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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 2nd edition. 332 pages, illustrated. Moderate wear to the blue covers; pages are tanned; a couple stained pages; inscription inside; a solid book. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 205117.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto. 236pp Pictorial binding. Illustrated with Forty plates in photogravure. Chipping to the head of spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Alfred Gilbert (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THIS IS A HEAVY BOOK AND POSTAGE WILL BE MORE THAN THAT QUOTED BY ABE BOOKS WHICH IS FOR A SMALL LIGHT BOOK. PLEASE ASK FOR A POSTAGE QUOTATION BEFORE ORDERING TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT AT EXTRA CHARGES BEING REQUESTED. First Edition, xii + 236pp, very well-illustrated with 40 black and white photogravure plates, hardcover, 11 x 8 inches, bound in creamy brown patterned cloth, brown lettered, previous owner's name within: 'A. J. Brundell, 1933' and notes on headed paper from The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, book in good condition, hinges strong and firm, A & C Black Ltd, London, 1929. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. From the collection of Ex-Libris, Anthony & Joy Millar, with their small book plate pasted in on the first blank page. Tape reinforced with a family tree of Wards Family on the front end page. No date stated, c1925. Complete with all plates. Frontispiece. Publication of 332 pages. The cloth on the spine of the book is slightly frayed on the edges. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is sporadic foxing on the first and last pages, very little in the body of the book. The text remains bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. 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,1650grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 40 plates. Contents VG, except small nick margin 1 page & 1 plate, but decorative cloth binding quite badly damaged by smoke & water, & spine torn at ends. Quite heavy, may require extra shipping to some locations. 2A7.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published by A & C Black, 1929. First edition. 236 pages. Illustrated with 40 photogravures. Original decorative cloth. Good copy.

xii+236pp. 4to. Original decorated cloth, a little worn. Some pale foxing to endpapers and edges. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Decorated cloth. Spine slightly darkened and slightly nicked at head, covers very mildly marked. With the ownership inscription of C.B. Mortlock.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Scattered foxing. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 236 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 28 cm. Notes: Contains index. Subjects: Gilbert, Alfred 1854-1934. Sculptors Great Britain ; Biography. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With forty photogravure plates. First edition. Previous owner's small label on front free endpaper, age toning and minor shelf wear, else very good in decorated boards. No dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: V.g. 1st Edition. xiv, 236pp. 40 plates. A biography of the British sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934). End-papers foxed and binding sound but rubbed and wear to the covers decoration.

1st edition, hardback, 4to, xii,236pp, 40 plates, foxing on edges and title page, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, decorated cloth, browned at spine ends, Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper torn with som e loss at corners and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. A very good copy. Some fading to spine ends and some darkening at head of upper board. In a rather poor dustwrapper which is chipped to the spine ends and with chips and tears elsewhere. The wrapper is now protected in a clear, removable, sleeve. Some light end-paper foxing but no ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xii,236. 40 plates. A biography of the late 19th/early 20th century sculptor.…

Cloth binding, 27 cm, 236 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. Cond.: goed / good.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Scattered foxing. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 236 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 28 cm. Notes: Contains index. Subjects: Gilbert, Alfred 1854-1934. Sculptors Great Britain ; Biography. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Large format [ 11 inches x 8]well illustrated study of the sculptor Perhaps most famous for the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain Anteros[often mistaken for Eros] on Piccadilly Circus. Gilbert was a central inspiration for the New Sculpture movement and is now regarded as one of the foremost sculptors of the Victorian period. Buff cloth decorated to covers. An attractive book. VG.…

Thick quarto, xii+236pp, illustrated, original boards in edgewrorn dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition. Alfred Gilbert sculpted some of London's best known public sculpture.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Book measures 28x22cm, 236pp. This edition de Luxe is limited to one hundred copies, each signed by Mr. Gilbert and containing one of his original rough working sketches. Bound in original publishers cloth, embossed guilt, with gilt title lettering on spine. Binding with some wear on corners. Binding in very good condition. Dust jacket rubbed with wear, abrasion wear on edges, some loss, tears, dust/dirt marking. jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean, . A very good clean copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardback, 11 x 8 inches. Cream cloth with red and brown design to front and spine. In very good condition. Some dark foxing spots to outer page edges and endpapers. Pages and plates clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xii + 236pp. Illustrated with 40 B&W photogravure Plates.

First edition. A & C Black, London. 1929. Quarto hardback with dust-wrapper. 236 pages. Sl. rubbing to extremities of dust-wrapper and sl. foxing to end-papers and outer edges.

Cloth. Condition: Excellent. No Dust Jacket. Limited. For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. Packed weight = 03.75kg. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage. Please contact us using the 'Ask the Bookseller a Question' link before placing your order. For non UK customers special arrangements apply to parcels weighing over 5Kg (2Kg for Canada). From the library of the author Paul Vine with his bookplate. Superb book - no. 98 of a limited run of 100. Signed by Alfred Gilbert. A number of superb plates showing Gilbert's work. Generally excellent cream cloth boards with gilt decoration. Buying more than one book will save on postage costs. We have split our books into 70 + categories. The Bianco Library website has 5 pictures of this book including both medium and large images. This description is to be read in conjunction with these photographs. Size: 8.5" - 11" Tall. Signed by Author. Private Bookplate.…

4to. 11 x 8.5 inches. xi + [i] + 236 pp. Bound in cream cloth, gilt, decorated by panels in red and sepia, boards and spine, enclosing facsimile signature on front board, in similarly patterned dust wrapper in green and sepia, which has missing section in rear wrapper decoration. Lower edge deckled. A little wear to extremities with lower rear corner bumped; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 40 photogravure plates, including frontispiece. Decorated by title page vignette and by initials. Biography of the sculptor and artist, Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934), known for his sculpture of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (erroneously called 'Eros') in Piccadilly Circus. Following a period of disgrace, bankrupt and separated from his wife from after 1901, Gilbert lived in Bruges, and produced little work, but did illustrate some Sherlock Holmes stories for The Strand Magazine. He remarried and moved to Rome before his return to England in 1926, where he was rehabilitated as a sculptor, with the aid of journalist, Isabel McAllister, author of this work. BIOGRAPHY SCULPTURE ARTS- SCULPTURE BIOGRAPHY- 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY. …

Pp. xiv+236, photogravure frontispiece, tissue guard, 39 plates, index; post 4to; cream cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, upper board a trifle marked; t.e.g., others uncut; ribbon marker; dust wrapper, foxed and lightly worn, lower panel slightly soiled, edges lightly split and chipped; a little light foxing; A. & C. Black, 1929. De Luxe edition; being one of 100 numbered copies, signed by the artist, with one of his original rough working sketches bound in at front. Signed. …