Search Results: Authors starting with O from Voewood Rare Books

Nashville, Tennessee Athens Music Company 1967, 1967. First Edition. pp. [8], (54). Original blue cloth, no dust jacket as issued. Spine lettered in gold. Title and portrait of Atkins blocked in gold on front cover. Signed by Chet Atkins' in black ink on title page. Some loosening to the spine but the contents are fine. Illustrated on every page with photographs from Atkins' life. Fine/very good Atkins revolutionised and popularised country music, creating what became known as the Nashville sound. He played on hundreds of hit songs, including those of Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers. His own albums sold more than 75 million copies. When asked how he felt about being a globally celebrated guitarist, he deftly replied: "it beats working". Atkins' signature is uncommon.

Venetiis: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana 1758, 1758. 8vo. (180x106mm) pp. [8], 405, [3]. Six engraved plates, one signed M. Heylbrouck and an engraved vignette to title page. Text in Latin and Italian. Contemporary Italian sheep, covers with elaborately tooled gilt borders, fan sprays at the inner corners. Centre of the boards have leaf motifs and two gilt oval frames with green morocco onlays bearing initials "G.P" (upper cover) and "A.P" (lower cover). Flat spine decorated in gilt with leaf motifs, with three green morocco onlays lettered and decorated in gilt. Edges to boards tooled in gilt. All edges gilt and gauffered with a delicate leaf pattern. Attractive green endpapers. In very good condition with one or two small worn spots. Internally excellent with a little foxing in places. Book label of John Saks loosely inserted along with a slip of paper from Christie's reading "Lot No. 191/1 10 Jun 1981" when a number of Saks's books were sold. Saks (the grandson of the founder of the eponymous shop and a… Read More

London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1707. 8vo. 193x120mm. Unpaginated. A8-Z8, Aa8, Bb8, Cc4. Psalms. A8-H8, I4. Extra-illustrated with forty three engraved plates all hand-coloured and with tissue guards. Text in double columns, ruled in red. Contemporary red morocco, gilt panels to boards, with decorated edge and corner pieces. Spine with raised bands, lavishly decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Recent repairs to joints at head and foot of spine, corners repaired and some of the gilt retouched. Ownership inscription of "Jane Lloyd. The gift of her mother Annabella Williams 1791". Title page has ownership inscription of Jane Lloyd Swan Hill and Bridgett Lytton.Internally in very good condition throughout and the hand-coloured engravings are beautifully preserved. The images show scenes from the Bible relating to the readings for the particular Sundays and Holy Days. There are images of various saints whose feasts are kept in the Church of England and, in acknowledgement of the… Read More

London: Published for John Reeves, 1801. 12mo. 157x97mm. Unpaginated. Contemporary red morocco, wide gilt and blind roll-tooled borders to the covers, spine lavishly decorated in gilt. Very smart green silk doublures. All edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of Terry. With a New Version of the Psalms by Brady and Tate. A very pretty early nineteenth-century Prayer Book.

Dublin: Brian Ó hUiginn 1926, 1926. First published in 1925. 12mo. pp. 78. 2pp. undated advertisements. Brian O'Higgins, 1882-1963, was an active promoter of the Irish language and played a prominent part in the 1916 Easter Rising. He later became a Sinn Féin politician. Original illustrated cream wrappers. Ownership inscription on upper cover and on title-page, wrappers soiled and only flimsily attached, torn with no loss at foot of spine, small hole at head of spine.

Rockport: Rockport Publishers 1994, 1994. First edition. 4to. pp. 192. Coloured frontispiece. Profusely illustrated in colour. Plans. The residential work of the internationally acclaimed firm Moore Ruble Yudell. Includes 20 of their recent projects such as Rodes House, Tegel Harbour Housing in Berlin and Kobe Housing in Japan. With an essay by Charles Moore on 'Designing the Act of Dwelling'. Paperback. A very good copy. An oversize book, please ask shipping costs before ordering, particularly to locations outside Europe.

n.p. n.p 1657, 1657. Grant of Probate of the will of John Bennett of Hawkhurst in the County of Kent to Anne Bennett his relict and executor named in the will. Single sheet, 152x131mm. The grant of probate is signed by the officers of the Court, a Court which, as the first words of the document remind us, was under the authority of "Oliver, Lord Protector of ye Commonwealth of England, Scotland, Ireland ye Dominions Territories thereto belonging". Everyday Court documents (such as grants of probate) from the Commonwealth appear to be uncommon, their interest lying in what they reveal about the fluid and flexible conservatism of the English legal system, little changing save for the name of the person in whom the State was embodied - King or Commoner, it made little difference. �