Search Results: Authors starting with O from Ariadne Books

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2011. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. A poignant and intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of forty-six years. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

London: Harper Collins, 1999. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Harper Collins, London, 1999. First edition. Book condition: very good. Only very slight wera to boards and a little toning to paper. Dust jacket: very good. Unclipped and with a slight amount of edgewear and a publisher's promotional sticker to front. Another tale of Jack Aubrey and Stepehn Maturin. Aubrey has reached the top of the Captain's list and the odds against his promotion to flag rank are lengthening. On the other hand, his old shipmate Maturin has lost none of his spark. In the revolutionary politics of South America, whither the Surprise is bound, his expertise in intelligence work proves indispensible. As ever, O'Brian offers his readers a gripping tale written with great skill.

London : Faber & Faber, 2012. First edition, first impression. Hardback. [i - vi], vii - x, [1 - 2], 3 - 339pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. The publication of Edna O'Brien's memoir was a major literary event. O'Brien was born in Ireland in 1930, and her brilliant debut novel, "The Country Girls" was banned there on its publication in 1960. Since then she has created a body of work which bears comparison with the very best writing of the twentieth century. In "Country Girl" we come face to face with a life of high drama and contemplation. And along the way there are encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom lend this life, so gorgeously, sometimes painfully remembered here, a terrible poignancy. In prose which sparkles with the effortless gifts of a master, Edna O'Brien has recast her life with the imaginative insight of a poet. This is a book of unfathomable depth and honesty. Book in near fine condition. Very… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2019. First edition, 2019. Hardback. 230pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of north-eastern Nigeria, through the forest and beyond; a place where traumas are met with the blinkered judgement of a society in denial. How do we love in a world that has lost its moorings? How can we comprehend the barbarism of our enemies, and learn forgiveness? Edna O'Brien's novel pierces to the heart of these questions. Book in fine condition, Dust jacket fine and unclipped.

London: Constable, 2002. First edition. Hardback. As New/Fine. Constable, London, 2002. First edition. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket condition: near fine & unclipped. An international sports star is found murdered - her face mutilated in a bizarre, ritualistic manner. What is the significance of the poetic text the killer has left at the crime scene? Why did he surgically remove the victim's left eye? And can a Cambridge lecturer help the police reconstruct the killer's fantasy in time to save her own life? The key to understanding the killer's terrifying motive lies buried in the works of a poet who has been dead for nearly four hundred years...

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1987. First edition. Softcover. Very Good/No dust jacket issued.. Henry Holt & Co, (Owl Books), New York, 1987. First Owl Book Edition. Book condition: very good with little sign of wear and no creasing to the spine. 'We have long needed a group biography of the modern Irish literary renaissance and Ulick O'Connor has, in small compass, given us an overview of the monolithic characters and their friends, neighbors, associates and gossips who made up the twentieth-century Irish movement. They turned a province of English literature into a great Dominion.' - Leon Edel, author of 'Bloomsbury: A House of Lions'.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1971. First edition, 1971. Hardback. 144pp. Dust jacket. In this book the author deals examines the wide range of wood engraving techniques and their application for the printmaker. Each illustration has been chosen to show a specific technique which has been tried and proved. But each one is just a suggestion on which the reader can build their own creative approach. The author also deals with the types of wood required, tools and methods of cutting, transferring a design, engraving and printing presses etc. Clear diagrams of tools, photographs of processes and engravings - representative work from the eighteenth century to the modern day - combine to make a book which is both practical and stimulating. Book in very good condition. Dust jacket very good. Price clipped. A little rubbed and some light edge wear. Slight toning to internal surfaces around the edges.

London: Harvill Secker, 2010. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Harvill Secker, London, 2010. Book condition: near fine & unread. Dust jacket: very good. Unclipped and with only the slightest edge wear. Two stickers to front ('By the author of Star of the Sea' and a price sticker). Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious & flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. This is a story of love's commitment, of partings and reconcilliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms. A profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting novel.

London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1976. First published in 1959, this is a new edition from 1976. Hardback. xix, 280pp. Dust jacket. Mackay's unrivalled type specimen book was first published in 1959 and this is a copy of the new, third edition. The subtitle, "A Designer's Manual', is fully justified since the book includes 100 pages of specimen text settings showing the typefaces in vartious sizes and leadings. For each typeface every alphabet in both text and display sizes is shown complete with figures and marks of punctuation. Character and word count tables are included. The text faces are: Barbon, Baskerville, Bell, Bembo, Bulmer, Caslon, Ehrhardt, Garamond, Imprint, Plantin, Poliphilus, Scptch Rpman, Times, Van Dijck and Walbaum.The display faces are equally wide-ranging and include some 30-odd designs for Typositor filmsetting. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Minor edge wear. Some slight discolouration to spine.

Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1975. First edition, 1975. Hardback. 206pp. Dust jacket. The forty-two species or subspecies of duck which occur in Europe, including eleven vagrants from North America or Asia, are the subject of this book. The author is an accepted authority on ducks and geese. The text is complemented by more than 80 line drawings and by colour plates by Carol Ogilvie. Book in very good condition. Small area of damage to marginal area of pages 49/50 resulting in a v shaped tear, a small puncture mark to pages 51/52 and very small pressure indentation to the next few pages. As this is to the margin, there is no impact on readability. Otherwise the book would have been in near fine condition. Dust jacket very good. Front flap clipped with a publisher's revised price sticker above the cut.

Berkhamsted: T & A D Poyser, 1978. First edition, 1978. Hardback. 350pp. Dust jacket. This book covers the geese of North America, Europe and Asia, and thus the world species except for the Hawaian Goose or Ne-Ne. Detailed text is complemented by migration and distribution maps. Comprehensive chapters are also devoted to classification, ecology, breeding, identification, and to exploitation and conservation. The identification chapter is especially helpful with sections on adult and first winter birds, downy young, plumage variants and voice, for each species and sub-species, as well as guidance on ageing and sexing geese in the field. The text is supported by 16 identification plates in colour by Carol Ogilvie, showing details of heads and bills as well as all species in flight and on the ground, and downy young. Book in very good condition. Dust jacket good. Price clipped and with the ghosts of two stickers to the front flap suggesting the front flap was clipped of its original price and a… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1946. Eighteenth printing, 1946. Hardback. 319pp. Pictorial boards. No jacket. A World Famous Horse Story Library Selection. Book in fair condition. Boards generally a little rubbed, some wear to corners and extremities of spine. Front hinge weak and front free endpaper no longer adhering to half-title page. Text block itself is sound with all pages firmly held but there is a distinct lean to it. Light soiling/marking to text block edges. Internally clean and bright and free of spotting.

London: Heinemann, 1986. First edition, 1986. Hardback. 136pp. Dust jacket. Ben Okri's first collection of short stories, full of lyricism and humour. Book in very good condition and appears unread. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Minor edge wear and a little damp staining to an area around the head of the spine (no evidence of any damp damage to the book itself).

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002. First edition. Book condition: near fine - just a little light tanning to the text block edges. Dust jacket condition: very good. A little light creasing along the edges. In this novel, six ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey to paradise. They have been brought together by a mysterious benefactor who has proposed that they make a television film of their journey. And because they are all in need of a job, they accept. This Ben Okri at his most expressive and imaginative, the award-winning writer and poet explores art, travel, history, love, friendship and renewal, with a gentle humour and a provocative vision to produce this enduring testament to man's almost forgotten ideal of simple living, a lyrical antidote to modern life.

London: Threshold/Harrap, 1987. Limited edition of 300, this being copy number 89. Signed by the author. Folio. 272pp. Publisher's blue half morocco gilt. Original blue cloth solander box. Text by Peter Olney with a foreword by Sir Peter Scott. The book also contains a biography of Henry Jones by Nigel Sitwell. There is an appendix listing all of the bird paintings by Henry Jones (1838 - 1921) in the possession of The Zoological Society of London and a bibliography. 60 tipped-in full page colour plates each with a description of the birds illustrated on the facing verso. Near fine with hardly any evidence of use. Solander box in good condition. Split to one corner of the lid and some slight discolouration to the upper surface. This is a very heavy book but no additional shipping charges to UK destinations.

London: Folio Society, 1997. Folio Society edition, 1997. Hardback. xvii, 253pp. Slipcase. Introduced by Hilary Mantel and illustrated by Lucy Walker. Book in near fine condition. Slipcase very good with some marking to one surface and just a little general scuffing.

Children's Press, 2007. Hardback. Very good/No dust jacket issued.. Children's Press, 2007. Book condition: very good with minimal signs of wear. Ex library book with a 'withdrawn' stamp to ffep and a stamp for San Diego County Library - otherwise unmarked internally. White security sticker to rear past down. No dust jacket. An invaluable resource for facts and figures, and a fascinating, highly visual introduction to Bangladesh. Full colour photos, original maps and an authoritative 'to find out more' section including internet resurces.

London: Folio Society, 1968. Hardback. Good/Slipcase in good condition. Folio Society, London, 1968. Book condition: good. Minimal shelf wear. Spine a little faded. Internally clean and unmarked. Original slipcase in good condition. A little scuffing and rubbing and some colour fade where the sun has bleached it. The love letters written by Dorothy Osborne to William Temple stand with the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn as fascinating personal documents of one of the most eventful periods in our history.

Melbourne: Ramsay, 1926. De-luxe edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies - this being no 915. Folio. [11], 166pp. List of subscribers at end. Pale blue cloth lettered and decorated in yellow. No jacket. This is one of the copies Muir describes as 'unsigned and bound in a cheaper binding with col. instead of gilt lettering &c, suggesting that they may have bound up later and sold as remainders'. Top edge not gilt and no tissue guards to the illustrations. In the chronological biography of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite compiled by Michael Organ it is speculated that only 600 true de-luxe editions were bound and signed and that this was possibly due to lower than expected sales and led to a further 400 copies being bound more cheaply in pale blue covers and without the tissue guards. Altogether a fabulous book. 51 hand-tipped plates of which 19 (including the fronitspiece) are coloured. Black & white vignette and numerous text illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good condition. Boards… Read More

London: Kyle Books, 2023. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author 'Best Wishes!' to the half title page. Hardback. 223pp. Illustrated covers. No jacket as issued. In the Cornish harbour town of Port Isaac where he lives and works, Nathan Outlaw transforms the fishermen's daily catch into delicious meals. This book contains his expert advice on what fish to cook and how to cook it, alongside over 70 of his best seafood recipes. With illustrated preparation techniques, all of Nathan's top tips and species substitutes for every recipe, everyone can cook delicious fish dishes at home. From hearty stews to delicate soups, moreish snacks to perfect pan-fried dinners and super seafood salads to smoky barbecue specials, Nathan Outlaw provides many tasty and inspiring ways to cook seasonal and sustainable fish throughout the year. Nathan Outlaw is a Michelin-starred British seafood chef. He trained with Rick Stein, and has two restaurants and a guest house in Port Isaac,… Read More