Search Results: Titles starting with O from CraigsClassics

This is an amazing book of historic American events from 1776 to 1876, "OUR FIRST CENTURY ~ Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One Hundred Great and Memorable Events of Perpetual Interest in the History of Our Country, Political, Military, Mechanical, Social, Scientific and Commercial" by R.M. Devens. 1879; C.A. Nichols & Co.; Springfield, MA. Sold by subscription only (the original publisher's subscription slip is included). The book is "splendidly illustrated with several hundred plates, portraits, and other embellishments." At the front of the book is a Patriotic chromolithograph illustration showing George Washington, The White house, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and more. Three-quarter leather binding with marbled end papers, gilt decorations and lettering on the spine, and gilt page edges on all sides. Large, hefty volume with 1,004 pages. "Embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the Republic; Men of Heroism,… Read More

"The Occult Life of Jesus of Nazareth" - "given through the mediumship" of Alexander Smyth. 1899; The Progressive Thinker Publishing House; Chicago, IL. The book features a frontispiece portrait of Jesus and in-text illustrations. Decorative floral end papers. "Embracing his parentage, his youth, his original doctrines and works, his career as a public teacher and physician of the people - the nature of the great conspiracy against him - all the incidents of his tragical death - GIVEN ON SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY FROM SPIRITS WHO WERE CONTEMPORARY MORTALS WITH JESUS WHILE ON THE EARTH." Please see the photos for the complete list of contents.From the Publisher's Introduction: "We believe (the book) will be instrumental in removing much of the rubbish, superstition and perplexing problems that have from the start clustered around his eventual life. There has been a vast amount of discussion in regard to this remarkable personage, and who has constituted the corner-stone of the Christian religion, and who has… Read More

"O'ER LAND & SEA" - Records of Conversion and Stories of the Gospel's Triumphs among Young and Old. Circa 1880's (there is no date of publication stated); John Ritchie; Kilmarnock, Scotland. With illustrations and photographs throughout, many of which are full-page. The book is a collection of dozens of illustrated stories.Condition:Soiling to the covers and spine; sharp corners. Tight binding with no loose pages. There is a crack at the front hinge between the frontispiece and title page (despite the crack, the front cover is firmly in place and is not shaky). The text pages are lightly age-tone but generally clean. Light foxing to the end papers; a front end paper has an inscription written in pen dated 1921. Foxing to a few pages at the back. Overall the book is in Good+ condition.

This is a vintage paperback containing the stories "Of Mice and Men" and "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck. 1961; Penguin Books; Great Britain.Condition:Light soiling to the covers; there is a 1.5" think dark stain line at the bottom of the back cover; partial UK price label affixed to the bottom of the front cover. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Small tears at the top and bottom edges of the spine. The pages are lightly tanned and clean with no writing, stains, tears or foxing. Overall the book is in very good condition.

This is an early edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by ERNEST HEMINGWAY with its original dust jacket. 1955; Charles Scribner's Sons; New York. "Nobel Prize" dust jacket variant with a photograph of Hemingway and "Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1954" on the back cover. The dust jacket is un-clipped with the original $3.00 price intact on the front flap, and has reviews of the story on both flaps.Condition:Light foxing spots on the covers; clean spine. Light soiling at the left edge of the front cover, and along the right edge of the back cover. Sharp cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. The text pages are in excellent condition and appear unread - clean with no issues found. Light tanning along the gutter between the end papers and pastedowns; the end papers & pastedowns also have a bit of light foxing. Overall in Very Good- condition. The dust jacket is un-clipped with the original $3.00 price intact on the front flap; there is a… Read More

This is a set of two antique art books, "The Old Masters and their Pictures" with "Modern Painters and their Paintings" - For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler. Both books were published in 1874 by Roberts Brothers in Boston. Complete in two volumes (the books are companions of one another). Contents include Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Copley, Flaxman, Audubon, and many more...please see the photos for the complete list of painters in each book. Each book contains an Index at the back; Modern Painters also has 2 pages of publisher's advertisements.Condition:Light soiling and some tiny stain spots to the covers. Old Masters has some light scuffs at the top half and at the bottom-left corner; the spine has fraying at the top/bottom edges, and a 1" cloth tear at the bottom-left corner. Both volumes are tightly bound with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages of both books are lightly age toned. Each book has a thin, light… Read More

This is a charming, vintage copy of "OLD MOTHER GOOSE Nursery Rhymes" beautifully illustrated throughout in color. 1926; International Paper Goods Co.; New York. There are 12 rhymes in all, including classics such as Jack and Jill, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Rock-a-Bye Baby, There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Georgey Porgey, Old King Cole, Little Boy Blue, and Little Miss Muffet...each rhyme contains "a picture for every line" in color. The book measure 14 3/8" tall x 8 5/8" wide. Please see the photos - all pages of the book are shown. Both the front and back covers are illustrated in color.Condition:Clean covers and spine; the front cover has pieces missing at the top edge, and at the bottom of the outer edge near the corner; there is also a 1" tear at the top edge. Tight binding with no loose pages. The inside of the book is in great condition - clean with only a name/date (1928) written in pen at the top of the inside front cover. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition.

"Old Portraits and Modern Sketches" by John Greenleaf Whittier. 1850 1st Edition; Ticknor, Reed, and Fields; Boston. The book contains 10 biographical sketches including "The Pilgrim's Progress" author, John Bunyan.Condition:Clean front cover and spine; stains at the center of the back cover; small cloth tear at the bottom-left corner tip of the back cover; fraying to the top and bottom edges of the spine. Tight binding. No cracks. No loose pages. Pages 113-144 have a thin, light stain along the length of the top of the page, and half-way down the outer edge...otherwise the pages are clean with no writing. Period label affixed to the front pastedown. Tiny nick at the outer edge of the 1st few pages of the book.

"The Old Reliable" by P.G. WODEHOUSE with its original dust jacket. 1951 1st American edition; Doubleday & Company; New York. From the dust jacket: "He's off again, the inimitably funny P.G. Wodehouse, projecting an entirely new cast of colorful characters into that glittering metropolis of movie magnets - Hollywood. In this hilarious frolic, the principals, in order of their appearance, consist of a superannuated playboy and a butler who has done time for safecracking; an ingenious but practical lady biographer and a vaguely lovelorn English nobleman; a beauteous but apprehensive Juliet and her irreverent Romeo; a tight-fisted former film queen and a pair of thoroughly screen-struck policeman."

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Clean covers and spine; sharp corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. About ten or so pages at the center have a small stain at an outer edge; light stain at the lower-outer corner of the rear and paper. Name, date & initials written in pen at the top edge of the front end paper.… Read More

This appears to be a custom-bound book containing four separate booklets associated with explorers/exploration. The title on the spine reads "OLD VOYAGES AND TRAVELS"; the following four booklets are contained within:
* The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Maundeville, Knight.
* Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo.
* Voyagers' Tales from the Collections of Richard Hakluyt (which includes chapters on John Fox, Thomas Sanders, Philip Jones, John Hawkins, and Miles Phillips).
* The Discovery of Guiana, and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Each booklet contains its own front cover and title page; there are no back covers. All booklets were published by Gressner & Schramm in Leipzig, Germany. Circa 1860's (there is no date of publication stated, but the years 1861, 1862, and 1863 are handwritten in pencil on three of the front covers). Bound in maroon cloth hardcovers with gilt on the spine and gilt top page edges. The front covers of the booklets within are softcover. The book… Read More

This is a vintage copy of "An Old and Oriental Cure for Gloom ~ Being the full-set of 'Fan-Target Toba Pictures' as first published at Osaka, Japan, in 1720 plus fables with and without morals." Edited by Meredith Weatherby. 1965 1st edition (stated); John Weatherhill, Inc.; Tokyo, Japan. The dust jacket is un-clipped with the original price intact on the front flap. There are 68 illustrated fables in all, grouped into the following categories: Short Antics for Long Faces; Sweet Capers for Sourpusses; An Almanac for the Moon-struck.From the Foreword: "The pictures in this book were originally drawn with ink and brush, then carved onto woodblocks for printing, and first published in three thin volumes at Osaka, Japan, in the year 1720, being reprinted from the original blocks and, later, from recarvings. According to its brief foreword, the book purported to be a collection of drawings now gathered together for the first time as examples of 'Toba Pictures.' Toba Pictures, so called after the famed… Read More

This is a lot of two "Classics Illustrated" comic book editions of CHARLES DICKENS novels, as follows:* #23 Oliver Twist (1945; with a bio of Dickens)* #48 David Copperfield (1948; with a bio of Dickens and three other pieces)Condition:Oliver Twist - There is some pencil writing on the back cover (see photo)...no other issues found. David Copperfield - Tanning to the back cover; creasing along the spine on the front cover. Overall the lot is in Very Good condition.

This is an antique copy of "OMOO ~ A Romance of the South Seas" by Herman Melville. 1892; Dana Estes & Company; New York. The book features four full-page illustrated plates, and one in-text illustration.Condition:Light foxing on the covers. Small cloth tear at the bottom edge of the spine. Tight binding with no loose pages. There is a partial crack near the center of the book between pages 178 & 179 - despite the partial crack, all pages and both covers are securely in place. The pages are lightly age-toned. Page 359 has a small tear at the outer edge; page 339 has a 1.5" tear at the top edge. The last page has a quote written in pencil. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition.

"ON CANADA'S FRONTIER" by Julian Ralph. 1892 1st edition; Harper & Brothers; New York. The book is richly illustrated with drawings throughout, some of which are full-page. "Sketches of the History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-Traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada." The contents are as follows: Titled Pioneers; Chartering a Nation; A Famous Missionary; Antoine's Moose-Yard; Big Fishing; "A Skin for a Skin"; "Talking Musquash"; Canada's El Dorado; Dan Dunn's Outfit.Condition:Light soiling to the covers. The spine has an ID label affixed at the bottom, and the letter "A" handwritten in yellow. There are a couple tiny cloth tears at the top of the spine. Tight binding with no loose pages. Partial crack at the rear hinge between the end paper and pastedown 2" up from the bottom edge. The rear pastedown has some light staining, bits of paper remnanat affixed, and a diagonal card sleeve at the bottom-right corner (a tanned outline of the sleeve appears on the opposing… Read More

"On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers" by Kate Marsden. 1892 1st American edition; Cassell Publishing Company; New York. This edition features a frontispiece portrait of Marsden with a map of her route (with a tissue guard), as well as numerous illustrations, photographs, maps, and facsimile documents. Decorative floral end papers.From a review: "Kate Marsden, the youngest of eight children from a poor family, was a highly committed nurse. She cared for soldiers in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-78, and undertook missionary travels to various countries, but she was especially concerned about the plight of those suffering from leprosy. This volume describes her remarkable journey to Siberian leper colonies. At first she travelled by sledge with a friend, but continued alone on horseback, facing appalling weather conditions with her customary courage. Her commitment to leprosy sufferers led her to found the St. Francis Leprosy Guild in London in 1895, and she organized a leprosy… Read More

This is a vintage paperback edition of "ON THE ROAD" by Jack Kerouac. 1957 1st paperback edition, 12th printing (stated); Signet Books / The New American Library; New York. There are two pages of publisher's advertisements at the back.Condition:There are a few small, light stains at the bottom of the front cover; the back cover has foxing at the top edge. A tiny bit of the top paper layer has chipped away at the top-left corner of the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. The pages are lightly age-toned though not brittle. The pages are clean and appear unread with no issues found. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition.

"An Only Child" by Eliza Orne White. 1905; Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Boston and New York. The book contains full-page illustrated plates by Katherine Pyle. Please see the photos for the complete list of contents. Condition: Some soiling and small foxing spots at the top edge of the front cover; clean back cover; tanning to the spine; sharp corners. Tight binding. No cracks. No loose pages. The text pages are in very good condition - mostly clean with no writing and only a few small stains and ink smudges found. The lower-right corner of the tissue paper over the frontispiece has torn. Name written in pen and bookshop label on front end paper.

This is an 1833 first edition facsimile copy of "The Only True Mother Goose Melodies" with an Introduction by Edward Everett Hale. 1905; Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; Boston. This copy is SIGNED by Harriet Blackstone C. Butler, also known as "America's Mother Goose." Butler is named in Hale's introduction - her authentic, handwritten signature appears below Hale's facsimile signature on the last Introduction page. (There are photos available online from the 1920's showing Blackstone dressed as Mother Goose and reading a copy of this book.) Blackstone has also handwritten the "motto of Julia Ward Howe" (author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic") on the front end paper, as follows: "Love to Learn & Learn to Love." Also included is a small printed sheet referencing "Mother Goose's" grave in the Granary Burial Ground in Boston with a brief biographical sketch. The book contains illustrations on almost every page. "An Exact Reproduction of the Text and Illustrations of the Original Edition Published and… Read More

This is a bound volume of sheet music for the romantic comic opera, "The Opera of Martha - or, The Fair at Richmond" by Friedrich von Flotow. With words in English, Italian and German. 1860; Oliver Ditson & Company; Boston. Hardbound with 230 pages (all pages are present). There is a "Dramatis Personae" section (which lists the characters), an Index, and an "Argument" at the front.Condition:There is a bit of light staining on the back cover and a few tiny areas where the cloth has chipped. Small cloth tear at the bottom-right corner of the back cover. Small cloth tears at the cover corners. There is a 2" cloth tear at the bottom edge of the front cover. Tight binding with no loose pages. The paper has split between the end papers and pastedowns at the spine (though both covers are still firmly attached and are not shaky). The back cover bows inwards at the center just a bit. The pages are lightly age-toned with an occasional tiny, dark foxing spot, and occasional pencil markings. There is a small tear… Read More

"Oriental Series ~ AFGHANISTAN" by Angus Hamilton. 1910 1st edition; J.B. Millet Company; Boston. The book features six full-page illustrated plates (each with a tissue guard). Please see the photos for the complete list of contents.From the Editorial Note: "(The book) describes the natural features of this wild and wonderful country with its arid plains and mountain passes commanded by forbidding fortresses, gives an account of its industries and products, furnishes pictures of its palaces, its court life, and its bazaars; describes its administration and its laws, and introduces the reader to the intimate details of a land which has hitherto been practically unknown."Condition:Light soiling to the covers and spine. The cover corners are worn. A bit of the top paper layer has peeled at the top-left corner of the front cover. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Nice interior - the pages are clean and nearly appear unread with no notable issues found. There is a Boston College bookplate… Read More