Search Results: Authors starting with O from The Sensible Magpie

New York: Devin-Adair, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Previous owner's names to FFEP and stamp to bottom edge. Endpapers and text edges lightly tanned. Spinecaps gently folded under. Underlining and marginalia in pencil. Dustjacket good. Clipped. Sunning to spine. Edges torn and chipped. Covers scuffed. Red lettering lightly debossed to spine and front of denim-blue, cloth-covered boards. With eight, black and white photographs and illustrations. Solidly bound. 248 The author spent a leisurely summer in 1948 touring and getting to know the Italy the Italians know, not the Italy of the tourist.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. FIRST THUS. Paperback. VERY GOOD TRADE PAPERBACK. Light soiling and corner-wear. Sticker residue to top corner of front cover. Signed J.C. Oates on title page.

Boston, Mass: Estes and Lauriat, 1892. Hardcover. Good Plus . Bound in dark brown boards, with stamped gold and black letter design to front board and spine, and illiustration of a canoe laying on the shore to front cover. Pictorial endpapers featuring Fernando Cortes, and Mor Tezu Ma. Fully illustrated with black and white images of varying sizes throughout book, some full page illustrations. Corners slightly nudged. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Some staining to edges of endpapers, and creasing near hinge of endpapers. Hinges started but still solidly intact. Bright copy. 240 pp. Other titles by Fred A. Ober in the Knockabout Club Series include: The Knockabout Club in the Everglades; The Knockabout Club in the Antilles; The Knockabout Club in Spain; The Knockabout Club in North Africa; The Knockabout Club on the Spanish Main. C.A. Stephens wrote: The Knockabout club in The Woods; The Knockabout Club Alongshore; The Knockabout Club in the Tropics.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Wiese, Kurt. Dark green top-stain. Dustjacket good plus. A few small tears and chips to edges, .75" or less. Brown discoloration to folded edges. Color illustrated front jacket, black and white photograph of author to rear panel. Very small, lightly raised spot to cloth of upper rear board. Color illustration of Silver Chief to frontispiece. 14 black and white illustrations throughout text. Navy blue illustrated endpapers. Silver metallic debossed lettering to spine and front of denim blue cloth-covered boards. Silver stamped illustration of sled dogs to front board. 235 pp. Clean, tight, bright. By author of Silver Chief, Dog of the North ; Valiant, Dog of the Timberline and Alone Across the Top of the World. "An heroic tale of the most ancient struggle of man against the elements in which modern innovations -- serums, radio, the airplane -- play a vital part," (front flap).

Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Company, 1941. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hoopes, Florence and Margaret Hoopes. Previous owner's name, in neat ink, to front pastedown. Corners VERY lightly nudged. Yellow and blue lettering and illustrations to spine and front board, red cloth-covered boards. Full color illustrations to every page. Unmarked. Tight binding. 156 pp with word list. The Alice and Jerry Books Reading Foundation Series. Contains: Alice and Jerry; The Surprise; Animals; Betsy Lee, Mr. Carl and Jack; and The Organ Man and the Monkey.

Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Company, 1941. Second Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Hoopes, Florence and Margaret Hoopes. Previous owner's name, in neat ink, to front pastedown. Corners lightly nudged. Yellow and red lettering and illustrations to spine and front board, green cloth-covered boards, illustrated by two children besid a large spinning top. Full color illustrations to every page. Unmarked. Tight binding. 204 pp with word list. The Alice and Jerry Books Reading Foundation Series. Contains: Alice and Jerry and Jack stories (Quack-Quack The Fisherman; The Toy Mender; Pears for Pauline); Moving Day; Bobby and Billy Were Twins; Grandmother's Ride. VERY TIGHT AND CLEAN COPY.

Vermont: Chelsea Green, 1999. Paperback. Near Fine. Karl Stuecklen. Practical advice and advocacy for organic gardening methods from the grandson of Samuel R. Ogden. Includes sections on garden design, soil care, seeds, planting and cultivation and selection and maintenance of tools. Black and white photographs and tables. Light shelfwear to front cover 266 pp.

Rutland VT: Tuttle, 1962. Stated First Edition. Paperback. NEAR FINE / VERY GOOD PLUS. Sumptuously illustrated survey of the elaborate narrative picture scrolls ("emaki") which flourished and attained perfection as well as popularity among all social classes in Japan from the tenth to the sixteenth century. Includes four fold-out plates, a dozen full color tipped in plates, and dozens of black and white photographic plates. 241 pp. Very slight edgewear to DJ. Tight, bright, and clean inside. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

Chicago: American Technical Society, 1914. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Comprehensive handbook on textile chemistry and dyeing. Profusely illustrated with photographs, line drawings, charts, and diagrams. 343 pp. Corners very lightly bumped. Previous owner's name on front paste-down endpaper. Light pencil to about a dozen pp.

New York: Harmony Books, 1976. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS in Very Good Dustjacket . VERY GOOD PLUS. Minor rubbing to extremities. Dustjacket Very Good. Mylar protected. Yellow lettering to spine of blue, cloth-covered boards. Color illustrations. 239 pp Introduction by Carmine Infantino. "Eighteen action-packed, hair-raising adventure stories featuring the top ten comics crusaders against crime. Learn the mysterious origins of these incredible fighters for justice and peace -- how they came to be, where they came from and the truth behind their secret identities. An extraordinary collector's treasury for the love of nostalgia and the comics buff," (front flap).

Eugene, OR: University of Oregon , 2008. Paperback. Near Fine. Tiny tear to top spine cap. Many black and white drawings and illustrations throughout. CD containing appendices to inside back cover. 286 pp. Clean,tight, bright. Archaeological investigations were conducted on a bench above the confluence of Limpy Creek and the Rogue River where the Oregon Department of Transportation planned to replace a bridge spanning Limpy Creek. A pedestrian survey of the area had found dark midden oil, formed tools.........Unsanctioned excavation in the midden below the highway had exposed cultural debris." (pp. iii)

New Haven, NY: Yale University Press, 1980. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. REVIEW COPY. Slight wear to book and DJ edges. Light shelfwear to DJ. Occasional light pencilled notes and marginalia. Gilt lettering to spine, dark brown cloth-covered boards. Very tight and bright. Review card laid-in. 289 pp with bibliography and index. "A rewarding book for any student of Anglo-Saxon literary, social, or intellectual history; and it will also be of interest to readers in the fields of folklore, musicology, metrics, and the general study of oral literature," (from front flap). Opland traces the development of popular poetry in England before the Norman Conquest, assessing the documentary evidence on the practices and performance of oral poetry, the poetics themselves, and his function in society. Amateur or professional, male or female, tribal poet or wandering minstrel, Opland considers all.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. SHARP, CRISP VOLUME. Dustjacket fine. Sunning to spine. Gilt lettering sharply debossed to spine of navy, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 473 pp with notes, bibliography and index. Provided by The Annenburg Foundations Trust at Sunnylands. "The Press addresses the major issues in media today, such as : Does journalism give citizens the information they need, in a way that they can use it? ; What kind of journalism is essential to democracy? ; What is government's interest in controlling information?