Search Results: Authors starting with O from Bibliope by Calvello Books

Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 1986. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. Fine in near fine(+) jacket. viii, 248 pages: b&w photo plates. index., maps; 22 cm. In Irish Gaelic. Inscribed and signed by author on title page verso. ¶ Irish influences on Civilization in Europe; Europe Civilisation Influence irlandaise.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1999. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. As New. Oblong quarto in color illus DJ; (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 28 cm. "As a young Irish immigrant boy travels by steam-engine across the American prairie to a new life, memories of the old country pull at his heart." || Immigrants -- Fiction. Railroad trains -- Fiction. Immigrants -- Fiction.

Berkeley, Calif: Ten Speed Press, 2005. First printing (stated). Hardcover. A fine copy, extremely minor shelf wear in fine DJ. Folio in a black DJ ; 244 p. : illus (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. Cooking -- California -- San Francisco.

Oakland, Calif: The Museum, 1986. Paperback. Partial cup ring and few areas of minor discoloration to fron wrap; else a very tight and clean near fine copy thus.. Oblong quarto in dark brown gilt-titles and illus. paper wraps; 111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 x 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-75). Nicely done. Presumably the first work devoted to California Folk Art. || Naive art; Outsider Art. Folk art -- California -- Exhibitions. Primitivism in art -- California -- Exhibitions. Folk art. Primitivism in art.

London ; Boston: Academic Press, 1994. Hardcover. A fine (as new) copy.. Small quarto in dark blue and pale yellow illus boards; xi, 392 pages : illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-379) and index. Partial List of Contents: 9. Phase Constraints on Synchronising Oscillator Networks / David E. Cairns, Roland J. Baddeley and Leslie S. Smith. 10. A Representation of Representation Applied to a Discussion of Variable Binding / Richard Rohwer -- pt. III. Neurodynamics, Language and Memory. 11. Sequence Processing with Recurrent Neural Networks / Nick Chater and Peter Conkey. 12. Learning Syntactic Categories: A Statistical Approach / Steven Finch and Nick Chater. 13. The Problem of Temporal Order in Connectionist Networks and its Implications for Short-term Memory Modelling / Dimitrios Bairaktaris. || Cognitive science. Cognition -- Mathematical models. Neural circuitry -- Mathematical models. Cognitive psychology. Models, Neurological. Neural Networks (Computer) Models,… Read More

Tokyo: Dainihon Yubenkai Kodansha, 1939. Hardcover. About good. Exterior is edge-worn; leaves partly browned; some foxing; small worm hole to rear prelims. Binding is solid.. Small quarto in dak blue illus polished cloth; 6, 312 pages: many b&w illus and photos (some in color), maps ; 23 cm. In Japanese. Scarce. / World War Two era propaganda for youth. / Aviation, Air force. Défense aérienne.Juvenile Non-Fiction. Rikugun. Hiko Rentai. Japan. Kaigun. Kokutai. Japan. Kaigun. K k tai.

New York: Crown, 2018. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely light soiling to front board, extremely light soiling to rear DJ, extremely gentle rubbing to DJ, very bright pages, tight binding, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ.. Large octavo in blue-grey DJ, white spine, xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, chiefly color illustrations (some b&w), portraits ; 25 cm. African American women lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography. || "An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt… Read More

Bogotá: Ministerio de Education, 1938. Paperback. Good(+) to very good(-) copy. Light soiling to front and back covers; lightly worn edges and corners; small tear at lower spine; a second hand copy, else in good condition for its age; pages are free of marks; binding is solid.. Small octavo in tan paper wraps; 207 p., 20 cm. In Spanish. // Uncommon.

Boulder; New York: Social Science Monographs; Columbia University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very good(+) to near fine copy in very good dust jacket with light edgewear (small chips to edges and corners); ex-library with two stamps on ffep; very light bumps to spine ends; o/w tight and clean; clean cloth; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight and square./very good. Octavo in black cloth in white dust jacket; maps; 256 pp., 23 cm. In English. : Series: East European monographs No. 125; Atlantic studies Brooklyn College Studies on Society in Change, No. 25.

[Cairo]: American University in Cairo Press, 1995. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Paperback. Gentle wear to spine foot/head and corners, bright pages in tight binding. Very good+.. Golden octavo; xv, 260 p : b&w ill. ; 24 cm. Women; Families -- Middle East -- Social conditions.

Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verlag, 1966. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, faint soiling and crease to spine, fading & heavy rubbing to spine label, extremely gentle bumping and fraying to corners, light soiling to boards and two fore-edges, else Near Fine(+).. Blue quarto, gilt to spine, 431 pages, color frontispiece, 28 cm. In German. Abbrieviation insert included. Lacking DJ. **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.** || Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Bibliography.

New Delhi: Madhuban Educational Books ; Vikas Pub. House, 1996. Reprint of the 1992 ed. Paperback. Very good with minor wear to exterior; please see photos.. Quarto in color illus white wraps; 122 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Sikh gurus -- Juvenile literature. Gourous sikhs -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse. Sikh gurus. Sikhism. South Asia; India.

Moskva: Gos. ucheb.-pedagog. izd. Ministerstva prosveshcheniia RSFSR, 1952. 2 izd. Hardcover. Board corner gently bumped else Near Fine. Octavo in pale brown stamped and printed cloth; 414 p. In Russian. Uncommon || Chrestomathy ; Russian language -- History. Russian literature -- History.

London: W.H. Allen, 1974. Reprint. Paperback. Several faint scratches to lightly worn DJ protected in archival brodart, extremely gentle wear to spine head & foot, faint rust mark to front free endpaper, else near fine(-) in very good+ DJ.. Large octavo in black multicolored DJ (light orange, red, and blue spine); 171 p, b&w illus ; 25 cm. Games; Sports & Recreation.

Lima, Peru: Instituto de Fitoterapia Americano, 1996. Third edition (stated). Paperback. As NEW (fine). Octavo in color photo illus light green self-wrapper; 169 p., [24] leaves of plates : p., ill. (some col.), map ;, 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Rubiaceae, South America.  Medicinal plants, South America. Therapeutic use.  || This work won the Premio Mencion Honrosa Hipolito Unanue a la Mejor Obra Cientifico, Peru in 1995.

México, D.F.: Centro de Investigaciones Históricas del Movimiento Obrero, Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 1983. Paperback. Near Fine with light edge wear. Octavo in perfect bound peach & dark blu eillus wrappers; 202 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm; bibliographical references. Text in Spanish // Railroads -- Mexico -- Congresses.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine bright copy, as new. Large octavo in an illustrated DJ (maroon spine) ; 95 p : ill (col) ; 25 cm. Contains captions and detailed illustrations Illustrated Book // History--Navy--18th Century.

Chicago: Philadelphia John C. Winston Co, 1935. First edition (presumed; no indications of prior printings). Hardcover. About near fine, in a 'fair-to-good' jacket that has been neatly reconnect with cellotape along spine verso; in archival mylar.. Quarto in white and dark blue illus jacket; x, 254 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits 22 cm. Maps on lining-papers. Narrative of the author's journey across arctic Canada 1933-35. Also described in "One man against the north" (London, 1942 ¶ Arctic regions. Arctic exploration Dog Sleds. Cold!

Chicago: Thomas S. Rockwell Co, 1931. First Edition, Second printing. Hardcover. Boards mildly soiled; handsome personal small bookplate to front paste-down; else tight and clean. Very good. No jacket.. Original blue cloth royal octavo with silver lettering to front cover and spin; 192 pages: frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, b&w plates ; 24 cm. Maps to lining-papers. Author was a member of the geological party on Byrd's first expedition 1928-30.; he served as a surveyor. "Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (1888 - 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. He is also known for discovering Mount Sidley, the largest dormant volcano in Antarctica. Byrd said that his expeditions had been the first to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole by air. His belief… Read More

Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1997. As new. Fien in fien jacket./New. Small quarto in blue pictorial jacket; xiii, 224 pages: illustrations, maps ; 24 cm; bibliographical references and index. Cambridge studies in North American Indian history; Variation: Cambridge studies in North American Indian history. [series]. Contents: Prologue: "my land": Natick and the narrative of Indian extinction -- Peoples, land, and social order -- The sinews and the flesh: Natick comes together, 1650-75 -- "Friend Indians": negotiating colonial rules, 1676-1700 -- Divided in their desires, 1700-40 -- Interlude: the proprietary families -- "They are so frequently shifting their place of residence": Natick Indians, 1741-90 -- Conclusion. According to Jean O'Brien, Indians did not simply disappear from colonial Natick, Massachusetts, as the English extended their domination. Rather, the Indians creatively resisted colonialism, defended their lands, and rebuilt kin networks and community… Read More