Search Results: Authors starting with O from Northgate Books

Toronto: Cartwright and Sons / Canada Law Book Co., 1960. Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in black cloth with a printed red label, 248pp. This book was intended not only for use by the patent practitioner but also for the general lawyer. Hinges of endpapers starting.

Lobdon: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Bound in maroon cloth with printed black labels, with clipped dw. 85 b/w photographs, 11 in-text b/w illustrations, 359pp. DWhas been repaired.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. Second Edition . Cloth. Good. Bound in dark green cloth, no dw, b/w frontis plate, " Giant Trees of California", 482 in-text figures, 634pp. Faint stains on boards, corners and spine tips are scuffed. New endpapers.

Hodder and Stoughton London, 1932. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Bound in green cloth with DW, 381pp Good to VG/G, spine faded

Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1980. Softback. Very Good. Softback, 331pp including 56pp of vocabulary. Bottom front corner is slightly creased.

Cork: O Morain Publications. n.d. . Softback. G to Vg. Softback, 52pp. + 7pp. advertisements.

London: Macmillan, 1949. Cloth. G to Vg/Good. Bound in grey/green cloth with a sage green printed label, with unclipped dw, b/w frontis photograph " The room in the Dublin tenement house where the first three plays were written ", 307pp. This is the fourth volume of O'Casey's autobiography describing his life during the troubles, the era of the Black and Tans and the civil war. He says, " Eire was deafened and dumbfounded and nearly destroyed by gunpeal anf slogan-cry ". Enclosed are two newspaper articles on O' Casey. DW has been repaired and its spine is browned.

Truro: Bradford Barton. n.d. (early 1980s) . Softback. G to Vg. Ten separate volumes "bound" together with a plastic sleeve. The 10 volumes cover, Eastern Region South, Yorkshire and Lancashire, LM Region South, LM Region North West, Wales and Borders, Thames - Cotswold, Wessex and West Country, South and Southeast and the Scottish Region. Liberally illustrated with b/w photographs and maps, unpaginated.

London: The Machinery Publishing Co., 1923. Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in maroon cloth with black printed labels on spine and front board, no dw, 113 figures and tables, 291pp. Methods of calculating the strength and dimensions of parts when subjected to vatios kinds of stress, mechanical power transmission problems and the general procedures in designing machine parts.

London: Collins, 1976. Cloth. G to Vg/G to Vg. Bound in red cloth, with dw, 6 b/w photographic plates, 2 genealigical charts, 511pp. Ex-library but with new endpapers. DW spine slightly faded.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1925. 2nd. Imp. . Quarter Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in quarter caramel coloured cloth, boards covered in grey paper with white printed paper labels, no dw, 199pp. Enclosed are 3 newspaper articles, one a review of " The Silver Tassle ", another on his three plays which present the most tragic episodes in Ireland's history and the third is about his play, " The Bishop's Bonfire " which contains a good picture of O'Casey. Corners are bumped.

London: Macmillan and Co,, 1946. Cloth. Very Good/G to Vg. Bound in turquoise cloth, with unclipped dw, text is followed by 8 short musical scores, 162pp. The 3 act play attempts to give an impression of the Battle of Britain with characters of Land Girls, Home Guards and young Irishmen in the RAF but the central character is an Irish butler who says " Steel's a sensible embroidery for an ageing head to-day ".

Dublin: Educational Company of Ireland. n.d. . Softback. G to Vg. Softback, with printed pale pinkish brown wrappers, the Irish words are printed in the Irish script, 199pp.

London: Macmillan, 1988. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in red cloth with DW. Full of b/w in-text drawings, 199pp

Ringwood, Hampshire: New Forest Leaves, 1983. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in blue cloth with unclipped DW, b/w frontis portrait, " Nathaniel Hawthorne at the time he was named consul ", 95 illustrations in text, illustrated blue endpapers, " Artist's impression of Cunard Line's "Niagra", Liverpool bound with the Hawthorne family aboard. " This book details the adventures of Hawthorne as US Consul in Liverpool. There he had to deal with ruthless sea captains, eccentrics, expatriates, refugees and a war scare. There is also a description he gave of boarding house life under the eye of Mrs. Blodget.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945. 4th. Imp. . Cloth. Very Good/Good. Bound in royal blue cloth, with clipped dw, 11 maps, 500pp. A history sponsored by the Society for Old Testament Study. DW has been repaired and its spine is darkened.

London: Elm Tree Books, 1981. 3rd Imp . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in maroon cloth, with DW, black endpapers, full of colour and b/w illustrations, 159pp

London: A&C Black, 1961. Eighth Edition . Cloth. Very Good/G to Vg. Bound in blue cloth, with unclipped dw, 4 maps, 511pp .In this edition the last chapter, on the revolutionary progress in philosophic and scientific thought in the century has been rewritten. Spine and margins of the dw are faded.

Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1935. Third Edition . Cloth. G to Vg. Thick card boards covered in pale blue cloth, printed on the front board is a coloured picture of a mature tree in front of a small village. Words (in English) of 90 songs about Ireland, 62 in-text vignettes, 111pp.

New York: RIzzoli International Publications, 1980. Softback. G to Vg. Softback, a chronicle of work on projects in Chicago, Munster, Oberlin, Rotterdam,Las Vagas, New York City (2), Salinas, Houston and Des Moins, with illustrative photographs, 100pp. Front wrapper has a crease.