.
Price: US$38.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Gibson, Frank. Charles Conder: His Life and Work. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1914.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: frontis, color frontis, index, 117p. Original decorative cloth. 29 cm. Dampstain on top portion of both free endpapers as well as on a couple of adjacent leaves (including the frontis). Backstrip unevenly darkened and has a couple of small holes near bottom. No jacket.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
GIBSON, FRANK.. CHARLES CONDER, HIS LIFE AND WORK.. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1914.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: With a catalogue of lithographs and etchings. 11 color plates, 2 black and white photographs, 107 monochrome plates. 1/2" water-staining at very bottom of later plates. Rear endpapers foxed. Ink inscription front free endpaper dated 1928. All color plates tissue-guarded. Contains a list of the artist's works and an index. Size: Quarto
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$127.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: *** I WILL NOT TRADE WITH THE EU. IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE UK POSTAGE IS £40 FOR THIS BOOK DUE TO THE WEIGHT. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO PAY THE EXTRA POSTAGE WHEN I REQUEST IT OR YOUR ORDER WILL BE REFUSED AND I WILL NOT TRADE WITH YOU AGAIN. *** This is a UK first edition hardcover published by John Lane, The Bodley Head in 1914. The photos show the book's condition better than I can describe, but it's in Very Good condition with straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends. The spine is sunned however and the pages heavily toned to the edges. Inside the book there is a label glued in with a previous owner name and a couple other labels glued to the title page for some reason. The pages are clean overall but there is foxing throughout the book. The title page confirms the publication by John Lane, The Bodley Head in 1914.
Seller: Books for Collectors, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Price: US$147.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "One hundred and twenty-one illustrations". Brown paper boards over 1/4 linen. Corners bumped. Mild edge wear to boards. Linen spine has some loss to bottom and top. Spine edges cracking or worn. Spine toned. Mild diffuse light foxing to inside paste downs and free ep's. Interior clean with many color reproductions of Conder's work, tissue guards in place.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Gibson, Frank. Charles Conder His Life And Work. John Lane, The Bodley Head 1914 London, 1914.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: textblock and binding generally good, BUT, plates have suffered some marginal damp damage and adhesion (images not affected); foxing; binding shows wear and a bit of staining; volume a bit bowed; all of which defects are reflected in the price; 117 pages of text, including index; 121 plate illustrations; a definitive study of the famous artist's life and work, including a catalogue of his lithographs and etchings;
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
Gibson, Frank. Charles Conder: His Life and Work. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1914.
Price: US$203.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A biography of the artist with a catalogue of his lithographs and etchings. 121 illustrations, frontispiece photograph of Charles Conder. Includes Index. Bookplate of Olive Guthrie of Torosay on front pastedown. Covers have light soiling overall. Cover corners, top/base of spine bumped. Foxing on pastedowns and following free endpaper, half-title page. Title page has only a couple of spots. Occasional foxing throughout.
Seller: Andmeister Books, London, United Kingdom
Gibson, Frank. Charles Conder His Life and Work. The Bodley Head, London, 1914.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. 13 color and 107 monochrome plates. Cloth-backed boards. Endpapers slightly discolored; corners shelfworn; FO signature FFE.
Seller: First Edition ,too Inc Bookstore, Moran, MI, U.S.A.
GIBSON, Frank. CHARLES CONDER: HIS LIFE AND WORK. , 1914.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: [CONDER, Charles]. GIBSON, Frank. CHARLES CONDER: HIS LIFE AND WORK. With a catalogue of the lithographs and etchings by Campbell Dodgson, M.A., Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. With one hundred & twenty-one [i.e. 120] illustrations. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. First edition. Complete with 120 plates (though the t.p. says 121 plates, only 120 are called for in the plate list), including eleven in color. Quarto. 117 pp. Bound by the Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribner's Sons in three-quarter green morocco, marbled paper sides, spine in six compartents, with either gilt lettering or a decorative device within each, t.e.g. Superficial rubbing at joints and corners, and the spine has faded to brown, but solid and still attractive. Clean within, and very good plus overall. Conder (1969-1909), British landscape painter and designer of fans, studied art in Melbourne, Australia, and at Julian's in Paris, becoming an Associate of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts in 1893. He also contributed to The Yellow Book, The Savoy, and The Page.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$262.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; 117 + plates pages; Bound in original half cloth and boards. Covers with some light soiling, rubbing and wear. Decorated endpapers and some light foxing throughout. Twelve tissue-guarded color plates, two tissue-guarded black and white photographs of the author and 107 black and white plates.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$297.35 + shipping
Description: 118pp plus107 b/w plates. Quarto. Original decorated boards, some foxing - colour plates with protective tissue paper tipped-in. A very good copy . . First edition.
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
Price: US$520.70 + shipping
Description: The first serious study of Australian bohemian artist, Charles Conder. Published four years after his death. Quarto, original quarter cloth, 121 illustrations including a sepia photo frontispiece of Conder, some plates in colour, head of spine slightly marked, boards a bit scuffed, endpapers browned, a very good copy.
Seller: Rare Illustrated Books, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia