Search Results: Authors starting with O from Bird's Books

London : Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, red cloth with black titles and decoration on front and spine. Slight sunning to spine. 567pp with 41 illustrations and portrait frontispiece. Undated circa 1930s. Famous trials from history including Mary Queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, Charles Peace, Joan Of Arc, Charles I, Francis Bacon, Burke and Hare (infamous Edinburgh grave robbers) and many more. True crime for the pre-digital age, written in an engaging and entertaining style. Occasional age spotting, generally in very good clean condition inside.

London : Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, beige cloth with black titles and decoration on front and spine. 567pp with 41 illustrations and portrait frontispiece. Undated circa 1938. Famous trials from history concerning queens, highwaymen, witches, murderers, soldiers, sailors and many more. It is noted that in bygone times, various unpleasant forms of justice were executed including torture. 'The cases in this book should provide food for thought for those whose are interested in the freaks of human nature..' True crime for the pre-digital age, written in an engaging and entertaining style. Occasional age spotting, generally in very good clean condition inside.

London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. T. Heath Robinson. Part of The Children’s Heroes Series edited by John Lang. Small 8vo with blue paper covered boards and a tipped in coloured picture of Drake on front. Vii + 120pp illustrated by T. Heath Robinson with frontispiece and 7 other coloured plates. Very clean and near fine inside, a little edge wear to corners of boards and spine. The story of Drakes life simplified for the younger reader and quite biased as to his heroics. Undated circa 1906

Robert Anderson, Glasgow, 1884. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Robert Anderson, Glasgow, 1884. 1st Edition . Good. Approx 9'' tall brown binding with gilt titles & emblem on the front & spine. Some wear to edges of spine & corners. Slight mark/damage to front cover (see pictures). Xv + 641pp. Ex reference library with number to spine & inside. Bookplate on front pastedown, stamps on endpapers, one stamp on first page & one with numbers on reverse of title page. No other obvious library markings: inner book is clean & in very good condition. ***** Heavy and may require extra overseas postage*****

John Wiley & Sons, 1988. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 4to. 128pp. First English Edition. 'The Rietveld Schröder House incorporates a variety of perspectives to unite the client, architect, and structure in a rare complete document of a living landmark.Newly restored and open to the public, the small semi-detached house on the outskirts of Utrecht was the prototype of a style that was one of the most reproduced and influential of any domestic building of the early modern period. It was constructed in 1925, the first complete building designed by Gerrit Rietveld, a Dutch designer who began his career as a craftsman and who later became identified with the De Stijl group.'