Search Results: Titles starting with O from Lazarus Books Limited

Portugal: Editorial Parceria. Reprint. Paper Back. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Not dated, reprint of 1755 original. Size thick octavo, 694 pages. Paperback. Condition very good plus, slight curl to edges, more so at corners, slight age wear, contents clean throughout.

West Virginia, U.S.A.: John Gracen Brown, 2003. First Edition. Cloth Bound Boards. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). From the Library of Sir John Mills and Mary Mills. Enclosed is a letter from the author (hand-signed) to John Mills presenting him with the copy of the book as a gift "Dear Sir Mills, I have noticed over the years that when I have art work presented here in the States and abroad, the art work presented abroad generally has a much better chance of identifying with a former or a present (a newer) tradition. (Former tradition generally appears to belong to Western Europe and a present tradition generally appears to belong to Eastern Europe and to countries of the former Soviet Union.) I wanted you to have a copy of a new book of mine in the area of drama. I have seen some of your work. Basic things said in introductory statements of the enclosed commonly have to do with the United State's heritage - particularly that of England. In a… Read more

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1962 First Edition, First Impression. Size large octavo, 970 pages including index. Grey paper covered boards with red cloth spine section with gilt titles, top page edge blue. Book condition near fine, a very clean copy, with the bookplate of Evelyn Elwin, the wife of Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin, to the front-pastedown and a review of the book from the telegraph taped onto the front end-paper, else very clean throughout. Dust jacket condition very good, corners and edges a little rubbed, spine sunned, not price clipped. Biography of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1986. First Edition First Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1986 First Edition, First Impression, with the number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Size Octavo, 9.25" x 6", 527 pages. Black hard cover with black cloth spine section. Gilt facsmile signature to front cover, gilt titles to the spine, orange/brown endpapers. Book condition near fine, corners and spine ends very slightly rubbed, else fine. Dust jacket condition very good-near fine, corners and spine ends slightly creased, inner flaps slightly creased and toned, now protected, not price clipped. Fiction Science Fiction Aliens Nuclear Contamination

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1982 First edition, first impression. Size octavo, 315 pages. Mid brown hard cover with gilt titles to the spine, with dust jacket. Book condition very good plus, pages are toned else fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition very good plus, slight rub/crease to edges, spine slightly faded, not price clipped.

London: Williams And Norgate, 1914. Cloth Bound Boards. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. c.1914. Size 16mo, 256 pages plus 12 pages of plates and 8 page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Green cloth covered boards with blind vignettes to the front cover and gilt titles to the spine. Condition fair, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, spine sunned, backstrip starting to come away from the text block, end-papers toned else contents clean. Formerly owned by H. E. Goodson of the Royal College of Science London with his signature to the front paste-down and many of his ms notes to the end-papers and one on plate VII.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition,size 6.3" x 9.4" tall,illustrated dustjacket with very small crease to bottom of spine,blue hardcover with gold stamped title and authors to spine which has very slight rubbing to bottom end,408 pages inc index all clean with black and white and colour illustrations thoughout,not price clipped.

Springer-Verlag, 1980. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black Pictorial Cloth. Spine ends rubbed, corners slightly bumped, else fine. Internally, a beautiful, unread copy. 812pp all in fine condition.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1994. First Edition, First Impression. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1994 First edition, first impression. Size octavo, 279 pages. Red hard cover with gilt titles to the spine, printed end-papers, with dust jacket. Book condition near fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition very good, corners and spine ends rubbed, not price clipped.

London: Mills & Boon, Limited. Cloth Bound Boards. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Size 6¾" x 4¼", 283 pages plus 32 pages of publisher's advertisements. Not dated. Blue cloth covered boards with black titles to the spine. Condition good/fair, corners edges and spine edges rubbed, spine faded, covers grubby, spots to prelims and ends, pages brown with age, no inscriptions. First published as "The Son of the Wolf"

London: Printed For Edward Dilly, In The Poultry, 1763. Calf. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed In London In 1763, Volume Two Only. Size Octavo, 8.25" X 5", Pages Numbered From 431 To 845 Plus Errata. Brown Calf With Raised Bands To The Spine. Condition Fair, Front Cover Near Detached, Calf Rubbed And Chipped On Spine And Corners And Edges, Title Label Missing From Spine, Ex-Library With Theological Hall Library Stamp To Front Pastedown, The Odd Spot To A Few Pages Here And There, A Few Light Handling Marks Else Pages Pretty Clean.

Geneve, Geneva: Chez Fabri & Barrillot, 1716. First Edition, First Impression. Tree Calf. Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. F. Chereau. 1716 First Edition. Complete in Two volumes. Size quarto, 506 and 427 pages, plus index in volume II. Attractive Tree calf binding with triple borders to covers, five raised bands to the spines with gilt titles and volume numbers in second and third compartments and elaborate gilt work in remaining compartments, gilt decoration to cover edges and inner turn-ins, page edges waxed red, marbled paste-downs and end-papers. Condition good-very good, a little rubbing to corners and edges, front hinge cracked on volume I, leather chipped at head and tail of spine with loss on Vol 1, no loss on vol 2, a few spots to first and last few pages in each volume, toning to a few pages and some offsetting but generally in very clean condition throughout. Title pages printed in red and black, finely executed engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1 and 6 full page… Read more

Paris: Ebrard, Libraire-Editeur, 1836. Half Calf - Marbled Boards. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1836, Paris. Volume 2 only. Size octavo, 248 pages including index. Half brown calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and decorations to the spine, green end-papers. Condition good, corners hines and edges are rubbed leather chipped at the head and tail of the spine and hinges, hinges cracked for 2cm at the head and tail of the spine, spot to margin of frontispiece, pages throughout a little toned but not foxed. Includes a large fold-out sheet containing facsimile reproductions of the manuscript statements of the Principal persons involved in the French Revolution of 1789 "Tableau de Fac-simile des Principaux Personnages de la Revolution de 1789" which is clean and intact. Affixed to the front paste-down is the bookplate of Holland House featuring a vignette of a Fox with crowns above and below the fox, handwritten to the margins of the bookplate are "M R 46… Read more

Avranches: Chez Le Court, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1782. Decorative Tree Calf. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Printed In Avranches, Normandy In 1782. Size 16Mo, 360 Pages. Attractive Binding Of Brown Tree Calf Decorated With Ornate Gilt Border To The Front And Back Covers, Gilt Bands, Hatching And Vignettes To The Spine With Gilt Titles On Red Morocco Label, Page Edges Speckled Blue, Marbled Paste-Downs And End-Papers. Condition Very Goodcorners And Edges Rubbed, 5Mm Calf Torn And Starting To Come Away At Head Of Spine, A Few Spots And Dust And Handling Marks To First And Last Few Pages, Other Than This The Contents Are Very Clean Throughout. With Woodcut Chapter Headings.

Paris: Chez Lefevre, 1834. Third Edition. Half Calf - Marbled Boards. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1834 Third Edition, Troisieme Edition. Size large thick octavo, 914 pages including index. Half brown calf over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt title on brown label to the spine. Condition good, ex-library, the Bibliotheque Guille-Alles in Guernsey with their small labels to base of spine, labels to front paste-downs and stamps to end-papers, there is a gift inscription to the front end-paper name is not legible but they were donating the book to the library in 1856, no other markings. The binding is rubbed at the corners hinges and edges, the backstrip is half come away from the spine, last page of index repaired along outer edge, spotting to first and last 20 or so pages, the odd page with some light spotting to margins here and there but contents are generally clean. The Works of J. Delille.

Paris: Armand-Aubree, 1832. New Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paris 1832-1833. Volumes 1 to 17. Size octavo. Bound in Quarted brown calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and lovely gilt decoration to each spine showing portrait of Rousseau, cherub, angel harp, book etc, speckled page edges, plain end-papers. Condition very good, ex-library, the Bibliotheque Guille-Alles in Guernsey with their labels to the spines and front paste-downs and stamps to half-titles and verso of frontispiece in volume 1, no other markings. Corners hinges and spine ends rubbed, some light spotting to text pages in most volumes but generally contents are quite clean. With engravings in each volume. Text is in French. The Complete Works of J. J. Rousseau. Summary: Volume 1 : Discours / Volume 2 : Lettres De La Montagne / Volumes 3 Et 4 : Emile (Tome I+II) / Volume 5 : Contrat Social / Volumes 6 Et 7 : Nouvelle Heloise (Tomes I Et II) / Volume 8 : Melanges / Volumes 9… Read more

Reprinted for William Pickering., 1853. Paper Back. Poor. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Original paper Back, Red tape on spine, pages edge a bit dusty. Signature of H. E. Goodson of Royal College of Science London on pastedown. 231pp

London: W. Foulsham & Co., 1963. First Edition. Cloth Bound Boards. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. trevor parkin. a golfing miscellany containing many humorous stories and experiences. Book condition Good. Contents clean complete and intact, page edges brown. Jacket condition Good, not clipped, bright, a number of nicks and tears to top and bottom edges but nothing missing. 127 pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Edition, First Impression. Cloth Bound Boards. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed. 1964 First edition, first impression - First US Edition. Size octavo, 241 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles and decoration to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, corners and spine ends rubbed and bumped, lower edge of boards slightly sunned, the rough trimmed page edges are slightly browned otherwise the contents are very clean throughout. This was V. S. Pritchett's own copy of this book. It has his small label to the front paste-down "VSP from the Library of V. S. Pritchett" and hand-written to the fron end-paper "Please return to Lady Pritchett. 12 Regent's Park Terrace, London, N.W.1" From the collection of Jonathan Gili (1943-2004), film-maker, director and collector of many things including books.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue Hard Cover. Spine ends rubbed & slightly faded. Corners bumped, endpapers heavily foxed. The Times Library Stamp, back pastedown. 335pp all in good condition.