Search Results: Titles starting with O from Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press

Sao Paulo: Sociedade Hans Staden, 1941. paper wrappers. 8vo. paper wrappers. 101, (5) pages. A bibliography documenting the literary exchange between Germany and Brazil, describing over 300 items. Text in German and Portugese. Indexed.

London: Country Life Limited, 1943. cloth, dust jacket. Tunnicliffe, C.F.. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 104 pages. First edition. (Eads A48). Illustrated with ten full-page scraperboard illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Previous owners name in ink on front pastedown. jacket is price clipped. Minor foxing to endpapers, few small tears to jacket with minor chips to head and tail of spine. Loosely inserted is a TLS letter from Laurie E. Deval of Deval & Muir.

London, England: Putnam, 1960. cloth, dust jacket. Hoffnung, Gerard. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 223+(1) pages. Table of contents, prefatory comments by Annetta Hoffnung. Color and black and white plates. Black and white illustrations in text. Essays in tribute to Gerard Hoffnung (1925-1959). A.L.s. from A. Lascelles to "Dame Edith" laid in. Dust jacket sunned, also torn, especially at top edge. Pencil and ink notations on front free endpaper.

Rio de Janeiro: Libraria Brasiliana Editora, 1966. stiff paper wrappers. Brazil. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 307, (iv) pages. First edition. A bibliography of items relating to Brazil's history, compiled by the Instituto Historico e Geográfico Brasileiro between 1839-1965. Includes a preface. Published on the occaision of the Rio Centenario. This is number VI in the "Coleção Vieira Fazenda" series. In Portugese. Small tear along lower spine hinge and at spine top. Covers soiled.

[New York]: New Directions, 1964. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (viii), 83 pages. First edition. Lightly rubbed and slightly short dust jacket.

New York: Viking Press, The, 1959. original two-toned cloth; printed dust jacket. 8vo. original two-toned cloth; printed dust jacket. 37 pages. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in near fine jacket. Includes Author Notes [pp. 33-37]. "Nobody by Miss Moore writes like Miss Moore - that is, in strictest accordance with poetic rules invented by and for herslelf. "I feel that the form," she says, "is the outward equivalent of a determing inner conviction, and that the rhythm is the person." Here, in fifteen distinguished new poems, she presents such diverse subjects as dragons, chameleons, jellyfish, the early Jamestown settlers, the arctic ox, Saint Nicholas, Saint Jerome, and the Brooklyn (not Los Angeles) Dodgers. All these are treated with a sense of delight in the variety of life, as well a sa mastery of the exact comparison and of the phrase that illuminates a whole experience. Beginning with The Dial Award in 1924, Marianne Moore has received… Read More

Prague: Ceskoslovenske Akademie Véd, 1954. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 125, (3) pages. Text in Czech. Of the Introduction and Expansion of Printing in Bohemia., published under the auspices of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Volume XIX in the published works of Dobrovský series. Dobrovsky (1753-1829), philologist and historian, was an early leader of the Czech nationalist movement. Frontispiece. Introduction by Mirjam Dañkova with summary in Russian, French and English. Endnotes. Sixteen black and white plates with descriptive lists in Russian, French and English. Dust jacket lightly soiled, small tears at spine.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2003. unbound. Bird & Bull Press. 4to. unbound. 3 pages. Only the title, Introduction and Colophon broadsides from a portfolio produced for Oak Knoll Fest X; the complete contribution by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Limited to 125 numbered copies, signed by Oak Knoll President Bob Fleck on colophon.

Oxford, England: The Alembic Press, 2003. Alembic Press. broadside (11 3/4 by 8 3/4 inches). Commemorates Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. Minor creasing at bottom.

N.P.: Shanty Bay Press, 2003. Shanty Bay Press. broadside (12 by 9 inches). Commemorates Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. Color illustration. Printed by Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler at their Canadian private press.

(Market Drayton, Shropshire, England): Tern Press, 2003. Tern Press. Broadside (12 by 9 inches). Commemortes Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. With poem by James Carr and illustration of New Castle.

Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset, England: Old School Press, 2003. Old School Press. broadside (9 by 12 inches). Commemorates Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. With illustration of St. John's Church.

N.P.: Lark Sparrow Press, 2003. Lark Sparrow Press. broadside (12 by 9 inches). Commemorates Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. With illustration from The Billy Chronicles.

N.P.: n.p., 1997. broadside. Bird & Bull Press. 11 1/2 x 9 inches. broadside. Broadside printed for a special dinner hosted by Henry and Pearl Morris for Oak Knoll's "21st birthday." Printed by hand by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press in limited quantity. These are the extras that aren't hanging on the wall at Oak Knoll or in the archives. Henry will be proud of me for converting these into cash in hopes that I can return the dining favor for my two special friends.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1996. paper wrappers. Private Press. 8vo. paper wrappers. 129 pages. Catalogue 188. Catalogue no.188, featuring over 200 books from the 1996 Oak Knoll Fest. Includes a note on the festival and sketches of each of the 16 private presses featured.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1995. paper wrappers. Private Press. 8vo. paper wrappers. 29 pages. A separately issued catalogue of the books present at the 1995 Oak Knoll Books private press fair. Includes a program of events and histories of the participating presses.

St. John's, Canada: Walking Bird Press, 2003. Walking Bird Press. Broadside (12 by 6 3/4 inches). Commemorates Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. With illustrative design.

New Castle, DE: (Oak Knoll Press), 2018. cloth covered boards, silk ties. Private Press. large 4to. cloth covered boards, silk ties. Limited to 80 numbered copies, of which 53 are available for sale. Of the 37 printers at Oak Knoll Fest XX, those who contributed broadsides to this portfolio celebrating fine printing and the book arts include: Pied Oxen Printers, Elies Plana, Richard Minsky, Wesley Tanner, Ninja Press, Deep Wood Press, Boss Dog Press, Old School Press, Lead Graffiti, Clinker Press, Lark Sparrow Press, Russell Maret, Incline Press, Midnight Paper Sales, Solmentes Press, & Walking Bird Press. Introduction by Tim Murray, Librarian and Head of Special Collections at the Morris Library, University of Delaware. Since 1994, Oak Knoll Fest has been a destination for printers, scholars, collectors, librarians, and booksellers to congregate in historic New Castle, Delaware. What began as a yearly venture during the first weekend of October, Oak Knoll Fest eventually became a biennial event… Read More

New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 2003. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 173, (3) pages. With a two page history of the firm and a photograph of the staff.

N.P.: Lone Oak Press, 2003. Lone Oak Press. broadside (12 by 6 3/4 inches). Commemorates Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. Color illustration. Printed by Abigail Rorer.