Search Results: Titles starting with O from Bookbarrow

Bailliere Tindall, London, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. black titles spine; a title in the 'Nurses Aids' series; illustrated by b/w. drawings & diagrams; "this well-known book by Miss Rosemary Bailey introduces the subjects of obstetrics and gynaecology to the student and the pupil nurse and covers the syllabus of the General Nursing Council. The chapters on obstetrics are designed to meet the needs of nurses undertaking an eight or twelve-week secondment in an obstetric unit, and the gynaecological part of the book will meet the requirements of t.hose working in the gynaecological wards and departments. The principles of good nursing care are clearly and interestingly expounded."; including index -343 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Medicine & Health; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0702005789. ISBN/EAN: 9780702005787. Inventory No: MDC00025. . 9780702005787

Pitman, London, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/N/A. white titles spine; illustrated by b/w. line drawings & photo's.; "the number of days lost through occupationally induced ill health and disease in many organisations can be dramatically reduced. Companies need to devote more time and resources to the examination of the causes and introduce strategies to prevent and control the exposures that create these losses. Occupational Health & Hygiene provides practical details on how to introduce the necessary strategies, as opposed to just the legal requirements. The book explains the principles of occupational health and safety and covers such topical matters as RSI. It is the ideal text for not only health and safety practitioners but also personnel managers, engineers, lawyers & lecturers. It will also be useful for those studying for NEBOSH qualifications. Written in a style that will ensure complete understanding of the subjects covered, Occupational Health & Hygiene… Read More

Galton Foundation, Cambridge, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Professor Parkes writes: With complete failure at school and no more than a second class pass degree as a start, how did I get by? What, I think, saved me was an inquiring mind, an urge to work and entrepreneurial zest, But I was an innovator rather than a consolidator, and once anything I was involved with got off the ground I tended to lose interest and become fertile soil for something else. I was incredibly lucky: World War I robbed me of an education but gave my father the chance to get me to Cambridge without one. I stumbled into reproductive biology in its early days and before this went stale on me, I was stirred up by World War II and the re-birth of the NIMR at Mill Hill. Then came the freezing saga and the olfactory block to conception. Add to these contact with the FPA, the IPPF, WHO, new Societies, new Journals, my move to Cambridge, the Nuffield Unit in Uganda and finally… Read More

A. E. Soman & Co. Ltd, Norwich, Norfolk, 1939. First Thus. Card Covers. Very Good/N/A. Illustrator: Photo's. black titles to front; originally published as a paperback this early edition of the guide has been rebound in plain card covers with hand-written titles in black on spine & front; illustrated throughout by b/w. photo's.; in two parts the first giving six walks in Norwich & the second general information; b/w. map of East Anglia toward rear which folds out to give on the other side a b/w. map of the city with car parks & yachting station marked in red; 150 pages include many adverts for local businesses. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Illustrator: Photo's. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Topography Great Britain; Guide Books; East Anglia/Norfolk; England; Geography & Maps. Inventory No: TOP00162. .

A. E. Soman & Co. Ltd, Norwich, Norfolk, 1938. First Thus. Green Cloth. Very Good/N/A. Illustrator: Photo's. black titles to front; originally published as a paperback this early edition of the guide has been rebound in green cloth covers at Gresham's School (October 15th 1942); illustrated throughout by b/w. photo's.; in two parts the first giving six walks in Norwich & the second general information; b/w. map of East Anglia toward rear which folds out to give on the other side a b/w. map of the city with car parks & yachting station marked in red; 166 pages include many adverts for local businesses; previous owner's name on front endpaper; binding date on rear endpaper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Illustrator: Photo's. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Topography Great Britain; Guide Books; East Anglia/Norfolk; England; Geography & Maps. Inventory No: TOP00161. .

Harper Collins HarperCollins, London, 1994. Reprint. Blue Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Illustrator: Crawshaw, Alwyn. gilt titles spine; yellow endpapers; colour illustrations throughout; "everything the beginner needs to lnow about the exciting medium of oils. There are 29 lessons and readers are encouraged to work through each. one in turn.·in this way gradually improving their technique and gaining confidence. Starting with simple exercises on brush control and how to mix colours. Alwyn. guides the beginner through all the basic methods and techniques of oil painting. explaining clearly each process and offering advice and encouragement at every stage. Particularly useful are the revealing sections on 'what went wrong'. These consist of a number of different painting exercises which illustrate all the common pitfalls - and, most importantly. show how to avoid them."; other than a small closed tear near base of D/J. spine a perfect & clean copy; including index -… Read More

Land of Cokaygne Ltd, Cambridge, 1975. Facsimile Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: W. B. Redfarn. This facsimile reprint of the 1876 original was published in January 1975 by the 'Land of Cokaygne Ltd.' for the Cambridge History Agency. The sketches were reproduced by offset lithographic printing process on Queen Anne Antique Cream card & the text on White Register Offset Cartridge. The covers are blue Energy tinted bound four sheet. & the book's pages are bound with red cord ties. There are 26 plates with facing descriptive text. To the front, following a facsimile of original titles, is John Nicholson's introductory essay: "Thoughts on the republication of Redfarn's Old Cambridge" in which he discourses on the parallels between the loss of Redfarn's Cambridge to the Victorian rebuilding of the City and, a century later, the loss of the Victorian Lion Yard & Petty Cury, one of England's most famous streets, to the… Read More

Bird's Farm Publications, Barton, Cambridgeshire, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. Illustrator: Willmer, E. N. front endpaper brown sketch map of Grantchester 1975; rear endpaper brown sketch of the Orchard Tea-rooms; illustrated by 46 b/w. sketches with facing descriptions, mainly of buildings but some maps & views; "One hundred years ago (1875) Samuel Page Widnall wrote, illustrated, printed and published a 'History of Grantchester', all with his own hands. His father had owned extensive nursery gardens in Grantchester from which he achieved fame, a fortune and medals from the Royal Horticultural Society, as the result of his cultivation of dahlias. This allowed the son not only to purchase the Old Vicarage but to devote his time to a wide variety of the gentler arts, and these included research into the history of the village. It is therefore appropriate that there should once again be some record of the village as it now stands. The drawings in this volume,… Read More

Rusland Press, Ulverston, Cumbria, 1979. Second Impression. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Old Lakeland Transport scans the age when stagecoaches rattled over Dunmail Raise to Keswick and beyond; when the first buses challenged the horse-drawn char-a-bancs; when trains and steamers first came and waterplanes flew the length of Windermere. This book by Irvine Hunt ranges from the age of the horse to early airships and in a vivid collection of old photographs shows the assault of transport on Lakeland. Size: Oblong 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 84 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. White titles spine. illustrated by b/w. photo's. & drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Transport; Lake District; Lakeland; England; History. ISBN: 0950569712. ISBN/EAN: 9780950569710. Inventory No: 4746. . 9780950569710

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, U.S.A, 1992. First Thus. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. First published in 1944, Old Oraibi is an ethnographic classic, offering a sensitive portrayal of Hopi traditional culture. According to their own mythology, the Hopis emerged into the present world through an opening in the earth, or sipapu. Archaeological evidence indicates that at the very least they are direct descendants of the earliest Southwest peoples. Old Oraibi is as detailed a picture of Hopi religion as can be shown by an outsider. it sensitively considers kinship, social organization, ceremonialism, and other lifeways of one of the most fascinating American Indian cultures. 4-pages of photographic plates to rear. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xvii + 277 + 4. No Dust Jacket as published. White titles spine. illustrated by b/w. drawings, diagrams, charts & photo's.. Includes bibliography, appendices, topixal index & glossary of native terms.… Read More

HMSO, London, 1934. Early Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. blue card covers, string bound; the Ancient Monuments & Historic Buildings H. M. Office of Works official guide to Old Sarum, Wiltshire, Crown Copyright reserved, published in 1934 priced at sixpence & illustrated by b/w. photo's. & 3 fold-out b/w. plans. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 20 pages. minor marking to front cover. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Covers browned at edges, text block clean. no Dust Jacket as published.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Archaeology; Prehistoric Earthworks; Genealogy & Local History; Castles; England; Ancient (BC); History. Inventory No: 4362. .

Cambridgeshire County Council, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 1981. Second Edition. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Near Fine Condition. Though Oliver Cromwell is probably Huntingdon's most famous son very little is known of his private life before 1640. The first edition of this book was published in 1973. That edition is now out of print and Mrs. Dickinson, the widow of Mr. Dickinson, has kindly agreed that a new, slightly revised, edition should be published by the Management Committee of the Cromwell Museum. The illustrations of Dr. Beard and the baptismal entry are reproduced from blocks kindly lent by the County Press (Huntingdon). � Revised Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 23 + 21 pages. No Dust Jacket as published. illustrated by b/w. drawings, photo's. map & plan. Chronology 1639-1660 to rear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; English Civil War; Huntingdon; Cromwelliana;… Read More

Harrap, London, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Allen W. Seaby. Colour frontispiece with further b/w. ills.; map endpapers; set in the Bronze Age the novel opens with what is for Seaby (who was an early exponent of the pony story for children) quite familiar territory: herd behaviour, a challenge from a lone stallion and the birth of a foal. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 221 pages. Fading to spine colour & top & outer edges. hand-written school prize inscription, lavish, in ink to front endpaper. Black titles spine & front. faded green cloth. Illustrator: Allen W. Seaby. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; History; Britain/UK; Ancient (BC); Fiction. Inventory No: 2480. .

Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1951. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. translation by Gilbert Gardiner; The story revolves around Elena, a girl with a very affected mother and a father who is a retired guards lieutenant and keeps a mistress. On the eve of the Crimean War, Elena is pursued by a free-spirited sculptor (Shubin) and an uptight student (Berzeniev). But when Berzeniev's dashing Bulgarian friend Insarov meets Elena, they soon fall in love. Secretly marrying the Bulgarian revolutionary, Elena invites the ire of her parents, who had hoped to marry her to a more respectable suitor. Insarov falls ill, but partly recovers. On the outbreak of the war, Insarov's call home only complicates matters further. Insarov returns with Elena to Bulgaria, but dies on the way in Venice. Elena is never heard of again. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 234 pages. number 1214 written in ink on last page of publisher's adverts;. Spine browned with… Read More

The Lindsey Press, Cambridge & London, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. Illustrator: Horsley, Gee & Patterson, Paula. Signed by Author. author-signed dedication to the cover-artist on the pre-title page reads - "For Gee our most talented calligrapher & artist! from Frank, November, 1995"; b/w. frontis. drawing of the author; a book of sermons, stories, meditations and so on, all of which were been written during the author's ministry in Cambridge and Bury-St-Edmunds. Frank Walker has ministered to Unitarian congregations in Halifax, Huddersfield, Bristol,. and since 1976 Cambridge and Bury-St-Edmunds. He has also enjoyed two exchange ministrles in the U.S.A.: in 1981 at the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, California, and in 1991 at the First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts, the historic parish church of that charming New England seaport. He is convenor of the Cambridge Local-Group of the Sea of Faith, a network for religious radicals… Read More

Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Cambridge, 1899. Reprint. Softcover. Poor Condition. Extract three papers by Thomas McKenny Hughes, elected Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University in 1873, reprinted from the Cambridge Antiquarian Society Proceedings Volume X pages 245 to 259 & bound in paper covers with the titles handwritten on the front. Pages include a b/w. plate showing drawing of 7 ancient horse-shoes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 16 pages. Item Type: Extract. Heavy foxing to covers & first page of text;. no Dust Jacket as published.. Covers edge-worn & rear cover loose. illustrated by b/w. drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Archaeology; Geology; Dogs; Horse-Shoes; England; History. Inventory No: 2627. .

Burbridge Ltd, Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1988. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Signed by Author. signed on the pre-title page with the words "with my best wishes Frank Stroobant" Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 167 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. illustrated by b/w. photo's.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Military & Warfare; Britain/UK; 1940s; History. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0950936014. ISBN/EAN: 9780950936017. Inventory No: 3339. . 9780950936017

Brown Dog Books, Bath, Somerset, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. As New/N/A. This is the first of an intended eight volume series dedicated to the teachings of G.I Gurdjieff and his student prodigy, P.D. Ouspensky. Volume One is mainly concerned with esoteric psychology according to Gurdjieff; with a few elements added from elsewhere. Most of what we see on our bookshelves today, pertaining to Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, belongs to the last century and is written in a form and style typical of that era. The exception being Gurdjieff's magnum opus - Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson. It is my intention to create a synergy of all the materials out there and render them more accessible and lucid for the reader in this, the 21st century. In just eight volumes, I will present a synthesis of all those esoteric materials from the past - spread over perhaps as many as 200 volumes in all. The result will be a succinct collection of condensed and uniquely structured materials, which will provide the… Read More

Constable & Co Ltd, London, 1988. Reprint. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. gilt titles spine on dark blue covers; beige endpapers; b/w. frontis. photo.; "When I stayed with the Fenners my bed was the old horsehair sofa which was pushed up against the wall dividing their cottage from the derelict one next door, and at night the noise of the rats on the other side of the partition was dreadfully disturbing. What could they find to eat in that empty house . what, if not me so conveniently to hand? I lay awake straining for the gnawing through the lath and plaster which would mean they were on their way.' Sylvia, 7-year-old darling of a middle-class Norwich family, can scarcely believe her luck at being allowed to stay with Maud's family in their cottage opposite the Cross Keys pub. Maud is her family's housemaid, independent of spirit and tart of tongue. Sylvia's mother, understanding nothing of the fierce rural poverty of the 1920s, assumes that Maud's impeccable city… Read More

Macmillan, London, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. white titles spine; illustrated throughout by b/w. photo's., drawings & diagrams; "this book introduces a number of optoelectronic devices. Beginning with the LED lamps and displays, whose principles are discussed, the author devotes approximately one-third of the book to the various solid state photodetectors, the photoconductor, photodiode, avalanche photodiode and phototransistor. The principles of thermal and shot noise are introduced in order to assess the signal-to-noise ratio and noise equivalent power (NEP) of these photodetectors. The second half of the book begins with a detailed account of the solar cell, including its electrical and optical characteristics and a discussion of present and future applications and the economics of its future development. The next section deals with the laser diode, the probable source for all future optical communication systems. A detailed discussion of the double… Read More