Bilbo Jack, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Acceptable. [FIRST EDITION] London: Modern Art Gallery, 1945. Hardcover, no dust jacket. An x-library copy deacessioned from an important institution. Boards a bit worn with library label, text block good with library stamping. (AB).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 468pp. Red cloth, gold stamp. Some scuffs at the edges. Many color and B/W illustration. This is a very large book and may require more shipping expense. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall U4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red buckram, spine panel lettered in gilt. Stated first edition. Soiling and a few surface scratches to covers, minor binding lean. Text block edges somewhat toned. Firm binding, clean interior. 468 pp., illus. w/ tipped-in color plates, b&w plates, b&w photographs. Lacking dust jacket, as usual. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 21 x 29cm hardback with dust jacket, some paper missing from the front and rear. With some text, black and white reproductions and tipped-in colour plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Oversized. Covers worn and faded. Front hinge cracked. Many color and black and white plates in the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: The Modern Art Gallery Ltd., London, 1948. NEAR FINE hardcover in gilt-stamped, red buckram-covered boards with NO DJ. First Edition, First Printing. Spine toned.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Near FINE. 1st Edition. Square 4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 20pp on stiff paper, plates in colour and b/w, etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved near FINE clean and tight unmarked copy (hint of tanning to covers) ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Cloth. First Edition. Folio. Numerous tipped-in color plates. Also b&w photographs & illustrations. Book: Near Fine -/DJ: Good - (sevl chps, clsd trs, rbbd, o/w a very good clean tight copy). Large heavy book: extra postage required. 468pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Jack Bilbo (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red cloth over Folio size boards with gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Usual wear for so large and heavy a book, rated Very Good. Jacket is in pieces and is excluded from the pricing. 468 total pages; 300 pages of text; 148 full page b&w prints, and 20 pages of tipped-in color plates. Obviously postage for the item will be adjusted determined by shipping location. (See Photos for inscription) Additional information and/or photos available upon request. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 26 x 31cm 64pp good hardback in dust jacket, pink and brown graphics, minor wear to head and foot of spine and jacket edges. Includes 130 reproductions, 16 in colour, featuring works by Paul Cezanne, Max Ernst, Ingres and many, many others.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. folio. pp. 6 p.l., 468. profusely illus. (many tipped-in colour, many full-page). cloth. dw. (rubbed, large piece torn from lower back & spine, extremities chipped). First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jack Bilbo (illustrator). First edition. A scarce, signed copy of Jack Bilbo's autobiography. Bilbo was a German writer, art gallery owner and self-taught painter. In the original scarce dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is price-clipped.Gift inscription to the recto of front endpaper, 'To Mark Rubens, a heavy book on his poor shoulders from Jack Bilbo 1948'.Bilbo's parents owned a theatre costume business which was confiscated by the Nazis. He fled Germany soon after and changed his name to Bilbo, and was placed in a British internment camp on the Isle of Man in 1940. He founded the Modern Art Gallery in London in 1941 and welcomed fellow refugee artists such as Kurt Schwitters and Picasso.This work looks at the first forty years of Bilbo's life as an 'artist, author, sculptor, art dealer, philosopher, and a modernist fighter for humanity'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, held in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. With original slipcase. Externally, very smart with just some minor shelfwear to the extremities. Dustwrapper is chipped to the extremities, with loss to the front wrap in particular. Slipcase is rubbed, with the top edge detached from the rest of the slipcase. Author's gift inscription to the recto of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages 358-362 are adhered. Pages are very bright with just the occasional light spot. Very Good. book.