Titles starting with O from David Spenceley Books

Blackwell, Oxford, 1986. Hardback in light brown, gilt to spine in two colour jacket printed on cream paper. Size: 234x157mm. viii,232 pages with notes, list of works cited and index. Book is near Fine. Jacket is Very Good one closed tear at the top of the front panel. ISBN:0631150811. Essential reading for anyone interested in the development of modern thought.... more information

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Minneapolis, MN: University Of Minnesota Press 1945 Hardback in grey cloth, printed red to front and spine, with grey endpapers, there is NO jacket. Size: 215x140mm. 86 pages with a vivliographyof books published by Brooks and index. LIMITED EDITION number 787 of 1500 copies. ASSOCIATION COPY signed by the author. Clean workingcopy. Cover is soiled and spotted 10mm piece missing from the head of the bacstrip. Internally bright and clean. Edmund D Brooks, was a Minneapolis bookseller and sometime publisher i... more information

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London: Stationery Office (HMSO), reprint 1976, House of Commons Library Document No. 4 Pamphlet, blue card cover, wire stitchd. Size: 245x153mm. 12 pages plus cover. Clean and bright. Written by the Deputy Serjeant at Arms to explain the history and significance of the various uniforms.... more information

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London: English Heritage, reprint 1991 (1984) Pamphlet with pictorial card cover. size: 210x148mm. 32 pages illustrated throughout, with plan. Very Good. ISBN: 1-85074-203-0. Professional history on the ground.... more information

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Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles, 1971 Hardback in maroon, gilt to spine, in full colour jacket. Size: octavo 222x140mm. 240 pages plus coloured frontispiece and 16 pages of b/w pictures. Also has three maps and diagrams in the text. With bibliography and index. Subtitled: an account of English Provincial Silver with sections on Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Very Good near Fine in Very Good jacket. ISBN:0-7153-5263-6.... more information

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London: Dent, reprint 1946 (1907) Everyman's Library 173 Hardback in red gilt to spine, top edge tinted with printed endpapers, there is NO jacket. Size: 175x110mm. xvi,542 pages. Good Reading copy, text clean and bright throughout. With its introduction by Chesterton a charming period piece.... more information

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Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, 1966 Hardback in brown, gilt to spine, in pictorial jacket. Size: 225x140mm. 208 pages plus 12 pages of b/w pictures, with maps, plans and diagrams in the text. Very Good, clean throughout. Professional history but highly readable.... more information

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London: Lutterworth Press, reprint 1969 Hardback in brown, gilt to spine, there is NO jacket. Size: 220x145mm. 202 pages plus frontispiece, 4 pages of colour and 45 pages of b/w illustrations and numerous drawings in the text. Very Good Clean and bright inside. ISBN:0-7188-0607-7. Takes groups of furnishings, there history and design features.... more information

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Londdon: Harris & Sons, reprint 1947 (1935) Hardback in mushroom cloth, gilt to spine, there is NO jacket. Size: octavo (222x144mm). 108 pages and frontispiece. The pagination includes text and forty-five pages of photographic plates plus nine pages of glossary illustrated with drawings. Clean and Bright copy, book plate on endpaper else Very Good. Includes lists of craftsmen both British and American and of woods use in furniture making.... more information

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Oxford University Press (Sandpiper reprint) 1998 (1974) Hardback in black, gilt to spine, in single-colour jacket. Size: octavo (222x144mm). xcii,166 pages with long introductory essay, notes and index. New Book not previously read. ISBN: 0-19-811164-9. These glosses constitute the earliest Old English text of any length. The aparatus here relates them to later glossaries.... more information

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Bristol: Thoemmes Press, first thus 1997 (1911) Hardback in black, red (label) and gilt to spine, with red cartridge endpapers, there is NO jacket. Size: 222x140mm. xvi,298 pages plus frontispiece and 35 pages of b/w photographs and twelve plates in the text. With index. Subtitled the making, collection and use of books during the middle ages. Mint condition. ISBN:1855065266. ... more information

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London: Batsford, third edition, revised 1938 (1933) Hardback in red, white to front & spine, top edge tinted, printed endpapers, and a Brian Cook jacket in poster style of the 1930's. Size: 222x144mm. x,118 pages plus 96 pages of b/w and 3 of colour pictures. With pen and ink drawings. Very Good in Good jacket. Some edge spotting and a bump at foot of one board but text is clean. Jacket is rubbed and bumped with some small closed tears and one tiny area of loss. A nice copy of an eternally popular ... more information

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London: G. Bell and Sons, 1955 Hardback in maroon, gilt to spine, in two-colour jacket. Size: 222x144mm. x,102 pages plus 20 pages of b/w pictures and many line drawings in the text. With bibliography and index. Subtitled: its romantic discovery and brief existence with a chapter on Britannia Metal. Good edges rubbed and a slight splay on the boards. One page has a marginal comment. Jacket is rubbed but whole and Good. Very strong on the manufacture of Sheffield plate, guides the collector to knowing the ge... more information

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London: Gerald Duckworth, 1953 Colet Library of Modern Christian Thought and Taching #11 Hardback in blue, white to front & spine, in jacket. Size: 175x120mm. 168 pages with bibliography. Clean and Bright Working Copy.... more information

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Old Woodford & District Times Publication. 1986 Booklet with card cover. size: 210x148mm. 24 pages plus cover, wire stitched. Volume one only. A collection of 46 pictures from old postcards showing many aspect of this township on the edge of the Epping Forrest and now a district South East London. Very Good. ISBN:0951152904. This copy contains a copy of the Woodford Green trail. A 4 page leaflet with a map and interesting notes on historic Woodford.... more information

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London: Longmans Green, first thus 1901 Hardback in black with printed paper label to spine. Pagination: [viii],319plus publisher adverts with guarded portrait frontispiece. One of the standard lives of Cromwell. Externally discoloured with exposure to damp. Spine ends well used and label partially illegible. Internally clean, black endpapers are browned and one has cracked. Binding exposed after first section but still tight.... more information

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London: Duckworth, revised edition 1973 (1939) Hardback in orange, gilt to spine, in portrait jacket. Size: ctavo (222x144mm). 128 pages plus frontispiece. With bibliography and index. Very Good, jacket is sunned to spine else also Very Good. ISBN:0-7156-0656-5. By political adroitness, military leadership and religious faith Cromwell achieved an ascendancy ending in five years of supreme power.... more information

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London: The Historical Association, reprint 1973 (1958) Ref. G38 Pamphlet in green card cover with 32 pages, wire stitched. A seminar talk from one who has written a full length biography of Cromwell. So much here that brief accounts usually ignore. Very Good condition and the wire stitches are still bright.... more information

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London: Book Club Associates (BCA), 1994 Hardback in deep blue, gilt to spine, in full colour portrait jacket. Large square format. Size: 260x260mm. 216 pages illustrated throughout in colour. With index. Book is very Good near Fine in rubbed but Very Good jacket. One of England's premier gardeners talks you round the garden and through the year keeping up an endless flow of advice and good precept for gardners anywhere.... more information

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Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993 Hardback in purple, copper to spine, with brown endpapers, there is NO jacket. viii,173 pages with list of sources and index. Subtitled: six inaugural orations 1699 - 1707. Very Good near Fine. ISBN:0-8014-2838-6. An English translation from the definitive Latin text.... more information

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