Authors starting with O from David Spenceley Books

London: The National Trust, revised reprint 1978 Booklet in pictorial card cover. Size: small octavo (215x140mm). 8 pages plus frontispiece and 2 pages of b/w pictures. Stitched two wires. Very Good only light rubbing to edges of cover, no trace of previous owner and wires are still bright. Built in the grounds of Gibside, the private estate of the Lord Strathmore it is the mausoleum chapel of the Bowes and Strathmore families. The chapel came to the Trust in 1965.... more information

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London: Andre Deutsch, 1996 Hardback in green, gilt to spine, with buff cartridge endpapers, in full colour jacket, jacket turns in at head and foot to protect against buming and tearing. Size: 305x205mm. xxiv,272 pages. Full-colour facsimile of the 'Histoire Naturelle des Indes', now in the Pierpoint Morgan Library, New York. Which allows us to glimpse the Caribbean world as seen by the first European visitors. Nearly two hundred paintings document plants, animals, fish and birds, and the daily lif... more information

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, first thus 1968 (1966) Mass Market Paperback in pictorial card cover. Size: 180x112mm. 141 pages. Clean reading copy.... more information

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London: Macmillan, 1971 Hardback in beige, green (label) and gilt to spine, with green endpapers, in portrait jacket. Size: 222x140mm. 128 pages plus 16 pages of b/w pictures. With a chronology of the works of O'Casey and index. Very Good in a jacket which is bumped and heavily sunned to spine but still Very Good. ISBN: 0-333-09442-5. The pictures are very pleasant to those interested in this great writer. ... more information

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Hodder & Stoughton, London, first 1993 Hardback in black, gilt to spine in full colour pictorial jacket. A novel. VERY GOOD near Fine, top edge just starting to spot, jacket is equally good. ISBN:034055374X.... more information

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London: Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, 1952 Paperback in red wrap with pasted title on front cover. 24 pages with frontispiece, hall of the Middle Temple. Very Good near Fine. Subtitled: Master Treasure of the Middle Temple 1561-1570. Jurist and member of parliament he was debarred from office under Elizabeth.... more information

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British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2000 Hardback in black with gilt to spine in full colour pictorial jacket. Page size: 244x169mm. 182 pages illustrated with bibliography and index. This is the third title in the series 'The Bible as Book'. It comprises twelve papers on aspects of the Bible in the reformation period. These are: 'Equivalence or Power? Authority and Reformation Bible Translation' (Richard Duerden) 'The Bible Translations of George Joye' (Orlaith O'Sullivan) '... more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1960 Hardback in light blue with gilt to spine, in two colour pictorial jacket.Size: 222x144mm. 232 pages illustrated. Book is Good near Very Good, jacket is heavily rubbed but whole. Raleigh is the poet discusses his relationship with the Queen. 'To Cynthia' is printed and discussed.... more information

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Oxford: Bodleian Library / Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1975, Occasional Paper 10 Booklet with card cover. With square back but no title on spine. Size: octavo (245x185mm). viii,88 pages with notes, list of sources and bibliography. As new a Fine bright copy. ISBN:0-901-420-29-8. Day enjoyed the patronage of Archbishop Parker. John Fox was his reader and editor. Includes type & ornaments from his books.... more information

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London: Leo Cooper imprint of Pen & Sword, 1993 Hardback in brown, gilt to spine, in full colour portrait jacket. Size: large octavo (240x160mm). viii,216 pages illustrated throughout with pen and ink and similar sketches. Subtitled: The Great War Journals and Sketches of Captain Henry Ogle, MC. Records the experiences of an art teacher turned infantry man (later commissioned) during his service on the Western Front. The writing combines the painter's eye with a writer's precision. Very Good nea... more information

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London; Abelard-Schuman, 1972 Hardback in grey, red to spine, in two-colour jacket. Size: 222x144mm. 214 pages. Good Book is clean and Very Good jacket is whole but heavily rubbed at head and foot. ISBN:0200720481. Title in full: The Extraordinary Adventures Of Secret Agent Shipov In Pursuit Of Count Leo Tolstoy, In The Year 1862. A mock heoric satire of bureaucratic obtuseness in the best tradition of Slavic humour.... more information

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London: Phoenix / Orion, reprint 2001 (1961) Paperback in full colour card cover. Size: 215x140mm. xii,420 pages plus 16 pages of b/w photographs. With a map, bibliogeraphy and index. New Book, never previously read. ISBN:1-84212-428-5. Charts the events leading to the massacre of the Cathars at the mountain fortress of Montsegur in south-west France. Mme Oldenbourg discusses both the religious and political considerations which lead to the Albigensian Crusade.... more information

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London: The Apple Press, reprint 1991 (1987) Hardback in brown, gilt to spine, with printed endpapers, in full colour jacket. Size: large format (300x227mm). 72 pages illustrated throughout in colour. With glossary and index. Very Good near Fine in Very Good jacket. ISBN:1-85076-097-7. The work of a practising heraldic illustrator so very wide ranging for so short a book and includes modern usage. ... more information

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New York: Athenaeum, 1976 Hardback in maroon, gilt to spine, printed endpapers in full colour pictorial jacket. Size: Large octavo (255x190mm). 224 pages plus 12 pages of colour with b/w illustrations throughout. With two maps and an index. Very Good ina jacket which is heavily rubbed but still whole and Good. ISBN:0689107595. Subtitled: a history of the English Civil Wars it is the best popular study of the civil wars of the seventeenth-century available to the general reader.... more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1966 Hardback in blue, gilt to spine, top edge tinted, with printed endpapers, in pictorial jacket. Size: 220x144mm. 160 pages plus 16 pages of b/w pictures. With notes on his sources and index. Nice working copy. Contents clean and bright, boards rubbed and discoloured, jacket heavily chipped and rubbed. Perhaps the best modern retelling of the escape to France after the Battle of Worcester.... more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1979 Hardback in black, gilt to spine, there is NO jacket. Size: tall octavo (240x160mm). 212 pages plus 16 pages of b/w pictures. With bibliographic note, notes and index. Very Good, very clean. ISBN: 0-340-24145-4. Trys to discern the character of Charles I and Charles II using the portrait evidence.... more information

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London, Collins, 1986 Hardback in black, gilt to spine, in two colour calligraphic jacket. Size: 222x144mm. 252 pages with portrait frontispiece and six plates in the test. With a bibliography of the principal published writings of Dame Veronica. Subtitled: these: studies in seventeenth century history. a festschrift of twelve papers written by some of the best known names in seventeenth-century history and an Introduction by Elizabeth Longford. Very Good near Fine. The jacket spine is heavily sunned but t... more information

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Woodbridge, Suffolk: Brewer, 1992 Hardback in green with matching printed label pasted to front and silver to spine. There is NO jacket. Page Size: 232x155mm. [viii],275 pages with footnotes, bibliography and index. The poem is a compilation of stories of the past presented in such a way as to guide those receiving the poem in the ways of wise decision making. It is this process of converting this material from the past into present usefulness that the book explores. VERY GOOD probably a new book though wit... more information

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London: Adam & Charles Black, second edition 1947 (1934) Hardback in maroon, gilt to spine, tinted top edge, there is NO jacket. xii,232 pages with 23 plates illustrating 114 pieces and 2 pages of profiles of period pieces. With bibliography and index. Very Good.... more information

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London: Adam & Charles Black, seventh edition 1968 (1934) Hardback in red gilt to spine, in two colour jacket. xii, 240 pages with 31 plates illustrating 133 pieces and 2 pages of profiles of period peices. With bibliography and index. Very Good slight rounding of one corner, in Good jacket rubbed and creased but whole. ISBN 0713601612.... more information

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