robert john gibbings (21 Ergebnisse)

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 219pp, octavo. tight binding, clean interior, mild edgewear/shelfwear, dusty page edges, Good+ torn edgs, nice sover image and colors/helfwear, Good.

Zustand: Fair. 1945. Reprinted. 229 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, rear board slightly loose. Pencil inscriptions and stamp to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine edges.

Zustand: Fair. 1942. Reprint. 230 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with heavy foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have notable edgewear with corner crushing and heavy foxing to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1940). (1940) 1941 Readers Union reprint. 8vo (131 x 201mm). Ppx,230. B/w engravings by the author. Blue cloth, spine titled in cream, with grass motif. Spine faded and slightly shaken. Inscription to front end-paper. Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. Robert Gibbings travels down the Thames from its source, recounting his observations and adventures and giving a commentary on the river's natural and local history. An interesting book with many good engravings by the author. The author followed this book with Coming Down the Wye, much in the same vein and first published in 1942. .

Cream hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 219pp.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Gentleman, David; Felmingham, Michael; Gibbings, Robert; Kneale, Bryan; Lancaster, Osbert; Lowry, L. S.; Nash, John; Patten, Bryan; Ramsay, Eileen; Searle, Ronald; Smith, Edwin (illustrator). Anthology of writing and artistic work. Cloth binding, 303 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white. Very good, no dustjacket.

Zustand: Good. 1948. Reprinted. 229 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Sticker to front flap. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water stain to spine, ring mark to front panel.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations by Robert Gibbings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 219 pages. History, geography and tales of the Pacific Ocean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dorothea Braby, John Buckland Wright, Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, John O'Connor, Reynolds Stone et al (illustrator). 25x16cm, 52pp. With wood engravings by various illustrators printed in black. A copy of the unlimited edition, bound in full blue cloth over boards, title in red to the upper board and backstrip, later acetate dustjacket. The second of the Golden Cockerel Press self-published bibliographies, covering 43 books issued between 1936 and 1943. The real treasure within is the cornucopia of wood engravings by just about all the most notable contemporary illustrators in the medium. A clean copy, free of annotations with the pages bright and unbrowned. Very Good (the cloth slightly mottled and grubby as often, small ink spot to the lower board).

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Gibbings, Robert (illustrator). First edition. 1st thus 1941. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Pale grey cloth with black title to spine. 7 wonderful b/w illustrations. 256 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly grubby and spine slightly browned. Foxing to textblock. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

, 256 pages, with engravings in the text Third edition (first in this form) , head and tail of spine rubbed, foxing to very-edges of pages, bookplate on front pastedown, the book is in good+ condition , dustwrapper has pieces missing from top of rear and head and tail of spine, price clipped, in just good condition , grey cloth with black titles on the spine, blindstamped diagonal lines on covers 16mo, 18 x 12 cm Hardback ISBN:

Zustand: Poor. Some scuffing and wear to the edges of the dust jacket, a plastic film over the cover. Some inscriptions to the front of the book, foxing also. Fine to read throughout.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated bibliographical work on the art of Robert Gibbings, limited to nine hundred and fifty copies. First edition. Limited to nine hundred and fifty copies. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and seventeen in-text engravings. Collated complete. One of the leaders of the revival of wood-engraving in the 1920s, Irish artist and author Robert Gibbings was director of the Golden Cockerel Press for nine years. The first part of the volume is a descriptive bibliography of the sixty-seven books illustrated by Gibbings; and the second lists his work as artist, writer, printer and publisher in chronological order, and also records some publications containing references to his work. There is a note on the printing methods of the Golden Cockerel Press, contributed by A. C. Cooper who was pressman throughout the period of Gibbings' direction. Written by A. Mary Kirkus, edited by Gibbings's partner Patience Empson, and John Harris. In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small mark to the panels. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. ex-library hardback without dust jacket, usual library stamps/markings. Published 1932 by Duckworth, London with 142pp + wood-engravings by author throughout. Some shelf wear to boards edges worn, crown/foot of spine covering frayed & corners lightly bumped, some handling marks to pages, text block uncut. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 19C*.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Minor discoloration on dust jacket, but dj is protected by a mylar cover. Ex owner markings on prelim pages.

Zustand: near fine. Austin O. Spare, V. Voigt Alastair, John Austen, Laurence Bradshaw, E. A. Cox, Cecil French, Robert Gibbings, Winifred How, H. Hamp, A. Garth Jones, Morin-Jean, Jean Lebedeff, Stewart Marshall, Haydn Mackey, John Nash, Glyn W. Philpot, Ludovic Rodo, (illustrator). First Edition. Published October 1922. table of contents: Wagner Reconsidered: by Louis N. Parker, Port De France: Tunis Poem by Cecil French, A Third Rate Poet: By Ford Madox Hueffer, Cantares Populares: Bu Havelock Ellis, Dragon-Flies: Poem by E. L. Grant Watson, Consummation: Poem by G. M. Hort, The Earl of Oxford as Shakespeare: By J. Thomas Looney, Trinacria: Poem by Clifford Bax, Stripes: By Ethel Mayne, The Past: Poem by Richard Church, Praise: Poem by Peter Renny, Vagabond Death: Poem by Arthur Thrush, Reviews: By H. f. Rubinstein, Clifford Bax, R. O. Morris, E. Powys Mathers, Crossley Davies. Softcover, large folio, binding very good, pages clean, 48 pages, erratum slip for advertisement pg 2 on pg 3.

Hardcover. Limited Edition: #139/325. Octavo, 73 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in morocco-backed decorated cloth and protected with glassine. Very mild shelf wear. Top edge of text block gilt. Front endpaper has an inscription, dated 1958, stating that this volume was part of Lord Dunsany's personal library. Loose within is a letter from the Golden Cockerel Press dated 1958 answering an inquiry about the publication of this book. LP Consignment. Shelved in Case 8. Printed by Gibbings in Golden Cockerel type on Batchelor's hand-made paper with seven wood-engravings by Gibbings. One of 325 numbered copies, of which this is number 139. 1287101. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. folio. pp. 268, [3]. numerous illus. (some full-page). full goatskin by G.Lachenmaier with Fabriano Tiziano endleaves, all edges gilt. Fine copy. cloth clamshell box (2 small scuff marks on front of box). accompanying folio text in quarter cloth entitled: The Four Gospels Eric Gill And The Golden Cockerel Type [by John Dreyfus] Preceded By A Personal Reminiscence By Robert Gibbings Proprietor Of The Golden Cockerel Press 1924-1933. folio. pp. 27. illus. Facsimile Edition printed by Memminger MedienCentrum on Favini feltmarked laid paper, Limited to 2750 numbered copies (plus 25 hors commerce).

Sharkskin/cloth. Zustand: Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Robert Gibbings (illustrator). First Edition. Engravings; tall 4 to 7 3/4 x 10 1/2"; 101 pages; Gilt-lettered sharkskin-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top-edge gilt; spine-ends frayed, generally clean and sound. Np: Golden Cockerel Press, (1928) #340 OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES. "An almost perfectly-proportioned book, of which the Press is duly proud." - Chanticleer 62. Narrative poem in rhymed couplets by John Keats, written in 1819 and first published in 1820. This editon pinted in red and black. Lamia Isabella The Eve Of St Agnes & Other Poems Ltd 340/500 Illustrated By Robert Gibbings And Eric Gill Poetry Limited Edition 1928.

, no.277 of a limited edition of 300, signed by Christopher Sandford, printed on F.J. Head's hand-made paper, 112 pages, woodcuts throughout Limited Edition , light rubbing to boards and spine ends, spine faded, internally clean, binding firm, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, very good condition , quarter morocco, patterned cloth, gilt titles to spine , 27 cm x 17 cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN:

First Edition. Illustrations One of 975 copies Fine copy in dust-wrapper.