Search Results: Titles starting with O from Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SUE GRAFTON ON TITLE PAGE. Inscribed to bookseller Charles Parkhurst and his wife Sandy. First printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 318 pp.

London: Royal Society, 1825. Original Wraps. Very Good+. Offered is a Very Good+ entire Part III of the Philosophical Transactions for 1824 in plain blue wrappers with date in ink spine, small chips spine tips, mild edge wear, small bookstore sticker front paste-down with off-setting ffep. Pages unopened and ucut. Full title "Observations of the Apparent Distances and Positions of 380 Double and Triple Stars, Made in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823, and Compares with Those of Other Astronomers; Together with an Account of Such Changes as Appear to Have Taken Place in Them Since Their First Discovery. Also a Description of the Five-Feet Equatorial Instrument Employed in the Observations." 4to. Double stars, essentially discovered by William Herschel were of great interest throughout the nineteenth century - new ones being found and postition measurements made more precise with each improvement in telescope construction. South, working with John Herschel during the years 1821-1823,… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Thick Octavo. 912pp. Bound in black cloth, lettering to spine and upper board gilt over green with gilt rules, light rubbing to cloth. Dust jacket has edge wear and wear to bottom of front panel. A very good copy in very good unclipped dust jacket.

PGA Tour, 2002. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TOM WEISKOPF ON FFEP. Tom Weiskopf's copy with his name in gilt on front cover. Inscribed to bookseller Charles Parkhurst with his armorial bookplate laid in. A near fine copy with top corners bumped.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1840. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. THREE VOLUMES. Complete Set. By the author of "Peter Simple." Bound in brown cloth with original spines laid down, gilt lettering spines. Very good copies with inner hinges discreety repaired, spines faded, lscattered foxing, mild edge wear. vi, 310 pp., 362 pp., 3332 pp.

New York: New Directions, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tall Octavo. SIGNED BY TENNESSE WILLIAM ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. Number 45 of 50 copies printed on Virgil paper, 210(1)pp., bound in 1/4 white vellum paper over patterned paper covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A fine crisp copy in fine paper covered slipcase.

New York, (1948): New Directions. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. First State and one of a few known copies in the First States (according to Ralph Sipper). with an integral title page which reads on the verso "Copyright 1948/New Directions". Williams discovered this and required the publisher to excise the title pages in virtually all of the 1500 copy editions and to insert a corrected leaf, with the copyright assigned to Williams. This is one of the very few copies that escaped the knife. 210pp., fine in publisher's slipcase as issued.

London: Beaumont Press, 1919. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Tall Octavo. Limited Edition of 250 copies. This is no. 223. Sixth book issued by the Beaumont Press. Cover design by Michel Sevier. A near fine copy bound in tan cloth spine and yellow and blue patterned paper boards, printed paper spine label. Mild cover edge wear. 48 pp.

Gouverneur New York: Brothers of the Book, 1899. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Small Octavo. LIMITED TO 600 COPIES. THIS IS No. 106. SIGNED BY ELIZABETH ALDEN CURTIS ON PAGE 71 without personaliztion. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering spine and front cover. A very good+ copy with small stains front board edge and foreedge. 72 pp.

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. First printing, stated. Author's first book. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO BOOKSELLER CHARLES PARKHURST ON TITLE PAGE. Charles Parkhurst's armorial bookplate laid-in. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Beautiful copy. 338 pp.

Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1966. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUGUST DERLETH. ALSO SIGNED BY FRANK UTPATEL, THE ILLUSTRATOR. 48pp., bound in 1/4 brown cloth over patterned blue paper covered boards, spine gilt, a fine copy in unclipped, in nearly fine, clean bright dust jacket.

New York: Knopf, 1992. Original Wraps. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY JAMES ELLROY ON TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE without personalization. Avance Excerpts. Fine in original wrappers. 26 pp.

London; nd (ca.1900): Edwin Dalton. Hard Cover. Fine. Quarto. TWO VOLUMES. 559, 552pp. Illustrated throughout, handsomely bound by John Dickens and Co. in half black morocco over blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges marbled. A fine set. An early history of the Medodist church with extensive research and the use of early photographs and drawings from churches in Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. The author dates the church's origin back to 1811.

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1995. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. 416 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. 347pp., ads at rear, frontispiece with tissue guard, 16 illustrations from photographs of wild animals, bound in light green pictorial cloth depicting a buck, lettering gilt. A fine copy.

Chicago: Scott, Foreman and Company. Very Good-. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Contains seven stories from We Look and See, first Pre-Primer of the Basic Readers. Two page Introductory notes not included. Seven stories three hole punched with green cloth spines housed in a black pebbled cloth three ring binder with stands attached, printed paper label front cover, printed paper introduction verso of front cover. Seven stories in very good+ condition with slight edge wear. Cover in very good- condition with short tears to spine tips, wear to edges and attached stands. Elephant folio. 30 pp.

New York: Viking, 2010. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Quarto. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. 305 pp.

Boston: Ticknor & Co, 1863. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. Second issue. 398pp., 22pp. + ads at rear. Bound in brown embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Neat owner name and dated 1884; a near fine copy.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 54pp., [1]pp. ad. Bound in pictorial pink glazed boards re-backed in pink cloth, all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers. Light soiling to covers, light edge wear; internally clean and bright without foxing. Containing 16 hand-colored plates. A very good copy.

New York: Oscar Baradinsky at the Alicat Book Shop, 1947. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Number 8 of the chapbook series containing Willeford's first publication. Loose sheets of printed poetry housed in original publisher's large red and tan printed envelope. A fine collection.