Search Results: Titles starting with O from Keel Row Books

London; Hutchinson & Co, 1970., 1970. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 156 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Publishers' grey cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Top edge a little dusty and head of spine creased; foredge lightly foxed & fingermarked. Gift inscribed by the Author " With good wishes to all in No 25" and signed to title page. Jacket slightly creased top edge but clean & bright. The Author's third novel.

Sydney; Thomas Richards, 1886., 1886. Softcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 478 pp. Book Condition: Good. Original paper covers with significant loss to edges, particularly to front and corners. Endpapers worn at corners but overall, internally very good & tight. Very faint stamp (possibly ex-library but so faint it's illegible) to title page but no other marks or inscriptions.

California; Roger James Bender, 1979., 1979. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Volume I 287 pp, Volume II 365 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Two volume complete matching set in pictorial cloth. Volume I cover cloth slightly damp-stained with sporadic minor foxing mainly to textblock edge, and a few fingermarks. Volume 2 clean & tight with foxing to top edge only. Scarce set, well illustrated with portraits and archive photographs.

London; J & A Churchill, 1884., 1884. Hardcover. Octavo. 45 pp. Formulae and diagnostic tables in text. Book Condition: Very Good. Original olive cloth gilt with blindstamped decoration. Scuffed area to upper board (where label has been removed) and unobtrusive splash-marks. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps etc but no pockets. Presentation inscription by the author to half-title. Scarce.

London; Edmund Ward Ltd., 1958., 1958. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 91 pp. Colour illustrations by Bryam Ward. Book Condition: Very Good. Landscape-format pictorial yellow laminated thick card boards; light wear & laminate beginning to peel head/tail of spine. Original price to front pastedown crossed out; date stamped to rear free endpaper. A couple of minor fingermarks otherwise a very clean copy. Scarce.

London; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831., 1831. Softcover. Reprint. Octavo. [3], pp 4-51, [1]. Book Condition: Very Good. Modern plain card wraps. Very light foxing and small stain to edge of final blank otherwise a very clean crisp copy indeed. McCulloch (1789-1864) was a Scottish economist who wrote extensively on trade matters and statistical analysis. Scarce,.

London; Printed for T. Cadell, 1780., 1780. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxviii, 398, [2] errata etc. Lacking the half-title. The verso of the final leaf is an ad for Clark's previous work "Observations on the Diseases in Long Voyages to Hot Countries". Modern plain brown quarter morocco with marbled paper-covered boards. New endpapers. A sympathetically rebound ex-library copy with partial stamp to title page, and pencilled numbers to verso; ownership initial stamp to foot of title page and inscribed initials at head. Scattered very light foxing and toning; later leaves slightly rippled and faintly creased. A Very Good copy overall. Important and rare medical work on the causes and treatment of contagious disease, based upon first hand experience by Dr John Clark, founder of the Newcastle Dispensary. Dr Clark (1744-1805) studied medicine at Edinburgh and spent four years as a surgeon's mate in Indian and Chinese waters, noting the influence of climate on health; his "Observations on the… Read More

London; Printed for Richard Phillips, 1806., 1806. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo's, pp., lxviii, 298; viii, 344. Frontispiece portrait of Arnold (not in the first edition) engraved by Francis Legat after a painting of 1793 by G. Ralph to Volume I. Later nineteenth century half calf, bound by Leake of Shrewsbury, with 4 raised bands, gilt titles to black labels to spine and decoration in blind to compartments; marbled paper-covered boards with matching marbling to all edges. Binding lightly scuffed with minor loss to corners; marbled paper very slightly rippled but bright. Armorial bookplate of Robert Chambre Vaughan (1796-1876) to each front paste-down; a little scattered light foxing, mainly to endpapers and prelims. An attractive, solid set. Important early work on mental illness by Thomas Arnold (c.1742-1816), physician to Leicester Infirmary and proprietor of a mental illness facility in the city. The first volume concerns the incidence, definition and arrangement of insanity… Read More

London; Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, 1953., 1953. Hard Cover. New edition. 12mo, pp. 192. 236 illustrations of which 16 plates in colour and 16 in half-tone. Original red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth gently rubbed to edge; ownership inscription to ffep dated 953 (year of publication). A little corner creasing to leaves otherwise contents clean and bright. Jacket slightly surface soiled with minor loss at spine tips and a few nicks & creases to edge. A Very Good copy in like jacket. An excellent example of the pocket guide; scarce in jacket.

London; Quartet Books, 1981., 1981. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp., 15 illustrated Foreword followed by pp., [136] colour photographs with accompanying captions, and pp., [9] credits. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Board corners and head of spine slightly bumped with associated creasing otherwise a clean and bright copy. With the Author's signature to white book plate to ffep (the flourishes to the signature extend to the endpaper itself, so Clarke handled the book whilst signing it and the plate is presumably only there because the endpapers and prelims are on black paper). Jacket a little creased. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Clarke's striking images tend towards eroticism, fetishism and fantasy, with motorcycle and car imagery, nudity and fashion. Taken from the photographer's best work of the previous six years. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs may be requested for overseas delivery.

Basle; Chez Guiillaume Haas, 1780., 1780. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 4 parts in one volume; 2 engraved title leaves, 1 aquatint title and 51 plates as called for. Part I: title leaf, pp., [3]-12, [2], 12 plates with 47 numbered subjects (Holbein's Dance of Death) & 2 plates, of Le Triomphe de la Richesse and Le Triomphe de Pauvrete; Part II: engraved title leaf and 12 plates; Part III: Aquatint title leaf and 12 aquatint plates numbered in 2 sets of 6, with 3 additional un-numbered aquatint plates, of which 2 double-page; Part IV: decorative title page with blue panel & 10 portrait plates. Later black quarter morocco with gilt titles and blind ruling to spine over navy blue pebbled cloth; marbled endpapers. Spine scuffed with minor wear at tips; wear to board edges. Two different pictorial bookplates to front paste-down. Text leaves lightly toned; a little offsetting otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. Mechel's edition of Hans Holbein's work, from originals in the Imperial Gallery of… Read More

London; Eden Fisher & Co Ltd, 1920., 1920. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp [4], 349, [1], xv. Frontispiece of Officers of the Green Howards from the First Printed Army List of 1740, with tissue guard. Bottle green cloth with gilt titles to spine; blind border and gilt crest to upper board. Minor wear to cloth at spine tips and corners; contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Comprehensive Roll of Officers with biographical notes and a summary of achievements, presented in chronological order.

London; Elliot Stock, 1893., 1893. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. [4], 271 pp. Headpieces; illustrations in text. Book Condition: Very Good. Publisher's bevelled olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board and Book Lover's Library owl roundel to upper board. Foliate endpapers; edges uncut. Cover cloth edge rubbed with minor nicks to spine tips; corners lightly bruised and boards a little scuffed. Bookplate to front pastedown. Minor toning & faint foxing mainly to prelims otherwise contents clean & bright. A history of food in England from medieval times up to publication.

New York; Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979., 1979. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 186. Publishers' black paper-covered boards with green titles to spine in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Michael Flanagan. Boards lightly surface scuffed; front pastedown blocked with black marker pen (approx 5 cm x 2 cm, presumably to cover an inscription) otherwise contents clean and crisp. Jacket lightly toned to white panels with dye mark to front flap corresponding to marker pen. A Very Good copy in like jacket. The first Silver John novel, featuring the wandering backwoods minstrel and American writer of weird tales.

London; Faber and Faber, 2009., 2009. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION thus, with full numberline. Small quarto, pp. [8], 64. Illustrated throughout. Bound in cornflower blue publisher's cloth with gilt vignette to upper board and gilt titles to spine, with pictorial cat endpapers. With the unclipped original pale blue illustrated dust-jacket. A Near Fine copy in an unclipped Near Fine dust-jacket. Eliot's much loved cat poems newly imagined with super colour illustrations by the acclaimed children's illustrator, Axel Scheffler, best known for illustrating the Gruffalo and Zog series. With Scheffler's signature and his original humorous cat sketch dated "Edinburgh 27/8/2016" to foot of title-page.

London; Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Press, &. C., 1883., 1883. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. "As the many hundreds of illustrations are all hand-colored, the issue is necessarily limited." Quarto, nine parts in one volume. Illustrated hand-coloured woodcuts throughout; original printed wrappers to nine separately paginated individual ballads. Prospectus for "Chap-book Chaplets" bound in to front. Rebound in twentieth century taupe cloth with original hand-coloured illustrated spine and covers laid on. Housed in a gun-metal grey slip-case with maroon spine labels and gilt titles. Some mild scattered foxing, with an ink inscription in a neat 19th century hand "George Shaw with the compliments of the publishers" and an ink ownership stamp to ffep. A tight, square, clean copy without modern ownership inscriptions or annotations and bright and vivid illustrations. Fantastic work by eccentric wood-engraver, rope-maker, and antiquarian Joseph Crawhall II of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Crawhall's witty and vivid… Read More

London; Leadenhall Press, 1883., 1883. Hardcover. Octavo. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings and cuts in chapbook style by Joseph Crawhall. Book Condition: Very Good. Original green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board, red-and black-stamped pictorial motifs to upper board and black-stamped motifs to spine and lower board. Light foxing to early and late leaves; inner hinges weak but holding. Edges rubbed with wear to corners; corners of rear board bumped. 14 illustrated stories - subject matter includes Northumbrian legends such as The Long Pack and this a slightly abbreviated omnibus volume of the 17 stories printed in "Olde Ffrendes with Newe Faces" & "Chap-book Chaplets".

London; Smith, Elder, & Co, 1875., 1875. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. Octavo, pp. xiv, 278. Publishers' deep green cloth with gilt titles to spine, Greek key design in black to spine & upper board and in blind to lower, and mask motifs to upper board in gilt and black. Cover cloth scuffed with wear at spine tips and corners; small loss to lower corner tip of upper board. Inner hinges cracked but holding; scattered foxing, mainly to prelims. Gift inscription in ink to half-title dated 1878. A Good copy. Studies of acting greats such as Edmund & Charles Kean, with histories of drama in the 1860s and 70s, prefaced by an Epistle to Anthony Trollope on the subject of dramatic criticism.

London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1899., 1899. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION, gift inscribed by the Author. Octavo, pp. [4] catalogue, xix, [1], 239, [1]. 4 colour plates as called for, including frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 340 figures within text. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in blind to boards including "The International Scientific Series" emblem. Cover cloth lightly toned and sunned to spine, with bump at head and minor wear to tips. Gift inscription in ink to half-title: " Muriel Percy from Lord Avebury" with note in pencil to verso ffep that the recipient is likely Lady Muriel Percy, the daughter of the Seventh Duke of Northumberland and that Lord Avebury was the title which Sir John Lubbock assumed in 1900. A Very Good copy. Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), the English banker and polymath who made significant contributions in the fields of archaeology and biology, was an influential figure in the debate on evolutionary theory who regularly… Read More

Leeds & London; Electric Press, [1913]., 1913. Mass Market Paperback. Undated circa 1913. Softcover octavo, pp. 40. Photographic illustrations in duotone and maps in colour throughout; gatefold map of the whole East Coast Route network to rear. Stapled decorative blue card wraps with central fold tucking the brochure neatly into covers (so that it could be inserted into a pocket or wallet without creasing). Covers lightly surface soiled with minor wear to lower edge, and 9 cm adhesive tape repair to inner front hinge. Minor foxing to fore-edge and a few small creases; map slightly mis-folded to edge. A Very Good copy. Attractive pocket guide "Depicting and Describing features of interest to be seen from the trains on the East Coast Route between London (King's X) and Edinburgh (Waverley)" (from front cover). The pages are divided by a central red line, and passengers travelling North with their back to the engine would see the views described to the right of the red line, while those facing the… Read More