Search Results: Authors starting with O from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

Faber & Faber, 1958 232 printed pages. Signed and with dedication in ink on front free endpaper. Leading edge of text block very slightly and marginally foxed. 14 x 20.5 cm. Original grey cloth with spine lettered in red. Tiny amount of marginal dust staining on corners and very top of spine. Complete with original unclipped and unrestored yellow jacket, with short tears at the top and bottom of the spine with minimal losses- likewise at the corners. Some slight general wear and handling marks. Overall a very presentable copy with an early author's signature. Philip O'Connor (1916-98), an incorrigible, flamboyant and self-absorbed British eccentric who turned a fulsomely frank account of his abject childhood and misspent youth into a literary sensation in 1958, Memoirs of a Public Baby.'' O'Connor supported himself largely by sponging off friends and his six wives, & wrote incessantly, mainly about himself. By his own account in ''Memoirs,'' which covered… Read More

Circa 1901. Diamond 128mo. 688 printed pages. Frontispiece. India paper. All edges gilt over red. Rounded corners. White vertically embossed original endpapers (slightly browned). 48 x 56mm. Original ruby morocco; spine with double fillet gilt rules and gilt block lettering (slightly worn at head and tail). Unusual composite ivorine plaques on boards (back plaque with two short cracks and a minuscule chip); upper cover with image after Rubens' Angels in relief. Mentions Edward vii and Alexandra on page 71. The ivorine composite material was sometimes used, most often but not exclusively on prayer books, in imitation of ivory as a more economic and more industrialised process. Also known as Parkesine and Xylonite, the heyday of its use was from around 1870 until about 1910. Charles Courtier & Sons was an uncommon imprint of a London bookseller. Welsh, 1867. OCLC, 424522515. WorldCat locates five copies (just one in the UK).

Ruby 32mo. 480 + 120 unnumbered pages. All text printed within panelled borders (title page a little soiled at the bottom). All edges gilt. Original pale yellow endpapers. Contemporary dedication on the front pastedown dated 1888. Provenance: W.J. Gratton. 70 x 100mm. Original blue velvet, ornately cut-out brass plaque on front with decorations and "Common Prayer" engraved. Original decorative brass clasp, the reverse of the clasp has the name ' J. Blackwood ' engraved. Very faint vertical line impressed on the lower board. Tarnish to some parts of trim and the clasp is slightly twisted but works efficiently in closing the book. Top of the gilt trim is a little uneven at the open end. Small marks at the top of the page edges. OCLC, 220523839. WorldCat locates 4 copies.

His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1941 Second Edition. A booklet produced to give advice on how to protect food in the event of a poisoin gas attack by the ministry of food in wwii. From the library of Sir G.S. Bishop, youngest ever Deputy Secretary who was at the Ministry of Food 1945-9. Very scarce.. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

1943 This is an internal security booklet produced by the Ministry of Food in 1943 and signed (in facsimile?)by the Secretary to the Minister for Food H.L. French. It gives a list of rules and regulations by which to prevent dissemination of information from the ministry to enemy agents. It is marked CONFIDENTIAL on the cover. 'FOR RETENTION' is also written on the cover, in an unknown hand. From the library of Sir G.S. Bishop, youngest ever Deputy Secretary who was at the Ministry of Food 1945-9. This ephemeral document is very scarce. The association with a very senior member of the civil service during the war, someone who took many decisions to achieve the best food security possible for the British people during WW2, is highly appropriate and adds to the academic and collector's interest.. Soft cover. Good.

France , Arthaud, 1962 334, [6] -of which 3 are blanks- printed pages. 46 duotone plates and 14 text documents. Translated from the original English edition by Henry Knobil and Max Roth. Discography by Jacques Demêtre. Preface by Sim Copans. Pages marginally age-toned. 15.5 x 21 cm. Original white printed card binding unblemished. Photographic dustwrapper with very slight wear to the lower top edge and to the head of the spine. Oliver's studies of American traditional music included early research into the influence of Islamic music from North Africa on its origins & began in the 1950s, including interviews, field work and research in recording and printed sources tracing the origin and development of African-American music and culture from the time of slavery and before. Paul Oliver's Archive of African American Music is held at Oxford Brookes University Special Collections and Archive. Dimitri Vicheney, known professionally as Jacques Demêtre (1924-2020), was a French… Read More

Methuen & Co, London, 1898 xv, [1], 667, [1], printed pages; 24 plates. Marbled endpapers. Signature of Matlbys handtooled in gilt at the foot of the front paste-down endpaper. All edges marbled (slightly faded). Preliminary pages maginally browned. 15 x 22 cm. Rebound by Matlbys of Oxford in sumptuos brown half morocco. Spine in six compartments with gilt lettering & date, and raised bands with double blind rules. Matching brown buckram over the boards. This first edition had a profound influence on Lawrence of Arabia. In what became his trademark style, the young T.E.Lawrence was not afraid to take on an opposing viewpoint, even if it meant going against Sir Charles Oman, the Oxford academic expert on Crusader castles at the time, whose own stance was that East had influenced West, not vice-versa. Lawrence, not without basis, was confident he could out-research Oman and convince his examiners that the Crusaders took their own architecture to the Holy Land. This interest in the Middle East… Read More

George G. Harrap London, 1930 175 [+ blank] printed pages. Introduction by George Saintsbury. SIGNED by Pogany on the limitation page, and again in pencil on his frontispiece etched plate which duplicates the colour plate of the same image. Limited Edition of 750 copies for England, 500 for the United States: this is no. 453 of the English issue. Twelve mounted tipped in colour plates, all in perfect condition. The text leaves printed on China paper with 45 decorations and mounted illustrations. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, cream and pale green mottled endpapers. 22 x 27 cm. Publisher's original full Persian emerald green crushed Niger morocco, the spine divided into six panels by five raised bands, is lettered in the first, and dated at the foot, the front cover with small roundel featuring tiny flowers in red, blue and tan on a gilt ground within circular gilt decorative border. The emerald green and topaz blue colours of the leather binding have patinated through handling and light into a… Read More

Editions Monelle Hayot, 1979 In English, French and German. 295 x 208 mm. Colour photographs throughout. ?It must be the best collection of Tin Toys in the world,? commented Jeffrey Levy. ?It is a wonderful selection of classical toys." All the famous European toy makers are represented in this great collection, from the mighty German firm of Marklin to the humble British manufacturer, Burnett. The automotive toys are there in all shapes and sizes, from early ?old timers? (there is a particularly fine steam-powered automobile by Marklin), a number of splendid buses, a variety of vans, plus several rare early race-cars such as examples of the Gordon Bennet cars by Gunthermann. Other famous toy producers to be found in the collection are the german firms of Bing, Bub, Carette, Distler, Doll, Hess, and Tipp. From France there are toys by Citroen and JEP; Italy is represented by Cardini and Metalgraf; while the companies of Burnett, Chad Valley, and Wells provide the best of the British products..… Read More