Search Results: Titles starting with O from Neil Pearson Rare Books

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1951. 8vo, pp. 233. Original brown boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, a little darkening to (white) rear panel and some light edgewear. First edition. McIlvaine A71a

London: Cape, 1963. 8vo, pp. 288. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine, and with skiing design in silver to front panel. Illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge a little dusty, but a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, rear panel a little grubby, two 1cm closed tears to top edge and just a little wear at spine ends. Wrapper design by Richard Chopping. First trade edition, preceded by the limited signed edition of 250 copies. The eleventh title in the Bond series.

London: Cape, 1982. 8vo, pp. 249. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine. A little light spotting to edges of text block, but a near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with just the lightest of edgewear. First edition. Chatwin's third book, and his first novel.

Los Angeles: One Institute, Summer, Fall 1963. 8vo, pp. [40-71]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers. A near fine copy, a little marked on rear panel at staple, slight sunning at rear lower edge. First edition. Vol. VI Nos. 3, 4. A scarce survivor, and a near fine copy.

Los Angeles: One Institute, 1964. 8vo, pp. [4-34]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers. A near fine copy, just a little marking to rear panel at spine. First edition. Vol. VII Nos. 3, 4. A scarce survivor, and a near fine copy.

Los Angeles: One Institute, Winter 1962. 8vo, pp. [4-34]. Original blue stiff paper wrappers. A near fine copy, with just a little browning to edges. First edition. Vol. V No. 1. Early issue of this long-running and highly influential gay periodical. Includes an essay by Rev. Robert W. Wood: Homosexual Behaviour In The Bible. A scarce survivor, and an all-but-fine copy.

Los Angeles: One Institute, Fall 1962. 8vo, pp. [40-71]. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers. A near fine copy, with just a little marking to rear panel. First edition. Vol. V Nos. 2,3,4. Early issue of this long-running and highly influential gay periodical. A scarce survivor, and a near fine copy.

Los Angeles: One Institute, Winter, Spring 1964. 8vo, pp. [4-35]. Original blue stiff paper wrappers. A near fine copy, very slight bumping to a couple of corners. First edition. Vol. VII Nos. 1, 2. A scarce survivor, and a near fine copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. 8vo, pp. 202. Original dark blue boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown, rust staple marks to front and rear free endpapers, a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with just a little light edgewear. First US edition of Lustgarten's second book, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode the same year with the title A Case to Answer. Adrian Homer Goldstone's copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown. A Haycraft-Queen title. Bibliophile and book collector Adrian Homer Goldstone [1897-1977] wrote the bibliographies of Arthur Machen and John Steinbeck.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. 3 vols. 8vos., pp. 302, 320 and 307. Original blue coarse cloth boards, tooling in black to front panels, lettered in gilt on spines, blindstamped publisher's device to rear panels. Edges uncut. Panel listing Meredith's previous works to the verso of each ffep., as usual. A little bumping and wear to corners and spine ends, spines a little faded (less so on vol. II), small stain to front panel of vol. II. A very good set. First edition. Sadleir: 1700

London: Methuen, 1987. Small 8vo, pp. 135. Original photographic stiff paper wrappers, author's photographic portrait to rear wrapper. Gummed price label to rear wrapper. A near fine copy. Reprinted collected edition. INSCRIBED BY GRAY TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND AND FELLOW PLAYWRIGHT RONALD HARWOOD AND HIS WIFE: 'Ronnie & Natasha, ?Pages, eh? Sept 6th 1988 Love Simon'. This collection, including Two Sundays and Plaintiffs and Defendants as well as the title play, was first published by Eyre Methuen in 1975.

London: Heinemann, 1933. 8vo, pp. 322. Original three-quarter green boards, lettered in gilt to vellum spine. Publisher's device in gilt to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading and lower edges uncut, green silk bookmark bound in. Boards darkened, vellum dulled and a little browned in the midsection, but a very well preserved copy, lacking the slipcase. First edition. No. 45 of 375 copies. The last instalment of the nine-part Forsyte Chronicle, and an excellent example.