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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. One of the early printings of the American edition. Beige coloured cloth covers. No dust jacket. Cloth covers are slightly darkened / lightly soiled. Previous owner's name written neatly to front free endpaper. Overall in a good condition. 46 pages. 225 x 160 mm (8¾ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2615More details Price: £40.00 -
Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs.
Collated and illustrated by Heather Hamer.
Book ID: 3956More details Price: £125.00
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Old Village, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Original Late 19th Century Etching.
1836. A delightfully detailed etching inscribed and pencil signed. A good early strike. On paper with watermark of F. J. Head & Co. There is some evidence of having been in a mount, but otherwise in superb condition. Blank to verso. Image: 150 x 260 mm (6 x 10¼ inches). Sheet: 200 x 300 mm.
Peter Grahame (1836 - 1921) was a Scottish artist who trained at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh under Robert Scott Lauder. His landscapes were influenced by the paintings of Horatio McCulloch, and the poetry of Sir Walter Scott. He enjoyed great success at the Royal Scottish Academy, and at the Royal Academy, London.
Book ID: 2752More details Price: £25.00 -
Old woman reading
Book ID: 4264More details Price: £150.00
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Old-World Questions and New-World Answers.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884. First edition, hardback. Bound in three quarter leather, with marbled boards, and gilt stamped title to spine. 369 pages + colour folding map to rear. Leather on boards is heavily rubbed, but the contents are quite clean, without markings or damage. Colour map is slightly foxed (see photos). 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
This late nineteenth century work gives a fascinating glimpse in to the European view of the "American" as a social alchemist, and a glance at "evolution of the American people".Book ID: 3597More details Price: £35.00 -
On ne Badine Pas avec l'amour
comédie en trois actes. Édition suivie de notes et de variantes ornée de compostitions décoratives par George Barbier
Book ID: 4212More details Price: £100.00
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On Photography.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. Early printing (6th impression) of this "philosophy of photography" in which Sontag "examines a wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral, raised by the presence and authority of the photographed image in the lives of everyone today". Grey illustrated dust wrapper. Clean and tidy with a touch of nicking to the edges of the wrapper. Fading to the spine. Grey boards and silver writing to the spine. Clean and tidy. Internally clean and tidy with owner's bookplate to the inside front board. [10] 208 pages. 220 by 150mm (8¾ by 6 inches).
Book ID: 2797More details Price: £25.00 -
On Swallowing the Anchor.
Book ID: 3190More details Price: £32.00
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On the Beach 2.
Book ID: 4354More details Price: £30.00
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On the Elements of Picturesque Scenery, considered with reference to Landscape Painting.
London: G. Barclay, 1846. First edition. With a dedication from the author tipped into the front end paper. Original cloth, with recent replacement spine and original labels laid onto the spine. Old bookseller description tipped into the inside board. With one folding plate and five lithographs (four coloured). Printed for private distribution. xii, 375 pages. Overall in very good condition, with just a little foxing. 270 x 190 mm (10¾ by 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3374More details Price: £175.00 -
On This Site.
Landscape in Memoriam
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. First Steidl edition. Softback. French wraps. Between 1993 and 1996 Joel Sternfeld photographed 50 infamous crime sites around the US. Containing images of these unsettlingly normal places, ordinary landscapes left behind after tragedies, their hidden stories disturbingly invisible. Each photograph is accompanied by a text describing the crime that took place at the location. 255 x 275 mm (10 x 10¾ inches). Back cover has some rubbing, otherwise a very good copy of a fascinating book. Joel Sternfeld is an American fine-art colour photographer. He is noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States and helping establish colour photography as a respected artistic medium. Sternfeld's work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Book ID: 2777More details Price: £30.00 -
Oneness.
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007. First edition, softback in original card slipcase. Mariko Mori is one of the best-known Japanese artists of the international scene. Mori studied fashion design in Tokyo, worked briefly as a model and later studied fine art in England. This is a record of the work shown at exhibitions at Groninger Museum in The Netherlands, and Aarhus kunstmuseum in Denmark. It includes the complete 'Beginning of the End: Past, Present, Future', a photographic cycle produced over a period of 11 years, in which Mori presents herself as a time traveller in a plexiglass capsule at significant symbolic locations, from Giza to New York to Shanghai. Text in English. In very good condition. 308 pages. 260 x 210 mm (10¼ x 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3939More details Price: £15.00 -
Ooster Kerk
from Beschryvinge van Amsterdam
Book ID: 4315More details Price: £125.00
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Opstellen over vakbeweging. Jeugd Biblioteek - Deel 2.
Omslag Jugendstil van Fré Cohen.
Amsterdam: Centrale van Arbeidersjeugdverenigingen, 1923. First edition. Softback, with cover design and header by Fré Cohen. Cohen was a Dutch graphic artist and illustrator who famously illustrated all the works for the Centrale van Arbeidersjeugdverenigingen - later known as the AJC. Covers and contents are delicate and age toned. There is a neat previous owner's name to the front, but overall this is a good example. 83 pages. 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3074More details Price: £8.00 -
Optisch Dualisme nummer 8
Zeist: 1971. Original acrylic painting, signed and dated in pencil. Part of a series by the Dutch artist. In glazed aluminium frame, which measures 630 x 530 mm (24¾ x 20¾ inches). Visible image inside frame: 37.5 x 40 cm. If sold online, the item can be shipped without frame. Otherwise extra shipping will be quoted.
Condition: Painting and frame are in an excellent condition.
Book ID: 2705More details Price: £495.00 -
Orange Wednesday.
London: Constable & Co, 1973. A very nice copy of this reprint, signed by the author to the front free end paper. Burgundy boards. Book is in immaculate condition. Dust wrapper is clean and tidy, with a little rubbing to the edges of the spine. The dust wrapper of this book was the author's favourite wrapper, and he took great delight in showing me how the picture changed when you turned the book upside down. 356 pages. 210 x 140 mm (8¼x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2303More details Price: £12.00 -
Ordonnance de Louis XIV, sur le fait des Cinq Grosses Fermes.
Du mois de Février 1688. Registrée au Parlement de Bretagne le 7 Octobre 1688.
Rennes: François Vatar, imprimeur du Roi & du Parlement, 1782. Rare. Prémiere edition. Couverture souple. Etat : Très bon. Édition originale. 50 pages. 215 x 165 mm (8½ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3655More details Price: £50.00 -
Ordres religieux, costumes de femmes.
Tableau historique d'après le Père Helyot
Book ID: 4133More details Price: £250.00
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Orient Line Guide. Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land.
Illustrated. The Fourth Edition, revised, with maps and plans.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd, 1891. Publisher's blue hardback boards with gilt title to front and cloth spine. Information for passengers, illustrations of ships, charts, maps and ship plans etc. some fold-out. Boards slightly damp stained and bumped. Sporadic foxing. Overall good condition. XL, 439 pp. including interesting b/w advertisements of the time. 215 x 175 mm (8½ x 7 inches).
The Orient Line was formed in the late 18th century, and by the middle of the 19th century was sailing its steamships all over the world. This guide predates its association with (and eventual absorption by) the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company; or P&O.
Book ID: 3610More details Price: £95.00 -
Original artwork for Van Nelle's Varinas Rotterdam Tobacco Packaging
Rotterdam: 1923. Art Nouveau / Jugendstil paper design used to make in to a bag for the tobacco Van Nelle's Varinas from Rotterdam. This is for the Gold Label tobacco. 360 x 300 mm (14¼ x 11¾ inches). Beautiful original condition. One tiny mark to the paper. Otherwise spotless.
. Dessin en papier Art Nouveau / Jugendstil utilisé pour fabriquer un sac pour le tabac Van Nelle's Varinas de Rotterdam. Il s'agit du tabac Gold Label. 360 x 300 mm (14¼ x 11¾ inches). Très bon état d'origine. Une petite marque sur le papier. Autrement impeccable.
Book ID: 2125More details Price: £250.00