Search Results: Titles starting with O from Black Swan Books, Inc.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. The standard collection of the best short stories written and published in the last twelve months. Stories by Sherwood Anderson, Lyle Saxon, Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, and others. The dustjacket has been price-clipped and is protected with a new mylar cove.r. Very Good+ binding / Very Good dust jacket.

London: J. Stockale; R. Faulder, 1782. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good+ binding. Ritson's first book, in which he attacks Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry in such vitriolic tones -- Warton is a preternder, a cheater and a liar -- as to cause quite a contretemps in late 18th century English literary circles. One assumes this actually pleased Ritson as he went on the next year to attack Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Eventually, Ritson went complete mad, barricading himself in his rooms at Gray's Inn and setting fire to a pile of manuscripts. In an attractive later binding in red half-goat over marbled board with raised bands. We assume the binder was charged with binding a group of different books to a uniform size -- the title page is trimmed and mounted, and all the other leaves are folded neatly to fit, the bottom edge and then the leading edge over it. Rather astonishing, actually. Very Good+ binding.

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A clean copy. Filled with numerous aquatint plates of the ruins, abbeys, and countryside of Gilpin's Two Tours. Bound in speckled calf with decorations and rules, and a black morocco label on the spine. The spine is attractively rebacked in calf. Decorative perimeter to the front and rear boards, edges and turn-ins rolled, all in gilt.Wear to the leading corners of the boards.Some foxing to the preliminaries. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Very Good binding.

Washington Barracks, D.C.: Press of the Engineer School, 1908. Second Edition. Very Good binding. Includes E. N. Johnson's "Report on the Construction of Lock and Dam No. 4, Ohio River" with folding charts and black and white photographs; First Lieutenant Julian Schley's "Reconnaisance Map of Cuba"; and several articles on the Loire. Altogether, 10 articles bound together. Bound in buckram with new spine label; mylar custom cut to protect the binding. Very Good binding.

Washington Barracks, D.C.: Press of the Engineer School, 1904. Second Edition. Very Good binding. Includes Piarron de Mondesir's "Notes on Intrenching Tools"; Colonel William Miller's interesting "Water Supply of Washington D.C." with black and white photographs; C. F. Porter's "A Brief History of Works Erected for the Defense of Portland, Maine" with large folding maps; Lieutenants Elliot Dent and George Spalding's "Russian Provisional Fortifications" with many folding maps; and 9 other reports; Bound in buckram with new spine label; mylar custom cut to protect the binding. Very Good binding.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1962. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. One of 115 copies designed by Mary Grabhorn. Paper vellum over black paper-covered boards, with 16 woodcut illustrations by Ms. Grabhorn. With the publisher's mylar wrapper which has a piece missing at the top of the spine; slight discoloration of paper vellum at that place results. Very Good binding.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. The First Illustrated Trade Edition, complete with 24 plates. Hinges cracked but holding well. Small chips and tears to the edges of the dustjacket. Green cloth with a Good only dustjacket. (Stott Maughamiana 16). Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

Milledgeville: S. Grantland, 1824. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A relatively uncommon and early handbook for Justices of the Peace in Georgia. With the signature of "Jas. S. Jones, Esq. | McDonough | Henry County, Ga." In sheep with morocco title label and some darkening to the textblock. The boards have been reattached and have had some repair to the extremities. Very Good binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1852. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Some loss at the head and tail of the spine. Good binding.

Cincinnati: The Ohio Valley Pub. & Mfg. Co, 1888. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Volume VI only of the Ohio Official Roster of Soldiers. From the library of Bud Robertson, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. "Another full, descriptive roster, yet one--like many--that could have benefitted from larger type" (Nevins II, 159). Inscribed on the verso of the front endpaper to a Charles Kimmel of the 66th Illinois, signed by Senator Samuel E. Kemp of the 66th Ohio General Assembly, dated June 30, 1888. Half black morocco over black pebbled cloth. Lettering and rules stamped in gilt in compartments on the spine. Spot of surface loss to the front board. A Very Good copy. (Nevins II, 159). Very Good binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office; F. P. Blair, Printer, 1832. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Stapled paper covers, with modern blue cloth along the spine. Library punch stamp on the title page. Fire damage to the bottom edge throughout. Beginning of separation to the bottom of the modern cloth spine. Fair binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1848. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Good binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1846. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Sewn paperback, lacking the paper wrappers. With a library number plate on the title page. Fair binding.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865. Soft Cover. Good binding. In printed drab wrappers, backed in brown pebbled cloth. Nothing of printed paper spine label is present. An intact and serviceable copy. With substantial Index of Organizations, Battles and Names at the rear of the book. Crack in the front wrapper reinforced with tape on the verso. Good binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1861. Half Leather. Good binding. Deaccessioned ex library copy, of the U.S. War Office. Library stamps and punchstamps on the title page, library bookplate and slip on the front endpapers, and white cloth reinforcement to the hinges. Interleaved with lined pages throughout. Originally half leather over marbled paper, rebacked with brown cloth. Good binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1842. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Sewn paperback. Very small puncture would to the text, with no loss to the text. Minor loss at the tail of the spine. Very Good binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1855. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback, now stapled. With a folding chart or diagram. Loss along the spine. Good binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1855. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Sewn paperback, lacking its paper wrappers. Fair binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1845. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Sewn paperback, with significant paper reinforcement along the spine, now with beginnings of separation at the head and tail of the spine. Toning to the covers and to the text. Few contemporary markings and notations. Fair binding.

Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1850. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Contemporary owner's name on the front cover, with some spotting and soiling to the front and rear cover. Loss along the spine. Good binding.