Search Results: Titles starting with O from D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA

Observers and Navigators and other non-pilot aircrew in the RFC, RNAS and RAF by C. G. Jefford (Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1st edition 2001). A detailed study, well illustrated throughout. Hardback in dustwrapper. pp xiii, 274, including b/w illustrations. Size: 11.5 x 8.5 inches approx. (295mm x 215mm). Light wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Oiva Toikka - Moments of Ingenuity edited by Marianne Aav, Susanna Vakkari and Eeva Viljanen (Designmuseo, 1st edition 2010).
Oiva Toikka (1931-2019), the Finnish glass designer. This work published to coincide with an exhibition at the Design Museum in Helsinki, 30 May - 19 September 2010.
Well illustrated throughout.
Card covers. 174pp including b/w and colour illustrations. Size: 10 x 8.25 inches approx. (255mm x 210mm).
A nice, clean copy.
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The Old Copper Mines of Snowdonia by David Bick (Landmark Publishing, 3rd edition [revised and enlarged] 2003). Well illustrated throughout. Card covers. 160pp including b/w illustrations. 9.25 x 6.25 inches approx. (234mm x 156mm). Light shelf and handling wear but otherwise a nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

Old Devonshire House by Bishopgate by Margaret Sefton-Jones (The Swarthmore Press Ltd, 1st edition 1923). Hardback in dustwrapper. 160pp including plan frontispiece plus one b/w plate. 8 x 5.5 inches approx. (205mm x 140mm). Dustwrapper sunned/faded to spine; bruised to spine ends; age tanned. Cloth covers clean and bright; offsetting to endpapers; light foxing to preliminaries and foxing/spotting to page edges but generally clean throughout. Overall, a particularly well preserved copy - nice. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (The Reprint Society, 1st illustrated edition 1953), illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. This title first published in the US by Scribners in 1952, the UK edition being published the same year by Jonathan Cape. The illustrated edition published by The Reprint Society in 1953 unusually pre-dated Cape's illustrated version of the same by two years (1955). Hardback – publisher's cloth with title to spine and decoration to front board, illustrated endpapers, top edge of page-block tinted red, in a dustwrapper. 117pp including b/w illustrations. Size: 8.75 x 6.25 inches approx. (221mm x 157mm). Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and worn to extremities; a little bruised to spine head and upper corner tips; a short (5mm) edge tear to lower edge of rear panel; a little sunned and toned to spine; a touch dusty and marked in places. Cloth clean and bright; a touch bruised to spine head. Light offsetting to endpapers; pages clean and firm. Overall, an… Read More

On Sex, Health, and ESP by Mae West (London: W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd, 1st edition 1975).
From the dustwrapper blurb – "Mae West's wit and wiles and her equally devastating commonsense here combine to give us an insight into living, loving and the other side".
Hardback in dustwrapper. pp vi, 237, plus b/w plates. Size 8.75 x 5.5 inches approx. (223mm x 140mm).
Dustwrapper age-toned, especially to rear panel; light sunning to spine title lettering; original price to flap cancelled with a blue marker pen. Boards and spine clean and bright. Occasional mark or dustiness but otherwise pages very clean throughout; light dinge to page edges (final quarter of page-block and visible in accompanying images) – fairly inconsequential and only mentioned for completeness.
Overall, a particularly well preserved copy and quite the best I've seen or handled – lovely indeed.
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On The Tramp in Wales - The Record of a Springtime Pilgrimage in Search of Agricultural Knowledge and Reasonable Recreation by S. L. Bensusan (Noel Douglas, 1st edition 1929), photographs by Marian Bensusan and others. Touring Wales with motor car and caravan in the spring of 1928 with the writer S. L. [Samuel Levy] Bensusan (1872-1958) and his wife Marian, the car an unidentified open-top tourer named "The Tramp". Hardback in dustwrapper. pp xiv, 208, plus 8 b/w plates. Size: 7.5 x 5.5 inches approx. (193mm x 143mm). Too tall dustwrapper rubbed and worn and with loss to spine ends and corner tips; creasing to top and bottom edges, tears and small loss to top edge; dusty/grubby with some staining, very darkened to spine. Cloth clean and bright; spine ends and lower corner tips lightly worn and frayed. Light offsetting to endpapers; signs of light erasing to upper corner of front free endpaper; pages foxed throughout, heavy in places, but generally clean; edges of page-block heavily spotted/foxed.… Read More

On the Marshes by Carol Donaldson (Little Toller Books, 1st paperback edition 2018). "A journey into England's waterlands". Card covers. 257pp including b/w illustrations. 7.75 x 5 inches approx. (197mm x 130mm). A nice, clean copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.*

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (The Folio Society, 2006), translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa and illustrated by Neil Packer.
This copy was still sealed in publisher's shrink wrap when acquired and only removed prior to inspection.
Hardback. Publisher's green cloth with title to spine and gilt decoration to front board, in a slipcase with illustration to front panel. pp [10], 401, plus colour plates. Size: 10 x 6.5 inches approx. (251mm x 162mm).
A lovely, clean copy in unread condition.
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Orchids of Venezuela: An Illustrated Field Guide by G. C. K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay (Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1st edition 1979). A detailed study. Card covers. Three volumes in a slipcase. pp ix, 1-333; [1], 334-694; [1], 695-1055. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inches approx. (235mm x 156mm). Light wear and rubbing but otherwise all three volumes in nice, clean condition in a slightly worn slip case. **A heavy item which will require additional postage for overseas orders.***Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*

The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants - A Cladistic Story by Paul Kenrick and Peter R. Crane (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st paperback edition 1997).
Academic study, illustrated throughout.
Card covers. pp xi, 440, including b/w illustrations. Size: 10 x 7 inches approx. (254mm x 178mm).
A nice, clean copy.
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Outlines of Modern Geography - Corrected, Improved, Enlarged, and Stereotyped (Glasgow: William Collins, 1862), Scottish School-Book Association - New Series, No. X. A Victorian school book teaching world geography, with maps. Hardback - publisher's cloth with embossed design to boards. 128pp, 4 fold-out maps. Size: 7.25 x 4.5 inches approx. (184mm x 115mm). Some light wear and rubbing to cloth, grubby and marked in places; boards knocked to corners; spine a little sunned/faded. Endpapers grubby and marked, name in ink to front paste-down and pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper; some splitting to inner hinges; pages dusty and some occasional foxing, some creasing and a few roughly cut; some foxing to maps, with some creasing and wear. Overall, showing wear commensurate with age but otherwise a reasonably well preserved copy. *International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International… Read More