Search Results: Titles starting with O from Deja Vu Books

Chicago: Lyon & Healy (Winchell), 1888. Boards with brown cloth spine. Spine very worn and torn - Covers loose but still attached. Rest of binding is overall tight. Soiled covers. 1891 gift inscription. 98 pages of hymns and music. Author was organist and director of Music at Oakland M.E. Church in Chicago.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1964. Blue hardcover binding clean square and tight. Tiny red marker dot fep, else clean and tight interior . DJ front flap corner-clipped, a couple small closed tears but displays nicely in clean Brodart jacket. From flap: Children and grownups alike love to look at old photographs and weave stories around the mysterious beings of 'the olden days'. Beautifully illustrated for ages 5-8.. Illus. by Bettina. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st American. Hardcover w/Slipcase. Very Good/Very Good.

Frankfurt: Umschau Verlag, 1960. Orange laminated hardcover binding with photos of two terriers on front. 64 pages - clean and tight. Photos of terrier breeds plus description of each in German.. Illus. by photographs. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1960. Deocrated yellow hardcover boards binding clean, square and tight. Corner clipped djhas shelfwear, some closed tears and chips. 53 pages. Book encourages serious amateur artists to experiment with oil painting and s hows them how.. Illus. by Doust, L. A. and Photos. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Chicago: Thomas S. Rockwell Company, 1931. Green hardcover cloth binding clean square and tight. Bumped corners, light wear to covers. 1933 Happy Birthday note ffep. 64 pages, hinge crack after last page of text but binding is secure and tight.. Illus. by Nelson, Don. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.

Whittlesey House - McGraw-Hill Book Company Weekly Reader Book Club, 1956. Blue hardcover binding clean square and tight. DJ has some chips and shelfwear, stain on back of jacket. Previous owner name on front flap. Not price-cliipped. Book clean and tight with yellowed pages. Rubbed spot on front free endpaper - over erased. Includes the Children's Book Club flyer from February 1956 describing this book. 119 pages. Fact/fiction story of the great racehorse Exterminator, born in 1915 of royal breeding, but gangly and not very pretty. Used as a workhorse for the great Sun Briar, he surprised everyone by winning the 1918 Kentucky Derby.. Illus. by Dennis, Wesley. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good+.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. Pictorial boards binding with blue cloth spine has rubbed edges, very light soiling. Name on ffep. A few smudges in text. Else clean and tight. 27 pages. Well-illus in color and b/w - story of an old steam locomotive that gets relegated to the junk-pile.. Illus. by Galdone, Paul. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pictorial Boards. Good/No Jacket.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. Orange hardcover cloth binding with gilt title clean square and tight. Interior clean with light foxing on endpapers. DJ corner clipped but not price-clipped ($2.50 on front flap). Some shelfwear and small chips, but now protected in clean Brodart jacket. List of other Macmillan novels on back of dj. 349 pages.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. Red cloth binding with faded gilt decorations. Derrydale Press Limited edition of 1,150 copies printed by Eugene V. Connett. Light wear, lacks crispness but clean, square and tight. Artist Hays died during preparation of this volume, so the five plates appearing here were the last he did of the country he hunted during his lifetime. Color frontispiece with tissue intact and four among the text. 239 pages. Great recollections and story-telling about fox hunting and sport.. Illus. by Hays, William J.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1960. Green hardcover library binding square and tight. Usual library markings and stamps. Interior lightly soiled but square and tight. 95 pages. rory and his friends decide to 'save' the Milkman's pony.. Illus. by Sofia. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Red hardcover cloth binding is clean, square and tight. Gilt title. Bookplate ffep. DJ has a large clear-taped chip bottom of front cover, some shelfwear along edges. Illustrated endpapers show maps of Northern and Southern England showing locations of old Public Schools. 112 pages with index.. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good.

London: Country Life, 1934. Brown hardcover binding with red cloth spine has bumped corners, soiled spot top righthand corner of front cover, else square and tight. Foxing to interior, else clean and secure binding. DJ not price-clipped, some chips tears and light soiling - protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. 102 pages. Beautifully illustrated. Continues story of Moorland Mousie in his later years.. Illus. by Edwards, Lionel. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Popular edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good.

Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1906. Blue hardcover cloth binding with illustration of woman in black dress next to girl in red checked dress on plantation. Soiled, rubbed along edges, bumped corners, Hinge crack between front blank pages. Foxed tissue intact between title page and frontispiece illustration. Five other full page glossy illustrations - all intact although a few are starting to detached. Pages are foxed, a bit of brittleness but all intact. 160 pages + ads in back. Juvenile fiction.. Illus. by Atwood, Clara E.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

28 glossy pages, stiff boards cover, pamphlet. All in Spanish. Gift inscription in Spanish on first page. Artists: Antonio Berni, Rodrigo Bonome, Eleuterio Carbajo, Rodolfo Castagna, Adolfo C. de Ferrari, Alfredo Guido, Enrique Jose de Larranasa, Adolfo Montero, Onofrio A. Pacenza, Benito Quinquela Martin, cesareo Bernaldo de Quiros, and Raul Soldi. Each has a two page spread with their picture, bio, and what appears to be a written letter from each with a color photo of one of their pieces of art on opposite page. Circa 1950. Overall clean with foxing.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. Good+/No Jacket.

New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2000. Binding and dustjacket as new. 48 pages. A book about the give-and-take of friendship in four captivating stories of two pigs who are best friends. A Dial Easy-to-Read book - scarce in hardcover.. Illus. by Schweninger, Ann. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Henry Z. Walck. Inc., 1974. Blue cloth binding lightly soiled, spine sticker, bumped corners. Front pocket intact, usual marks. Interior clean and tight. Nicely illus story about a young Nigerian boy who thinks of a very special gift for his new baby brother's naming ceremony.. Illus. by Moon, Elzia. 8vo - Oblong. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.

Harper & Brothers, 1946. Beige hardcover cloth binding with red titles and illustration on front is clean, square and tight. Previous owner name on fep and ffep. Pages show some wear, but overall clean and tight interior. DJ is soiled, shows foxing. Not price-clipped. Shelfwear, but protected in clean Brodart jacket. 239 pages. Copyright page states 13th edition and has notation D-V, Harper's designation of printed April 1946. The 4th book in the Little House series, the family leaves their home in Indian Territory and travels by covered wagon across Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa to purchase land and settle in Minnesota beside Plum Creek. Follows Farmer Boy and precedes By The Shores of Silver Lake.. Illus. by Sewell, Helen and Boyle, Milded. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 13th. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Fair.

San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1991. Laminated pictorial hardcover binding same as dj clean, crisp, square, and tight. DJ has minor chip top of spine. Unpaginated. Author/illustrator takes the reader around the planet as the moon pulls, the tides rise, the rain falls, and a baby is born. A celebration of our natural world as a loving welcome is extended to each member of the human family.. Illus. by Frasier, Debra. 4to - Oblong. 2nd. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1982. Yellow hardcover boards binding with dragon reading a book on front has remains of tape oncovers, rubbed edges with boards showing, bumped corners, cocked spine. Withdrawn library stamp on title page, back endpaper removed, some general wear to interior pages but mostly clean and tight. Sam the dragon loves to read and dreams of becoming a man like Mr. Johnson. Fun fantasy picture book tale.. Illus. by Kent, Jack. 8vo - Oblong. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Cassell & Co. LTD, 1956. Green boards binding. Text clean and tight. Few marks on front endpapers. Some foxing. 242 pages. Non-fiction account of author's show jumping career and some of her horse partners including Prince Hal, Flanagan, and Brigadoon.. Illus. by Photos. 1st. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.