Search Results: Titles starting with O from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

Boston; New York: Lee and Shepard; Charles T. Dillingham, Presumed 1877. Unstated. Hardcover. Very good +/good. Humphrey, L. B.. A Very Good or better copy of this unstated edition, bound in the Publisher's original purple cloth and wearing the RARE DUST JACKET, with the title page dated 1877 and the copyright dated 1876 with not further editions stated. The volume contains a noted Poem by William Knox which focuses on Mortality and which is said to have been Abraham Lincoln's favorite Poem which he frequently recited. American painter F. B. Carpenter wrote that while he was engaged in painting his large picture at the White House, he was alone one evening with the president in his room when President Lincoln said: "There is a poem, which has been a great favorite with me for years, which was first shown to me when a young man, by a friend, and which I afterwards saw and cut from a newspaper, and learned by heart. "I would,” he continued, “give a great deal to know who wrote it, but I have… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [no date per Hodder's practice at the time]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $250. NOW $100. A Fine copy of the first UK edition, first printing (showing some modest discoloration on the title page and some modest rubbing to the spine ends and leading board corners) in a Fine example of the dust jacket, being a tight and unread copy wearing its RARE original Glassine dust jacket and being richly illustrated within. The closed page block's top edge is in gilt. In the book, Moore discusses English, Dutch, Flemish, Austrian & French period furniture pieces, and their influence on furniture design. The volume contains 112 plates and illustrations as well as a helpful Index. Copies in a condition as nice as is this one are SCARCE.

Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY CAROL SHIELDS on the title page; a collection of twelve stories by this American-born Canadian Novelist, being her third collection of short stories, signed copies of which are surprisingly uncommon to the market. Of this collection, Publisher's Weekly stated: "Although a variety of well-realized voices animate the 12 stories in Shields' fine collection, they are all plainspoken and direct--the hallmarks of her sturdy prose. All stories except three are set in her native Canada; most have as protagonists people locked into themselves, suffused with nostalgia, regret, incommunicable longing--and sometimes fulfilled by flashes of communication and tentative hope." A Fine, tight and unread, copy, SIGNED BY CAROL SHIELDS.

Oxford [presumably]: [No Publisher Stated], [No Date Stated]. First Edition, First Printing. [no binding issued]. Very good +. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $145. NOW $75. A Very Good example of the Original Prospectus for the Shakespeare Head Edition of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Novels (which Edition was coupled with Trollope's Autobiography) with the text for the Prospectus being written by Trollope's primary bibliographer, Michael Sadleir. Composed of a large sheet of paper folded to make four pages, the Prospectus is in Very Good + condition, showing some light toning as well as two unnecessary folds, one horizontal and one vertical (presumably for mailing), and the stamp of Henry Young & Sons Ltd., Booksellers to the front page's lower margin. In our over forty years of diligent searching for Trollope scarcities and rarities, this is the only copy of this Prospectus that we ever have seen. QUITE SCARCE TO RARE.

London, 1879. First Edition, First Printing. No binding. Very good. A Very Good or better illustration of author Bret Harte published in Vanity Fair magazine for July 4, 1879, including the Vanity Fair profile of Harte, being Vanity Fair's "MEN OF THE DAY. No. 191." with evidence of the two pages having been removed from a larger volume which once likely held them. Examples of this original material are surprisingly uncommon to the market. A Very Good or better UNCOMMON piece of Bret Harte literary ephemera.

[No Place Stated]: John Tavenor-Perry, [No Date Stated]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $550. NOW $175. The ORIGINAL DRAWINGS made by John Tavenor-Perry for use in his Article titled "Piscinas" appearing at pages 227-244 in the February 1908 issue of the magazine Christian Art. This separate book contains all 20 Original Illustrations by Tavenor-Perry used in the Article. The illustrations are drawn on boards (some of which may contain notes on how to size the various drawings of publication) and are housed together in paper covered boards. The spine and labels thereto show wear and the boards show some soiling/staining, as well as some bubbling to the board cloth, as shown in the images provided with this listing, and the Figures are holding decently well in the book. A RARE group of twenty (20) ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS by the renowned architect and writer on architectural history J. TAVENOR-PERRY published in the above-referenced Article… Read More

[No Place Stated]: John Tavenor-Perry, [No Date Stated]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $450. NOW $125. The ORIGINAL DRAWINGS made by John Tavenor-Perry for use in his Article titled "Episcopal Chairs" appearing at pages 256-261 in the September 1908 issue of the magazine Christian Art. This separate book contains all 11 Original Illustrations by Tavenor-Perry used in the Article. Figure VIII in the Article appears as Figure X and also as Figure VIII in the book, Figure IX in the Article appears as Figure VII in the book, Figure X in the Article appears as Figure XI in the Book, and Figure XI in the Article appears as Figure IX in the book. The illustrations are drawn on boards (some of which may contain notes on how to size the various drawings of publication) and are housed together in paper covered boards. The spine and labels thereto show wear and the boards show some soiling/staining as shown in the images provided with this listing,… Read More

Cherbourg, France: Mitchell Jamieson, August, 1944. ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II ART. Framed Art. Fine. An ORIGINAL WORK OF ART by Mitchell Jamieson showing Cherbourg, France (location of a critical Port) shortly after its capture by Allied Forces, being a part of the D Day invasion at Normandy, SIGNED AND DATED BY MITCHELL JAMIESON as part of a short presentation inscription by Jamieson, ALSO CAPTIONED, DATED AND INITIALED BY JAMIESON as the artist, all below the primary scene depicted in the painting. The image shows some Allied soldiers (presumably American), several military vehicles, several non-military individuals - one with a bicycle (presumably French citizens then residing in Cherbourg) and a dog. The inscription reads as follows: "Cherbourg - August 1944 // For Jack Long in appreciation and with every good wish Mitchell Jamieson". The work looks to have been titled: "Cathedral ______________ [not legible]". Thereunder is written "Watching explosion // Cherbourg August 44 // MJ". The background… Read More

New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $75. NOW $35. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (slight push to the spine tail), in a fine, bright, unfaded dust jacket), being a set of Essays on Modern Poetry by one of the modern eras great Poets. Paz won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. A Fine copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine, Superior, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and other books] in a Fine example of the Rare Dust Jacket. During her life and in her social circle, a woman working as a writer was seen as inappropriate. Consequently, Dana published under the pen name Olive A. Wadsworth which stood for "Only A. Woman". As this work was published posthumously, it was published under her given name, making it the first of her works so published. [The story "Our Phil" and the "Other Stories" in this book first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly under her pen name.] The book is in Fine, Superior, condition with hardly any wear, and comes in an excellent example of the RARE DUST… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A not quite Very Good copy, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and other books] in a Good example of the elusive and Rare Dust Jacket. During her life and in her social circle, a woman working as a writer was seen as inappropriate. Consequently, Dana published under the pen name Olive A. Wadsworth which stood for "Only A. Woman". As this work was published posthumously, it was published under her given name, making it the first of her works so published. [The story "Our Phil" and the "Other Stories" in this book first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly under her pen name.] The book is in somewhat less than Very Good condition with the front board lettered and… Read More