Search Results: Titles starting with O from Chanticleer Books

San Francsco: San Francisco News Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Light soiling to covers, a couple small stains to foredge, very good. 212 pp. + 10 pp. advertisements; 12mo, original green cloth with gilt title. Stories, anecdotes, and historical sketches of the Gold Rush era West.

London: Rider & Co., 1948. Original edition. Paperback. Very good, quite clean and unworn. Printed wrappers, 7 x 4.75 inches, 193-256 pp. Illustrated.

London: The Occult Review, 1947. Original edition. Paperback. Very good, quite clean and unworn. Printed wrappers, 7 x 4.75 inches, 65-128 pp. Illustrated.

London: Printed for Joseph Davidson, at the Angel in the Poultry, Cheapside, 1746. Third edition. Hardcover. Scuffing to covers with some loss at spine head, edges and corners rubbed, a few contemporary notes to blank leaves at front and occasional marks to text. Overall a sturdy and presentable copy. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, morocco spine label; small octavo, xxxviii, 335, 256-508 pp. (text continuous despite error in pagination); engraved copperplate frontipiece. Frontispiece is dated 1747 and presents the publisher's advertisement for 4 volumes of Latin translations: Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Phaedrus.

Chicago: Foster-Munger Co., 1908. Original edition. Paperback. Very good, quite clean and unworn. Original decorative wrappers, 6.5 x 3.25 inches, 160 pp.,, illustrated. Scarce, no copies listed on OCLC/WorldCat

New York: George H. Doran, (1914). Early reprint. Hardcover. Couple small stains to covers else near fine. 68 pp., small octavo, brown cloth and decorative boards, A humorously-written, but serious account of the process of achieving 3 and a half years of sobriety. Samuel G. Blythe (1868-1947) was an American journalist and writer.

NY: Scribner's, (1960). First "College Edition / Special Student's Edition". Hardcover. Book near fine, jacket spine and edges toned, small dark spot on rear jacket panel. Original blue cloth spine and blue boards, title and cover design stamped in gilt, 127 pp. "College edition" stamped in gilt on rear board; "Special Student's Edition" printed at top of jacket front flap. First printing of the 1960 "College Edition / Special Student's Edition." Copyright page with publisher code A-9.60 [V]. Indicating First printing -September,1960. The V identifies the printer (see Zempel & Verkler "First Editions: A Guide to Identification and Hanneman "Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography)." Hanneman 24 B.

NY: George Braziller, n.d.. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn jacket. 208 pp., full-page color reproduction throughout, folio (15.75 x 12.25 inches), natural linen cloth over boards. Beautiful reproductions from the circa 1300 manuscript book that is one of the treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library.

San Francisco: Payot, Upham & Co., 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Rear cover scuffed and with small red paint stains, internally fine and else very good. 146 pp., 16 lithographed plates, several illustrations in the text; octavo, original green cloth stamped in gilt and black, floral patterned endpapers. One of the earliest books on olive culture published in California. The author was for 4 years manager of the Quito Olive and Vine Farm in Santa Clara County.

Madrid: Consejo Oleicola Internacional / International Olive Oil Council, nd (1990s). Paperback. Very good. 121 pp., illustrations, original decorative wrappers, 8.75 x 8.75 inches (22 x 22 cm). History and technology of olives and their production. Publication date and authorship from OCLC/Worldcat.

NY: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1967. Facismile of the 1499 first edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, burgundy buckram with gilt spine title; [2], [102] pp., woodcut illustrations. Facsimile of the exceedingly rare 1499 first edition of this Spanish chivalric tale.

Los Angeles: Mazdaznan Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. First 2 leaves creased, else very good. LV, 1 fl, 48 pp., tipped in photo frontispiece; 12mo, original blue cloth with gilt title. A study of Omar Khayyam and his iconic poem by the founder and leader of the Mazdaznan religious cult.

London: William Pickering, 1834. Third edition. Hardcover. Rebound, but fine condition. xvi, 375 pp., octavo, mid-twentieth binding of maroon cloth with gilt titles. Treatise II of The Bridgewater Treatises on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God as manifested in creation. Author John Kidd (1775-1851) was Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford. He was trained also as a chemist and geologist. His treatise here is informed by his scientific training, though constrained by adherence to the fundamentally religious aims of the Bridgewater Treatises' charter.

NY: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. Front cover lightly soiled, else very good.. Original greenish blue pictorial cloth with orange lettering and seascape and volcano in blue and orange, octavo, 229 pp. Seven stories of Hawaii. 4,972 copies issued. BAL 11891, Sisson/Martens page 102

NY: Century Co, (1926). Slight fading to spine, else fine. Original red pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt, octavo (6 x 8 inches), pp ix, 332. 32 b/w photo plates. Translated from the French by Gertrude Emerson. An account of travels in Indo-China.

New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1876. First US edition. Some surface scuffing to covers, rubbing to edges and corner, near very good. 548 pp. + 4 pp ads at rear; original purple cloth, pale blue endpaper A novel of European travel originally published in 3 volumes in London earlier in the year. Fits with BAL first state description (sheets bulk 1 3/8" and publisher ornament on spine measures 3/8" though cover cloth is purple, not green as described in BAL). BAL 13766

London: Geo. Lawford (and) John Murray, 1829, 1833. First volume is the second edition; second volume is the first edition. Light wear to joints; evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown in both volumes, old embossed stamp to title pages. 2 volumes, contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards; octavos; viii, 272; liv, 241 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece, 183 wood-engraved vignettes, and 100 wood engraved initials (first volume); 177 wood-engraved vignettes and 101 wood-engraved initials (second volume). James Northcote (1746-1831) was a prolific English painter and draftsman whose career was much advanced through his apprenticeship with Joshua Reynolds, for whom he worked for about 5 years, beginning in 1771. In his foreword to the first volume of Fables, Northcote states: "Although the original invention and designs for the prints at the head of each Fable are my own, yet they have been most excellently drawn on wood, and prepared for the Engravers, by Mr. William… Read More

Dallas: The Bridwell Library, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Fine. [50 pp], pictorial wrappers, tipped-on square of vellum to title page. A checklist of the exhibit of works from the Bridwell Library collection printed on vellum from the 15th to 20th centuries.

NY: C.M. Saxton, 1862. First edition. Moderate wear to covers, spine ends lightly frayed, near very good. Original green pebbled cloth; small octavo; xvi, (17)-375 pp. Engraved illustrations in the text. First edition of a popular work on grape culture and wine making (though the section on wine-making focuses largely on fruits other than the grape). Includes an extensive bibliography of grape culture. Gabler (2nd edition) 33950; Amerine & Borg 2614.

Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. xii, 202 pp., frontispiece and 35 engraved plates, 233 engraved illustrations in the text; small 8vo, original dark brown cloth with cover title and ornaments stamped in black, pictorial paper inset on front cover. Paper cover illustration chipped, else fine A comprehensive history of the fireplace, from its most primitive to its most elaborate forms.