Search Results: Titles starting with O from InkQ Rare Books LLC

Binding rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped with cloth fray, pages lightly toned, few minor spots of foxing. Very good. LMM-279. Joseph H. Reading. The Ogowe Band. A Narrative of African Travel. Philadelphia: Read & Company, 1890. First edition. Octavo. xv, 278 pages. Frontispiece photo of A Tropic Home built by the author in 1882, 64 photographic plates, 3 maps, decorative initial letters and engraved tail-pieces. Color African Money plate mis-bound facing page 248. Publisher's brown cloth stamped with black designs and lion's head with gilt titles on front board, black designs and gilt lettering to spine, patterned endpapers. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Light toning and few spots to cloth, top stain faded, small paper lift and corresponding remnant between pages 152 and 153 affecting first four lines of each page; dust jacket with edge and fold wear, edge tears, paper chips, two-inch diagonal tear from head of spine into front panel, paper loss in lower margin of rear panel, several tape repairs on verso of jacket, back panel browned and smudged. A very good presentation copy in a less than ideal jacket. LMM-170. John B. Sanford. The Old Man's Place. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, Inc., [1935]. First edition. Inscribed by the author and signed John Sanford on the front free endpaper in 1976.  Octavo. 263 pages. Comes with previous catalog slip laid-in naming the recipient as Harry Roux. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in red and black on spine, black top stain. In illustrated dust jacket with listing price $2.50. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Very good. CDK-92. Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. [New York]; New American Library, 1963. First American edition. Octavo. 297pp. Black quarter cloth. .

Extremities rubbed and bumped, with abrasions to spine heads and tails. Light even toning throughout. Vol. I, circular damp-stain to front. Vol. II, offsetting from a fortune-cookie slip laid-in between pp. 204-5. Very good. JBS-122. Sir Alexander Hosie. On the Trail of the Opium Poppy: A Narrative of Travel in the Chief Opium-Producing Provinces of China. Boston: Small Maynard & Company, Publishers, 1914. First edition. Two octavo volumes. Vol. I, 300pp. Illustrated, frontispiece, b/w photographs, fold-out map. Vol II, 308pp. Illustrated, frontispiece, b/w photographs, fold-out map. Publisher's green cloth hardcover boards, stamped in gilt to spines and front covers. From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. .

Light rubbing to boards, minor wear to price-clipped jacket, else fine. JHN-336. Robert Bloch. The Opener of the Way. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1945. First edition. Octavo. 309pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, original dust jacket with cover art by Ronald Clyne. .

Extremities gently bumped and rubbed, else fine. LMM-172. Julian Symons. John DePol, wood engravings. Oscar Wilde: A Problem in Biography. Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press, 1988. Limited edition, No. 192 of 200 numbered copies. Small quarto. [30]pp. Illustrated. Red quarter cloth over hand-made paper boards, pasted label to spine. Prospectus for Kelmscott Press Golden Legend laid-in. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Slight spine lean; minor wear, gently bumped to corners of front board; slight offsetting to endleaves; jacket lightly toned, chipped, and torn. Very good. CDK-425. Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938. First American edition.  Octavo. 389pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over orange pictorial cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $2.75. .

Slight wear, some sunning to jacket, bookplate of Stanley Marcus (withdrawn) to front pastedown. Very good. JKQ-359. Various Authors/Contributors. The Outsider: Out of Tucson, Arizona,  Numbers Four & Five. Tucson: Loujon Press, 1968/9. Limited, hardcover edition, one of 500 copies printed. Quarto. [196]pp. Illustrated. Publisher's illustrated hardcover paper boards, original unclipped dust jacket. Pressed flower insert laid-in. Includes contributions from Charles Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, Larry Eigner, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Thomas Meron, Robert Bly, Allison Knowles, Jean Cocteau, others. .

Jacket and slipcase sunned, soiled, and worn, else fine. LMM-367. Ovid.. Hans Erni, illustrator. Ovid's Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Verona: The Limited Editions Club, 1958. Limited edition, No. 253 of 1,500 numbered copies.  Signed by illustrator Hans Erni and printer Giovanni Mardersteig.  Octavo. [520]pp. Illustrated, with engravings by Hand Erni. Publisher's beige quarter cloth over green paste paper boards, top edge stained yellow, original paper dust wrapper, housed in custom card slipcase.  From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .