Search Results: Authors starting with O from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Chicago: Phoenix Books (The University of Chicago Press), 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Mostly green wraps with black & white titles & decoration, vi, 159. [3] pp, chart, 41 figures, glossary, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on bottom edge, moderately rubbed. Contents: the antiquity of man; origins of tool-making; materials used for tools; making stone implements; outline of the cultural sequence in relation to geology; evolution of palaeolithic cultures; implements associated with fossil man; some attributes of man the tool-maker. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt titles on spine, x, 355 pp, 83 figures (including some maps), 2 maps not in numbered figures, 4 charts including one fold-out, 16 numbered tables plus other tables in text, bibliography, index. Slight shelf wear. Price-clipped DJ chipped at bottom front corner, covered with adhesive plastic. According to the DJ, "This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archaeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a geologist and as a prehistorian, and has written this book first to meet the needs of archaeologists wishing to learn the stratigraphical frameworks now applied to Quaternary deposits, and second to meet the needs of geologists requiring to know the terminology of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cultures." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ed. . Near… Read More

New York & London: Thames & Hudson, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth-textured paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine & decoration on front board, 215 pp, frontis., 136 figures, notes, bibliography, index. Small spot on rear board. DJ has tiny nicks to spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Two thousand years of Babylonian history are succinctly presented based on archaeological and literary sources. The figures consist largely of plans of ruins and photos of sites & artifacts. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 25 X 16½ cm.

New York: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1947 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine, frontispiece is folding map of Greece at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, xvi, 1072 pp, bibliography, glossary, index. Top edge of one leaf torn, else very good, slight shelf wear, one leaf wrinkled by brass USF&G bookmark still attached, scattered pencil notes & underlining. DJ has top & bottom edges taped with silk tape, which also attaches DJ to book, otherwise very good, one 4 cm tear to bottom edge, light soil. Contains selections from 58 classical Greek authors, in previously published translations by 63 British and American authors. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 12 oz.). 5th ptg. . G+/G. 24 X 14½ cm.

Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. American Ethnological Society Monograph No. 55 (Robert F. Spencer, Ed.) Full beige cloth with black titles, orange endpapers, xix, 146 pp, 2 ff b & w photo plates, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth wrinkled on rear cover (a manufacturing defect), otherwise fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This study was prepared as a Ph. D. thesis in 1933 but not published for another forty years. Contents: the Tlingit & their country; social organization; property; the annual cycle of production; organization of labor; trade; distribution & consumption of wealth. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale blue boards, dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles, [vi], 281 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The 19th Aubrey/Maturin novel. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 3rd ptg. . Fine/Fine. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale blue boards, dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles, [vii], 262 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Publisher's promotional card laid in. The 20th Aubrey/Maturin novel. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Blue boards, brown paper-covered spine, gilt titles on spine, 335 pp. Library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, otherwise book & DJ are as new--apparently never read--with DJ in library-applied protective cover. Richard Temple, captured & held as a prisoner of war by the Nazis, recalls every detail of his life. Although this novel was originally published England in 1962, this first American edition was published 44 years later. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . 21½ X 15 cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige boards, blue spine with gilt titles, [iv], 379 pp. Faint tape marks on edges of boards, top corners bumped. DJ is in plastic cover. First printing of the Norton uniform edition, no price on DJ, presumed book club edition. Newspaper clipping laid in. Sixth novel in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/Fine. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale blue boards, dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles, [ix], 261 pp. DJ price-clipped, spine slightly sunned; in Brodart archival cover. The 16th Aubrey/Maturin novel. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). 4th ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale blue boards, dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles, [ix], 262 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The 18th Aubrey/Maturin novel. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale blue boards, dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles, [vii], 262 pp. Previous owner's name on ffep, slight edge wear. DJ is price-clipped but otherwise fine; in Brodart archival cover. The 20th Aubrey/Maturin novel. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, foil titles on front board, foil & pale green titles on spine, 336 pp, footnotes, index. Top edge sunned, else fine. DJ has slight edge wear and a crease to front flap; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "The author has had close and personal contacts with every facet of opinion, and these personal influences are most entertainingly and instructively woven into the history of his country, which shows without rancor and with much wit how that country has become divided into North and South, Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Nationalist. ...his book is a picture both of the making of a nation and of what can unmake it." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter teal cloth, mustard-colored paper-covered boards, gilt titles & device, 221 pp. Tiny bump to bottom of front board, else as new. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "In this witty account, we eavesdrop on an outrageous group of inept but very funny board members. Every incriminating word has been captured in the recording secretary's riotous minutes." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White boards, white cloth spine with gilt titles, 366, 1] pp, footnotes, index. A few small spots near edges of boards. DJ has a couple of small edge tears & slight wear; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "His Eminence and Hizzonor is that rarest of collaborations, an honest revelation of how two key figures view the central issues of the life of one of the world's major cities and how they work to address them." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG+. 24½ X 16 cm.

Zürich: Druck und Verlag von Schulthess & Co., 1910 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt-on-brown titles, top edge dyed blue, blue endpapers, [v], 637, [2] pp. Paper browning, otherwise fine, pressed flower laid in. Contains a selection of documents beginning with Julius Caesar ("Gallien im weitern Sinne zerfällt in drei Teile....") through 1907. Just at at glance, it appears that documents originally in German are printed in Fraktur, while those translated into German are printed in Roman type. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). . VG+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

Washington, D. C: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Sewn in blue card covers with black titles, vii, 611, A-390, B-129, C-7, [1] pp (1245 pp in all). Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamps, mailing label on rear cover, tears to front cover repaired with tape. Gives abstracts and publication information for "4119 reports, articles, and other documents announced between January and August 1970 in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports [STAR] and International Aerospace Abstracts [IAA]," plus subject, author, and contract number indexes. Actual dates of publications listed run from about 1968 to 1970. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. Wraps. Good/No dj. 26½ X 20½ cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale blue boards, violet cloth spine with gilt titles, sky-blue endpapers, 381 pp, 19 b & w drawings, bibliography, index. Edges faded, gift inscription on half-title. DJ edge-worn, small tears & nicks to bottom edge; in Brodart archival cover. This is a book by a bird-lover, not an ornithologist. In the warm-up portion of the book, the author explains himself: "Who with a lifelong enthusiasm for birds would not...respond to an invitation to commit that enthusiasm to paper, when the invitation came from a publisher prepared to make it feasible. ... I saw myself being outdoors and afield part of every week with birds my preoccupation, this legitimately and while others were at a desk, as I usually was. I could not resist it." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. Illus. by Matthew Kalmenoff. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, [x], 462, [3] pp, illustrated with b & w drawings & photos, bibliography. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Stream of consciousness, here's what was on my mind every minute of my journey trhough the People's Republic of the Congo. There's a lot of Congo in here, but even more O'Hanlon. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg before publication. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lesering, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full oatmeal cloth, blue titles, 379, [5] pp, 8 ff color plates, 418 figures in text. Top corners lightly bumped, else fine. DJ extremities lightly rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. German-language book on needle crafts, including embroidery, knitting, crocheting, and sewing. Code on copyright page may indicate a 1998 printing, but lack of ISBN & postal codes argues against it. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). . Near Fine/Near Fine. 19 X 12½ cm.