Search Results: Titles starting with O from The Brick Row Book Shop

London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789, 1789. First edition. ESTC T71718; Rothschild 1551; Pine-Coffin 784-5; Robinson, Wayward Women, page 243. Edges and boards a little rubbed and worn; light foxing to the prelims; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary red half calf, blue paper boards, marbled endpapers, green leather spine labels, gilt rules and lettering. Six pages of publisher's advertisements in volume two. In 1784 Hester Lynch Thrale (1741-1821), the famous friend and confidante of Samuel Johnson, married an Italian musician, Gabriel Mario Piozzi, and they soon set off for Europe, where they traveled for three years, which she artfully chronicled in one of the most entertaining accounts of the Grand Tour. Written in an informal conversational style, Observations and Reflections is "alive with present-tense immediacy, to erode the barriers between diary and travel narrative. Her delight in Piozzi and in Italy was everywhere apparent in the materials she included in this… Read More

La Haye: (Société Typographique de Bouillon), 1772, 1772. First edition. OCLC records nine copies: four in the US (UCLA, Harvard, Princeton and Vanderbilt) and five in European libraries. Edges a little rubbed; small paper library shelf label at the foot of the spine; faint remains of a bookplate or label on the front paste-down; very good copy, in a fine contemporary binding.. 12mo, contemporary cat's paw calf, marbled paper endpapers, brown leather spine label, gilt decorations and lettering. A philosophical novel, written in the tradition of Persian letters and the Oriental tale, by journalist and revolutionary Jean-Louis Carra (1742-93) who, among other literary activities, contributed to the Encyclopedia of Yverdon. Odazir is a Syrian lord who undertakes a long journey in Europe in search of the truth about contemporary society. The tale is prefaced by a seven-page dedication to the "Grand Counsel in Aleppo: One will be surprised, perhaps, among the polite Nations of Europe, that a… Read More

London: Printed for Edw. Husbands, 1643, 1643. First edition. ESTC R17603; Wing E1780. Top margins trimmed closely, partially shaving the page numbers; edges of the final leaf a little toned and slightly chipped at the edges, and with a neat repair with two words in manuscript facsimile; very good copy.. Small 4to, modern black quarter morocco, decorated paper boards, gilt lettering. Title within a typographical border, woodcut head-piece and initial, text in black letter, eight pages. An interesting document issued 18 November 1643, at the beginning of the English Civil War, that called for the protection and preservation of libraries and archives from sale or dispersal by the Committees for Sequestration, which were confiscating estates and assets of the Royalists. The ordinance denounces as "prejudiciall to the publique" any "dispersing by sale or otherwise" of books seized by the parliamentary Committees for Sequestration, whether "Manuscripts or written Bookes, proceedings of Courts, evidences… Read More

In fine condition.. Single sheet folded to make four 24 x 19 cm pages, approximately 1,000 words. A letter from 21-year-old Julia White Peck (1829-1859) to her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Marsh of St. Louis, Missouri. Julia was about to travel to Turkey to serve as a Christian missionary with her fiancé, Rev. Dwight Marsh, who was stationed in Mosul (then part of Turkey). Her knowledge of Turkey came from the letters she had received from Dwight Marsh and conversations with a missionary, Thomas Laurie, who had recently returned to New York from Turkey. She expresses concern about "mingling with oppressed and degraded beings . . . a people whose habits and morals are so much inferior to ours." She had been told of "the moral degradation, the deceitfulness, ingratitude of the Arabs, of the low condition of our own sex. Oh it is a dark picture and one which makes a woman cling to the delightful privilege of her own sweet home in America." But, she writes, she will persevere in her work on behalf… Read More

Amsterdam: Engraved by J. Houbraken for J. & P. Knapton, London, 1747, 1747. Wimsatt, Portraits of Alexander Pope, 66.15. Two abrasions to the margins of the lower half of the image; two tears in the lower blank margin; a good example.. 46 x 31 cm (sheet), 35 x 22 cm (image). One of many famous portraits of the great poet of the Augustan age, Alexander Pope. This truncated engraved version of Van Loo's oil portrait is surrounded by an elaborate allegorical scene, depicting Britannia with classical references. This engraving was made in Amsterdam for Thomas Birch's Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, volume 2.

N.p., n.d. [but circa 1960], 1960. Hinged on the verso of a board and matted, which should probably be replaced. Original wooden frame preserved, but chipped and worn.. 27 x 20 cm, signed on the verso in pencil by the photographer William Ward Beecher. A photographic portrait of John Steinbeck taken by artist William Ward Beecher (1921-2006), a descendant of the famous New England Beechers. How many portraits were produced from this one sitting is not recorded, but there were at least two: this one and a similar one that was used in 1961 on the rear panel of the dust jacket of Winter of Our Discontent. This one, which apparently was not published, was the personal property of John and Elaine Steinbeck, and was sold as part of the remains of their estate in February 2020. Betty and William Ward Beecher and the Steinbecks were apparently friends. The Beechers had books inscribed to them by John Steinbeck, and the Steinbecks owned a few of Beecher's lithographs and paintings.

[San Francisco: William Dassonville], 1915, 1915. In fine condition.. Platinum print, 20.5 x 15.5 cm, with the photographer's estate stamp ("Estate of William Dassonville") on the reverse of the print. A rare and fine photographic portrait of the prominent California poet George Sterling (1869-1926), taken by the prominent California photographer, William Dassonville (1879-1957) and inscribed to Dassonville by Sterling in the lower left corner of the image: "Dear Dassonville: This is the best picture ever taken of your friend George Sterling 1915." Sterling was a photogenic subject and by 1915 Dassonville was well established as one of the most sought-after portrait photographers in California, and the combination of the two makes for a striking portrait. 1915 was also the year Sterling's famous poetical contributions to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760, 1760. First and only edition; there was a reissue in 1861 with a cancel title. ESTC T136422; NCBEL II, 640. Title-page a little stained and foxed, with a small piece torn from the lower corner; text a little foxed; very good copy. Uncommon.. 8vo, modern blue half morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt lettering. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie. Ink signature of Jas. French, dated 1764, on the title-page.

London: Sands & Company, 1900, 1900. First edition. Binding a little worn and soiled; some light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, original pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g. Conrad's story "An Outpost of Progress," which first appeared in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897 and was collected in Tales of Unrest (1898), is included here in an anthology published to raise funds for the besieged citizens of the town of Ladysmith, South Africa, a contribution Conrad make along with 15 other authors (F. Anstey, W.E. Norris, Edgar Fawcett and Eden Phillpotts among them) without fee. The profits from the book went to the Mayor of Ladysmith, a town which was under siege by the Boers and not freed until early 1900. This is Conrad's first appearance in an anthology, and it is one of his scarcest works of this kind.