Search Results: Titles starting with O from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

San Diego, California: A Noah Tafolla Risk, 2013. First Edition. Paperbound. Fine/No. Demy folio, [28.5 by11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 96. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Author Noah Tafolla is the producer and narrator of “Wonderland” — a KBPS TV program he started from scratch and that has spotlighted spots around the Point Loma Peninsula 1

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. A Limited Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.5cm/9.25 inches], full gilt-embossed Oxford-blue calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 467. Illustrated with drawings by Betty Maxey. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. In his day, he was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. While both authors wrote plot twist endings, O. Henry stories were considerably more playful. His stories are also known for witty narration. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc. O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in… Read More

The Netherlands: Hans Fong, 2003. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 210. Fully illustrated with colour plates &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Features: Ceramic Art in the Bush, Lines & Space, Raw Steel, Glass, Architecture in Mexico, the Twigt Connection, New Hotel Concepts in Australia, Albero Pinto Paris The Hoh Rain Forest, Between Heaven and Earth, and the new Glass Museum of Tacoma Washington. ... OBJEKT©International is the authoritative and bespoke title for the upscale urban modernist with a passion for interiors, art & antiques, modern design and outstanding architecture. The magazine was first published in Dutch in 1991. The English edition was released in 1999, OBJEKT©Asia | China followed in 2015 and in 2016 OBJEKT©USA | Canada joined the team, each publishing their own edition. The 25 year old magazine continues to surprise… Read More

Netherlands: Hans Fonk Publications, 2005. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11.75inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.185. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2006. primera edición. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [26.75cm / 10.75inches], paño rojo completamente sellado a ciegas con sobrecubierta protegida contra mylar, pp. 586. Ilustrado con semitonos en blanco y negro, placas a color y tc.. Por favor, siéntase libre de pedir información y / o información adicional fotografías. ... Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, conocida profesionalmente como Elena Poniatowska, es una periodista y escritora mexicana de origen francés, especializada en trabajos sobre cuestiones sociales y políticas centradas en las personas privadas de sus derechos, especialmente las mujeres y los pobres. Nació en París de padres de clase alta, incluida su madre, cuya familia huyó de México durante la Revolución Mexicana. Dejó Francia a México cuando tenía diez años… Read More

Oceanside, California: O. Quintin di Maria. Newspaper. In exceptionally good condition. Newspaper, Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Diego, California: Ocean Beach Main Street Association & PSB Records, 2001. First Impression. CD. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Compact Disc CD Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Baltimore: The Norman Remington Company, 1926. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [21.875cm/8.75inches], full gilt-embossed bathic-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 271, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftone frontis, pen & ink sketches by John W. Miller &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

London,: Collins, 1938. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed Oxford-blue cloth w/ unclipped mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 285, indexed. Illustrated with 17 b-w halftone plates from oil paintings and 57 pen and ink drawings by Frank H. Mason, R. I.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Hendy began his seafaring career sailing in four-masted barques around the Horn. He later sailed between Britain and Nova Scotia before trasnsferring to steamers in the Persian Gulf. He worked for the Cunard Line before moving east to command steamers in the South China Sea. During WW1 he served in the Indian Army on the North-West Frontier and Mesopotamia. He was with General Townshend on the ill-fated advance on Baghdad and narrowly escaped capture by being seconded to the Royal Navy to take a gun-boat down the Tigris. Henly also wrote under the nom de plume "Shalimar" 

London: Spink & Son, Ltd., 1985. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [25.5cm/10inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 23. Fully illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

Norwalk, Connecticut: Press, 1978. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. VG Very Good. Royal octavo, [ 27cm/10.75 inches], full gilt-embossed ebony calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xvi, 357, indexed. Colour frontis and textual illustrations by John Flaxman. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. ... Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An… Read More

Singapore: Sembawang Shipyard Ltd., 1998. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [10.5 by 10.5inches], full gilt-embossed Oxford-blue cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. .379, indexed Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The completion of Royal Navy's Singapore Naval Base (also known as HMS Sembawang) in 1938 and RAF Sembawang (also known as HMS Simbang) in March 1940 marked the start of military presence in Sembawang. In February 1942, both bases were partially torched and wrecked by the retreating British forces during the Battle of Singapore to deny their use by units of the advancing Imperial Japanese Army. After the end of World War II in 1945, both bases were reverted to British control and would eventually go on to play an important part in Britain's continued military presence in the Far East (along with the three other RAF bases in Singapore: RAF Changi,… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2001. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. VG Very Good. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed aboreal-green calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. iv, 805. Illustrations byJohn Sloan . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Of Human Bondage (1915) novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It traces the life and development of Philip Carey, and his formative, tortured and masochistic affair with waitress Mildred Rogers. The novel is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature. The Modern Library ranked Of Human Bondage No. 66 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Alameda, California : Harry G. Braun, 1991. First Impression. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 266. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Bennington, Vermont: Merriam Press Military Monograph Series, 2013. Third Impression. Paperback. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Demy table, [8.5 by 8.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 84, Illustrated with b-w halftones and colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Officers' Row is a work of historical fiction, based on a true story, that captures a bygone era in San Diego at the turn of the century. The book chronicles the tragic explosion of the USS Bennington that took the lives of 65 men. The explosion took place on July 21, 1905 in San Diego Bay and is one of the most terrible peacetime military disasters of all time. Politics, romance, and tragedy unfold as high society embraces the local military and the two worlds unite. Based on research by the author while living in those historic quarters. Written by Navy wife and historian Mary Ellen Cortellini who, a century… Read More

London & New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd and E. P. Dutton, 1949. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [16.875cm/6.75inches], full gilt-embossed algae-green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. x, 333. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero, -(106 BC – 43 BC)-, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. His influence on the Latin language was so immense that the subsequent history of prose in not only Latin but European languages up to the 19th century was said to be either a reaction against or a return to his style. According to Michael Grant, "the influence of Cicero upon the history of European literature and ideas greatly exceeds that of any other prose writer in any language".Cicero introduced the Romans to… Read More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1897. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed levi-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xxi, 916, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... "Unfortunately, most of the Confederate Navy Department records were lost during the burning of Richmond. Union Navy Department records were preserved, but not until 1884 was work begun by Navy Department librarian, later Assistant Secretary of the Navy, James R. Soley to collect and publish. Intending to partially replace missing reports, many personal narratives were collected and included, often gaining Navy researchers incidental access to draft copies of original reports once thought lost. The official title of publication is Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. ... Series I Records of all naval operations… Read More

San Diego: Committee of 100, 1975. Fascimiie Copy. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. , indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. The 1915 Panama-California Exposition held in Balboa Park introduced Spanish Colonial Revival architecture to Southern California and to millions of visitors. The California Building and its tower, the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, and the "temporary" buildings along El Prado have stirred the souls of San Diegans for over 90 years. During the 1960s two wonderful buildings on the Plaza de Panama were demolished. The Science and Education Building was replaced by the modern west wing of the San Diego Museum of Art; the Home Economy Building was replaced by the Timken Museum building. Four other "temporary” buildings on El Prado were destined to meet the same fate. A group of determined people stepped up… Read More

Jefferson City, Missouri: State of Missouri, circa 1913. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Hardback 1150 pages, plus a 16-page index. Slightly worn cover with gently bumped corners, yet the gilt title remains bold and pristine. Pages and edges are lightly tanned. Otherwise, clean and crisp, with no marks, tears, or turned corners; tight binding. 

Mansfield, Ohio: Ohio Genealodical Society, 2003. First Impression. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 107-156. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.