Cassell & Co., Ltd. & Francis Walterson, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Signed. 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.

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Bookseller: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BBS-2012727
Title: Art-Nonsense and Other Essays
Author: Gill, Eric
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Cassell & Co., Ltd. & Francis Walterson
Date Published: 1929
Weight: 2.25 lbs

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