Search Results: Titles starting with O from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

New York: Edward Walker, 1852. Leather_bound. Good. Spine is badly ripped on othewise very good copy; heavy gilt engravings all over leather cover. Inked inscription "This book was given to me by my food friend Mr. Harry L. Stoutenburgh, Senior Warden of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Poughkeepsie, NY at Easter, 1953. George G. Howell." On bookplate page presented to "Miss Ellen Budd by her Uncle Wm.

New York: Knopf, 1954. First edition. hardcover cloth. Very Good. An account, including the whalers and the whales, of a 1950's-51 whaling expedition written by the chief medical officer aboard, with 27 photpgraphs taken by the author. A previous owner took the flaps from the dust jacket and inserted them between the endpapers

A satire of New York CIty literary life by the author best known for Archie and Mehitable. A very good, clean copy of the first edition (slight scuff marks on front cover).

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Includes famous churches from Boston (e.g. Old North Church), Concord, Lexington, Dedham, and other towns in Massachusetts as well as churches in New Hampshire and Vermont. Front cover very bright with gilt title and illustration. Spine is faded, however. Previous owners signature in ink on front endpaper. A dozen large photosof the famous churches, protected with tissue guareds

Description: A classic of ethology, a study of instinctive animal behavior and human psychology. There is a previous owner's name in ink on the front endpaper. The dust jacket shows minor tears at the margins; a small bookstore price label is affixed to the back of the dust jacket

New York: Macmillan, 1883. First American edition. hardcover cloth. Good. Arnold gave four lectures on Celtic Literature at Oxford in 1865-66, which formed the basis of his Study of Celtic Literature, first published in Cornhill Magazine It has been called "“One of the most delightful of his books Even those who do know something of the Celtic tongues are among the first to recognize these lectures as a triumph of the intuitional method in their instinctive seizure of the things that really matter in Celtic literature, and in the picturesque diagnosis of the Celtic genius.” The first English edition of Celtic Literature was published in 1867. On Translating Homer, originally published in January 1861, was a printed version of the series of public lectures given by Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 3 November 1860 to 18 December 1860. Some slight stains on marron cover and spine faded with a crack in the cloth. Pages appear to have been cut by hand. but bright and… Read More

This is follow up to One Day at Beetle Rock in the same format, but concerning a day at a marsh near the Tetons, dealing with the lives of an otter, trout, osprey, mosquito, mink, hare, duck, moose, leech, and snail, along with mentions of other creatures of the marsh. A flap of the DJ is enclosed. Although technically ex-library, the book was in a small retirement-community library and not circulated much. There are library stamps on the endpapers and title page.

Boston: James H. Earle, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A substantial novel of life in 19th-century America (New ENglands); 421 pages Very bright cover with gild panel and gilt lettering on spine, decorated with outlines of flowers. Pages somewhat yellowed, but all intact

Cleveland: World, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Some foxing and edge ware on DJ

London: Oxford: D. A. Talboys, 1840. First edition thus. Hardcover half-leather with marble paper and endpapers. Fine. Edited fro the original 1727 version which described the contents as "An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity , and Worship of the Primitive Church that flourished within the first Three Hundred Years after CHRIST." This is a beautiful copy that appears as new as it must of been when first printed and bound in 1840

A witty account of the various theories about the origin of life on Earth in the context of a scientific framework, although not overlooking some unscientific approaches. Shapiro teaches chemistry at New York University and is an expert on DNA and the environment.

A fascinating story of love and confusion among friends (and an actor) trapped in a country house in the Hudson Valley during the Covid 19 panic. In addition to the first printing, I also am offering a copy of the third printing of the first edtion.m

New York: Viking Press, 2010. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A post-Cold War novel involving the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service as a young British couple is pulled into a web of intrigue.

New York & London: D. Appleton-Century, 1942. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Slight terar at top of spine on DJ, book itself bright like new. Inscription on front endpaper: "Vhristmas Greetings, 1944. Love, Caroline" in ink

The world-renowned scientist gives his personal credos, his profound convictions on the most urgent questions of modern society: social, religious, educational and racial relationships, and the problem of peace.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1973. First edition thus. Harcover cloth. Fine. J. P. Horrabin (maps and plans). Revised and brought up to date by Raymond Postgate and G. P. Wells. Ends with Middle East war of 1967. 1103 numbered pages. Although ex-library, so has stamps on endcovers and title page, the library in question was at a senior living center, and books did not circulate much, so there is no appearent wear.

previous owner's name in ink on front endpaper and passages underlined in pencil throughout. Otherwise would be fine copy.

WOnderful paintings and drawings of every kind of owl along with a descriptive text. There is an inscription by previous owner on the back of the first endpaper.

A heavily illustrated version of the archeology and early life in Europe from Stone Age megaliths to the fall of the Roman Empire.