Search Results: Titles starting with O from Cox and Budge Books

London: J Johnson et al, 1808. 4th Edition . Full Leather. Fair / Good. Fourth Edition, volume three only (of four). Hardback, bound in a nice example of tree calf. 21.54 × 13.5cm, 576pp. This volume contains writings on 1. Different Methods of Doing Honour to the Dead (contains writings on funeral rites across the world from the East to Ireland, and certain rites such as shaving the head, visiting the graves, singing etc. 2. Concerning the Literature, Books, etc of the Eastern Nations, 3. Observations Relating to the Natural, Civil and Military State of Judea, 4. Concerning Egypt, the Adjoining Wilderness and the Red Sea. Condition: Fair condition. The spine is quite heavily scuffed with one small patch of loss and the boards rubbed. The contents in good readable condition, with intermittent foxing and tanning.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1894. First Edition. . Hardback. Good. First edition. Hardback, bound in blue cloth with gilt titling and design to the spine and upper board. 23 × 14.5cm, 267pp. This copy has been signed and dedicated to the title page by Henry W Wolff, and dated 1896. Eight essays by Henry Wolff that had previously been published in journals such as The Gentleman's Magazine etc. They all have a historical flavour, with subjects such as Richard de la Pole, Voltaire, the Royal Family, and so on. Henry William Wolff (1840-1931) was a British co-operative activist and in 1895 was a founder of the International Co-operative Alliance, serving as its joint president until 1907. Condition: A good reading copy. The blue cloth boards are rubbed and bumped and the inner binding is a little strained in places but the book remains in good readable condition.

Stroud: Fonthill, 2020. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 25.5 × 17.5cm, 864pp (576 pages of text and over 660 photographs on 288 pages). Outside of the Nazi hierarchy, Odilo Globocnik is almost certainly the most culpable in the planned and almost successfully executed attempt to annihilate all the Jews of Europe. In producing this book, the author was soon to discover several interesting facets to the history of this unsavory character. Not only did he play a leading role in the process of murdering the Jews, he was also the arch highwayman in the plunder of their possessions. Additionally, he was responsible for the compulsory uprooting of thousands of Polish non-Jewish citizens, the destruction of their communities, and the trafficking of enforced slave laborers. Often justifiably vilified for his crooked dealings as Gauleiter of Vienna, his function as asset stripper of the Polish Jews is overshadowed by his… Read More

London: Isaac Pitman, 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small hardback bound in the original cloth with printed design and titling to upper board and spine. 17 × 11cm, 114pp + ads. Subtitled "A concise treatment on the manufacture, properties, and uses of liquid protective and decorative coatings and their ingredients". this is an addition to Pitman's Technical Primers, a series of books meant for the crafts. This copy is illustrated with the machinery used in the production of such coatings, and describes their components and how they are applied, eg linseed oil and drying oil varnishes, pigments and solid fillers, and coatings which dry by evaporation of solvents. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

Warsaw: Intrografia, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Limited edition of 300 copies, this being No 197. The ten engravings are housed in a leather folder which is itself in a card box. The folder measures 26 × 18.5cm. 10 loose mounted engravings, one page of limitation details. Text in Polish, English and French. A delightful collection of wood-engravings of old Warsaw by Polish artist Eugeniusz Pichell (1905-1976). The engravings are: 1. Nike of Warsaw, 2. Castle Square, 3. Piwna Street, 4. The Barbicane, 5. Waski Dunaj Street, 6. The Market Place, 7. The Roofs of the City, 8. the House "Under the Ship", 9. The Church of Our Lady, and 10. Royal Palast "Lazienki". Condition: The leather folder and all ten plates are in excellent condition (though there is a little browning to the inside top edge of the folder). The box is scuffed and marked but has done a good job in keeping the plates and folder clean. A lovely set.

London: The Old Contemptibles Association, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good / Fair. First edition. Slim hardback, bound in the original blue cloth boards with gilt titling to upper board. 22 × 14cm, 48pp + ads. Signed with inscription by Breatrix Brice to the ffep. "Tribute to a great feat of arms, Beatrix Brice". This is the full script of a radio programme written by Beatrix Brice in memory of the 'Old Contemptibles', the soldiers of the BEF who went to France to half the German advance in the first months of the Great War. The text is from official histories and the military leaders (Sir John French, Horace Smith-Dorrien etc), as well unnamed soldiers of both the British and German armies. The version that was recorded for radio was shorter as it had to be condensed to one hour, this copy is unedited. The author was a great supporter of the British army and was instrumental in the formation of the Ypres League, a World War I veterans and remembrance society. Condition:… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1911. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Hardback, bound in the original red cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 20.5 × 13cm, 294pp. A study of freedom with reference to Kant and Hegel. The book is in two sections, the first being 'Immanuel Kant on the Problem of Transcendental Freedom', the seond being 'Concerning an Empirical Interpretation of the Feeling of Freedom'. The author was a British Conservative politician, poet and essayist. Condition: Good condition. The covers are faded and tanned but the contents are in good condition with clean pages and secure binding.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback. 18.5 × 12cm, 112pp. A series of speeches by Andrei Zhdanov, the Soviet politician and ideologue. Contents: On Literature: 1. Speech at the First All-Union Congress of Society Writers, 1944, 2. Report on the Journals "Zvezda" and "Leningrad", 1947. On Music: Concluding Speech at a Conference of Soviet Music Workers, 1948. On Philosophy: Speech at a Conference of Soviet Philosophical Workers, 1947. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with some creasing to the spine and a neat previous owner's name to the front cover.

Printed for the Author, 2000. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Third printing. Paperback. 21 × 14cm, 97pp. The story of a B-17 crew, written by its pilot, 2nd Lt Charles E Harris, from training, arrival in England (they were based in East Anglia), and then an account of the 28 combat missions flown over Germany and parts of occupied Europe. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

London: H Renshaw, 1844. Seventh Edition. . Hardback. Fair. Seventh edition. Hardback bound in the original dark green cloth with gilt titling to upper board. 23 × 14.5cm, 193pp + ads. Not signed but a small label tipped in to the front pastedown advertises Van Butchell's address and opening times (27 Baker Street, Portman Square. May be consulted daily (except Sundays) from 10 till 2 o'clock and at any hour by appointment.) A rare book on the treatment of piles, fistula, warts etc, of whch the author writes in his introduction "in the wide circle of suffering which humanity is heir to, there is, perhaps, no class of diseases more painful and distressing in effect, or more frequent and common of occurrence, than those which form the topic of the present short treatise." The author also describes some of his cases to illustrate treatment and success. Condition: The cloth is faded to the spine and to the top of each board as can be seen in the pictures. The text is complete but… Read More

London: Secker & Warburg, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13.5cm, 190pp. The author's first novel. The theme of which is the conflict between man's compelling need for self-assertion and the assured happiness of married life - a conflict brought to the surface by the outbreak in London of a deadly pestilence which reduces the city to a panic-stricken place of dying and the dead. Condition: The book is in very good condition, the dustwrapper has some tanning to the spine and one small closed tear to the top edge but is otherwise very good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. First Edition. . Hardback. Fair / Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback bound in the original blue cloth boards with printed white titling and design to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 13cm, 331pp. Lallie is one of four children of the eccentric, quintessentially English Rush family. Boating, bird watching and inter-family rivalry are the focus of life in their village - Pin Mill, on the Suffolk marshes. Brought up on fair play and the 'family sense of humour' the Rush children soon learn to fend for themselves - on water and on dry land. We watch as Lallie grows to adulthood; loving and hating her 'ordinary' family, carving a space for herself in the shadow of her beautiful sister Margaret, who claims the lion's share of everything. But Lallie is special too, clear, clear-sighted, sexually aware. Just as well, for to keep the man she loves she faces the biggest family fight of all. Condition: Fair condition but remaining in strong… Read More

London: Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1920. First Edition. . Half Leather. Good / Fair. First edition, hardback, half-leather binding with marbled boards and gilt titling to spine. All edges gilt. 21.5 × 14cm, frontispiece photographic portrait of Vernon in uniform, [2132]-2135, [86]-98, [889]- 898, [105]-108, [687]-697, [634]-646pp. A memoir of Richard Henry Vernon (1885-1921). He studied chemistry at Cornell and in Europe, served in the Great War with the Dorset Regiment, and eventually became a research student at Gonville and Caius. He died in 1921 of natural causes. The papers contained here include Organic Derivatives of Tellurium (in four parts) and the Interaction of Ethylene and Sulphur Monochloride. Condition: Good to fair condition but with some wear. The leather is scuffed and rubbed to the edges and spine ends, and along the joints. The pages are foxed but the inner binding is secure. The photograph frontispiece is signed in pencil by Lafayette photography.

London: Lund Humphries, 1941. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fair / Good. First edition, second impression. Hardback, bound in the original brown cloth with yellow printed titling to spine and upper board. 28.5 × 20.5cm, 56pp + plates. This copy was owned by a New Zealand-born architect, Murray J Wren, who has annotated throughout, and hand-drawn a bookplate in to the front pastedown. He served in the Navy in the Second World War, and has written out the places his service took him to. This book is the text of four lectures given by Frank Lloyd Wright to the Royal Institute of British Architects in London in May 1939. The text of the four lectures is followed by photographic plates and architectural plans. Condition: A good reading copy. The cloth is rubbed and some of the yellow titling is wearing off. The book has been annotated throughout by Murray Wren but this does not affect the text. The pages a little creased in places and the binding secure but a little strained.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1946. Reprint. . Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Hardback, bound in blue cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 216pp. First published in 1884, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Under this patriarchal system, women were servants and, effectively, prostitutes. Only Communism would herald the dawn of communal living and a new sexual freedom and, in turn, the role of the state would become superfluous. Condition: A good reading copy. The spine is tanned and faded, the whole book a little dulled but otherwise in strong readable condition.

Original Artwork, 1970. No Binding. Good Plus. Painted in May 1970, this is an oil on board with pencil details in a wooden frame (but not glazed). The frame measures 49 × 49cm and the painting is 45 × 45cm. This is a work of abstract expressionism. It was inspired by the Hythe Ranges in Kent, an area on the coast used by the army for rifle practice. It depicts partial brick walls and huts with fencing, and the horizon being both near along the base and in the distance, where David has also added one of the sound mirrors, the concrete constructions along the Kent coast developed in the inter-war years to detect incoming enemy planes. This can be seen in the green hills of the middle distant to the right of the main grey brick structure. Signed and dated lower right, titled to the rear. David Holt (1928-2014). Born in Hythe, Kent. Painter and Lecturer in Art. After National Service, he trained at the Canterbury School of Art, the Hammersmith School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools… Read More

London: Knight & Co, 1877. Limp Cloth. Good. This is an original rate book record for the village of Bishop's Hull in Somerset. Bound in limp cloth and measuring 33 × 16cm, with gilt- and blindstamped titling to front cover. Printed by Knight & Co of London. It consists of a record of the village in late 1877 and lists the occupants, the parish in which they live, type of house, and rateable value, monies collected. The book starts with handwritten entries describing the purpose of the book, and officials conducting the survey before about 70 pages of handwritten entries. An example is the first entry: Name: Chearley, Albert, name of owner (of property): Walter Pritchard; description of property rated: house and land; name or situation of property: Rose Mount Village; estimated extent: 3A, 11R, 32P [A,R,P is acres, roods, poles]. The details continue on the opposing page giving rental value, rateable value, amount to be / collected, and where relevant, any amount excused. There… Read More

Original Artwork, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. This is an unframed, detailed architectural drawing of a house, Georgian in style. It was probably created for developers, architects, or estate agents. It is by Tony Townsend, an architectural and graphic artist but is unsigned. This highly detailed work is in pen and watercolour, and is on paper. It measures 20.5 × 25.5cm. Probably dating from the early 1980s, it shows a partial front facade and the side cutaway to reveal the dining room. Condition: It is in very good condition.

Original Artwork, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. This is an unframed, original illustration of an Elizabethan cannon and crew of three men. It is watercolour on card. It is unsigned but by Tony Townsend, an architectural and graphic artist. This is a detailed and accomplished illustration. It measures 19 × 30cm. Undated but probably from the 1980s. Condition: It is in very good condition.

Original Artwork, 1997. No Binding. Very Good. Painted in Spring 1997, this is an oil on canvas in a bespoke wooden frame (it is not glazed). The outer frame has been coloured reddish to complement the painting. The frame measures 50 × 39cm and the painting is 40.5 × 29.5cm. This is a work of abstract expressionism, showing David Holt's response to a new tree shape in his garden in Kent. Comprising of bold colours but abstract shapes, this is a painting to captivate. Signed by David Holt to the reverse, and dated March 1997. David Holt (1928-2014). Born in Hythe, Kent. Painter and Lecturer in Art. After National Service, he trained at the Canterbury School of Art, the Hammersmith School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools where he was awarded a medal for drawing and the Knapping Prize. He joined a studio-workshop with Gerald Holtom (designer of the CND symbol) in 1958 where he designed and produced proscenium curtains for schools. In 1958 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and… Read More