Search Results: Titles starting with O from Fine Editions Ltd

London: printed for R. Blamire, in the Strand [from 1782], 1792. Early Reprint. Quarter-Bound Calf. Fine. Third Edition (first published 1782) of this picturesque tour, creating an entirely new class of travel. Demy 8vo (214 x 133mm): xvi,152,[2]pp, including final advertisement leaf and 17 full-page oval aquatints (without titles, numbers, signatures, or imprints), "over which is washed with the brush a tint of warm yellow or brown to give tone to the picture." (Hardie). Recent quarter tan calf, smooth spine in five compartments (two with central gilt tools) divided by double gilt rules, red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, plain end papers renewed. An excellent copy, securely bound and clean throughout with only occasional offsetting, in a handsome period-style binding. Bland (History of Book Illustration), p. 247. Abbey (Scenery) 546. Prideaux, p. 337. Hardie, p. 120. Henrey II, p. 531. Barbier, pp. 49-51. Upcott I, p. 330. Lowndes II, 894. Cox, Travel III, p. 30. First… Read More

London: printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1786. Full Calf. Fine. First Edition of one of the earliest guides to the Lake district, complete in two volumes. 8vo: [4],xxxi,[1],xvi,230; [4],268,xivpp, with 30 sepia acquaints and soft-ground etched plates, including 3 maps with watercolor wash, by Joseph Farington. Full cat's-paw calf, boards framed with gilt roll, spine in six compartment, each with gilt stylized tree ornament, between raised bands; gilt edges and dentelles, red leather lettering and numbering pieces gilt, blue marbled endpapers, pink silk page markers. Rebacked with original spine relaid, very occasional scattered spotting (bit more to first few leaves of each volume), offsetting from plates to adjacent leaves, else excellent examples. Abbey 187. Upcott I, p. 124. Prideaux, p. 337. Hardie, p. 120 (for a description of Gilpin's tinting technique). Chilvers and Osborne, 202. Lowndes II 894-95. Cox, Travel III, p. 32. According to Chilvers & Osborne, Gilpin was "first to establish the… Read More

London: printed for R. Blamire, in the Strand [from 1782], 1789. Second Edition. Full Calf. Fine. Beautifully bound Large Paper issue (ESTC Citation No.T98996) of Gilpin's first picturesque tour, creating an entirely new class of travel. Royal 8vo (233 x 186mm): xvi,152pp, with 17 full-page oval aquatints (without titles, numbers, signatures or imprints), "over which is washed with the brush a tint of warm yellow or brown to give tone to the picture." (Hardie). Contemporary full mottled calf, flat spine divided into six compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, covers framed with gilt rules and gilt corner devices, marbled end papers. Book plate of W. Frank Perkins (1865-1946) to front paste-down (Perkins's books on agriculture are now held in the Perkins Agricultural Library at Southampton University). A superior wide-margined example, securely bound (expert repair to joints), pages and plates virtually pristine. Scarce: ESTC lists only seven copies of this Large… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression of Gordimer's third novel. 8vo; 288pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, the spine lettered in gilt; in a typographic dust jacket priced 21/-. A Fine copy, tight, square and unmarked (though the top edge lightly dust-soiled); in a just about Fine jacket, the spine somewhat age-toned, with a very short closed tear to the bottom of the front panel. Still, overall, superb and scarce thus. Driver A7. Written during South Africa's Sharpeville massacre of 1960, which demonstrated to many liberals in the author's camp the futility of nonviolent resistance and marked her own movement toward a political and literary radicalism. While Occasion for Loving, like its predecessors, The Lying Days (1953) and A World of Strangers (1958), relied on formal novelistic conventions, her next novels, including The Conservationist (1974), for which she won the Nobel Prize, begin a period of stylistic innovation. N. B. With few exceptions… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1965. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition. A Fine copy (save for a very sweet inscription in a lovely hand), quarter-bound in publisher's green cloth over green boards, with silver and gilt lettering and a pink top stain, in a bright, Near Fine (nicks to spine ends; two closed 1/4-inch tears on front panel) first-state dust jacket that is price-clipped. The author's fourth novel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Maggs Bros, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No. 238 of 300 copies signed by Besterman, cataloging his fabulous collection of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century art books. Medium folio (412 x 310mm): xiv,118,[2]pp, plus folding frontispiece and 149 additional plates (some folding). Publisher's gun-metal grey cloth, spine lettered in gold. An exceptional example, tightly bound and clean throughout, unread and virtually pristine. Besterman was one of the preeminent systematic bibliographers of the twentieth century. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

London: printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1797. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine. Sixth Edition of Reeve's best-known work, a major influence on the development of Gothic fiction. 8vo: xi,[1],264pp, with 8 full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece). English mottled calf, flat spine in six compartments, gilt sunburst medallion in each, separated by gilt-ruled bands, black leather lettering piece gilt, board edges decorated with gilt roll. Early, neat manuscript ex libris to front fly-leaf. An excellent, wide-margined example in a handsome contemporary binding, spotting on plates restricted to margins, pages virtually pristine. Summers, p. 449. Lowndes, IV, 2065 ("A romance of considerable repute, frequently reprinted."). First published anonymously at Colchester, in 1777, as The champion of virtue, then republished a year later with Reeve's name on the title page, as The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story. An ambitious reworking of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (or, as Reeve… Read More

Newport Mon: R. H. Johns Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Printing of this history of nineteenth century English pottery with metallic glazes. Royal 8vo (313 x 241mm): xx,132pp, with color frontispiece and 545 illustrations, of which 44 are in color. Publisher's pale yellow cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gold with central pottery device, top edge stained rose pink, bottom edge rough-trimmed. An exceptional example of this richly illustrated treatise, tightly bound and clean throughout. First Trade Edition, preceded by a limited edition of only 35 copies, including a substantial account of American historical pottery as well as pottery produced by Spode, Wedgwood, Wood & Caldwell, Staffordshire, Leeds, Swansea, Sunderland, Newcastle & Stockton, among other makers. The metallic glazes of English lustreware impart to pottery the effect of iridescence, simulating the appearance of silver, gold, or copper. John Hancock of Hanley, Staffordshire, began applying the new… Read More

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1916. First Impression. Original Wrappers. Fine-. First Separate Edition, with double-page woodcut by Noel Brooke, one of 2900 copies issued. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 124mm): 14pp. Stitched in publisher's stiff grey paper wrappers printed in black. Bottom edge of upper wrapper lightly spotted, one corner bumped, but an excellent example, pages and plate virtually pristine. Keynes 29. Composed in May, 1912, at the Cafe des Westens, Berlin, in five lighthearted verse paragraphs of varying lengths and originally published the previous year in 1914 & Other Poems. The title refers to Brooke's occasional residence near Cambridge. "It is very much a poem of 'place': the place where Brooke composed the work, Berlin and the Café des Westens, and the contrast of that German world ("Here am I, sweating, sick, and hot") with his home in England. Yet it is more than just the longing of an exile for his home, nostalgically imagined. The landscape of Cambridgeshire is reproduced in the… Read More

Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing Corporation, 1918. First Edition. Card Covers. Fine. First Printing of these six accounts of the Old Southwest. Thick foolscap 8vo (178 x 123mm): 134pp, with portrait frontispiece and eight further illustrations from half-tones. Publisher's pictorial card covers printed in pale blue and brown. An exemplary example (barely noticeable damp spot to foot of first few leaves), tightly bound and clean throughout. Descriptions of a culture and a way of life that were passing out of view, recording the author's experiences and providing information on people and events. Covers the hunting of buffalo and antelope, conflicts with Native Americans, cattle drives (New Mexico to Kansas City), ranching, and cowboys and their ponies, with details handed down by the author's father. William Perry Sanders was born in Texas and moved with his family to Magdalena (Socorro County), New Mexico, sometime around 1890. After about twenty-five years in New Mexico he moved to Southern… Read More

London: Constable [through 1924], 1922. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Limited Edition (one of only 750 copies printed) of Melville's second novel, first published by John Murray, in London, on March 30, 1847. Royal 8vo (226 x 142mm): xiv,375,[1]pp. Publisher's slate-blue cloth, spine and covers paneled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, coated maroon end papers, title page in French blue and black. An excellent example, firmly bound, spine barely lightened, text clean and crisp throughout. BAL 13680. Hill 1137 (first Edition). Volume II of the 16-volume Works of Herman Melville, Standard Edition, publication of which marked a key event in the Melville revival of the 1920s, rescuing the neglected writer from obscurity and securing him a prominent place in the American literary canon. Omoo, the sequel to Melville's first novel, Typee, is based on his experiences in the South Pacific, and tells of the narrator's participation in a mutiny on… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Impression. 8vo: 248,[2]pp. Publisher's slate grey cloth, spine stamped in gilt, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, by Mon Mohan, unclipped and unpriced (one of the export copies Jonathan Cape issued; priced copies include the exception, "UK only"). Signed by Chatwin (without dedication) on title page. Presented the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982 and the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award (there is debate as to whether Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, a fictionalized account of an actual eighteenth-century Brazilian slave trader, published two year before On the Black Hill, should be considered fiction or nonfiction). Near Fine or better (spine tips bumped, stray spot or two to top and fore-edges, short, thin ink line to bottom edge of front cover); About Fine jacket (lightly nicked to one flap fold). Chatwin's first novel (and third book), "written in the tradition of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence,… Read More

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Printing (complete number line) of the poet's own favorite. 8vo: 67pp. Original burgundy quarter cloth over grey paper-covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt, pink endpapers; in a pictorial dust jacket priced at $16.95. As New (and probably unread), in an As New jacket. Inscribed, dated and signed by the poet on the title page. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Kelleher A-27. Hall is considered "one of the major American poets of his generation. His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet's abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his more recent poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. (Poetry Foundation) Of this collection, Hall said, "The One Day is my favorite work of my own, unless Without [1998], and I certainly couldn't tell… Read More

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First (and only) Impression, First State, of the author's first books, one of only 750 copies printed and bound. Small 8vo: 128pp. Publisher's pale blue mesh cloth, front cover and spine stamped in navy blue, text printed on heavy stock white wove paper; drab dust jacket printed in black and priced 6/- net First State (per Ahearn) denoted by broken "d" and the word "flat" obliterated on p.35, line 32. End papers offset from jacket flaps, else a virtually pristine example, apparently unread, in a superb jacket. Potter 1. Hanna 1027. Ahearn, p. 230. Seybolt, p. 22. Dos Passos's literary debut, an autobiographical antiwar novel, chronicling his experiences as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War. "Although the English printers had demanded changes to avoid charges of libel and blasphemy, they perhaps needn't have worried: the novel was almost totally ignored by both customers and critics alike, and sold only… Read More

Vienna: Wiener Staatsoper, 1962. Fine. A fascinating, remarkably complete collection of programs, playbills, and ticket stubs for performances during the 1961 and 1962 spring season at the Staatsoper in Vienna, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. For each of 25 performances, the archive retains the 4- or 6-page playbill (listing the evening's cast members and a précis of each act) and the pink, orange, or yellow ticket stub, in addition to four 54-page biweekly programs (dated May 16, June 1 and 16, 1961 and May 31, 1962), detailing each opera being performed during that two week period. A superb survival, each component of the archive in virtually pristine condition. Our indefatigable aficionado attended 19 performance during the close of May and through June of 1961: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (May 27), Ein Maskenball (May 28), Oedipus der Tyrann (May 29), Don Carlos (June 2), Wozzeck (June 3), Tristan und Isolde (June 4), Aida (June 5), Capriccio (June 6), Das Rheingold (June… Read More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing of this edition with numerous illustrations by James Daugherty of Parkman's classic account of a summer tour, in 1846, of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas, "with a view of studying the manners and character of Indians in their primitive state." . Introduction by Mark Van Doren, Tall, thick 8vo (212 x 141mm): xvii,[1],385,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven butterscotch cloth, spine lettered in maroon, upper cover with maroon vignette of Sioux warrior and galloping mount, double-page pictorial title (in addition to letterpress title), fore-edge untrimmed; beautifully illustrated dust jacket priced $1.00. A superlative example, tightly bound and all but pristine. Grolier (American) 100, 58 ("one of the exuberant masterpieces of American literature" and the "classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies"). PMM 327. Field 1177 ("It is not too high praise of his work to say, that his pictures of savage… Read More

Paris: Audot, Editeur, rue des maçons-sorbonne, no. 11, 1828. Wrappers. Fine. A charming juvenile, with directions, patterns, and finished views for the construction of paper and cardboard toys—a sentry box, a thatched cottage, furniture, a bridge, a windmill, a medieval tower, and more—intended to teach elementary geometric concepts. 12mo (146 x 89mm). vii,[1],9-106,12[advertisements]pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and 21 further numbered folding plates (not bound in numerical order, but correctly placed with respect to pages to which the drawings correspond). Original stitched wrappers printed in black. A superb uncut copy (light scattered foxing throughout) in publisher's original printed wrappers. NUC pre-l956: 42:561. Gumuchian 508. Second Edition (so stated), first published earlier the same year. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and… Read More

London: printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831. First Edition thus. Original Cloth. Fine. First Edition with Cruikshank's illustrations and introductory verses by Bernard Barton, complete in two volumes. 8vo (173 x 105mm): [8],xvi,434,[2]; [4],406,[2]pp, with engraved steel frontispiece depicting Friday kneeling to Crusoe in each volume and 38 woodcut vignettes throughout. Original green pebbled cloth, paper labels printed in black to spines. An excellent set of this scarce edition (one label with tiny abrasion affecting Major's name, small snag to cloth covering one board), tightly bound in contemporary cloth, fresh and bright (virtually pristine) with rich impressions of the plates. Cohn 229. Widener, p. 112. Lowndes II, 614. Jerrold, p. 131. Ullrich 51. Lovett 301. Patten I, pp. 335-36. Another edition of this classic from another publisher but using the same plates appeared in 1836. Cruikshank was a favorite of publishers of illustrated fiction, and… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1865. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. First Issue (with all issue points per Smith, and November, not December, catalog at end of volume II). Demy 8vo (211 x 134mm): xii,320,3-36(first advertisement leaf not bound in); viii,312,4pp, with 20 full-page plates in each volume. Publisher's original dark purplish-brown sand-grain cloth, covers blocked in blind with decorative arch frame embellished with leaves and flowers; spines richly gilt with leaves, flowers, and flourishes and lettered in gilt; coated yellow end papers; fore-edge untrimmed. Contemporary ownership inscription of James Martin, Wainfleet, on fly-leaf and half-title, one dated [18]66. Original spines very skillfully laid down, paper hinges neatly reinforced, faint spotting and offsetting from plates, else an excellent set, tightly bound and clean throughout. Smith I, 15. Sadleir 697. Wolff II, 1809. Podeschi (Gimbel Collection) A. Grolier Dickens, pp. 154-56. Dickens's last completed… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. Original Cloth. Near Fine+. First American Edition of this controversial account, but an "absolutely vital source of evidence on the history of east Africa in the nineteenth century." (ODNB) Thick demy 8vo (233 x 140mm): xxx,31-590,[6]pp. with tissue-guarded photogravure portraits of Speke (frontispiece) and James Grant, 24 further full-page plates, 46 engraved text illustrations, and two maps colored in outline (one folding). Publisher's brown textured cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, pink end papers. Light scattered (mostly marginal) spotting, but superbly preserved in original cloth, an excellent example, tightly bound and general clean throughout. Gay 2735. Howgego IV S54. Hosken p. 188. First published the previous year, in Edinburgh and London. In 1855, Speke joined an expedition to east Africa hoping solve to the greatest geographical puzzle of the Victorian age: Where did the Nile, the world's longest river, rise? The expedition, commanded by… Read More