Search Results: Authors starting with O from Bibliodditiques

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1895. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Endpapers have discolouration. Frontis, protected by tissue guard is portrait of the Empress Josephine, painted by Prud'hon. Upper edge of pages are gilded. Burgundy cloth covered boards. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 458 pp.

Montreal: Tundra Books, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/very good +. Les Tait. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Paste-down plate on title page signed by author and illustrator. Illustrated endpapers. Book tells the story of the building of Casa Loma; a historic landmark in Toronto. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Christine Chisholm. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Previous owner's name/date on front free endpaper. Some light foxing - mainly on endpapers. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped with a couple of small tears and some paper loss at head of spine. Size: 12mo (7" to 7.5"). 86 pp.

Philadelphia Toronto: John C. Winston Company. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Kurt Wiese. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Previous owner's information on front free endpaper with some information whited-out. Pictorial endpapers. Full colour frontis. Dust jacket is price-clipped with some chipping and shelf-wear around edges. Some spotting on spine of jacket and top edge of text block. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 210 pp.

Ottawa: Dominion Experimental Farms, 1927. Hard Cover. Very Good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, written inscriptions on pages. Green boards with embossed gilt lettering and mushroom image on front. Endpapers lightly rippled. Some dampstaining and white flecks on boards. Two full colour plates. 128 black and white plates. Glossy paper. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 274 pp.

Evanston, Illinois and White Plains, New York: Row, Peterson and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good +. Florence and Margaret Hoopes. A very nice, clean and tight copy. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Very slight bow to front coverboard. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 160 pp.

London: W. H. Allen, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Black and white comic book syle book containing two stories. Unpaginated.

Evanston,Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good +. Florence and Margaret Hoopes. An "Alice and Jerry" Basic Reader; similar in tone and in style to the "Dick and Jane" readers. Tight binding. Olive-green colored coverboards. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. School property stamps on endpapers. Some edgewear to coverboards. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 192 pp.

Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Co. Limited, 1948. Hard Cover. Very Good. Florence and Margaret Hoopes. No school markings. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Corners bumped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pp

London: W. H. Allen, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Black and white comic book style book containing two stories. Unpaginated.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Author examines how the concept of wild nature changed over the millennia and what have been the environmental consequences. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 477 pp.

New York: Dingwall-Rock, Ltd., 1927. Hardcover. Very Good +. Tight binding. Red coverboards with black lettering. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Some spotting on endpapers and top of text block. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 435 pp.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. First English language edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Explores "the cathedrals and palaces, the rituals, legends, and episodes that form the landscape of French consciousness". Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Very minimal wear to dust jacket edges. Nicely illustrated. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 651 pp.

New York: The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1961. Seventh printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases on pages. Illustrated with over 275 black and white and coloured drawings.Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Previous owner's name blacked out with marker on front paste-down endpaper and a dime-size ink dot on opposing page; a larger one on top edge of text block. Some edgewear to jacket. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 261 pp.

London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1974. Revised Enlarged Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/near fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated. 248 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Facsimile book club edition of original first edition. Copyright date of 1961. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Some light edgwear to jacket, including a couple of 0.25" tears. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 301 pp. Buffalo

Bloomington, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Bethany House Pub, 1999. Hard Cover. Fine/fine. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Author discusses logic behind the ill-fated Dieppe Raid of WWII in which close to one thousand Canadian soldiers lost their lives and over two thousand more were wounded or captured. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Illustrated with photos and maps. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 489 pp.

Putnam, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/very good. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to pages. Previous owner's address label on front endpaper. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has some surface and edge wear. Contains photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 158 pp.

Chicago: The Book House for Children, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Maud and Miska Petersham. Tight binding. No chips, tears, or written inscriptions. Blue boards with pictorial pastedown on front showing French boy and girl with goat. Gilt embossed lettering on boards. Pictorial endpapers with map of France. Light edgewear and soiling of boards. Interior is clean and bright. Beautifully illustrated in colour; nursery rhymes, songs. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 191 pp.