Art changing civilisation (18 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Twentieth Century Library Series. Red, faded cloth boards; slightly bumped corners; some scuffs & stains; Series & illustration in black on front; author, title, pbl & Series in black on spine. Cut edges tanned. Hinge repaired with new bookcloth back & front; Original spine reapplied to book cloth. Pdeps lightly tanned; feps darker; name in ink on ffep. Text block tight; pages lightly tanned but clean; List of other Volumes in the Series at front; Contents Page at front; Index at end; info about the Series at end. No jacket.…

Brown Cloth. Condición: Very Good. None. 1st Edition. The Twentieth Century Library, spine faded.

Condición: Fair. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:0859640396.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 128, (2) pp., bound in cloth with red illustration and black lettering. Some wear on boards, age toning, foxing on edges. Good copy, however without the dust jacket. 19 x 13 cm.

xi, 158 [2, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's printed cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Pencilled ownership notes; cloth a little sunned; spine quite sunned; tight and sound in a jacket with some light soiling and use at extremities. The Twentieth Century Library.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Hardback with dust-wrapper. Pp. xi, [2], 158, [2]. 1935 reprint. D/w slightly faded and chipped to edges. Some foxing to edges. Private ownership. (q25).

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. Faded scarlet boards, the front lettered and decorated in black; the spine (with slight lean) even more faded. The jacket, lettered in red and black, faded to brown; four 5cm tears to top edge, a 1.5cm tear with attendant creasing to lower front edge; slight loss around base of spine. Internally name to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Condición: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN.…

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Creasing and a couple of small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of buff-coloured boards, an old water-stain to outer edge of top corner of pages, some pencil marking and underlining to the introduction, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1934, this is a reprint from the next year, part of the publisher's "Twentieth Century Library" series. 158pp Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Pp. xiv, 154. Frist edition. 8vo., apparently a form of proof copy in plain paper wrappers with no page numbers on the contents page. Very good. From The Twentieth Century Library series edited by Krishna Menon.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1935 reprint (first published 1934), 11 preliminary pages, 158 pages, fine condition in decorated cloth with near fine dust-wrapper, spine slightly faded.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. First printing. The Twentieth Century Library Series. Red cloth with black lettering. Cloth discoloured and faded, light browing around board edges and heavily sunned spine. Top edge a little foxed, contents clean. Dust jacket edge-worn, with several small chips, short tears, a few light stains, and a few pieces of tape to the inside of the jacket keeping together some tears around the spine. This copy inscribed, "Dr. Stanley Manford from Eric Gill - August 1934 (In mem. M.V. Domala, July 12-27 '34)". Inscribed by Eric Gill. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good Indeed. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Indeed. An extensive collection of the works of sculptor Eric Gill - both artistic, and literary. A lovely 9 volume collection of works by, and pertaining to, the creative legacy of controversial sculptor Arthur Eric Rowland Gill.Includes 5 titles in their original dust wrappers, 4 of which remain unclipped.Includes 3 first edition copies - volumes 3, 5 and 7.Features several illustrated titles - volumes 4 and 5 contain a monochrome frontispiece, and additional vignette illustrations, while volume 8 and 9 contain plates.Volume 8 features 25 leaves of monochrome plates. Collated, complete.Volume 9 features 24 unnumbered leaves of plates. Collated from a copy held by the British Library, complete.Volume 6 in additional brown paper wrap, as well as the original dust wrapper. Decorated with a gilt top edge. Bound in original cloth. Externally, very smart. Occasional marks to boards, shelf wear, and age toning and spotting to endpapers. Infrequent spotting to text block edges. Vol2, fading to spine corresponding with dust wrapper tears. Vol1 tape repair to front hinge, rear hinge starting. Alternative dust wrapper for title by William J. Locke printed on reverse of vol1 dust wrapper. Vol3, upside down bookplate to rear paste down. Vol4 last two pages unevenly cut to bottom edge. Vol7, newspaper extract tipped in to front free endpaper. Vol9 indent to fore edge of board. Dust wrappers overall very smart - age toning to reverse. Chipping and rubbing to dust wrapper extremities. Significant tears to vol2, vol7 dust wrappers. Sunning to dust wrapper spines. Vol8 dust wrapper clipped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with infrequent spotting and age toning. Very Good Indeed 7" by 5"; 7" by 4.5"; 7.5" by 5"; 7.5" by 5.5"; 8" by 5.5"; 9" by 6"; 10" by 7". Eric Gill (ilustrador). book.…

Sm 8vo (7.5" x 5"), red cloth over boards with author/title/series stamped in black at spine and series and design of a human and serpent stamped in black at upper cover; original printed dj; xi, 158 pp., 2 pp. pub. ads. Bookplates of Eric Gill and Wyman Parker on front paste-down, ownership inscription of Eric Gill on ffep. dated "July 13. 34". CONDITION: Very good, spine and extremities sunned, slight dent to lower right corner of upper cover; dj good, chipped at spine and separated at upper hinge, soiling to match dent in cover. First edition. Author's copy, with his bookplate, ownership inscription and numerous corrections and amendments to the text and index in his hand.…

Condición: Poor. No dust jacket. The books cover is in acceptable condition with ware such as scuffs colour fading and staining. The content is in good condition with tanning throughout and light foxing.

First Edition. Spine and covers severely faded as usual and end-papers a little darkened, otherwise a very nice copy in dust-wrapper Evan Gill 29.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. A lot of four (4) works by and about Eric Gill, each being attractive, tightly bound, clean and virtually unmarked, several in First Edition states. 1) Eric Gill, Art and a Changing Civilisation, a Good condition pocket-sized hardcover, bound in red cloth over boards, published in 1934 by John Lane (at) the Bodley Head in London, in First Edition state; his "take" on art history for non-specialists with a fetching front cover illustration of a nude man wrestling two snakes, and with 158 pp., another fine contribution to the The Twentieth Century Library; 2) Fiona MacCarthy, Eric Gill, a Biography: a lover's quest for art and gold, published in 1989 by E.P. Dutton in New York, a Fine condition exemplar in hardcover in a Near Fine, protected dust jacket; several ranges of sharp and distinct black-and-white photographs and illustrations, and with xiii [2], 3-338 pp.; 3) David Peace, Eric Gill: the inscriptions, published by David R. Godine in Boston, 1994, a Fine condition hardcover exemplar in a like dust jacket, a checklist, a bibliography, based on The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill: an inventory, by Evan R. Gill; sumptuously illustrated with initials, historiated initials and hundreds of examples of his inscriptions on menus, posters, gravestones, war memorials, church-walls, etc., quite fine, and with 208 pp.; 4) Eric Gill, First Nudes, 1954, The Citadel Press of New York, the First American Edition, Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good, protected dust jacket; 24 pencil sketches by the master craftsman, begun in 1924 through 1926; Introduction by Sir John Rothenstein, Director of The Tate Gallery in London, and with 30 unnumbered pages.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…