Search Results: Authors starting with O from Eastleach Books

Yale University Press, 2010. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. xiv+306pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Study of the roots of Western secular political thinking through an examination of the political ideology and the institutions of Hellenistic & Late Roman antiquity & the Early Middle Ages in Europe.

Yale University Press, 2010. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. xiv+306pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Study of the roots of Western secular political thinking through an examination of the political ideology and the institutions of Hellenistic and Late Roman antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in Europe.

Knapp, Drewett & Sons, 1920. 1st edition.. Paperback. Card wrappers, VG. 89pp, covers slightly sunnd, fore edges foxed, a nice near fine copy. Slim collection of 5 short tales with a romantic element. Despite the Exmoor conotations of the author's pseudonymn, the stories are mostly concerned with the London social scene.

Faber & Faber, 1964. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 237pp, frontis map, 4 further maps, index, compliments slip from the publishers laid in, dustjacket a little worn along the edges. A history of the Soviet Red Army, from its establishment as a political army under Trotsky to the 1960s.

The Rembrandt Van Rijn Foundation For Culture - National Monuments Council, Cape Town., 1972. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. xxii+354pp, 20 maps, 12 colour plates, many b/w illustrations, index, dustjacket has several small repaired tears, Presentation copy from the Minister of Tourism to Sir Alexander Glen, noted Polar explorer. Survey of the important historical buildings, sites & localities in South Africa. The book covers archaeological sites, battle sites & buildings of note from the colonial era. The sites are from Early Stone Age in date onwards.

Akademiia Nauk, Moskva, 1946. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. 200pp, endpapers yellowed, corners bumped & rubbed, a nice copy. A collection of 24 essays on Russian literature of the late medieval & early modern period.

Macmillan, 1970. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. 253pp, b/w map, dustjacket spine tanned as are the page edges, slightyl rubbed. A re-issue of an early novel by O'Brian, which was originally published in 1956. The book is based upon Anson's voyage of 1740. It was written before the author's famous Aubrey - Maturin series. O'Brian made some minor changes to the text for this edition.

Collins, 2000. 1st edition thus.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 293pp, a fine, mint copy. O'Brian's second novel, set in India and compared favourablely to Kipling's Kim on its release. Apparently it was the first ever work of contemporary fiction published by the Oxford University Press when it was first published in 1938.

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1988. 1st edition.. Hardback. cloth, dj, F/F. 180pp, small creaes to dustjacket, otherwise a fine copy. Author's 17th work of fiction.

Jonathan Cape, 1966. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG+/VG+.187pp, book slightly cocked, dustjacket a triffle rubbed at the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy. Authors 5th novel.

Penguin, 1974. 1st edition.. Paperback. Paperback, VG. 122pp, pages a little tanned, edges rubbed. O'Brien's Joycean novella which takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan.

Secker & Warburg, 1953. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G. xiv+390+xiv pp, b/w frontis, 5 b/w plates, index, cloth marked & grubby, edges rubbed, asolid reading copy. Biography of the French author André Gide [ 1869 - 1951 ] who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.

University of Michigan Press, 1995. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. x+276pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts & Contexts series. Study of the publication in 1554 of what were thought to be odes by the Greek poet Anacreon and the way in which their popularity was reflected in the many Neo-Latin and Vernacular translations which were published in the 2 years following 1554.

University of Michigan Press, 1995. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. x+276pp, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts & Contexts series. Study of the publication in 1554 of what were thought to be odes by the Greek poet Anacreon and the way in which their popularity was reflected in the many Neo-Latin & Vernacular translations which were published in the 2 years following 1554.

W H Allen, 1949. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G. 273pp, dustjacket chipped & worn with a little loss along the edges, ink ownership inscription, bookplate, a soild copy. A collection of 15 accounts, by 'successful men & women of today', which recount, in their own words why the turned from some other faith ( or no faith at all ) to the Catholic Church. Those who tell the story of their conversion include Evelyn Waugh, Frances Parkinson Keynes, Theodore Maynard etc etc.

No Exit Press, 1998. 1st edition ( Special Edition). Paperback. Paperback, dj, F/F, 314pp, glassine dustjacket, a fine copy. Hyper noir novel of insane detective fiction - Kafkaesque & Chandleresque in equal measure.

Hutchinson, 1994. 1st edition.. Hardback. cloth, dj, F/VGish. 282pp, the metallic silver dustjacket is rubbed and scratched a little across its surface, but this is an inherent problem with this book. Authors 1st book, a cop thriller set in New York.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/F. 192pp, full colour illustrations thoroughout, a fine copy. Top fashion designers from the early 1980 show how to create a few Clothing gems from the Age of Dynasty, Dallas & The Colbys. Slightly flawed idea in that your homemades will not have that all important top designer label.

Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1970. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG. x+308pp, b/w frontis, index, a fine copy in a rubbed & scuffed dustjacket. The influence of Amadis, the greatest renaissance Chivalric Romance is explored in depth. The work, originally from Spain, was so popular that it had grown to 12 large volumes by the 1550's.

Offices of The Royal Historical Society - Camden Society, 1993. 1st editon.. Hardback. Cloth, F. 477pp, index, a fine copy. Lay Cartularies of two London Merchants of the late 14th century. Frauncey's cartulary deals with his lands in Essex & Middlesex, whilst Pyel's is mostly concerned with his lands in Northamptonshire.