Search Results: Titles starting with O from Gilt Edge Books

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1928. 575 pp including index. A text-book on the nursing care of the expectant mother, the woman in labor, the young mother and her baby. 216 illustrations and 10 charts. The author.. formerly assistant superintendent and instructor in obstetrical nursing and the care of infants and children at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses. Attractive dark blue flex-boards with gilt to spine. Slight rounding of corners and edgewear. Rear ep carries some notes in pen. No underlining. Text is clean and most presentable.. Second Edition Revised. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Toronto: Prospero Books, 2000 Prospero Canadian Collection. This book being a Facsmile from the 1873 James Campbell & Sons Edition. An immaculate copy.. First Prospero Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Toronto: Coles 1970 Facsmile Edition. Part of Cole's Canadiana Collection. Originally published in 1898 in Montreal by the Toronto Publishing Company. Heavy card wraps. Toronto as a Social Study was brought prominently before the world by the remarks of Canadian delegates to the Social Purity Conference at Baltimore, and the world's Convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union held at Toronto in 1897. Toned text...The book remains clean and sound.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Morehouse-Barlow Co.. 1960 (c.1960) Episcopal Book Club Edition. Book Very Good in a Good Plus Dust Jacket. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Canon Bernard C. Newman. The introduction has been prepared by the Rev'd Bernard Cromley Newman who, since 1948, has been Vicar of historic Trinity Church in the heart of New York City's financial district. The contents cover... Our Lords Humanity....Double Vision....Our Own Suffering....Waiting Upon God....and The Church and The World. The author never fails to get to the heart of things, and always has something forceful to say....if only to frighten his readers a little closer to God. A firm, sound copy.. Benard C. Newman - Signed Edition. Catalogs: Theology/Religion.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1955. MCMLV. The second novel of "The Sword of Honour" trilogy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Sword Fo Honour Series + English Novelists + Fiction + Evelym Arthur St John Waugh + NOISBN. Catalogs: Literature.

Published By Authority of The Lord Chamberlain, 1953. Illustrated card covers. 47+1pp. Contents include: List of Kings and Queens 1066 to 1952, Historical Introduction, Tour of the Castle, Great Park, Home Park, Royal Borough of Windsor and Eton College. List of illustrations. Several full page b/w photos plus sketch map of Windsor Great Park. Well illustrated cover, art by R. Stone.. Sixth Impression. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New York: Book Craft-Guild, Inc, 1976. . The new language of millions of people on the go. Including over 1000 definitions....CB 10 Code....FCC Rules required by law to be kept with the CB set. Red boards...gilt lettering to front board and spine. No ownership markings. Small pale stain to top and fore edge of book. Book remains bright and handy.. First Book Craft Guild Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc (c. 1977) BOMC Edition. By the author of 'Multihull Sailboats'. Edward F. Cotter, a top-notch sailor, ocean navigator, photographer, and well-known yachting writer, has distilled in text, action photographs and charts ten years of intensive experience on top offshore boats for the benifit of round-the-buoys and offshore-sailing enthusiasts as well as the observer. This book contains a wealth of information on yachts, people, technology, competition and techniques of this great sport. The author offers excellent navigational tips on electronic and celestial navigation, figuring the currents, using visual bearings to your best advantage, etc, etc. Coverage on the ocean racing classics as the Sydney-Hobard Race, the Transatlantic Race and others will also be found here. One will find the book to be complete, authoritative and detailed. 277 photographs, 48 charts and tables and index provided. Photo illustrated, price-intact dust jacket. A sound, most serviceable… Read More

This book explores the fascinating development of Islam, from the birth and life of the Prophet Mohammed, through the rivalries and sectarianism of his descendants, to the world today. Read "Oil & Islam" for a terrifying glimpse of what awaits us all if the West does not act decisively - and soon. The author, Dr. Khavari, a respected economist, proposes comprehensive and essential policies which would bring peace and sanity to the Middle East and secure the prosperity of the industrialized nations. Chapter notes, bibliography and index supplied. A fresh, bright copy.

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus Publishing Limited, 1980 150pp. including bibliography and index. As Attorney General, Richard John Uniacke was unquestionably the most influential man in early 19th century Nova Scotia. He contributed greatly to the building of a stable and prosperous province. His lovely house at Mount Uniacke ( now open to the public as part of the Nova Scotia Museum Complex ) was the most elegant of its day. Illustrated with b/w photos. Map endpapers. Bookplate to fep, name to contents page. Photo dust jacket. A clean bright copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

J.M. Dent & Son, Ltd., 1922. 319 pp (+1) English anthology. This book of the Old Country was first designed and issued during the war, as a reminder for those who, being abroad, were bound to be visited by home thoughts. Colour plates and b/w illustrations by Quinton, C.E. Brock, Richardson, Symington, Railton and Fletcher. Wonderful collection of work by the best!. Decorated olive coloured boards. Gilt to front board and spine. Spine dulled. Decorated front eps. Bump to one corner and light wear to spine tips. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1969. Faber Paper covered edition. Hugh Braun, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. describes, not the great mansions, but the farmhouses of England, and the smaller houses and cottages which during the centuries have spread throughout the countryside and lined the streets of villages and country towns. He examines the domestic requirements in each period, and how the design of new houses changed to meet them. He also describes contemporary methods of modernizing and enlarging old houses. A Foreword, six chapters, postscript, glossary and index provided. A generous list of b/w full-page plates (24) is given....all on heavier semi-gloss stock as well as a list of diagrams (17 total). Brief gift inscription to ffep. A clean, bright book.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Toronto: Longman's Green & Company , 1944. 471 pp. Frontis is that of Field Marshal Smuts and President Roosevelt. Smuts was a British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of Union of South Africa, philosopher and scientist. Inscription to ffep, tape residue to half title page and back of photo frontis. A very clean bright copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Military +Biography + South Africa + British Military + NOISBN. Catalogs: Military.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954. Though much has been written about the art of the actor, little is known about the craft of the producer. This book of Old Vic Prefaces is a collection of the author's talks to the actors on those plays which he produced while a director of the Old Vic from 1949 to 1953. They allow the reader the privilege of penetrating behind the scenes and learning how a producer approaches his work. The prefaces are unique in that they relate to actual preformances and each preface is followed by a short post-script in which the producer draws attention to some point that arose in production or in rehearsal, which illustrates the sort of problems that confront the producer of a Shakespeare play. Frontispiece is a photograph : Juliet : Claire Bloom - Romeo: Alan Badel. A generous list of illustrations provided and 25 photographs on heavier semi-gloss stock. Each play produced begins with a list of actors and actresses and other information such as attendants, scenery… Read More

New York: The Modern Library (Random House). (1911) Book Very Good in a Poor Dust Jacket. This chronicle of the five towns and France during the seige of Paris is a literary undertaking of heroic proportions. This is a classic among twentieth-century novels. Green boards with black title blocks to front and spine. Name to half title page. . France-Fiction Seige of Paris-Fiction. Catalogs: Classics.

A novel of the south from the Civil War to the present in the voice of a woman who lived through it all. Name to ffep. A clean, sharp cornered hardcover in its bright, price-intact dust jacket.

Hull, Quebec: Voyageur Publishing, 1988. An independent analysis, based on the actual text of the Canada - U.S. Free Trade Agreement. "Included, are the most important points on which any conclusions are based. It is my hope that this book will provide information to assist Canadians in formulating their own opinions". From the foreword by the author. Illustrated card covers. Light color stain to front cover close to spine. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, Ltd, 1968. SBN 85412-009-2 This book is the result of a lifetime of public speaking and writing with particular interest in the needs of women. The author offers from her store twenty-two talks suitable for the hard-pressed leader of women's meetings, and for those who want a devotional reading for the 'quiet time'. The shut-ins will gain much from sharing the thoughts of one who has travelled far and has always been able to see divinity in the ordinary things of life. Colonel Mrs. Ivy Mawby is a retired Salvation Army officer who has served in France, Great Britain and at International Headquarters in editorial work. Gift inscription to ffep. A bright, sound copy in an illustrated dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Toronto: Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre, 2000. First Edition in English. Originally published under the title 'Sur Mon Ile' in 1999. In this fun, quirky story, author/illustrator Marie-Louise Gay has produced an ingenious and playful book showing that bordom is really a state of mind. Very well illustrated! This internationally noted illustrator has won many awards, which include the Governor General's Award. Glossy illustrated hardboard covers. An immaculate book in a price-intact illustrated dust jacket. A very nice copy!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1968. After years of unwillingness to discuss her private world-she has looked beyond her legend and directly at life's lessons as she was forced to learn them. The friend of Woolcott, Benchley, Fitzgerald, Harpo Marx and Dietrich. The lady who became and remained our "First Lady of the Theatre." This autobiography provides a photo section. DJ by Miriam Woods. Bookplate to fep, name to half-title page. A vert clean and square copy.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.