Gaunt William Geoffrey Holme (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Brown paper wraps, lettered in black with front cover color pastedown illus. Binding reinforced with clear tape, beneath which mild chipping to spine panel, clawed(?) along top front edge with several creases to bottom front cover corner, loss at top rear cover corner. Interior intact, a bit toned by age, with a few tape reinforcements along fore-edges of early pages. xi,27 pp. + cxliv (144) full page plates at rear. Functional reference copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hard Cover -- Good -- Other than discoloration to bottom of front cover, book is tight with light wear -- Yellow cloth over boards, no dust jacket if issued -- Photography throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Spine browned. Minor shelfwear. Faint rubbing to boards. ; Xi, 27pp, 144pp of plates. "And from time to time aeroplanes skim over the Forum and the shadow of a colossal dirigible passes above the Colosseum -- a paradoxical reminder of the changing modes of imperial expression (p.27)." ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 144 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Holme, C. Geoffrey (Photographs) (illustrator). 1st UK Edition. Issued simultaneously in US by William Edwin Rudge. Vintage B & W photographs of Italy, Greece Istambul (sic) Rhodes, Damascus, Palestine and Egypt. A very interesting visual journey around the eastern Mediterranean - places and people as seen c.1930. viii, 120p. Maps.Yellow cloth binding slightly soiled and splitting along the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. 1932-01-01. The Studio, . Hardcover. GOOD DJ; Good, protective covered. Spine sunned, extremities darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Photographed by C. Geoffrey Holme, described by William Gaunt. Very good plus, first edition book in good plus dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with brown lettering on front board and spine. Upper page edges are brown-tinted. Boards are lightly soiled, mostly smudges around the edges. Faint sunning to extremities, slightly more on spine. Edges at head and tail of board spine are softened and creased; head of spine has faint beginnings of fraying. Internally clean and with snug text block. Significant loss at head of jacket spine and upper left corner of back panel. Additional losses but to a somewhat lesser extent along lower left edge of back panel, upper right edge of front panel, lower edge at tail of spine and all fore-edge corners. Upper right edge of front jacket panel is rubbed and with creases, a 3/8" closed vertical tear and a 3/8" by 1/4" chip. Front, back, and spine are soiled overall, more so on spine which is also sunned. All folds are creased and scuffed; front fold of spine is almost completely rubbed through, back fold has several rub throughs. Center of spine has a closed horizontal tear across the width and adjacent to rub-throughs on front and back spine folds. Inside front flap has a 2 1/8" by 1 1/4" price clip. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this special number of 'The Studio', in which the architecture of Rome through history is examined. Illustrated with one-hundred and forty-four plates. A lovely special number of the decorative arts journal 'The Studio', which was published between 1893 and 1964.This volume, depicting the art and architecture of Rome, is illustrated with one hundred and forty-four plates, many of which are in colour. Collated, complete.With twenty-five pages of descriptive text from William Gaunt, and edited by Geoffrey Holme.With the stamp of the Wigan Library to the verso of the title page, and with no further library markings. With a 1926 inscription to the head of a front blank. In a half morocco binding, with cloth covered boards. Significant rubbing to joints, back strip head and tail and board perimeters, with gilt detailing to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting and instances of foxing to text leaves, with plates clean and bright. Very Good. book.