Last Essays

London: Cape, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth decorated in silver. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 93 pages. 19 x 12 1/2 cm. Illustrated. Introduction by Mary Gill. Owner inscription. Gill states a few opinions, some never previously published.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. First edition, 12mo, pp. 903, [1]; wood-engraved frontis and colophon; small stain on front panel of jacket and spine of jacket slightly soiled else a very good copy or better.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and slightly dusty, slightly foxed page edges. Front and lower page edges untrimmed. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with slight marking to front, sunned spine and small nick to slightly rubbed upper front edge.… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 1943. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1943. 4th Impression. 90 pages. Grey dust jacket with lettering over blue cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943 VG+/VG. 12mo. original navy blue cloth (a trifle rubbed & flecked) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & marked, some minor fraying & silverfishing); pp. 94, with 1 figure. A very good copy.. Fourth Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.

Jonathan Cape, 1942. Hardback. Second impression, 1942. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Good condition; boards rubbed with some edge wear, endpapers un-trimmed, pages clean and tightly bound, ink blot on first few pages. No dust jacket. Published: Jonathan Cape, 1942

Hardback. 1942. Introduction: Mary Gill. With illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill. 94pp ills., Jonathan Cape, London 2nd impression 1942. VG in worn DW .

First edition of Gill's final collection of essays outlining his distributist philosophy on the relationship between man and work, industry and art. With an introduction by Mary Gill. Description: Orig. navy blue cloth, pictorial decoration (St Thomas's Hands, 1935) blocked in silver to front board, titled in silver to spine, orig. dust jacket, lettered in red and black. Duodecimo: 19 ×… Read more about this item

Slim 8vo, navy blue cloth with silver titles, 93pp. Stated second impression, October 1942. Price clipped dust jacket shows toning to panels, light chipping to edges. Binding sound and sharp, interior clean. The final collection of essays by Eric Gill, collected from Blackfriars, Catholic Herald, and other publications, expounding his distributist philosophy in the relationship of man to work and… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 1942. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good.