Search Results: Titles starting with O from Evening Star Books

New York: Bantam Books (1999), 1999. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [15], 2-367 pp. Quarter maroon cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page. Promotional bookmark laid in.

Oxonii [= Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano [= From the Clarendon Press], 1715. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo. [17], 2-182, [18] pp. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments with a black morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges sprinkled red. With three full-page portraits (one of Cicero, one of Demosthenes, and one of Aeschines), and an engraving on the title page. Latin translation (done underneath the Greek text) and glossary by P. Foulkes and J. Freind. Dibdin 487. Moss 386. Oxford Classical Dictionary, 25-26; 456-458. Foulkes and Freind's first edtion of Aeschines and Demosthenes was published in 1696, this is the second edition of their arrangement of the Greek and their Latin translation. Dibdin cites the helpful glossary as key to the book's success. Aeschines' and Demosthenes' speeches taken together shine a light on the relations of Athens and Macedon in the 340s and 330s. The two orators fought it out via speeches in the Boule (the Athenian democratic… Read More

Basileae [= Basel]: G. Haas, ex Officina J.J. Thurneisen, 1780. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. [17], 2-355, [5] pp. Contemporary tree calf with a gilt rule on each board, spine in six compartments with beautiful gilt tooling and a red morocco label lettered in gilt; all edges decoratively stained yellow. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title page in Greek and Latin, text in Latin. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Erasmus, with seven full-page wood-engravings, and with numerous in-text wood engravings, all done by Hans Holbein. With a commentary by Gerardus Listrius. A beautiful example of Erasmus' satiric essay, a landmark publication in Renaissance Europe. In Praise of Folly is credited with helping to sow the future ideas of the Protestant Reformation, as it parodies many superstitions of the Catholic Church. Erasmus' essay is a perfect example of dry and biting wit, rich with metaphor and layered puns. Joints neatly touched up, a small darkened spot on the front board. Read More

New York: Random House [1949], 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-181, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The Mary McCarthy Society, "Fiction". A beautiful copy of this early work of McCarthy's: a satire of a community made up of middle-class Americans who strive to create the perfect Utopia in their own image.

New York: Random House [1949], 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-181, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with minor toning and foxing to the textblock and a faint smoky odor in a Near Fine dust jacket with mild toning and edge wear.

New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1885. Early American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. [5], 6-115, [3] pp. Publisher's green cloth with a butterfly in gilt and gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine; top edge gilt. Floral yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Published one year after the London edition (done in 1884). A collection of literary essays representative of the late Victorian age. A bump to the front board, a contemporary name and gift inscription on the first blank leaves.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd (1973), 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 2-250 pp. Bound in green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. A sharp copy of this monograph on the foundations of probability theory. A Near Fine book with a few leaves creased at the corner in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket (publisher's sticker with new price) with some mild age toning to the rear panel and slight fading to the title on the spine panel.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [4], 4-175, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and two gold rules and publisher's device in gold on the spine. Price of £2.00 net 40s. net in UK on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by P.T. Geach and A.J.P. Kenny. These chapters cover issues in epistemology, philosophy of language, and in logic. Prior is best-known for his contributions to modal and non-standard logic. A private name stamp on the free front endpaper, a few tiny pencil marginalia; jacket's spine panel sunned, jacket shows light rubbing.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1983), 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo. [10], xi-xxxvii, [3], 3-175, [3] pp. Bound in coarse green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. In this book, Linsky, a well-known philosopher of language, focuses on propositional attitudes. He presents formulations of the theories of Frege and Russell, and examines the arguments of a number of modern critics including Hintikka, Kripke, Davidson, and Quine. Near Fine with a couple of small spots of discoloration on the free front endpaper and one leaf in a Very Good dust jacket with a chip to the top of the rear panel and some light wear to the crown of the spine panel.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 1-134, [2] pp. Yellow cloth with red lettering on the spine. Slater 676. The three philosophers consider the contemporary status of scientific theories in relation to observation. Minor dusting to the top textblock; jacket is price-clipped with traces of rubbing and with fading to the spine panel.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. LTD. [1970], 1970. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 12mo. [4], v-xv, [1], 1-192, [8] pp. Red paper boards with black lettering on the front board and spine. Publisher's price sticker of $1.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text black and white photographs. Part of The Observer's Book series. Describes over 230 breeds and varities with 149 illustrations. A charming pocket-book. Light edge wear and rubbing and the front flap's bottom corner clipped.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. [3], 8-15, [1], 2-534, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brick-red cloth, beveled-edge boards, stamped in black with a gilt decoration on the front board, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with twenty-seven brightly-colored maps and with several other diagrams and figures adorning the text. Elisee Reclus was an important naturalist and geographer, with his key work first published in France as La Terre, Description des Phénomènes de la Vie du Globe. This is the first American edition of his work, containing the second part of Reclus' magnum opus ("Elisee Reclus", Encyclopaedia Brittanica). Former owner's bookplate, tiny dampstain to the bottom textblock and gutter, with a minuscule tear to the free front endpaper.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [7], 2-181, [5] pp. Green cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with remainder spray to bottom of textblock; jacket is Very Good with traces of edge wear.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [15], 5-433, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine; brown topstain. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white drawings. A Near Fine book with a touch of spotting to the fore-edge in a very near Fine jacket with minor fading to the spine panel.

New York: New American Library [1966], 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [8], 3-120, [2] pp. Black paper boards with red lettering on the spine and a gun and tentacle embossed in gilt on the front board. Gold endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Paul Bacon. Includes "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights". Ahearn APG 025c. Gilbert A14b. Jacket has rubbing and two small chips to its rear panel.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], xii, [2], 1-464, [2] pp. Light yellow paper over boards quarter-bound in dark yellow cloth with red metallic lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front jacket flap. Notes, bibliography, index.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1966], 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], 1-280, [2] pp. Quarter pink cloth over black cloth with black lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns printed in white. Price of $4.95 on the front jacket flap. First printing of the first American edition. Ahearn APG 005c. Hubin 395. Wonderful jacket art by Frederick E. Banbery, a great example of mid-1960s style. The first Sid Halley mystery from Francis. An inch corner crease to one leaf and a minute dampspot to the foot of the spine; jacket has a small piece of tape and a little dampspot on its reverse.

London: R. Dodsley, 1749. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 4to. [6], i, [23], iii-ccvi, [4], 3-315, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Half recent calf over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments, recent purple label lettered in gold on the spine. Recent grey endpapers and pastedowns. The original endpapers are bound in. Title page printed in red and black with a wood-engraved bust of Pindar. With engraved tailpieces. Brueggemann 80. Moss 419. The Monthly Review was highly complementary of West's translation of Pindar: "The whole of Mr. West's book is indeed a treasure ..." The first edition of West's Pindar is rather difficult to find in commerce. Pindar is arguably the most famous of the Archaic Greek poets. His poetry is notably difficult to read (in Greek and English). His most popular pieces are focused on the celebrations and high points of the Olympic games. His poems help the historian to put the Olympic games in their proper context, and they help… Read More

London: Hutchinson (1972), 1972. First printing. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [vi], viiix, [1], 309, [1], pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of £2.00 net on front flap of jacket. An attractive copy of Forsyth's second novel. Very near Fine book with a minor separation between the backstrip and the textblock in a very near Fine jacket.

New York: The Viking Press (1972), 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-xi, [5], 3-337, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over red paper boards with gold and red lettering on the spine; red topstain. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 net on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. An attractive copy of Forsyth's second novel. A faint odor of tobacco to the pageblock; jacket with two small nicks to its front panel.