Search Results: Authors starting with O from Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA

John Murphy and Company, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Hardcover. 1868. Presumed first edition as no latter edition or publication year noted - revised second edition was published in 1870. First page is blank on recto, and has frontispiece portrait of George Calvert on recto. Followed by table of contents and introduction and pages enumerated to 252. Followed by eight pages of publisher's advertisements. Front and rear boards are both attached; the front more solidly and hinge is unbroken; rear hinge is separating but board still attached. Spine is gone. Edges are worn particularly the corners, with underlying boards exposed in spots. Maryland seal design stamped in blind to front and rear.

Clarendon Press, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, 1918, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 208 pages, with index. Fold-out color map, 18 plates. Ex-lib with cardpocket and withdrawal sheet to rear endpapers, call letters to lower spine. Library mark (pinholes grouped to make letters that spell out the library name) to various pages, including map and all plates. Covers the Vale of White Horse, The Downs, the Kennet Valley, and East Berkshire. Discusses geography, soils, economic condtions, farms (size, distribution, crops, etc), estate and farm management, labour, and the Agricultural Partnership. The latter refers to specific demands and restrictions imposed by the government to insure food production during World War One, which also informs discussion of labour in light of manpower shortage during the war.

Explorditions, LLC, 2022-09-26. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 6x1x9. Large format paperback. ISBN 9798986099507. 455 pages. Published by Explorditions, 2022. In As New condition. From a review by a Rick Handler: "In The Surveyor and the Silversmith: Land Speculation on the Frontier of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh author C. Prentiss Orr takes readers on an amazing historical journey. The story follows two Colonial American figures, David Leet (the surveyor) and Thomas Shields (the silversmith), as well as their descendants through some of the most interesting periods in our early history. The journey for both men begins in Philadelphia in the mid 1700s. Leet’s family would move to the wilds of Virginia where, at a young age, he learned the skills of the surveying profession. With vast and unchartered land to be settled (despite common knowledge that these lands for centuries were protected by and for Native Americans), Leet explored hundreds of thousands of square miles… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, 1930, Grosset & Dunlap, no dustjacket. Fullbound yellow cloth boards, with black lettering to front and spine. Darkening to cloth of spine; small black ink spot to rear board; vertical black line to rear end paper. Binding is solid. Fulton Oursler was a playwright and author, best known for The Greatest Story Ever Told, his fictionalized narrative of the life of Jesus. The Great Jasper was the basis for the 1933 RKO movie of the same name, starring Richard Dix, Florence Eldridge, and Wera Engels. 296 pages.