Search Results: Titles starting with O from Tannery Books

Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1995. Later printing. Paperback. Very Good. William S. Croker, The Oak Island Quest, Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Lancelot Press, 1995, ninth printing. From the cover: "What is the real truth behind the Oak Island Mystery? Were pirates really ever involved? An Engineer/Surveyor investigates Oak Island and speculative theories link the mystery with an ancient civilization and the UFO phenomenon." Orange paper covers with red illustrations over the title words, author photo and bio on back, 8vo, 194 pp with bibliography, bw photos. Very Good: Crease near spine, price sticker on back, light foxing on edges, pages crisp, no markings.

New York: The Columbia University Press, 1906. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Robert Julius Lau, Old Babylonian Temple Records, New York, The Columbia University Press (The Macmillan Company), December, 1906, First Printing. Brick-red cloth hc with gold publisher logo on front, 8vo (24 cm), xii, 90 pp text, 42 pp glossary, 35 single-sided plates. Records of temple donations, supplies for workers and livestock, and payments for officials. Good: ex-library with spine sticker, plates and stamps, corners bumped and wearing, tear pp 35-36 with no loss, no internal markings.

Houghton Mifflin & Co,, 1888. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library. Charles Dudley Warner, On Horseback - A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee With Notes of Travel in Mexico and California. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., First Thus [previous version in The Atlantic Monthly, 1885]. Brown cloth hc with black-stamped cover illustration and gilt spine titling, small 8vo (18 cm), [iv] 332 pp, 16 pp ads. Literary, astute, and humorous, Warner writes of religious services, racial inequality, social quirks and people he meets in Reconstruction South, including a young Appalachian beauty who spits tobacco and an active 100-year-old former slave. Good (no DJ): ex-library with stickers and stamps, covers rubbed and spine fraying, po names on ffep, light tanning, no noticeable internal markings.

Lewisburg, Penn.: Oral Traditions Project, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Jeannette Lasansky; Celia Y. Oliver et al. On the Cutting Edge : Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions, Lewisburg, Penn., Oral Traditions Project, Union County Historical Society, 1994. Stiff, illustrated paper covers, 4to (30 cm), 118 pp, many bw and color illustrations. Topics include Shelburne's Quilt Collection, the DAR quilt collection, political textiles, Pennsylvania, Amish quilts, Chesapeake plantations, New Jersey, Great Depression, feed sacks, Hispanic traditions in New Mexico, and myths (Were 13 quilts in the dowry chest?). Very Good: light bumping and scuffing, pages crisp, no markings.

Greensboro: Greensboro Jewish Federation, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Good. ed. Irene H. Cohen, Linda E. Fleishman, One People, One Heart: The Greensboro Beltsy Connection, Greensboro, Greensboro Jewish Federation, 2002, First Printing. Bilingual English-Russian eclectic memoirs, poems and essays from the Greensboro, N.C. community, including a man – whose father was the [German] emperor's chauffeur – who escaped 1938 Germany into a European and American life of adventures and hard work (p. 96). Blue illustrated hc, horizontal 4to (28 cm), [iv] 156 pp including 16 pages glossy color plates [4 pp index of authors], bw portrait photos and drawings throughout text. Good: lightly bumped with two dents on back cover, ffep clipped, no markings. Printed in USA

Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. Samuel Tallmadge, John Barr, edited by Almon W. Lauber of the Division of Archives and History, Albany, N.Y., The University of the State of New York, 1932 [probable first printing from scholars listed, although WorldCat lists a 1902 by the same university]. Blue cloth hc, thick 4to (25 cm), plain endpapers, 934 pp including introduction and index, 18 plates bw photos and reproductions. Good+/no DJ: covers scuffed with corners wearing, po bookplate on front pastedown, pages lightly tanned but crisp, no internal markings.

New York: William Ross, 1788. Reprint. Leather_bound. Fair. Joseph Phipps, The Original and Present State of Man, Briefly Considered: Wherein is Shewn, The Nature of his FALL, and the Necessity, Means and Manner of his RESTORATION, through the Sacrifice of CHRIST, and the sensible Operation of that DIVINE PRINCIPLE of GRACE and TRUTH, held forth to the World, by the PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, to which are added, Some REMARKS on the ARGUMENTS of SAMUEL NEWTON, of Norwich. New York, reprinted by William Ross, 1788 (first state was London 1773 - Smith p. 414). Leather 8vo (20 cm), [ii] 230 pp. Fair: Bumped and worn, paper covering residue and tape repair, old po markings and dampstains with no loss.

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1893. Hardcover. Good. P. V. N. Myers, President of Belmont College, Ohio; Outlines of Mediaeval and Modern History, A Text-Book for High Schools, Seminaries, and Colleges. Boston, Ginn & Company, 1893.One-quarter leather over dark brown cloth HC, 8vo, plain endpapers, xii, 740 pp with index, 13 color maps, Good-: covers worn with about half of spine missing, a few pages bumped or small edge tears with no loss, no markings.