Search Results: Authors starting with O from Temple Rare Books

Swansea: T. Jenkins, 1808. Two volumes in one - Volume One - viii, [8], 223pp, [1] and Volume Two - [386]. Slightly later full straight grain morocco, smooth back divided into six panels by gilt rules, title in gilt to second panel, remaining panels with central cross with dots to corners, covers with an intersecting frame with flower head corner pieces and gilt rolls to sides, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., with small amount of gauffering, yellow endpapers. Rubbed to extremities, covers very slightly faded, small amounts of loss to leather to lower cover. Internally quite bright and clean, previous owners name to front pastedown, with book label to reverse of ffep. From the library of Lord Eldon. Uncommon provincially printed work, with only three copies on COPAC. Griffiths 1808:13. First Thus. Full Morocco. Very Good. 8vo.

Oak Tree Fine Press, 2000. Original print by Yoko Ono, approximately 270mm x 410mm in size, in a card portfolio. One of an edition of thirty, this being lettered O, and signed by Ono to foot of image. Signed by Artist. First Edition. Disbound. Fine. Illus. by Ono, Yoko. Elephant Folio. Limited Edition Print.

Turici (Zurich): Orellii, Fuesslini et Sociorum, 1850. Two volumes complete - Volume One - xxviii, 746pp, [2] and Volume Two - iv, 935pp, [1]. Slightly later full calf, wide flat bands, spines in five panels, morocco author label to second panel, matching volume label to third, remaining with repeated roll in blind, bands highlighted in gilt with gilt roll to head and foot of spine, covers with single fillet border, gilt roll to edges. Slightly rubbed to extremities, lightly browned internally, occasional light foxing. Rear endpapers of volume two have a handwritten ?poem in Latin. Reprint. Full Calf. Good+. 8vo.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1938. [6], 313pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ. Reverse of DJ with old paper reinforcing to edges and spine, tear to head of spine, catching the word 'Homage', now closed with Japanese tissue paper, one or two other closed tears, small amount of loss to head of lower panel, some very minor chips to edges, spine browned, lower panel lightly browned, price-clipped. Some browning to endpapers, text lightly browned but clean. Old bookseller's ticket to foot of front pastedown. DJ illustrated by 'K'. Now housed in a morocco backed drop back box by Temple Bookbinders, with raised bands and the spine in six panels, with the title to second panel, the author to fourth, and the date to foot. Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War, where he enlisted in the POUM militia, and was shot in the throat. Gollancz declined to publish the work, according to Orwell because Gollancz was "part of the communist- racket, and as soon as he heard I had been associated with the POUM and Anarchists… Read More

Oxfordshire: No Publisher, 1711. ?Copy of a will on vellum, approximately 240mm x 205mm. Old fold creases, slightly browned and slightly rubbed, lacking seal to foot. Will of William, a plasterer from Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, leaving bequests to educate poor children of Kidlington (twenty pounds), Cassington (twenty pounds), Eynsham (twenty pounds), Standlake (thirty pounds) and Stanton Harcourt (thirty pounds). He enjoins the trustees of his will 'to take care of the six score pounds given to ye poor children of the five towns be carefully sett forth and I do give them one whole yeare's interest of the six score pounds next after my decease'. First Edition. Unbound. Good. 8vo (Oblong). Manuscript.