Search Results: Titles starting with O from Anglophile Books

Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell. Very Good+. c1935, 1996. Softcover; Trade PB. 210 pages. Faint edgewear, spine ends lightly bumped, a few smudges on page edges. A nice copy.; <b>A non-Barsetshire novel, this semi-autobiographical book is one of AT's earliest efforts.</b> .

London: Bodley Head. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1981. First British Edition. Hardcover. 214 pages. Previous owner signature, spine ends bumped; dust wrapper, not price clipped, is edgeworn. .

New York: Little, Brown. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1989. First US Edition. Hardcover. A nice copy that has a 1 and 1/2" red grease pencil smear on front endpaper top corner. Unclipped dust wrapper lightly rubbed and edgeworn.; <B>The tenth Richard Jury / Melrose Plant mystery. 'Feeling burned out, Jury takes an unplanned stopover in Yorkshire and books a room at a cozy inn called the Old Silent. Violence finds him anyway when he becomes the only witness to a murder. Though Nell Healey shot her husband in cold blood, Jury will go to any lengths to help her, including taking sick leave from Scotland Yard to investigate. Calling on his old friend Melrose Plant for help, he must break through Nell's reticence to untangle a web of twisted motives--and twisted lives....'</B>; Image is actual copy on offer. .

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Very Good+. c1980, 1990. Paperback; Trade PB. 383 pages. No spine or cover creases, light edgewear, a few faint smudges to page edges. A very nice copy. ; <b>This edition has a foreword by Nadine Gordimer. Olive Schreiner was admired by, and influenced, Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby.</b> .

Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press. Near Fine. 1994. First Edition. Softcover; Trade PB. ISBN: 0520085027. Photographs and b&w drawings; 241 pages; Author uses oral histories, workers' writings, newspaper articles, official reports and factory song lyrics to examine the experience of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I. ; An analysis of British women munitions workers during World War I. . Catalogs: Women's History. Keywords: World War I, Munitions, British History.

London: HMSO. Near Fine. 1995. Softcover; Trade PB. 154 pages. Very faint edgewear; book looks unread.; <B>Preface by Sir Harry Secombe; from the back cover "This series explores the vast changes that took place in people's lives over the first seventy years of this century through cuttings chosen from hundreds of newspapers, both national and regional, journals, comics and magazines. The books are illustrated with dozens of advertisements, maps, cartoons and unique photographs. The serious, the not-so-serious and the frankly trivial stories of the period 1900-1970 are highlighted, forming a patchwork of remarkable events, people and ideas- some a part of history, some (deservedly?) forgotten. " This title focuses on transport in Britain.'</B> .

NY: Scholastic. Very Good+. c1937, 2002. Reprint. Softcover; Trade PB. Inside of covers browned, covers have light edgewear but no spine or cover creases as book is unread, page edges pale brown. ; <b>The third book in this beloved author's "Little House" series with wonderful b&w illustrations by Garth Williams. The Ingalls family leave Kansas for Minnesota. They live in a home made of sod while Pa builds them a brand new house beside Plum Creek.</b> Image is one of actual copies on offer. .

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. Good+. c1942,1971. Reprint. Softcover; Mass Market PB. Spine and cover creases, covers have light edgewear and soil. Pages age browned but not brittle; interior pages clean, none loose. ; <B>Here is a brilliantly funny account of Monica Dickens' one year of nurse training. The book is full of cheerful impudence, an astute power of observation, and a Dickensian insight into character.'</B>Image is actual copy on offer. .

London: Persephone Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. c1950, 2004. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Softcover. <b>Afterword by Max Arthur. One of the great deceptions of World War II took place in April 1943 when a body wearing a Royal Marines uniform was found off the coast of Fascist Spain. With him was a courier's briefcase containing documents indicating that the Allies were about to invade Europe through Greece—a gambit dubbed "Operation Mincemeat" that the Nazis swallowed whole—while the real Allied objective was Sicily. Officially shrouded in secrecy, the story became the basis for this novel published in 1950 against the wishes of the British government. The film "The Man Who Never Was" was also based on this true incident.</b>; Dust wrapper faintly edgeworn; a very nice copy. Persephone editions have uniform grey covers and dust wrappers with lovely decorated endpapers and bookmarks unique to each title. This title has… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good- in Very Good- dust wrapper. 1976. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316781754. 240 pages; Brown cloth binding has bumped and worn (not to boards) spine ends and corners. A bit of residue from dust wrapper on spine tail (corresponding small dampstain on dw). A few smudges on page edges; interior pages clean and bright, no binding problems. No remainder mark. Unclipped dust wrapper is lightly rubbed and edgeworn with a few creases and tiny chips.; Illustrated with maps, drawings, photographs in b&w and colour. This survey 'unfolds the six--hundred-year drama of the exploration of the East by the travelers, scholars, and diplomats of Europe' such as: Marco Polo, Yermak, Jesuit priests, Thomas Coryat, the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Marc Aurel Stein, and Sven Hedin.. Catalogs: History. Keywords: Discovery, Exploration, Asia, Marco Polo, Sven Hedin, China, British Author, Tibet.

Ware, England: Wordsworth Editions. Very Good. (1928)1992. Softcover; Trade PB. 162 pages. Cover creases and a bit of edgewear, no spine creases, pages clean and bright.; <B>This is Woolf's biography/fantasy of Vita Sackville-West and her beloved ancestral home, Knole. Orlando lives for 300 years, beginning in the 16th century, as a boy and then magically awakes one day as a woman. Basis for movie of the same name. </B> .

New York: Vintage Books. Very Good+. c1984,1988. First Edition Thus. Softcover; Trade PB. ISBN: 0394759842. B&W Photographs; 680 pages; No spine creases, a bit of edgewear and rubbing, page edges lightly yellowed with some smudges. ; Extensive and definitive biography of Wilde. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize.. Catalogs: Biography. Keywords: Wilde, Oscar, British Author, Ireland, England, 19th Century British Culture, Gay.

London: Persephone Books. Very Good+. 2009. Softcover; Trade PB. <b>' Betty Coles became Elizabeth Taylor upon her marriage in 1936. Her first novel "At Mrs. Lippincote's" appeared in the same year (1945) as the actress Elizabeth Taylor was appearing in "National Velvet." Over the next thirty years, "the other Elizabeth Taylor" lived and worked in Buckinghamshire and published eleven more novels and four volumes of short stories.'</b>; Spine lightly curved and creased, covers faintly edgeworn, title page creased. A very nice copy. Image is actual copy offered. .

NY: Delacorte. Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper. 1991. First US Edition. Hardcover. 8vo ; 566 pages. Dw has raised lettering, laminate around lettering is bubbling .

London: Penguin. Very Good. c1998,1999. Softcover; Trade PB. 276 pages. Some edgewear and rubbing, spine and cover creases, some page edges a bit rippled; pages clean, none loose.; <b>He has been called by some' the James Herriot of schools'. Phinn recalls his first year as a County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire in this warm and humorous memoir. 'He meets some large- than-life characters, from farmers and lords of the manor to teaching nuns and eccentric caretakers. Best of all, he discovers the endearing and disarming qualities of the Dales children. Readers will enjoy his keen ear for the absurd and his sharp eye for the ludicrous.'</b> .

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. Very Good+. 2002. First US Edition. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped. No dust wrapper, as issued. A very nice copy indeed.; <b>'Produced in cooperation with the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, this book uses multicolored text, illustrations, and photographs to create what Bowden calls "an interactive history with removable artifacts." ' 'This vivid, thick-paged picture book is peppered with first-person accounts of the event by journalist A.J. Liebling and other enlisted men. It is 'chock-full of D-Day mementos tucked into ... compartments from Eisenhower's handwritten notes to the troops to a replica of the tag on a grenade pin. Highlights among the texts included in pockets and fake manila envelopes are a disarmingly quaint "Pocket Guide to France," with line drawings and common French phrases on the back; a reproduction of the front page of the… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday Doran. Good in Fair dust wrapper. c1932, 1934. Hardcover. 309 pages; Green cloth covered boards have old biopredation damage, spine and corners bumped. Pages age browned, previous owner name on front free endpaper. Clipped dust wrapper age browned and soiled, edgeworn with several large chips, probably also a victim of, no longer present, insects. A reading copy.; An enjoyable story of a street and its inhabitants in West Kensington in late Victorian London. Recommended.. Catalogs: Anglophile Fiction. Keywords: London, Victorian England, West Kensington, Novel.

Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble. Very Good+. 1986. Softcover; Trade PB. ISBN: 0389206563. 189 pages; A new book with faint edgewear.; 'The lives of British women born between 1880 and 1914 are recounted in their own words, providing a vivid and poignant portrait of what it meant to be a girl earning a living when women doing paid work were often regarded as second best, when wages were low and options limited. This book gathers a wealth of original material that covers a variety of occupations,including harvesting, tailoring, mill working, clerical jobs, teaching, and the civil service.'. Catalogs: Women. Keywords: Women, England, Women's Work, Women's History, Edwardian England, Great Britain.

Oakland City, IN: Self Published. Very Good-. 1947. Hardcover. 52 pages. Signed by Author; Blue cloth boards soiled on back, spine and corners bumped; <B>Inscribed by the author. </B> .

London: Penguin. Very Good-. c2000, 2001. First Paperback Edition. Softcover; Trade PB. 340 pages. Edgewear, spine and cover creases; pages clean and bright, none loose.; <b>Phinn regales us with his adventures during his second year as a County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire in another warm and humorous memoir.</b> .