Search Results: Titles starting with O from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

London: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Pp. xii+354(last blank), half-title and title page vignettes; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; Simon & Schuster, London, 2011. First U.K. edition..

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967. Pp. 256; tail of spine lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly rubbed and a trifle soiled, edges lightly worn with a few tiny chips; outer leaves slightly foxed, free endpapers lightly offset; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1967.First Australian edition. *Author's first novel.

London: N, 1983. Pp. 144(last blank); narrow demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; Heinemann, London, 1983. First edition. Lilley A.27. *Powell's first novel since Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975, the final volume of A Dance to the Music of Time).

London: Faber & Faber, 1953. Pp. 80; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, backstrip slightly browned; free endpapers faintly offset, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Faber, 1953. First edition. *With publisher's embargo sheet, date-stamped 6 Nov 1953, loosely inserted.

London: Percival Marshall & Co, 1962. Pp. xiv+102, frontispiece plus 25 plates (1 folding), text figures, bibliography, index; tall demy 8vo; blue papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, the fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edge blue; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with closed tear to top edge of front panel repaired with paper on reverse, small triangular piece torn from top edge of back panel; bookseller's stamp at foot of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers slightly tape marked; Percival Marshall, London, 1962. First edition..

London: Macdonald & Janes, 1976. Pp. [32], illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, endpaper map; demy 4o; pictorial papered boards, edges lightly rubbed, the upper board slightly foxed; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Macdonald & Janes, London, 1976. First edition. Worlds of Yesterday series.

London: Hutchinson, 1985. Pp. 96(last blank), frontispiece; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, faintly scuffed; text block faintly browned; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1985. First edition. *A paperback original. Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon was first performed at Covent Garden in 1826, with 'an execrable libretto by Planche which has hindered modern productions. When Anthony Burgess was approached by the Scottish Opera to write a new text, he found that the pantomime extravaganza of the original was curiously evocative of today's world: for the Caliph's Hall in Baghdad he has substituted a kind of modern Tehran.... Puck remains, and Oberon's magic horn is a powerful symbol in both music and text because, for all its humour and its modern implications, this is still very much a fairy opera' [wrapper blurb].

London: Elliot Stock, 1887. Pp. xii+290+[2](advertisements), title page printed in red & black; olive green cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, the cloth a trifle flecked and slightly rubbed; uncut; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the endpapers slightly offset, a few tiny edge splits, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Elliot Stock, London, 1887. First edition, first issue? *With no errata, and the text on page 92 not corrected (i.e., repeating the rhyme 'deep' on two of the lines of verse). Includes chapters on Milton; Pope; Jonson; Emerson; book-buying; a.o.

London: Elliot Stock, 1885. Pp. viii+266, the title page printed in red & black, floral patterned endpapers; f'cap. 8vo; olive green cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly worn; uncut; upper hinge cracked, the lower hinge starting, bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, bookseller's blind stamp on upper free endpaper, outer leaves offset, a little minor marginal pencilling and occasional slight soiling; Elliot Stock, London, 1893. Fourth edition. *With the book labels of W. Metcalfe and Claude Prance on upper pastedown, with Prance's pencilled signature and provenance note on verso of upper free endpaper. Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his label also on upper pastedown.

Washington: N, 1996. Pp. xiv+234(last blank), 8 plates; dust wrapper; Brassey's, Washington, D.C., 1996. *West Point cadet Richard Cox disappeared from the Academy and was never seen again. The author pursues the mystery years later with interesting results.

N: Andre Deutsch, 1969. A report by the Working Party set up by a Conference convened by the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Foreword by John Montgomerie. Pp. 124, appendices; price-clipped dust wrapper, back panel a trifle soiled; Andre Deutsch, London, 1969. First edition.

London: T. Becket, 1787. in his late treatise on the venereal disease... [In three parts]. 1/. Ending with the Subject of Gonorrhoea, and Second Part of his Work. Pp. vi+110+[2]advertisement, verso blank); 2/. Treating on strictures in the urethra, his cure by caustick, his apparatus for conducting the caustick; and his chapter on impotence... Pp. iv+150+[2](advertisement); 3/. Treating on chancre, bubo, and lues venerea. Also, a full investigation of some recent and serious cases of lues venerea, conveyed by transplantation of teeth. Pp. [ii]+206(last advertisement); [19th century?] calf boards with decorative gilt border, edges lightly worn, the fore-corners slightly chipped, rebacked with later calf spine ruled in gilt around raised bands, with gilt lettered black leather title label; marbled edges and endpapers; upper hinge starting, number stamp on recto of lower free endpaper, a couple of small edge splits and chips, scattered foxing and browning, occasional slight soiling; printed for T.… Read More

London: The Argonaut Press, 1933. Edited from the text of 1622 with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by James A. Williamson. Illustrated with four maps. Pp. xcii+190+[2](colophon, blank), publisher's device on title page printed in blue & black, 4 maps (including the frontispiece, 2 folding), facsimile of the 1622 title page, appendices, index; cr. 4to; qr. vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, blue buckram with small shield device in colour & gilt on upper board, cloth a trifle flecked, the lower board slightly warped; uncut and mostly unopened; ribbon marker; the free endpapers slightly offset; The Argonaut Press, London, 1933. Edition limited to 475 numbered copies on Japon vellum..

Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. Foreword by H. R. H. The Duke of Edinburgh. Pp. 112, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (some double page, including the title page), index; demy 4to; brown boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind; dust wrapper; Phaidon, Oxford, 1980. First trade edition..

London: Skeffington & Son Ltd, n.d.. , casual and intimate. Being the second volume of "That Reminds Me". 192, frontispiece portrait, 10 plates, index; boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges creased and worn; minor production fault to bottom corner of lower free endpaper; Skeffington, London, n.d. [1946]. First edition. *Second volume of autobiography from the prolific novelist: this was her 87th book.

London: Macmillan, 1903. In two volumes. Volume I: Vanua Levu, Fiji. A description of its leading physical and geological characters; Volume II: Plant Dispersal. Pp. xx+392+xxviii+628(last colophon), 18 plates including 7 maps or charts (all but one of which are coloured and 2 of which are double page lithographs with coloured highlights), text figures, appendices, indices; med. 8vo; rebound in modern qr. calf, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, marbled papered boards; uncut; later endpapers; library blind stamp on title page and ink number stamp on fore-edges and at foot of dedication page both volumes, a few pages slightly creased (including the plate opposite p. 152 in Volume I), a couple of short edge splits or chips, a little light soiling; Macmillan, London, 1903-1906. Both first editions. *The second volume is a pioneering study of the movement of plant seeds across the Pacific.

London: Colonial Office, 1959. A report to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on investigations conducted over the period 1954-1956. Pp. [v]+126(processed, printed on rectos only, including several folding charts), 2 folding maps at end; folio; stiff card wrappers, printed in black, tape reinforced at spine; edges of leaves lightly soiled; [Colonial Office, London, 1959]. *Note: all plates referred to in the text have been omitted.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. Pp. viii+262, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (some coloured), index; med. 8vo; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/Books of Kells/Bernard Quaritch, New Castle/London, 2012. First edition. *Memoirs of the author, publisher and bookseller. 'Including serious essays on diverse characters who have fascinated him, the book discusses the Bowdlers and their "Family Shakespeare"; William Fowler of Winterton, who neglected his humble calling and privately produced books of the greatest magnificence on Roman Mosaic Floors...; a little-known Oxford Antiquary and print-maker Joseph Skelton; the once-so-popular Robert Surtees and John Leech...; on the neglected theme of Binders' Lettering; and on his lifelong hero William Morris. There is also a new assessment of the Italian printer Giambatista Bodoni' [wrapper blurb].

N: N, 1920. [Author's complimentary offprint from the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia, Vol. VI (Part II) 1919-1920]. Pp. [6](numbered [107]-111, last blank); printed paper wrappers, stapled, with ownership stamp in blind near top fore-corner of upper wrapper, a little light foxing and browning, edges a trifle rubbed and split, top fore-corner of lower wrapper faintly creased; the backstrip almost completely split; staples slightly rusted; Government Printer, Perth, 1921. *Stenochitons are long slender marine molluscs [chitons] always associated with seagrasses.

London: Ian Allan Ltd, 1986. Pp. 288, pictorial double title page, numerous text illustrations (several full page), addenda, index; demy 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards, laminate lifting slightly on upper board near spine, small circular discoloured patch within printed barcode on the lower board; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Ian Allan Ltd, London, 1986. *First published in 1964.