Search Results: Titles starting with O from Pages Past Books

VG/G+ Viking Press NY 1983 1st hardcover 8vo, 402 pages, b+w photos, map, index. Light soiling at top page edge. Dustjacket price clipped with rubbing and a crease at front. Solid and otherwise clean with dj in protective cover.

"A book of actual experiences relating to the difference between this and the next plane of existence that will bring a clearer insight to those perplexed on the truths of immortality and help them to penetrate the mysteries of the spiritual world." The related experiences took place 1910-1925. Light dustjacket edgewear and spoiling to white; otherwise clean solid and bright with dj in a protective cover

Good+ Dansk Lokomotivmands Forenin 1952 1st assumed softcover Oblong 4to, unpaginated (88 pages) b+w photos. Text in Danish. Primarily a photo book of locomotives and railroad cars1846-1951 with most photos full page and all with descriptive text (in Danish).Light cover soiling; otherwise solid and clean.

Good+, no dj Military Manager of Publications Delhi 1943 Early reprint Hardbound 8vo, 256 pages, 24 b+w photos, 19 sketches and folding maps, glossary Bound in printed paper covered boards with cloth spine. Small printing of 750 copies. 1943 stamp at top of title page "Office of the ? dent in Waziristan" The 3 pocket maps listed in the Content are not present and there is no sign of pockets having been removed. The book has cover soiling; the paper is rubbed through at the extemities; otherwise solid and clean. Rare

VG/G+ condition Charles Saxon cartoons Ridge Press/Golden Press Ny 1960 1st edition hardcover 4to, 96 pages, b+w illustrations. Humorous cartoons with an eye towards paople attempting to be happy, though successful. Some dustjacket edgewear with closed tear at spinetop and a few small closed tears at edges. Protected in Brodart cover.

G+/G condition Clerke & Cockeran Ltd London 1950 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 226 pages, b+w photos, index. "...the changing pattern of English criminal justice. " Complete story of the central criminal court more popularly known as the Old Bailey. Some browning and light foxing inside covers. DJ has 1/2" chip at spinehead and is price clipped with light general wear. Protected in Brodart.

VG/no dustjacket Cathal O'Toole illus Junior Literary Guild/Viking NY 1946 1st hardcover 8vo, 138 pages, color frontis, b+w illustrations. A boy with infantile paralysis is helped by his grandfather, an injured bluejay and a dog. Name inked at top inside front cover. Solid clean copy with front cover showing dog barking at bluejay in tree.

VG/no dustjacket William Ware & Co Boston 1904 1st hardcover 8vo, 403 pp, engravings, index, top edge gilt. Based on the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas' Farmers Almanack. Name pencilled at the top front endpaper. Spine slightly sunned and worn at extremities. Solid and clean.

VG+ embossed cloth spine, nice sharp copy b+w illus American Book Co NY (1936) 1st thus hardcover 8vo, 482, Prev owner's stamp ffep, notation inside frt cvr "From F.B. Avery of American Book Co. "

Good, no dj Essays Edwin Valentine Mitchell Hartford No pub date Hardbound 12mo, 179 pp Satirical and humorous essays and verse. Extremity rubbing; spine fading; short crease to spine cloth near the base. Overall solid and clean.

VG-condition various illustrators Curtis Publishing (1919) hardcover 8vo, 382 pages, b+w plates, color frontis by Norman Rockwell. Book for the use of agents of the Saturday Evening Post which reduces one issue into book form designed to show the economies of a subscription. Clean tight copy which has rubbing to spine titling.

Near Fine/VG+, VG+ Syracuse Univ Press Syracuse 1972 1st hardcover 8vo, 327, b+w photos, index, bibliography. Dustjacket price clipped with very light rubbing.

Good+ Shut-In Society NY August 1929 softcover 8vo, 22 pp. Intended to give "cheer and comfort to chronic invalids..." Includes list of officers, notices, letters, birthdays, poem, ads etc. Light agewear, vertical cover crease; otherwise solid and clean.

VG T.B. Stony illus Longmans Green NY 1902 early hardcover 8vo, 271 pages, color illustrations by Stony, b+w illus by Williams, pictorial cover, decorated spine, index. From The Boys' Library edited by George Dewar. Activities for boys including nature, angling, animals, salt water pursuits, cookery, arts, etc. Light foxing to early pages. Bookplate inside front cover. Solid clean bright copy with bright gilt titling and decoration.

VG/no dustjacket Capt. James Bryan illus Viking NY 1969 1st hardcover 8vo, 110 pages, b+w illustrations, color pictorial covers. Story of a small young donkey set in Cyprus. Light soiling to cover white; otherwise clean, solid and bright.

VG-condition G.P. Putnam's Sons NY 1899 1st edition hardcover Large 8vo, 338 pages + ads, b+w photos and illustrations, index, top edge gilt, decorated cover. "With an account of the origin, capabilities, and adaptations of the numerous species and varieties, native and foreign, and especially of the new and rare sorts, suited to cultivation in the United States. " Owners' names front free endpaper. Some foxing to tissue frontis. Small spot front cover and light fraying to spine end cloth. Bright gilt titling and design.Solid clean copy.

Good+, no dj New York State NYS Education Dept 1960s Softbound 8vo, 204 pp, b+w photos & illustrations, sketch maps, index, bibliography Published by the Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development, University of the State of New York for background material on government and aid in teaching. Includes examples from various communities. Light cover wear and staples rusting; otherwise solid and clean.

VG+/VG Zaidenberg illustrations Crown Publ NY 1952 1st hardcover 8vo, unpaginated, b+w drawings, inscribed and signed. 80+ pen and ink drawings with text by Robinson showing the dilemmas and frustrations of Everyman. Inscribed and signed (Arthur) by Zaidenberg on front endpaper. Woodstock NY authors. Dustjacket has shallow chipping at spine head, sunning to spine and 2 short closed tears at extremities. Solid and clean with dj in protective cover.

VG Oliver Herford et al illus Charles Scribner's Sons NY 1894 1st hardcover 8vo, 133 pages, b+w illustrations, top edge gilt. Humorous sketches and dialog set in the households of various writers including W.D. Howells, Henry James, Thomas Bailey aldrich, Frank Stockton,Richard Harding Davis, F Marion Crawford, Rudyard Kipling, George Meredith, Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie. Small private bookplate inside front cover. Light rubbing only; clean and solid with strong gilt titling and cover decoration.

VG-/G+ condition University of Chicago Press Chicago (1958) 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 269 pages, b+w photos, index, bibliography. Wister's journals from his 15 western trips with biographical introduction and epilogue. Some erasure evidence on front free endpaper. Reverse of rear free endpaper has some pencilled biographical notes. Dustjacket price clipped with some wear including closed tears near spine head and soiling to white of dj rear. Solid copy in Brodart protective cover.