Titles starting with O from Antiquarian Bookseller

Florence: The L-D Allen Press, 1951. 4to, 11 pp. Hand-colored decorative borders to every page. Original wrappers, fine. Limited to 100 copies printed at Christmas for friends of the Press. ... more information

London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. 8vo, original sea-green stiff paper wrappers lettered in gilt, (issued simultaneously with pink wrappers lettered in blue), cased in marbled boards and Plexiglas slipcase with backstrip paper label. 48 pp. Wrappers lightly chipped and darkened along fore-edges; but close to very good. First Edition of the author's first book. One of 500 copies printed. Anecdotally, the green wrappers issue is the rarest binding. Benkovitz A1a. ... more information

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1962. 4to, (vi), 64 pp. with woodcuts in the text. Original white boards with black paper backstrip. As issued. Limited to115 copies. Illustrated and designed by Mary Grabhorn. The text reprinted from the first edition in English, translated by Thomas Evans and printed by Okes in 1615. ... more information

Potzdam: 1760. Small 8vo, viii, 299pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt panelled backstrip, red morocco label, sprinkled edges, a very good copy. One of several printings across Europe in 1760. ... more information

London: Hacon & Ricketts, 1902. Small 8vo, [27] pp. With a circular frontispiece, elaborate double-page opening spread printed in three colors, circular device of the Press at the end, all wood-engraved. Original decorative boards, paper backstrip, lettered in gilt on upper cover, binding slightly darkened and soiled, internally fine. Limited edition, one of 226 copies. Printed in Vale type on Arnold hand-made paper, designed by Lucien Pissaro and engraved by him and Esther Pissaro. ... more information

Petrograd: Izdanie Otdela izobrazitel nyh iskusstv Komissariata narodnogo prosvescheniia, 1918. Slim folio, 19 pages. Cover printed in red and black, leaves browned as usual. Wrappers restored. A portfolio of 18 drawings by K. Boguslavskaia, V. Kozlinski, S.Makletsov and I.Puni. Text (i.e. captions) by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Peter Hellyer 404. A Catalogue of Russian Avant-Garde Books in the British Library 1912-1934, London, 1994. ... more information

England, Purnell and Sons, Ltd., 1947. Small 8vo, 46 pages. Color dust-jacket, four color plates, and 14 black and white illustrations in the text by Anthony Gross. Original pink printed wrappers, good condition, some spotting. First edition. An rare survival of a Ògreetings bookÓ, intended to be sent by mail as a gift and thuis with a wrap-around flap as part of the dust-jacket for the address. ... more information

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1921. 8vo, stitched sheets, as issued. Printed in red and black. A fine copy of this extremely rare Christmas pamphlet printed soon after the Grabhorns arrived in San Francisco. GB 35. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. 8vo, original blindstamped brown cloth, backstrip gilt-lettered. xii, 13-356, [1(ad)] pp. Covers worn and faded, rubbed at extremities of binding, foxing throughout, but a sound, solid copy. First Edition. Opinions differ on Mr. Webber's vivid prose; Wagner calls it "a wonderful love story embellished with adventures among the Indians on the Western borders of Texas." Graff, somewhat more directly refers to the work as "A lurid tale of Texas."... more information

Boston: David R. Godine, 2004. 8vo, 105, (3)pp. Original light blue cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip with gilt decoration to top board, original illustrated dust jacket; frontispiece and illustrated throughout by means of full-color facsimiles within the text. Fine. Second US edition, translated from the French by William Rodarmor. Beautifully illustrated throughout in an Eastern style, washed with watercolor. An entertaining, educational introduction to the world of Japanese print-making. ... more information

London:Clowes, 1848. 8vo, 5 pamphlets bound together. Later half green calf, marbled boards, a bit scuffed, bookplate of the Duchess of Cleveland dated 1901. A rare collection of statistical and mathematical pamphlets with an interesting association. William King, eighth Baron King of Ockham (1805Ð1893), lord lieutenant of Surrey was created earl of Lovelace in 1838. He married Augusta Ada Byron, mathematician and computer pioneer, the only child of George Gordon Noel Byron, sixth Baron Byron (1788Ð... more information

Topeka: Crane & Company, 1896. 8vo, original embossed red cloth, backstrip & front cover gilt-lettered. 240 pp. frontispiece portrait of the aged author and one portrait plate of the young author. Silverfishing of backstrip & rear cover; crisp and clean. First Edition. Born in England in 1814, the author emigrated to America in 1847. He spent some time in Canada and the eastern United States, spent time in Minnnesota and New Mexico, and finally settled in Kansas. He tells good stories about h... more information

Adelaide, Australia: Adelaide University GraduatesÕ Union, 1968. 4to, 8pp. Blake illustration on page 4 accompanying a Blake article on pages 4 & 5 in the Adelaide University GraduatesÕ Union Monthly Newsletter and Gazette, December 1968. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. Bentley, BB, 2862. ... more information

Adelaide, Australia: Adelaide University GraduatesÕ Union, 1968. Blake illustration on page 4 accompanying a Blake article on pp. 4 and 5 in the Adelaide University GraduatesÕ Union Monthly Newsletter and Gazette, December 1968. Illustrated wrappers. Very good. Bentley, Blake Books, 2862. ... more information

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923. 4to, 32, (2) pp. 6 plates. Cloth and decorated paper over boards, paper label. First edition. Light dust soiling, corners faintly worn, but a very good copy. Bentley, Blake Books, 389. ... more information

Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1981. 4to, xii, 24 pages, seven color plates (six full-page). Quarter vellum, green buckram with color illustration tipped onto top cover, gilt lettering to backstrip. Green paper-covered slipcase. Near fine in a very good slipcase. Limited to 325 copies. A beautiful book, printed on hand-made paper, with a new note by Martin Butlin adding to previous scholarship published by Keynes in 1923 and a much better printing of the color plates. Bentley, Blake Books Supplement, pa... more information

London: Dent, [1930]. Thick 8vo, xiii, 395pp. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket worn and chipped. First editon. A most eccentric book, surprisingly with S. Foster Damon lending a hand: Òshe had deliberately avoided reading any of those recent writers who also have attempted a complete inquiry [into Blake] and she had been assisted by visitations from the dead. The result is as might be expected.Ó Bentley, Blake Books, 1780. ... more information

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923. 4to, 32, (2) pp. 6 plates. Quarter vellum, green buckram, very good. De luxe edition limited to 150 copies on hand-made paper. Bentley, Blake Books, 389. ... more information

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923. 4to, 32, (2) pp. 6 plates. Quarter vellum, green buckram, very good. De luxe edition limited to 150 copies on hand-made paper. Bentley, Blake Books, 389. ... more information

London: Dent, [1930]. Thick 8vo, xiii, 395pp. Original red cloth, dust-jacket, fine. First editon, uncommon in dust-jacket. A most eccentric book, surprisingly with S. Foster Damon lending a hand: Òshe had deliberately avoided reading any of those recent writers who also have attempted a complete inquiry [into Blake] and she had been assisted by visitations from the dead. The result is as might be expected.Ó Bentley, Blake Books, 1780. ... more information