Search Results: Authors starting with O from Wadard Books PBFA

New York: Harry N.Abrams, 1994 Although ojime were originally functional accessories of kimino apparel, they were beautiful as well as useful and were superbly crafted in a wide variety of materials believed to possess magical and medicinal properties. 64pp in colour.

London: S.W.Partridge, 1886 "On the 11th March, 1873, I joined the crew of HMS Thetis, a new composite corvette, as Naval Schoolmaster, and on the 19th we sailed away from Plymouth Sound, with a fair wind, bound for China." 224pp gilt all edges. Illustrated in black and white. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Binding a little slack otherwise very good.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996 Set in Ireland, it is a story relevant to our times, but encompassing age-old and primal themes. 265pp. Signed by the author to the title page.

London: London Topographical Society, 2021 The seventeenth century is a particular focus for this volume with insights into the way Londoners lived at the time of the Civil Wars and the devastating Great Fire.
179pp illustrated in black and white and colour.
Book size 245x180mm

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987 Contributions from 23 actors, friends, playwrights, directors and critics celebrate one of Britain's greatest actors. 236 pages with black and white photographs.

Kendal: World Ship Society, 1985 This book endeavours to cover the ships owned or managed by the Vesty Groups Blue Star Line and its close associates. 116pp illustrated in colour and black and white.

Stroud, Gloscestershire: Amberley Publishing, 2010 Fishing is Britain's deadliest industry. Each tragedy hits a port hard, with everyone feeling the loss of one of their own.
189pp illustrated in black and white.

London: J.Murray, 1849 These observations made under the direction of George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal. Published by order of the Board of Admiralty, in obedience to Her Majesty's Command. This volume of observations was the last to appear in separate form. Thereafter a system of Photographic Self-registration was inplemented and the registers preserved. xc, Daily Observations of Magnometers 139pp. Meteorological Obsevations 300p. plus index. Ex Royal Engineers Library with two small stamps. Sometime in recent times rebound in full leather.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1950 This is a new fairy story about Maura Beag and her brother, Peadar Joe. This story tells how the two children travel to Lisgrarvan Fair and of the many adventures that befall them on the road.
138pp well illustrated with black and white line drawings.
Dust jacket chipped to top edge.
Size 190x130mm

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982 Dr Offit provides twenty six thought provoking essays based on her work. The question is did this author become a sex therapist because of her name or in spite of it? 256 pages and regardless of the flippancy this is a serious book.

Johannesburg SA: Everard Read, 1988 More than 1800 painters and sculptors are listed alphabetically, the criteria for inclusion being artists who have lived or worked in South Africa/Namibia and made a lasting contribution to its artistic life. This broad spectrum takes in the Dutch, English and French pioneers, artists trained overseas who settled or spent some time in the area and the young professionals of today who are products of the established art institutions in the Republic. 799pp with colour plates.

Westerham, Kent: Froglets Publications, 1996 So vast is the subject and so dramatic is the story that Kent: A Chronicle of the Century was published in four volumes, one each year leading up to the millennium in 2000. Presented in Bob's typically journalistic style with lots of informative and dramatic pictures supported by crisp editorial. Bob's opus? - that remains to be seen.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1998 Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography - 'I have never thought of myself as important, or interesting as a topic of reflection' he once wrote. Others thought differently - not only is he the greatest and most humane of modern liberal philosophers, but his life story represents a vivid and thought provoking chronicle of out times. 356pp with black and white plates.

Londdon: Atalantic Books, Stevens & Sons, 1960 The first comprehensive account of armoured forces - the way they have evolved, the vehicles they use, and how they fight.
x, 475pp well illustrated in black and white.
Ex library Northern Command.
Size 240x160mm

London: J.M.Dent, 1905 446pp. well illustrated with line drawings and halftone plates. Gravure frontis plate lightly foxed. Folding map in colour.

London: Phoenix House, 1998 Infinite Riches continues the story which began with The Famished Road and opens a new chapter in the adventures of Azaro as he continues to make sense of the perplexing world of the living. 337pp. Signed and dated by the author to the title page.

London: Ian Allan, 1987 Survey of post 1945 campaigns in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm have conducted operations including, Palestine, Malaya and Borneo, Korea, Suez, Aden, Kenya and the Falkland Islands. 144 pages, good photographs.

London: The Charles Close Society, 2014 Tells the story of the OS from its origins in the late eighteenth century to the completion in 1914 of the survey of the British Isles at the 1:2500 scale,
There have been several histories of the Ordnance Survey: this one differs from all the others in that it wades into politics as well as maps in order to tell the story of he inception of the organisation the 'Battle of the Scales' and how the OS became an essential part of the nation's infrastructure.
xxvii, 607pp illustrated in colour and black and white.
Top edge of dustjacket creased and with a small closed tear.
Book size 255x180mm.

London: The Reprint Society, 1950 Nelson biography in which many of the popular facts associated with the legend of Nelson are exposed to be partly or wholly mistaken. 596 pages with monochrome plates. Dustwrapper a little worn and faded and some edge browning otherwise good throughout.

London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones, 1819 The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester compiled from original evidences in Public Offices, Harleian and Cottonian MSS. Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, unpublished MS. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries and a personal survey of every township in the County.
George Omerod 1785-1873. Signed and inscribed to his son Edward Latham Omerod MD. Brighton, Ledbury Park, Aug.18 1852
Vol. One. - liv, 556pp gilt edged. Frontis of the author, County map of Cheshire, hand coloured, Plan of Chester plus 13 engraved plates.
Vol. Two. - 472pp. Map of Delamere Forest, hand coloured. Painted glass in a window of Farndon Church containing portraits of Cheshire gentlemen who attended K.Charles 1 at the Siege of Chester, double page, hand coloured plus 13 engraved plates.
Vol.Three - 470pp. Saxon and Norman Earls of Chester, hand coloured plus 15 engraved plates.
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