Search Results: Titles starting with O from Rare Books Honolulu

Audio CD. Very Good. Audio CD Very Good CD and Cover without any damages or shelf wear Ships from Hawaii with First class Mail.

London: Unit Editions, 2017. Limited RED edition from the orig. Kickstarter campaign. Hardcover. NEW in shrink Wrap. ONE OF 80 ORIGINAL 2017 LIMITED "RED" EDITIONS IN SHRINK-WRAP, REDISCOVERED IN A WAREHOUSE. Unit Editions 2017, 315 × 240 mm 384 pages, Hardcover, Printed 4/4 Kaleido plus 2 special colours, Translucent jacket, Mirror paper cover and endpapers, Two paper stocks ------------------ A fleeting opportunity to grab the definitive compilation of Octavo, journal of typography 1986-1992 In 2017, Unit Editions crowdfunded the publication Octavo Redux, a unique 384-page book that brought together all eight issues of the influential Octavo journal of typography, published in the 1980s and 1990s by studio 8vo. The book was subsequently made available on the Unit website (in a green edition) and is long sold out. So we're delighted to announce that 80 copies of the red edition of the book, previously only available to its initial backers, have become available thanks to their rediscovery during… Read More

Honolulu, HI: Advertiser Publishing, 1928. softcover. good - very good. Honolulu, Advertiser Publishing Co., Ltd, 1928. A history of the Honolulu lodge, which was the first subordinate lodge outside of the Continental United States, founded in 1846 by a group of men incl. Charles Brewer II. 54 pages, illustrated. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Wrappers (covers) moderately soiled & a red pen mark on two pages otherwise a clean, unmarked, complete good trade paperback in decorative wrappers 8vo. 5 Excelsior Lodge No. 1 bulletins of 1948 and 1949 loosely laid in. Jan 1948, 2 x Aug 1948, 2 x June 1949. "Excelsior Lodge No. 1 meets every Tuesday at 7.30pm at Odd Fellows Temple, corner of Lunalilo and alapai streets.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. Limted Edition of 2000. Hardcover. Very Good. 25 Wood engravings by Berry Moser. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1981. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by T.E. Shaw. Wood engravings by Berry Moser. Homer: New York, Limited editions Club, 1981. XXI, 300 pp. 28 x 18 cm. Orig. cloth binding. Includes Newsletter. Hardcover, no 1007 of 2000 numbered copies published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1981 300 pp. 28 x 18 cm. Translated by T E Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia) Illustrated with 25 wood Engravings by Barry Moser Preface by Jeremy M Wilson Signed by Barry Moser and Jeremy M Wilson 4to, tan cloth stamped in red, matching cloth slipcase. Spine cloth a bit faded, title very clear in red. Slip case partially faded. Small 1/2 inch trace on inner front title, very faint spotting on paper edges, pages very clean (see photos) Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989. No. 191 of an edition limited to 650. Hardcover. Very Good. Photo engravings by Marie Cosindas. The Limited Editions Club, 1989. Hardcover Folio in slipcase. Hardcover. quarter-bound with burgundy Nigerian Oasis goatskin, natural linen boards, gilt lettering, 42 pp, fine in Fine black cloth felt-lined slipcase with paper label taped at spine, numbered 191 of 650, photo engravings by Marie Cosindas, signed by the author and the photographer at the limitations page, LEC newsletter laid in. Hardcover Very Good A brilliant twentieth-century adaptation of Oedipus that unfolds in response to the author's conviction that "Even transposing Oedipus into a sequence of 'coincidences' gives us trouble What bothers us is the oracle, an authority that is capable of predicting A predictable plot does not permit coincidence; Oedipus as a fable seems indissolubly linked to the idea of fate Hence the only feasible way for us to snatch Oedipus from fate is the escape from the… Read More

Minton Balch & Company, 1924. Leather bound folio. This limited edition (No. 5 of ONLY 100 copies) includes the very rare ADDITIONAL SUITE OF 16 PLATES LOOSE IN SEPARATE FOLDER. (there is also a standard edition limited to 1250). Book illustrated with frontispiece and 86 plates. 16 (including frontispiece) with tissue guards with descriptive letterpress, as issued. With 16 additional plates loose in portfolio. (4to) full leather with gilt lettering and spine, gilt vignette on rear cover. First Edition. Moderate wear and soiling to leather, rubbing to extremities, slight sunning to spine; plates fine; Moderate wear to outer folder holding the additional 16 plates, plate mats and margins have some age toning, the plates themselves are bright; overall very good.

Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 2012. Hardcover. New. in French, English, German, 156 pages. Hardcover New Der in der Industriestadt Essen geborene, in Köln und Port Blanc lebende Absolvent der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1980 1985) beherrscht nicht nur die großen Formate, sondern hat neben seiner Leidenschaft für das Porträt eine Affinität zur Industrielandschaft. Auf Jordans Leinwänden herrscht nur eine Realität, die der Farbmaterie, die, chaotisch und konträr vom Erscheinungsbild, ein abbildfreies Eigenleben führend, reliefartig erscheint. Das Buch trägt mit vielen Detailaufnahmen auf wunderbare Weise diesem Jordanschen Phänomen Rechnung und vermittelt eine neue Definition des Realismus in der zeitgenössischen Malerei. Die abgebildeten Werke bewegen sich zwischen verrostenden.

Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Special Publication, 1948. 1st edition. Softcover. On the late quaternary history of the Hawaiian vegetation. 154 pp. + 27 plates, (Dissertation), B. P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 39, Honolulu. Printed in Goteborg, Sweden. LIKE NEW, appears unread. Ships from Hawaii.

New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1891. Hardcover. First edition 1/2 red cloth with grey cloth boards, with tropical island and palm tree design. Spine a bit faded, with all gilded writing and palm tree well readable. Bump to the bottom of the spine. Cover edges with slight shelf wear, Binding solid, pages and illustrations clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 298 pages. overall very good Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US.

London: Dodd, Mead & company, 1895. 1st edition. Loose leaves in portfolio. Used - Very Good/Portfolio. One hundred and seventy-six historic and artistic book-bindings dating from the fifteenth century to the present time pictured by etchings, artotypes, ... selected from the library of Robert Hoe. Very Good. VOLUME II only, with plates 87-176. One of 200 sets printed on loose sheets of Imperial Japanese paper. Folio. With 90 (of 176) plates on loose leaves. Illustrations mainly in black and white, but eleven are in color. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.Housed in later tie-bound brown cloth portfolio with gilded title on spine. Minor rubbing to portfolio, outer tie lacking, else fine. Folio 14" X 11"Historic and artistic book-bindings, Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail.

Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1991. Edition limited to 100 (for sale). Clothbound with leather spine. fine/no dj as issued, in slipcase. Illustrated with woodcuts by David Page.. Yolla Bolly Press, 1991, No. 81 of only 70 copies made (of 100 for sale, 30 were bound in full leather, plus 20 for the press/collaborators). Prospectus laid in. -- Introduction by Page Smith. Illustrated with woodcuts by David Page. (Folio) 35x25 cm (13¾x9¾"), blindstamped black cloth, slipcase. Printed on mould-formed Lana Gravure paper. -- Some shelf wear to slipcase; very minimal wear to cover. Pages like new and prints fine. Signed in the colophon by Smith and Page. With the Ex-libris of Donald H Mader. Ships from Hawaii. -- The short stories of the Civil War by Bierce were the first to expose the harsh and bloody realities of that war.

Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1991. Edition limited to 100 (for sale). Clothbound with leather spine. fine/no dj as issued, in slipcase. Illustrated with woodcuts by David Page.. Yolla Bolly Press, 1991, No. 81 of only 70 copies made (of 100 for sale, 30 were bound in full leather, plus 20 for the press/collaborators). Prospectus laid in. -- Introduction by Page Smith. Illustrated with woodcuts by David Page. (Folio) 35x25 cm (13¾x9¾"), blindstamped black cloth, slipcase. Printed on mould-formed Lana Gravure paper. -- Some shelf wear to slipcase; very minimal wear to cover. Pages like new and prints fine. Signed in the colophon by Smith and Page. With the Ex-libris of Donald H Mader. Ships from Hawaii. -- The short stories of the Civil War by Bierce were the first to expose the harsh and bloody realities of that war.

Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover Very Good nice softcover with faint shelf wear to cover ships from Hawaii.

Jovis, 2006. Hardcover. New. Hardcover New.

N/A: N/A, 1820. original sketchbook. Hardcover. very good.

Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Catalog of the massive collection of illustrated ornament, pattern and design books from the 19th century in the art library of the Staatlichen Museums in Berlin Die ornamentalen Vorlagenwerke des 19 Jahrhunderts erfüllten ähnliche Aufgaben wie die Ornamentstichfolgen und Musterbücher des 15 bis 18 Jahrhunderts Sie lieferten Anschauungsmaterial für den Lernenden, vermittelten dem kreativ begabten Künstler und Handwerker Anregungen oder dienten als Muster für die direkte Motivübernahme Im Unterschied zu den druckgrafischen Folgen der Vergangenheit bezog das 19 Jahrhundert seinen Formenvorrat weitgehend aus den Stilformen früherer Epochen, ehe im Zuge der europäischen Moderne, die alle Zweige der Künste seit den 1880er Jahren gleichermaßen erfasste, der institutionalisierte Historismus in die Kritik geriet Der gewichtige Band listet die Druckschriften der Kunstbibliothek zu allen Bereichen der Ornamentik, Architektur, Innenausstattung, Malerei und Kunstgewerbe,… Read More

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no dj's as issued. Very Good Translated by Sir Richard Burton, edited by Isabel Burton 6 volumes First Burton Edition. 6 volumes, spines sunned, some fraying to ends, light wear, previous owner's name stamped in Vol 1; very good Translated by Sir Richard Burton, edited by Isabel Burton 6 volumes (12mo) original green cloth stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. Camoens (Luís de Camões) Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic, much in the way as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, or Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks. Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic, much in the way as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, or Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks.

Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1973. No. CII of CC bound copies (no. 102 of 200). Hardcover. Fine/no dj as issued. Leonard Baskin. The Gehenna Shakespeare - Othello illustrated by Leonard Baskin, signed by Baskin on the colophon, 1973, Gehenna Press, hardcover, folio, (20.5" x 13.5"), leather title label, printed in black and red, illustrated with Baskin's 10 woodcuts printed in black on Japanese paper bound-in. No. CII of CC bound copies (no. 102 of 200, there were also 200 copies with an add. suite numbered 1-200). Fern & O'Sullivan, 624-33. Provenance: deaccessioned from a regional institution; a letter of deaccession from the institution is included. There is a small 1 inch "Withdrawn Carnegie Mellon" stamp on the inside of the back cover. No other marks, this was obviously not part of a lending library Book in Fine condition. All pages and illustrations like new. The cloth binding has some light smudges on the back.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1869. 3/4 leather. almost fine/no dj as issued. with 21 tipped-in illustrations from photographs (woodcut plates), 3 of which in watercolors, many taken by Walter Kerr, Signor Beato, and native drawings. Chapman and Hall,1869. In 8, cm 15 x 23, pp. XVIII + 428 + 20. With 21 tipped-in woodcut plates, 3 of which in watercolours, many taken from photographs by Kerr, Beato. 19th century 3/4 leather brown half calf over marbled boards, gilt on spine with 5 raised bands. Spine darkened. Only minor shelf wear to binding. Some foxing on endpapers. Pages very good, slightly browned, but no foxing or spots, markijngs or notes. All paper edges very nicely marbled.

Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover Very Good.