Search Results: Authors starting with O from Barker Books & Vintage

The History Press, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First edition, near fine hardcover in a near fine dust jacket (price at flap) with both showing just a hint of shelf and trace wear. 192 pages with a set of black & white plates. Still a good looking copy of tis work that centers around Kitchener's call for WW I recruits and the resulting illegal enlistment of many underage boys.

Dumbarton Oaks Publications, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Near fine cloth hardcover (quarto) shows just a trace of wear including a thin previous owner name stamp to front end paper and some bumping to bottom corner of last few pages at rear, in very good dust jacket with light soil and some edge wear including closed tears and some wrinkling at bottom corner. 400 pages with additional illustrated black & white plates. Remains an attractive copy of this installment in the line of annual publications on Byzantine studies. Contributors works here include, The Ode Pictures of the Aristocratic Psalter Recension, Political Horoscopes from the Reign of Zeno, Leo VI and the Narthex Mosaic of Saint Sophia, and much, much more. Very nice.

Dumbarton Oaks Publications, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine cloth hardcover (quarto) shows just a trace of wear including a thin previous owner name stamp to front end paper, no dust jacket. 246 pages with additional illustrated black & white plates. Remains an attractive copy of this installment in the line of annual publications on Byzantine studies. Contributors works here include, The Turkish Element in Byzantium, Who Built Qal at al-Subayba?, Classical and Byzantine Astrology in Sassanian Persia, and much, much more. Very nice.

Dumbarton Oaks Publications, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine cloth hardcover (quarto) shows just a trace of wear, no dust jacket. 229 pages with additional illustrated black & white and color plates. Remains an attractive copy of this installment in the line of annual publications on Byzantine studies. Contributors works here include, On the Problem of Smallholding Soldiers in Late Byzantium, The "Praetorium" at Musmiye, Again, Kinship by Arrangement: The Case of Adoption, Art and Marriage in Early Byzantium, The Contents of the Byzantine House from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century, and much, much more. Very nice.

Dumbarton Oaks Publications, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine cloth hardcover (quarto) shows just a trace of wear including a thin previous owner name stamp to front end paper, in near fine dust jacket with light soil and trace edge wear. 274 pages with additional illustrated black & white plates. Remains an attractive copy of this installment in the line of annual publications on Byzantine studies. Contributors works here include, Illustrations to the Lives of the Five Martyrs of Sebaste, The Sculpture of Kariye Camii, The Monastery of St. Constantine on Lake Apolyont, Byzantium in South Arabia, and much, much more. Very nice.

Dumbarton Oaks Publications, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine cloth hardcover (quarto) shows just a trace of wear including a thin previous owner name stamp to front end paper, no dust jacket. 200 pages with additional illustrated black & white plates. Remains an attractive copy of this installment in the line of annual publications on Byzantine studies. Contributors works here include in addition to an index of volumes 31-40 include, Escheat in Byzantium, John V's Daughters: A Palaiologan Puzzle, A Note on the Dumbarton Oaks Tethys Mosaic, The Opus Sectile in the Eufrasius Cathedral at Porec, and much, much more. Very nice.

Dumbarton Oaks Publications, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Very good + cloth hardcover (quarto) shows some mild wear to covers and previous owner blind stamps to front end paper and title page with no dust jacket. 176 pages with additional illustrated black & white plates. Remains an attractive copy of this installment in the line of annual publications on Byzantine studies. Contributors works here include, Byzantine Hagiographical Texts as Sources on Art, Holy Images and Likeness, The Holy Icon as an Asset, Icons in the Liturgy, The Anitiquities in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, and much much more. Very nice.

Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. First printing thus, very good cloth hardcover (quarto) shows some surface rubbing wear and thin previous owner name stamps to front end paper and top page edges along with light soil at page edges, no dust jacket. 316 pages with additional illustrations. Remains an attractive copy of this installment in the line of annual publications on Byzantine studies. Contributors works here include, Byzantine Political Ideas in Kievan Russia, The Date and Significance of the Tenth Homily of Photius, The Byzantine Office at Hagia Sophia, The Baptism of the Apostles, and much, much more. Very nice.

Vangurard Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First printing, very good + cloth hardcover is tight and clean while showing bumps to bottom edge and corner of rear cover, touch of soil at page edges, light age toning to pages and some other light trace wear, in a very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows rubbing, wrinkle to length of rear panel, some shorter lighter wrinkles, and with edge wear that includes some short closed tears. 316 pages. Still a pretty nice copy of this first novel from the award winning author.

Winchester Press, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Near fine with light soil to covers in very good jacket with light edgewear including a couple of closed tears. 227 pages illustrated. Solid copy of this "guide to dressing, freezing, canning, smoking, pickling, and cooking fish and other seafoods

Princeton University Press, 1992. Second Printing. Cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Near fine hardcover shows just a touch of wear, in near fine dust jacket that shows a price sticker at front flap and exposure toning to panel edges and top of inner flaps. 251 pages with black & whites, index and bibliography. Still a pleasing copy of this look at Captain Cook and his place in Hawaiian and English history.

Macmillan, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Trade sized book club edition shows touch of shelf wear to covers, in a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket. 418 pages with black & whites and index. Still a pleasing copy of this "..colorful, factual account of minor league baseball from 1877..." to time of publication.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Trade sized book club issue of the uniform edition with roman numeral X at spine is near fine in near fine dust jacket witjh both showing just a hint of wear. 366 pages. Still a very nice hardcover copy in jacket of this installment in the popular line of Aubrey/Maturin novels from the noted author.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First printing, near fine hardcover shows touch of soil at bottom page edges and light bumping to corners, in very good + dust jacket that shows a security tag and bit of cloth bleed visible at jacket reverse. Solid copy of this installment in the noted line of novels.

London: HarperCollins, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First printing, near fine blue cloth hardcover shows just a touch of shelf wear and mild age toning to pages common with these British titles, in a near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows just a touch of wear as well. 262 pages. Remains an attractive copy of yet another fabulous novel featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Trade sized book club issue of the uniform edition with roman numeral XI at spine of jacket is near fine in near fine dust jacket with both showing just a hint of wear. 287 pages. Still a very nice hardcover copy in jacket of this installment in the popular line of Aubrey/Maturin novels from the noted author.

Stein and Day, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First American printing, very good hardcover shows staining at top corner portions of pastedowns with lesser bit of same visible at top corners of covers, bit of foxing at page edges and some other light trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows same staining to top corner portions of dust jacket that is visible at inner flaps and jacket reverse. 276 pages. Still a solid copy in jacket that will look good on the shelf of this 5th installment in the noted series from O'Brian.

Stein and Day, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First American printing, vwery good hardcover shows mild foxing at page edges, bit of stiffness to pages, light stain at bottom corner of front pastedown and some other light trace wear, in very good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows same faint staining at bottom of corner of front flap, couple of faint stains at bottom portion of spine and light bit of edgewear including tiny tears. 268 pages. Still an attractive copy of this 4th installment in the ever popular and highly regarded Aubrey/Maturin series.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Trade sized book club issue is near fine in near fine dust jacket with both showing just a hint of wear. 284 pages. Still a very nice hardcover copy in jacket of this installment in the popular line of Aubrey/Maturin novels from the noted author.

London: Collins, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition, very good + green cloth hardcover shows touch of soil at page egdes, couple of tiny wrinkles at bottom page corners, name and date at top corner of front pastedown tucked under flap, along with mild age toning to pages, in a near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows a faint wrinkle at edge of frotn flap and just a touch of shelf wear. 256 pages. Remains an attractive copy of this installment in the famed series featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.