Search Results: Authors starting with O from Chanticleer Books

San Francisco: Cardinell-Vincent Co., nd (circa 1910). First edition. Paperback. Very good, quite clean and unworn. Original pictorial wrappers, 7.25 x 9.5 inches; [33] pp. of illustrations mostly reproduced from photographs, including double-page panoramic view over Oakland and Berkeley and across the Bay to San Francisco, and tri-fold two-sided panoramas of (on recto) Oakland from City Hall Tower, and (on verso) Ex-President Roosevelt Addressing an Audience at UC Berkeley's Greek Theater. Scarce viewe book of notable buildings and public attractions of the East Bay. Double page view noted above flags the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, thus dating this undated publication. Scarce - only 1 copy found on OCLC/Worldcat.

Dublin: Royal Society of Antiquaries, 1923. First edition. Very good. viii, 66 pp.; royal 8vo, green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Text is from a manuscript of uncertain authorship, but dated with certainty to 1623. This was toward the end of "plantation" period during which the British government seized Catholic owned lands in Ireland and turned them over to Protestant settlers, mainly from England, Wales, and Scotland.

Dublin & London: Maunsel and Company, Ltd., 1919. First edition. Endpapers toned and brittle, short marginal tears to front free endpaper, else fine in near fine jacket. [8], 269, [13] pp.; 8vo, dark green cloth with gilt spine title. A detailed analysis of the economy of Ireland in the period and the deleterious affect of British rule on same.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in worn jacket. xii, 259 pp., octavo, original green cloth, top edge gilt, jacket. A study of the influence of the Celtic Renaissance and its proponents and the development of modern Ireland.

Dublin: Printed for the Celtic Society, 1847. First edition. Wear to spine ends, minor soiling to covers, about very good. lxvii, 326 pp., 2 engraved illustrations in the text; 8vo, blind stamped green boards with gilt spine title. The ancient Irish accounting of the laws, rights, and tributes of the kings of Ireland. Translated from the two extant manuscripts dating from 1390 and 1418. Text in Irish and English on facing pages.

London: Longman & Co., et al / Eyre & Spottiswoode et al, 1871 / 1891. Hardcover. Very good. (2 volumes). First volume: [11], [544] pp., folio (16 x 10.5 inches), contemporary dark brown cloth with blindstamped ornaments to boards, gilt spine title. Second volume: [7], 544, [16] pp.; folio (15 x 10.5 inches), bound in same style as first volume. First volume with presentation inscription by Lady Georgina Home-Drummond dated June 1913 and bookplate of George Stirling Home Drummond on front pastedown. Binder's ticket of James Truscott & Son, London on rear pastedown. First volume neatly rebacked preserving all original materials, front inner hinge starting, but heavy sewing tapes holding firm, some foxing to endpapers, text mostly unopened. Second volume: Moderate edgewear, mostly to spine ends and corners, some finger smudging to to title and intro pages, text unopened Photo-lithographic facsimiles of the original 17th-century volumes. The first book represents a true facsimile of the "Booke of… Read More

London: Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1687. Some scuffing to cover cloth, bottom third of leaf G3 torn away, a few leaves with short tears to margins, a few leaves with chips to margins, 2 leaves with archival repairs to margins, lacking 6 leaves Rr 5 &6; Ss 5 & 6; Tt 5 & 6 (blank).. Quarto, (31.5 cm), modern half tan morocco and brown boards; [460 pp], i.e. 230 leaves (collation A-C4, D6, E2, F-G4, H-Nn6, Oo4, Pp-Qq6, Rr-Tt4). Text ends on verso of Tt4 with the first part of "A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving, to be used yearly upon the fifth day of November; For the happy deliverance of the King and the Three Estates of the Realm, form the most traiterous and Bloudy intended Massacre by Gunpowder" which should conclude on the following page. The 2 leaves lacking from Ss contained the "Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving" for the 23rd of December in honor of and by decree of King James II. The king was deposed in 1689 and it… Read More

Tel-Aviv: Survey of Israel, 1958. Revised edition. Paperback. Some wear to booklet covers, 2 maps with short tears to margins at folds, overall very good. 3 sheets printed in colors, each 26.75 x 28.25 inches folded into 9 x 5 inch booklets. Map ratios 1: 250000, showing boundaries, topography and roads Originally published in 1951, this partly revised in 1958

London: Jonathan Cape, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. Free endpapers have rusty stain at edges likely from old jacket protector adhesive, else fine in near fine jacket with slight toning to jacket spine and light soiling to white rear panel. Original green cloth, octavo, 413 pp. A novel of family life in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author's second book.

London & Benares: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Crease to front board, else about fine. xiii, 306 pp., small octavo, original maroon boards with gilt spine title A translation of the texts attributed to Confucius by the Theosophist astrologer Walter Gorn Old (aka Sepherial, 1864-1929).

New York: Century Co., 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, quite clean and unworn. No d/j. [8], 354 pp., 20 illustrations from photographs; octavo, original pictorial gray cloth with cover design in black. Compelling first-person account of adventures in the Spanish American War, the Phiippine insurrection, and as an officer in the Chinese, Venezuelan and Mexican armies.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Top edge dusty, else about fine. xiii, [1], 240 pp., small octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt title. "The present volume . . . comprises the cycle of the three years' disputation, 1922-1925, with [William Jennings] Bryan and other fundamentalists . . ." (from introduction to the Chapter I. Crossing Swords with the Fundamentalists).

n.p.: Longwood Press, (1977). Reprint of the 1914 original edition. Hardcover. Fine. xxxix, 605 p., illustrated; octavo, navy blue buckram. A complete annotated bibliography of Wilde's literary output including periodical publications.

Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. Fine. xiii, [1], 203 pp., illustrated; quarto, original brown cloth. Text in German.

London / NY: Ernest Benn / Barnes & Noble, (1968). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in moderately edgeworn jacket. xv, 454 pp., 6 maps including large folding map of Ireland circa 1300; octavo, original green cloeth, jacket. UK edition with publisher price on jacket front flap in shillings.

NY & London: St. Martin's Press / Academy Editions, (1973). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Black cloth; 16 pp. text + many full page reproductions from photographs "The callotypes of Hill and Adamason are some of the finest as well as earliest photographs ever produced. The result of a brief association, from 1834 to 1847 between a landscape painter and an engineering apprentice turned photographer . . ." (jacket front flap).