Search Results: Titles starting with O from Sparrow's Bookshop

Franklin Library, 1980. Hardcover. Very good/None. Limited first edition. Full leather bound with gold gilt accents on boards and spine. Four raised bands on spine. Silk endpapers and bookmark ribbon. Gold gilt edges on all three sides. Previous owner's inscription on first free paper and all other pages are clean and unmarked. Slight lean to spine.

Frederick Warne & Co, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. Jacket is soiled, chipped, and edgeworn. Top and bottom edges of jacket spine are torn. Front inner flap is price-clipped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Board corners are bumped and edges are frayed. Spine ends are softened, and spine has a slight lean. Green lettering on cover and spine are clear and unfaded. Binding is separating throughout, but still secure.

The Viking Press, 1972. Hardcover. Near fine/Acceptable. Book club edition. Binding tight and pages clean. Softened spine ends and lightly bumped top spine end. Jacket is faded, torn, and chipped.

The Modern Library, no date given. Hardcover. Good/None. Likely printed between 1950 (first Modern Library copyright date for this edition) and 1962, when the binding design was changed. Bumps to fore edge of boards and corners. 1.5" tear to half-title page at top of gutter. Binding remains strong and all pages are clean and unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1958. Paperback. Good/N/A. Previous owner's name written inside front cover. A handful of pages have light underlining and margin notes in pen. Moderate edge wear and chipping on covers. Bottom right corner of front cover creased. 1 inch stain on top page end.

Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1921. Hardcover. Good/None. Revised edition. Translated by George Herbert Palmer. Boards are solid and the spine is square aside from minor scuffing and dings. Binding is firm but both front and back hinges are cracked with webbing visible. The pages are bright, crisp, and unmarked aside from previous owner’s inscription inside front and back covers.

Chez Lefèvre Libraire: Paris, 1819. Hardcover. Very good/None. Selected Works of D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France. Volumes 1-6. Text in French. Full leather bound with gold gilt accents on boards & spine. All three edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. All pages are unmarked but have mild foxing and staining throughout. Heavier staining to volume four. Binding and hinges secure aside from back hinge starting in volume two. Moderate rubbing and scuffing to spines and boards with fraying to corners.

Vintage Books, 1961. Paperback. Good/N/A. Previous bookstore stamp on first free paper. All other pages are unmarked. Covers show some wear and age but pages remain crisp. Small area of staining on top of back cover.

Asgaard Press of Ausable Forks, 1959. Paperback. Very good/N/A. An account of the European travels of the author and his wife, Sally, following their release from continental imprisonment. Limited printing. Previous owner's ex libris sticker affixed to inside of front cover but otherwise pages are unmarked. Some light loosening to binding throughout. Covers have light discoloration around edges, heavier along spine. Light soiling to bottom edge of text block. Some scuffing and creasing along spine.

Haynes Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. Near fine/None. Pages are clean and unmarked and binding is tight. Corners and spine ends are sharp. Cover has a few scratches and a spot on the back where the laminate warped.

A. S. Barnes and Company, 1959. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Third revised edition. Jacket is intact aside from small tears and scuffing around the edges. Boards are solid and the spine is square aside from minor scuffing and sunning. Binding is firm and the pages are bright and unmarked aside from previous owner's sticker on front pastedown. Both the jacket and first 55 pages of the book show waviness typical of water damage.

Bonanza Books, 1985. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Includes The Greatest Salesman in the World, The Greatest Secret in the World, and The Greatest Miracle in the World. Jacket is mildly frayed and chipped at corners, but otherwise crisp. Top edge of spine is torn. Inner flap edges are browned. Pages are clean and unmarked, aside from previous owner's blind stamp on front endpaper and mild soiling to top edge of text block. Spine ends are slightly softened. Gilt title lettering is clear and unfaded. Binding is tight and square. Hinges are secure.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Paperback. Good/N/A. First paperback edition. All pages are clean and unmarked aside from some numbers written in sharpie on front cover. Binding is tight. Moderate rubbing and edge wear to covers. Bottom left corner of back cover creased.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Paperback. Very good/N/A. The Scribner Library - SL104. First paperback edition. Wrappers are clean, colorful, and nicely intact aside from some minor scuffing. The spine is square, binding is firm and the pages are bright and crisp, but with pencil annotations throughout the text.

Earl M. Coleman, 1978-1979. Hardcover. Near fine/None. Facsimile reproductions of the originals, first published in the 19th and 20th century. With illustrations and photographs. Some very mild bumps at the ends of spine wrap and slight corner bumps to some corners. Clean, straight boards, tight binding, and square spines. Pages are clean and unmarked. Gilt lettering on spines are clean and crisp.

London Richard Bentley, 1839. Hardcover. Very good/None. Second edition, complete in three volumes. Oliver Twist was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838 before the serialization ended. Here we have the second edition released just one year later and still preserved in their original bindings, which is quite uncommon. Bound in scarce publisher’s original purple/brown cloth, with titles in gilt to spines and blindstamping to boards. A full suite of plates by George Cruikshank. Collated as fully complete throughout. Externally the cloth is moderately soiled, spines sunned and some trace of prior liquid/humidity damage to back board of volume three. No interior pages affected and internally clean aside from moderate foxing to prelims and engravings. Corners bumped and fraying. Professionally recased, preserving the original bindings throughout.

Books Inc, no date given. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Assumed circa 1946. Art-Type edition. Jacket has significant wear, with tears, chips, and fraying along edges, gutters and foldovers to inner flaps. Jacket spine is sunned. Back cover has sticker damage at bottom right corner. Pages are tanned and unmarked, aside from markings in black ink on front endpaper. Text block edges are browned and soiled. Front pastedown is chipped at hinges. Boards are edgeworn, with fraying at corners and spine ends. Corners are bumped and spine ends are softened. Binding is starting throughout.

HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. First edition. Jacket is crisp with very little shelf wear and no scuffing. Price sticker affixed to back. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Boards are firm and even; front board has some staining at fore edge. Minor staining to tail of text block. Gilt title lettering on spine is clear and unfaded. Spine is firm and square, and hinges are intact.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Near fine/None. Pages are clean and unmarked. Spine is square, with mildly faded gilt title lettering and design. Spine is tight and square. Front and back boards are clean. Very little shelf wear.

Harper & Brothers, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. First American edition. Edited and introduced by Morris Philipson. Former library copy with stamping and adhered envelope, etc. Otherwise pages are unmarked with nice deckled fore-edge. Binding is tight with a very slight lean. Boards are various small stains. Corners are slightly bumped. Some rubbing of gilt on spine.