Search Results: Titles starting with O from Bath and West Books (PBFA)

Paris, France: Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1863. Nouvelle Edition/New Edition . Half Leather. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Text in French. Complete seven volume set, uniformly bound in contemporary half burgundy morocco over marbled paper-covered boards. Five raised bands to spines, with gilt titling to compartments two and four. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. A handsome set with light wear to leather. All volumes firmly bound. Title page and frontispiece in Vol. IV just starting to pull away at the top but no other structural issues. Eleven engraved plates in total by Dalannoy and Massard after G. Staal, 3 missing tissue-guards. Généalogie de Moliére in Vol. VII. Age-toning and spotting to page edges. Some scattered foxing and browning to contents with worst affected being front and back matter. No bookplates, inscriptions or other markings, and plates all clean. Vols I-IV published in 1863, V-VII in 1864.… Read More

Cambridge, Maryland: TIdewater Publishers, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover in clipped dustjacket which is bright with a little spotting; creasing and small closed tears to edges. Book is clean, without inscriptions or other markings. 326 pp with lots of b/w photos and drawings. The second book in Dr Forman's Tidewater trilogy. In addition to his customary monographs on Maryland's early gardens and buildings, Forman for the first time included descriptions of furniture and household items and where they were used. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Heavy/oversize book. U.K. postage at default charge but overseas buyers may be asked for a little extra. Enquiries welcome.

Irvine, California: Suntup Press, 2022. Limited Ed. . Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Kolesova, Juliana. Suntup Press's exclusive Numbered Edition, limited to only 350 numbered copies, signed by both author and artist. This is #314. Flatback Bradel binding with handmade marbled paper over the front board, and black European cloth covering the spine and back cover. Marbled papers custom made for this edition in France by Claire Guillot. Cover and spine labels foil stamped on Hahnemühle Bugra. 6" x 9" trim size. 272 pages. New exclusive afterword, 'My Deal with the Devil', by David Seltzer. Six full color illustrations by Juliana Kolesova. Signed by David Seltzer and Juliana Kolesova. Printed offset on archival Cougar Natural Vellum paper. Endsheets are black Bugra. Housed in a die-cut slipcase covered with an acrylic-coated embossed paper. Bookmark included. A terrifying thriller of supernatural evil, 'The Omen' by David Seltzer is the… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 2022. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sontag, Susan. A new copy as received directly from The Folio Society. Removed from wrapping to check for possible flaws, of which there are none, and to photograph. The first-ever illustrated edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking work, 'On Photography', is newly introduced by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator of photography, Mia Fineman, and includes 21 beautifully reproduced archive photographs. Susan Sontag was one of the most dazzling and influential commentators on the art and culture of her time. Published in 1977 and still astonishingly prescient, her groundbreaking study, 'On Photography', was one of the first books to ask forceful questions about this modern art form: its power to shock, idealise, act as a memorial, as propaganda, to be used as evidence, and to misrepresent - Sontag was amongst the earliest to write about the… Read More

London: Sheep Press, 1974. Limited Edition . Card Covers. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Limited edition of 175 hand-numbered copies, this being #61. Published by the Sheep Press and printed on Glastonbury Laid paper by Skelton's Press. Booklet in lavender card wraps with sewn binding: in fine condition. Lavender printed dust jacket: near fine with minor wear and slight fading to spine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Giles Gordon's 'day job' was as a flamboyant literary agent, publisher and critic, famed for his tough deals and strong opinions. Gordon's clients included Fay Weldon, Prince Charles, Peter Ackroyd, Sue Townsend and Vikram Seth. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and fully insured.

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1902. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Early printing of the first American edition. Includes the author's prefaces to the first edition of 1894, and the fourth of 1891. Also the translator's preface. 217 pp. Terracotta cloth with lettering in black to upper board and spine. Light wear, rubbing and marking to binding but a good tight copy. Age-toning and a little spotting to page edges. Owner's signature to ffep and partially erased pencil notes to back pastedown, o/w a nice clean copy. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: Croom Helm, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket with fading to spine and top edge; minor rubbing/creasing but no chips or tears. Contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions or other markings. 209 pp. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Chapters on: Ratepayers and Social Policy; The Later Years of the Workhouse 1890-1929; 'Popularism' 1894-1930; Non-Contributory Versus Insurance Pensions 1878-1908; Employers' Attitudes to Social Policy and the Concept of Social Control, 1900-1920; 'Social Control' and the Modernisation of Social Policy, 1890-1929; Unemployment and Unemployment Policies in Glasgow 1890-1905; Family Allowances and Less Eligibility. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

London: Folio Society, 2019. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Lee-Merrion, Harriet. A new copy in the publisher's shrink wrap, as received directly from The Folio Society. Bound in blocked textured paper with glow-in-the-dark varnish. Printed on Abbey Wove paper and set in Dante with Neutraface display. 360 pages. Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations by Harriet Lee-Merrion. Printed endpapers. 9½" x 6¼". Die-cut slipcase lined in blue paper. Printed and bound in Italy. Shortlisted for both the Man Booker and Orange prizes, Margaret Atwood's novel - a prophetic tale of a human race all but wiped out by plague - is threaded with dark humour. Using a carefully selected pastel palette, award-winning illustrator, Harriet Lee-Merrion, has produced a series of quietly unsettling artworks that convey societal collapse with an eerie sense of detachment, while the binding design reflects the… Read More

London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990. First Edition, First Impression First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green, Nicola. From the library of John Julius Norwich, signed and inscribed to him and wife Molly by the author Patrick Garland. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean and bright with spotting inside and light rubbing/creasing to edges. Grey cloth with black titling to spine. Boards clean, square and sharp. Spotting to page edges and top margins but contents o/w clean without bookplates or inscriptions other than author's. Slight straining to guttering between first blank and half-title. 59 pp; b/w ills by Nicola Green; pink patterned endpapers. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.

London: The Folio Society, 2018. First Folio Edition First Printing. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illustrations from the Rong Yu Tang edition. New and sealed in Folio Society shrink wrap, as received directly from The Folio Society. Two volumes in slipcase. Three-quarter bound in blocked Art Silk with a printed cloth front board. 11'' x 7 ¼''. Set in Dante. 880 pages in total. Illustrated title pages and 141 woodblock illustrations in total. Ribbon markers. Gilded page tops. Printed cloth slipcase. This two-volume edition reproduces the popular 70-chapter version of the text which begins with the release of the demons and culminates with the full assemblage of the 108 heroes at the Liangshan marsh. Frances Wood, former curator of Chinese Collections at the British Museum, introduces the novel with her fascinating historical perspective and academic insights. The 141 illustrations, taken from the Ming dynasty Rong Yu Tang edition - the finest… Read More