Jack Gilbey (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. DJ IS SOILED A BIT.

Condition: Good. 1945. No Edition Stated. 48 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

Green Gilt-Stamped Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lacks dust jacket; cover has a faint, vertical 4 x 3/4 inch dampstain adjacent to spine at top; spine area is sunned and has a touch of soil; interior has some foxing. 63 p., with a frontispiece portrait of the author. [M1:3:1].

Condition: Good. 1941. No Edition Remarks. 48 pages. Signed by the author. Cream dust jacket over cream cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper, Black and white photographic frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. 12mo. A nice copy signed dedication to Basil with enclosed photo of author. Book.

192pp. Introduction, biblio. A collection of Tijuana Bibles, or eight-pagers. 'A Fully Illustrated Report on the Contraband Comics of the Thirties: Which Helped Stir the Blood of a Nation Economically Depressed and Sexually Repressed.' Contains many classic cartoon and movie star strips, plus plain old bawdy ones. 38 strips, including: The Rubber Salesman. Toots and Caspar. Tony Didn't Forget the Sausage After All. Toots in Synthetic. Moon Mullins in Stepping Out. Dixie Duggan in Artists and Models. Marie the French Maid. Somebody's Steno in Fired. Betty Boop in Improvising. Henry in The Only Way. Robert Sailor and Barbara Standish in He's A Man. Frivolous Fifi Steps Out. Tillie in Foul Ball. Digest-sized pictorial wrappers. Light shelfwear; some sunning to spine. Very good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 48pp; Very good in soiled and torn d/w with some loss; Inscribed by author "With love and best wishes to you for Xmas from Jack, Xmas 1944; A bright copy; Size: 12mo. Presentation Copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 48pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering on face. Slightly sun faded spine. Touch of shelf wear to corners and tail of spine. No inscriptions. B/w frontis of author. Untrimmed fore edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Price unclipped. Clean tight copy. green boards with bright gilt titles. Make a wonderful gift.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gift inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 48pp. 1st edition. Collection of thirty three poems. Green cloth covered boards with bright gilt lettering on face. No inscriptions. B/w frontis of author. Untrimmed fore edge. Unclipped dust jacket (price 5s). Black lettering on dusty cream b/g. Tiny loss to top of spine. Small vertical tear to top front edge. Now protected in archival film.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1936. Hardback, 8vo, 63pp. Inscribed from the author, owner name/date, a little foxed throughout. Original green cloth, slightly faded. A fair copy. /0.2uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. 1st edition. With B&W frontispiece. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Small mark and light fading at bottom edge of front cover. Small scuff at bottom of spine. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Used - Good. Good hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Price clipped. Clean tight copy. green boards with bright gilt titles. Make a wonderful gift.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Price unclipped. no Inscriptions. Clean tight copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First Edition. Cloth with gilt titling. 227pp. clean and tight. Inscribed by Jack Gilbey on ffep. Book plate on f. paste down. 227 pages clean and tight. Size: 8vo. Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback 1945. 19.5x13.5cm. 48 pages. FRONT END PAPER HAS BEEN REMOVED. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has edge wear with minor loss, & a tear to the rear. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref A12. Snowdrops at Dusk and Other Poems by Jack Gilbey. Published by Burns Oates Washbourne, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Burns,Oates & Washbourne Ltd 1941 1st edn hardback pp48.Red boards with gilt lettering to front.Light shelfwear to extremities.Tanning to endpapers only.Clean and bright throughout in tight binding.Front endpaper inscribed and signed by Jack Gilbey at Mark Hall,Haston?,14th June 1941.D/j is stained with small tears and has some loss to top edge and top and bottom of spine.Vg+/g-. Signed by Author(s).

Signed. Original pale green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front board. Cream paper wrapper, with titles and a woodcut of snow drops to the front cover. Warm gift inscription from the author to the Bridgettine community of Syon Abbey. 48 pages. The cream wrapper has a little marking / foxing to it but is otherwise sound. A touch of handling to the top edge only. The cloth is neat and tidy. Internally the book is clean, with no significant marks.

Original cream covered paper covers over cream boards. Titles to both boards and wrapper. There is a frontis photograph of Gilbey at work, and a facsimile of a letter from the Apostolic delegate with a message from the Pope accepting the dedication of the book to him. This book comprised the collected poems from Gilbey's six earlier volumes, and an additional 40 poems included here. The wrapper has a couple of small closed tears to it, and some foxing / marking, including faint water damage. There is also light water marking to the front board. Internally the book is clean and tidy throughout, with just a touch of foxing to the pages. 228pp.

First edition. Original green cloth with gilt titles to the front board. Cream dust wrapper - plain with titles in black to the front cover and spine. Gift inscription from the author to the Sisters of Syon Abbey (South Brent). Frontis photograph (black and white) of the author at work. The wrapper is in good condition. No chips. A tiny closed nick to the head of the spine only and slight handling. The cream remains mainly clean and tidy with just a little darkening and marking to the wrapper. The cloth is clean and tidy with fractional sunning to the base of the spine. Intermittent light foxing, otherwise clean. No marks other than the author's inscription. There are the signs of some damp staining to the inside boards, and likewise the last few pages are slightly crinkled, but not bad overall. 64 pages. Captain Jack (John Newman) Gilbey b.1888 was the older brother of Alfred Newman Gilbey, Roman Catholic priest and longtime Catholic chaplain of Cambridge University. He was the author of several collections of devotional poetry.

Original red / orange cloth with titles in gilt to the front board, with cream paper wrapper. Titles to the front cover and spine of the wrapper. The poet has written and additional unrecorded 8 line poem to the front end paper of the book and signed it here. The wrapper is marked and damp stained to the rear panel. The front cover is in good shape with just a little marking. 1 inch closed tear to the top edge has been neatly repaired. There is a small chip to the middle of the wrapper spine. The spine of the book has faded, and there is a little damp staining to the inside boards. The rest of the book is clean and tidy, with a touch of foxing / darkening only. Some intermittent annotations in pencil (probably the date poems were read). 48pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1944. 1st ed. First edition. 48pp; Near fine in very good unclipped jacket soiled on rear and with mild shelf wear. Pages rough cut. Signed and inscribed by author "With much love to you this Xmas from Jack, Hastingwood, Xmas 1944. A bright copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

, 3 Volumes, all with 48 pages, black & white frontispieces, 'Milsetones' is SIGNED and dedicated by the author on front free endpaper First Edition , previous owner's details at front, books in very good condition , dust-jackets have a few small spots, in good+ condition , Blue, green & white cloth 19 x 13.5 cm Hardback SIGNED (one volume) ISBN:

Condition: Poor. blue cloth, faded spine, rough cut pages, frontis of Gilbey, title in gilt, good copy 48pp. Po inscription on ffl.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Rung bound with stiff card covers lettered gilt. pp 54 (unpaginated). 12 plates, 12 songs with musical notations- words by Jack Gilbey. With handwritten signed letter and 4 page song sheet (I'll Breathe a Prayer to Mary) loosely inserted. Signed presentation from Jack Gilbey to Collin Brooks on endpaper with 6 lines of poetry dated 1943 Hastingwood House, Harlow. Captain Jack (John Newman) Gilbey (1888 - 1952) Ğ writer, poet and soldier 'forgotten poet of World War 1.' Slight wear, slight fox spotting, staple at top of inner board otherwise about VG. Signedes.