Search Results: Titles starting with O from Island Books

Ian Allan, [Shepperton,, 1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs in the text; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Ottley 8115.

Newnes and Country Life,, 1915. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates, title in red and black, neat pencil sketch on front free endpaper verso; original red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, backstrip moderately faded (but all lettering entirely legible), lower hinger cracked (but binding wholly sound), a clean, firm copy. Includes full list of members and ex-members gazetted from August 1914 to March 1915, and ROH. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.77.

Macmillan,, [1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; black cloth, backstrip lettered in cream, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. The story of the Ossewabrandwag between 1939 and 1948 and more particularly during WWII. SCARCE.

n.d.. Photographic print measuring 8 x 12 ins (approx. 20 x 30 cms) SIGNED ON OBVERSE BY CORRAN PURDON IN BLACK INK; A FINE COPY. The print is from the well-known original image of the famous lend-lease destroyer HMS CAMPBELTOWN wedged in the dry dock at St. Nazaire as part of Operation CHARIOT. Shortly after the picture was taken the timed charges aboard the vessel detonated, destroying the remains of the ship, causing significant enemy casualties and rendering the dock inoperable for the remainder of the war. Major General Corran Purdon had a military career worthy of a Hollywood film script. He volunteered for the Commandos and received the Military Cross for his part in raids on Norway and - perhaps the most daring raid of the war - on St Nazaire, where he was wounded and captured. After imprisonment at Spangenburg POW camp, he escaped and remained on the run for ten days before being recaptured and transferred to Oflag IVC at Colditz Castle, where his companions included Airey Neave and double… Read More

Antique Collectors' Club, [Woodbridge],, [1980]. 8vo., Second Impression, with coloured frontispieces, coloured plates, very numerous monochrome photographs throughout and patterned endpapers; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Bright copy of a standard reference, published seven months after the first edition.

Famedram, Gartocharn,, [1973]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Ottley (Supp), 8340.

World Ship Society, Windsor,, 2008. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. Second of the author's detailed accounts of British WWII destroyer classes and development, and a fitting sequel to 'Afridi to Nizam' . Includes service histories of 113 destroyers, with full vessel index and seven appendices detailing building dates and post-war conversions completed or proposed. VERY SCARCE.

Liverpool University Press, Liverpool,, [2007]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes a bibliography of Obelisk Press titles.

Society of Antiquaries,, [1773]. 8pp. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with engraved plate and illustration in the text, final leaf present in photofacsimile; modern boards, upper board with printed paper label, uncut, a bright, crisp copy. Extracted from Archaeologia, vol. II.

Printed by W. Richardson [for] Dodsley [and several others],, 1764. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper; original dove-blue wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp, well-preserved copy secured for the future in custom-made solander case. THE ONLY COPY WE HAVE SEEN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Written when Bigland was Somerset Herald, this scarce and important work constitutes a plea for the consistent and meticulous recording of family history. A rare complement to his sadly truncated endeavour in producing the definitive history of Gloucestershire. OCLC 4919515.

Pentland Press, [Bishop Auckland],, [1997]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Incisive memoirs of a Fleet Air Officer during WWII.

Phaidon, Oxford,, [1980]. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations ( a number full-page) by the author in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. SCARCE.

Society of Antiquaries,, [1768]. Single leaf, 4to., on laid paper, with a facsimile [of the inscription] engraved on wood in the text; disbound, a remarkably crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. Extracted from the 'Journal of the Society of Antiquaries'. The author's paper was read before the Society on 25 February 1768.

Archaeologia,, [1773]. 5pp, sm. folio, on laid paper, with two engraved images on one plate; disbound, uncut, a very good, crisp, clean copy. 3 leaves plus one plate extracted from Archaeologia Vol. II, XXIV; pp. 124-128.

Society of Antiquaries,, [1772]. 2 leaves, 4to., on laid paper, with a fine plate engraved on wood, last leaf of text supplied in photo-facsimile; uncut, disbound, a remarkably crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. Extracted from the 'Journal of the Society of Antiquaries'.The plate, eminently suitable for framing, depicts the West Front of Brechin Church, with three smaller figures inset

Society of Antiquaries,, [1773]. 7pp. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with engraved plate and illustration in the text, final leaf present in photofacsimile; modern boards, upper board with printed paper label, uncut, a bright, crisp copy. Extracted from Archaeologia, vol. II.

Phaidon, Oxford,, 1980. 4to., First Edition, with numerous illustration by the author (a number full-page and a number in colour) in the text; grey cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Frederick Warne,, [1982]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first [and only] single volume work listing every RN submarine from Holland 1 to Trafalgar.

Frederick Warne,, [1958]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates and 66 photographs in monochrome; original series binding of beige cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped without material loss at head and lightly browned at backstrip. Observer 27. Code 680.1057; jacket 27.1 matt. 'Perhaps the first title aimed at the adult collector' (Marren & Carter). Marren & Carter, p.161.

Frederick Warne,, [1972]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 150 coloured illustrations in the text; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Observer 46. Code 1040.572. Marren & Carter, p.168-9.