Book Detail
[001536] O'Brien, Edna. August is A Wicked Month. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Good. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles: The DJ has some edgewear and the spine is sunned. Otherwise a copy in VG Condition. Pictorial dust wrapper by Lord Snowdon. A good clean and collectable copy. £15.00
[000227] O'Brien, Edna. Johnny I Hardly Knew You. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Reissue. Cloth. Ex-Library. Fair / Good. ISBN: 0-297-77284-8. second printing - pp143 ex-lib edition with stamping, endpapers scuffed £4.00
[000827] O'Brien, Flann. The Hard Life. London: Hart-Davis, 1973, Cloth. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1973 reissue of the 1961 publication. ex-lib with the usual marks. Otherwise a Very Good edition. £10.00
[004904] O'Brien, Kate. That Lady. London: Reprint Society, 1947. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Reprint of title originally published in 1946. Brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine. endpapers lightly spotted. Binding very good and pages brioght. £2.00
[000926] O'Casey, Sean. Sunset and Evening Star. London: Macmillan and Co, 1954, Very Good/Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp312, biege cloth with gilt titles on spine in decorative red box. Dustjacket is not price clipped. But has slight signs of sunning on spine. Excellent condition book. £15.00
[002593] O'Casey, Sean. Within the Gates: a Play in Four Scenes in a London Pary. London: Macmillan and Co, 1934. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. eige cloth spine with paper labels, green boards. Green top edge on pages and rough cut edges. Binding good and pages clean and bright. £5.00
[005623] O'flaherty, Liam. The Black Soul. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. Reissue. Small 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. A florin book, cloth with black titles. the spine is dulled and corners lightly bumped. Bnding is very good and pages bright and clean. £10.00
[002843] O'Hara, John. Sermons and Sodawater. London: Cresset Press, 1961. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original Cloth. Very Good / Slipcase. A very good set of three small volumes - The Girl on the Baggage Truck, We're Friends Again & Imagine Kissing Pete. This set is number 25 of 525 copies and is signed by the author on the limitation page of 'The Girl on the Baggage Truck'. Very bright, fresh interior. All have tight and clean bindings. Green title block on ivory spine lettered in gilt. Faux-vellum spines show no wear. Green/white marbled boards. Sharp corners, no wear. All volumes have their original glassine wrappers. A hint of age at upper edge of glassine on spines. Vol. I states, "This edition printed on mould made paper and signed by the author is limited to 525 copies. The 25 of this copy is 351." Slipcase is charcoal/white marbled paper with paper title label in b/w. The slip-case is in good condition with some rubbing/wear to edges, and signs of wear at the bottom beneath spine label, but overall is tight and good. £125.00
[000329] O'Hara, John. The Big Laugh. London: Cresset Press, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Ex-Library. Fair / Very Good. First UK edition - pp250 - ex-lib with stamps and marks, endpapers marked with sellotape and fron endpaper torn. Dustjacket very good slightly trimmed on front and back flaps. £5.00
[000050] O'Henry. Roads of Destiny. Hodder and Stoughton, First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair / No Jacket. First UK edition - fair condition £10.00
[000049] O'Henry. Postscripts. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair / No Jacket. First edition of O'Henry's postscripts - rare as hen's teeth...pp202 £20.00
[002661] O'Neill, Jamie. At Swim, Two Boys. London: Scribner, 2002. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Cloth. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0743207122. The author's highly acclaimed debut novel. The wrapper on this copy is bright and unclipped. The book is square and very tight. The boards are clean and unfaded. The pages are clean and bright. Unread. A lovely copy in a protected wrapper. £15.00
[004373] O'Sullivan, Maurice. Twenty Years A-Growing. London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Dustjacket that is slightly foxed. First edition in English language - translated from the original Irish by Mona Llewelyn Davies and George Thoma. Three maps on endpapers, clean pages, tight copy. Autobiography of a life spent with , Irish-speaking people of the Blasket Islands. £20.00
[001509] Odojewski, Wodzimierz. No Island of Salvation. London: Harvill, 1965. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good / Good. Translated from the Polish by David Welsh. Green and black cloth with gilt titles, boards sound. The page edges have a scattering of small brown spots. Dustjacket (designed by Brian Russell) is good but with some edgewear on front lower edge. Unclipped. Slightly marked. Whilst imperfect as described - the book is otherwise good. £12.50
[000067] Oe Kenzaburo. Nip the Buds and Shoot the Kids. London: Marion Boyars, 1995. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. As New / As New. ISBN: 0-7145-2997-4. First UK Edition -pp189 - perfect condition £10.00
[006576] Oesterley, W. O. E. / Robinson, Theodore H. Hebrew Religion Its Origin and Development . London: SPCK, 1947. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. blue cloth with sunned spine, gilt titles to spine, endpapers foxed. binding good and pages clean £2.00
[005663] Office of Populatioon Censuses and Surveys. Census 1971 Great Britain Summar Tables (1% Sample). London: HMSO, 1971. First Edition. A4 - Report. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. blue softcover with black titles - includes sample census forms. 176pages ples the forms are in a pocketat rear of book £10.00
[001572] Offord, M.Y. - Edited By. The Parlement of the Thre Ages. London: OUP - Early English Text Society, 1959. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good / Good. No 246 - brown decorative cloth - gilt titles and decorations. Original grease proof paper dustjacket. The internals are close to perfect, a few light spots on the Front endpapers being the only flaws. A very good condition copy of this rare early English text. £30.00
[003707] Ogilvy, J.S.. Relics and Memorials of London City. ill. J.S.Ogillvy. Toronto/London: Musson/Routledge, 1910. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Dark blue to black cloth, with gilt decoration and lettering. Corners slightly bumped. 64 coloured plates by the author, tissue guards to all plates. An extremely good copy, binding tight and the pages clean and bright. £40.00
[000698] Oldenbourg, Zoe. The Awakened. London: Gollanz, 1957, Cloth. Poor/Good. First Edition. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by Edward Hyams. PP448 - ex-lib with stamps on rear title page. Has been repaired by tape to hold body of book to cover. Pages foxing slightly. FEP torn. Dustjacket has frayed edges. £8.50
[004560] Olesen, Jorgen Vium. Mountain Songs Selections from the Psalms. London: A Lion Book, 1980. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pictorial Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. pictorial hardcover, dustjacket very good with light edgewear. £4.00
[003301] Oliver F. R.. Inter-Regional Migratioon and Unemployment 1951 - 1961. London: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1964. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stapled Booklet. Very Good / No Jacket. reprint from the journal. printed for private circulation, rubbed on top front edge. £2.50
[005444] Ollington, Robin. Wrenard of St Pauls. ill. Albany Wiseman. London: Robin Ollington, 1999. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Near Fine / No Jacket. ISBN: 0953645207. trade paperback edition. charming children's story. £1.50
[006286] Oman, C.W.C.. T History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexabder the Great. London: Longman Green And Co, 1892. Third Edition. Small 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. H/B brown cloth bds, Good, spine very slightly faded with wear to top, and worn corners. Contents sound and tight, occas. pencil underlining/annotation, two incripstions/names on ffep, with maps, plans and illustrations. A sound reading copy. £5.00
[001502] Ondaatje. Michael. The English Patient. London: Bloomsbury, 1992. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 074751254X. Illustrated soft cover edition - First Edition - very good condition £20.00
[001435] One of her Daughters. The Life of Florence L. Barclay. London: Putnam, 1925. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Third issue from 1925 -pp. 311 with frontis portrait and 23 pages of photographs. Brown cloth with some rubbing on spine edges and small white spot on front cover, some very light foxing to endpapers. £5.00
[001382] One of her Daughters. The Life of Florence L Barclay. London: Putnam, 1933. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. reissue of the 1921 text.Brown cloth with black text. pp309 +8 pages of adverts. Small owner inscription to front endpaper £5.00
[002010] Opie, Robert. Wartime Scrapbook from Blitz to Victory 1939-1945. London: New Cavendish, 1995. First Edition. Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall. Pictorial Cover. Fine / No Jacket. ISBN: 1- 872727-08-5. Near mint condition. 60 pages. Fully illustrated with examples of aspects of wartime graphics. £9.00
[004187] Oppenheim, Carey. A Tax on All the People the Poll Tax. London: Child Poverty Action Group, 1987. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0946744068. povefrty pamphlet no 73, green softcover pamphlet. Very good. £2.50
[004188] Oppenheim, Carey and Esam Peter. A Charge on the Community the Poll Tax Benefits and the Poor. London: Child Poverty Action Group, 1989. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 0946744165. softcover, very good condition copy £2.50
[001679] Oppenheim, E.Phillips. Envoy Extraordinary. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Green cloth with black titles on spine and small decoration on front boards. Feintly rubbed around edges. A few pages (6) have light brown spots on them. Otherwise this book is very good condition. £20.00
[000868] Oppenheim, E.Phillips. The Adventures of Mr Joseph P Cray. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925, Cloth. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. Very Good. Blue cover with crisp black printing on spine and front. Top page edge soiled. Endpapers have some age spots. Pages however are good. Quite rare book book especially in this condition. £40.00
[001960] Oppenheim, E.Phillips. Inspector Dickens Retires. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Orange/yellow cloth with black titles on the spine and front cover. Endpapers a little foxed but the binding and pages is clean and tight. A good copy. £10.00
[001788] Oppenheim, E.Phillips. What Happened to Forester. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Mustard cloth with black titles on spine and front cover. front lower corner bumped, some light spotting on page edges. Otherwise pages and binding clean and tight. £10.00
[002101] Orienti, Sandra. Degas. ill. Degas. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969. First Trade. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Good / No Jacket. A dolphin art book. A study of the life and work of Degas with 80 full-page colour illustrations. Binding loose on spine but still sound. £2.00
[004850] Orth, Charles D, and Bailey, Wolek, Francis. Administrating Research and Development the Behavior of Scientists and Engineers in Organisations. London: Tavistock Publications, 1965. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Ex-Library. Very Good / No Jacket. dark cloth with gilt titles to spine, ex-lib with a few stamps on the front endpaper. Bumped to corners and with good biniding and broight pages. £10.00
[001503] Orwell, George. The English People. London: Collins, 1947. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Good. Hardback. VG+/nrVG DW. 1st Edition. 4to. With 8 plates in colour and 17 illustrations in black & white. DW has a little edge wear but is sound. A genuinely good condition edition. £25.00
[001308] Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. 1st US edition. Book is G+ slightly cocked. Corners a little bumped. FEP and REP have a few age spots - Pages clean tight with ownership inscription from Rosemary O'Leary 1946. Good plus edition. £50.00
[006288] Osborn, E.B.. Our Debt to Greece and Rome. London: English Univerisities Press, 1937. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Blue cloth with black titles to spine and decorative front board. Bumped and shelf worn £3.00
[000871] Osbourne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osbourne to Sir William Temple 1652-54. London: Folio Society, 1968, Decorative Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth with gilt decorations and printed label to spine, in matching slipcase. Portrait frontispiece. £10.00
[003464] Oules, Firmin. Economic Planning and Democracy. London: Pelican, 1966. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. translated from the french by R.H. Barry - a little browned on edges around spine. binding good and pages clean if browning a little. £2.50
[002706] Ouspensky, P.D.. A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art. London: RKP, 1938. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on the spine. some damp damage to rear, spine also a little faded as a consequence. Translated from the Russian under the supervision of the author. A classic esoteric text.. £20.00
[002433] Overy, Richard with Andrew Wheatcroft. The Road to War. London: Macmillan and Co, 1989. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0333441826. Black boards, gilt letters. DJ shows minimal wear. 364 pages. £5.00
[001997] Owens, W.R. The Drama Anthology. London: Open University, 1991. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. A319: THE DRAMA ANTHOLOGY. -- very good anthology contains work by: Yeats, Lorca, Elliot, Beckett, Arden etc. near fine condition... £6.50
[001998] Owens, W.R. THE PROSE ANTHOLOGY. Literature in the Modern World. Arts: A Third Level Course A319. London: Open University, 1991. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. Collection for Course A319, Virginia Woolf's Kew Gardens, Borges, Kipling, Selvon, Levi, etc This is a near fine copy with clean white pages and a solid binding. Excellent condition £5.00
[006173] Ozaniec, Naomi. Dowsing for Beginners. London: Headway Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. Reissue. Small 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Trade Paperback. Very Good / No Jacket. ISBN: 034060882X. very good condition, reduced postage £2.00